Visual & Media Arts Faculty

Diane Lake
Assistant Professor (2006)
B.F.A., Drake University; M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.dianelake.com

Diane Lake, who previously taught screenwriting for UCLA's acclaimed Writer's Program, has been a working screenwriter since 1993 when she sold her first story idea. Since then, she has been commissioned to write screenplays for Columbia, Disney, Miramax and Paramount, as well as numerous independent producers. Projects currently in active development include Distance, the story of the French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot, under option by Blue Collar Films; Chandler, a film noir set in 1930s Los Angeles, being packaged by Roth/Arnold Productions; and A Thousand Cranes, an epic love story set against the backdrop of the bombing of Hiroshima in WWII, being packaged by Digital Domain Studios. Diane's film, Frida, opened the Venice Film Festival in 2002, and was named one of the 10 best films of the year by numerous top 10 lists, including The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. Frida was also nominated for 6 Academy Awards in 2003.

Full Time Faculty
Eric Schaefer, Interim Chair and Associate Professor Sarah Kernochan, Jane and Terry Semel Chair in Screenwriting Joseph Ketner, Lois and Henry Foster Chair in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice Tom Kingdon, Associate Chair and Associate Professor Robert Sabal, Associate Professor and Director of the BFA Program James Sheldon, Associate Professor and Director of Media Production Shujen Wang, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the School of the Arts Jan Roberts-Breslin, Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor Claire Andrade-Watkins, Associate Professor Pierre Archambault, Associate Professor Miranda Banks, Assistant Professor Anya Belkina, Assistant Professor Harlan Bosmajian, Assistant Professor Martie Cook, Associate Professor Thomas Cooper, Professor Kenneth Feil, Scholar-In-Residence Marc Fields, Associate Professor On Leave John Craig Freeman, Associate Professor Donald Fry, Associate Professor Daniel Gaucher, Assistant Professor	John Gianvito, Assistant Professor Eric Gordon, Assistant Professor Amy Grill, Producer-in-Residence Hassan Ildari, Assistant Professor Brooke Knight, Associate Professor Cristina Kotz Cornejo, Associate Professor Cher Krause Knight, Associate Professor Diane Lake, Assistant Professor James Macak, Assistant Professor Maurice Methot, Associate Professor Robert Patton-Spruill, Artist-In-Residence Kathryn Ramey, Assistant Professor Michael Selig, Associate Professor Jane Shattuc, Professor Lauren Shaw, Associate Professor Stephen Shipps, Associate Professor Jean Stawarz, Associate Professor Robert Todd, Associate Professor On Leave Paul Turano, Artist-In-Residence Marc Weinberg, Screenwriter-In-Residence
Part Time Faculty
David Akiba Jane Akiba Margaret Aloi William Anderson Christopher Belden Jack Casey Mark Chesak Gautam Chopra Frank Coleman Rosemary Corbin-Cummings Leslie Cormier Clarence Courtney Owen Curtin Lynn d'Angona Henry Dane David Doms William Dreyfus Alison Dunn Jean Dunoyer Kenneth Eisenstein Ginger Elliott Smith James Finn Alan Foucault Ari Frankel Eric Fuerschbach Douglas Goodwin Jared Gordon Julia Goryuchkina Jo-Anne Green Laurel Greenberg Steven Grossman Julie Gustafson Judith Hull Jeanne Jo Hannah Johnston David Kelleher	Robert Knight David Kociemba Joseph Kolbe John Krivit Adam Lampton Dennis Lanson Pamela Larson Evan Leek Jonelle Lonergan Barry Marshall Travis Maruska Brian McKeever Brian McNamee Brian McNeil Roberto Mighty Loren Miller Matthew Mosher Robert Nesson Matthew Newman Matthew Noferi Kurt Odenwald Diane Pansen Andre Puca Emily Putnam Camilo Ramirez Nancy Salzer Henry Santoro Ryan Tebo Ronald Tippe Thomas Todisco Rex Trailer F. Ashley Triffletti Mark van Bork Maruta Vitols Timothy Wright

Full Time Faculty

Eric Schaefer, Interim Chair and Associate Professor

Sarah Kernochan, Jane and Terry Semel Chair in Screenwriting

Joseph Ketner, Lois and Henry Foster Chair in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice

Tom Kingdon, Associate Chair and Associate Professor

Robert Sabal, Associate Professor and Director of the BFA Program

James Sheldon, Associate Professor and Director of Media Production

Shujen Wang, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the School of the Arts

Jan Roberts-Breslin, Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor

Claire Andrade-Watkins, Associate Professor

Pierre Archambault, Associate Professor

Miranda Banks, Assistant Professor