Category Archives: Alumni
Kien Lam W’06 on his trip around the world—and the viral video it sparked
On the last day of 2011, Kien Lam W’06 logged on to his YouTube and Vimeo accounts and posted a video he’d made. He’d been trying his hand at time-lapse videos since October, but there was something special about this … Continue reading
Filed under Alumni, Film, Visual Art
Watch Dan Markowitz’s award-winning animation, “Board to Death”
Have you had a chance to read the latest Gazette issue? In the Alumni Profiles section, you’ll find an interview with Dan Markowitz EAS’11, the Digital Media Design major who recently won $10,000 for his “animated aquatic action-adventure” Board to Death. … Continue reading
Filed under Alumni, Film, Visual Art
Melissa Fitzgerald C’87 on her new documentary, Staging Hope
“Imagine you are a teenager who is abducted in the middle of the night and forced to become a child soldier or sex slave. Imagine trying to sleep, as your friends go missing everyday, wondering if you will be next. … Continue reading
Penn Symphony Orchestra performs a new work by Pulitzer-winning alumna
Last year, we told you about Jennifer Higdon G’92 Gr’94 both in print and on this blog, and noted that in just three months, she won a Grammy award for her Percussion Concerto and the Pulitzer Prize in music for … Continue reading
Homecoming 2011 events for arts-inclined alumni
As I mentioned last year, alumni coming back to Penn for Homecoming can now expect a plethora of arts-and-culture events in addition to the Big Game. Homecoming Weekend Featuring Arts & Culture returns this year from Nov. 4-6. Here are … Continue reading
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Whitney Cummings ’04 launched two new comedy series this fall
It’s been quite a start to the fall TV season for Whitney Cummings C’04. Both the show she helped create (2 Broke Girls on CBS) and the show she created, wrote and stars in (Whitney on NBC) debuted last month, … Continue reading
Filed under Alumni, Television
Susan Bernfield C’86 prepares for her theater company’s 20th year of producing plays by women
Susan Bernfield C’86 has been busy since her days as a Penn Player. She’s gone to drama school, acted professionally, written several plays, and in 1992, she founded New Georges—a nonprofit theater company based in New York City and named … Continue reading
The legacy of award-winning songwriter/alumnus Ray Evans W’36
A few weeks ago, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries announced that it had acquired the papers and memorabilia of songwriter/alumnus Ray Evans W’36. Does that name ring a bell? If not, maybe this ‘bell’ will: Or perhaps you’ve heard this … Continue reading
Searching for Stars and Stripes
Only a few days after Robert Carley C’82 stood in his Connecticut office on Sept. 11, 2001, watching plumes of white smoke envelop New York City, he noticed a single bright spot sparkling through the nation’s tragedy and panic. It … Continue reading
Filed under Alumni, Visual Art
Remembering author Leslie Esdaile Banks W’80
In today’s issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer, fashion columnist Elizabeth Wellington offers up a moving tribute to her friend, author Leslie Esdaile Banks W’80, who died yesterday morning. Banks wrote more than 40 books that spanned a multitude of genres: … Continue reading
Filed under Alumni, Written Word
