Discussing Sinkane’s 8th album We Belong, Ahmed Gallab MM ’22 says Purchase helped him become a more confident songwriter.
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters tells the story of Jones’ powerful and healing ballet sprung out of the heartbreaking AIDS crisis.
The inaugural apprenticeship program piloted by Storyline offers a full-time paid position.
Directed by Sarah Benson for the Atlantic Theater Company.
Logan plays Moni opposite Diarra Kilpatrick on Diarra From Detroit.
The New York Times describes Midnight on Beacon Street as “an impressive debut.”
Stereogum and others delve into their unique sound ahead of the May 17 release of their debut album Hex Dealer.
The Purchase College Alumni Association is proud to announce the recipients of the 2024 Alumni Awards.
The world premiere of Little Bear Ridge Road by playwright Samuel D. Hunter opens in June.
The sought-after voice and dialect coach helped Da’Vine Joy Randolph prepare for her now Oscar-winning performance, among other awards.
The cast reunited to receive the SAG award for Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble.
Eberhardt is part of the star-studded cast of Enemy of the People at Circle in the Square Theatre.
Congratulations to three members of the Purchase music community on winning four awards at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony.
Hollingsworth is a swing in the groundbreaking new show How to Dance in Ohio.
Jones shared his expertise on working with the likes of Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Hudson and on the power of acting training.
Caught the Bug (2022), an experimental film made by Amelia Wyeth Ponirakis ’23 in her junior year has screened in London and New York.
Faculty and alumni rise to the top with GRAMMY Award® nominations.
Last week, a group of students from the Purchase College Conservatory of Dance visited the Museum with faculty member Nelly Van Bommel ’04 to experience Dennis Oppenheim: The Assembly Line.
The producer, songwriter, and recording artist is recognized for his pivotal collaboration with the rapper Ice Spice.
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: A Female Military History of the Warsaw Ghetto and its Uprising, a narrative history, will be published in 2025.
Helado won the Audience Choice Award.
“…Hartley would stand as one of the few meaningfully independent filmmakers of his era.”
A student-led initiative in the Conservatory of Dance will ensure that dancers of diverse backgrounds can continue to thrive at Purchase and feel empowered in their community.
The investigative reporter and host explores the fascinating and frightening true story behind bringing the abortion pill to the US in the 90s.
The Bessie Award category honors an artist who has made an exceptional leap in their career.
The Award recognizes the impact of her choreography.
Named one of the “next generation” at Chicago’s Hubbard Street Dance.
The interpretive signs in the Purchase Native Pollinator Garden resulted from collaboration between environmental studies, arts management, and graphic design.
Mutt by Vuk Lungulov-Klotz ’16, also screened at Sundance, Berlin Film Festival, and New Directors/New Films 2023.
Penguin Books will publish his yet unfinished PhD dissertation in history, an incredible coup.
Chillé is writer and director of Father Figures.
The event also celebrated Professor of Economics Sanford Ikeda, who’s retiring at the end of this year.
Falco stars as his mother, and Roche plays his sister on Davidson’s new semi-autobiographical series.
Cave will receive The 2023 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre.
The Playwriting and Screenwriting alum is a 2023 Fellow at Black Boy Writes/Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative.
For Best Lighting of a Play
A sought-after puppet designer and puppeteer, Ortiz crafted the Milky White cow in the Broadway revival of Into the Woods.
Drama Desk, Daytime Emmy, and Tony nominations are in the mix.
A highly accomplished lighting designer, Croiter earned a nomination for work on Only Gold.
Cinema Love will be published by Dutton Books and John Murray Press in 2024.
The actor earned the NAACP Image award for portraying Uncle Clifford on Starz’s P-Valley.
Patterson earned the award for appearing in three plays during the season.
Parker Posey ’91 and Bill Sage ’88 star in The New Group’s The Seagull/Woodstock, NY.
Warfield has been a creative force for 25 years.
The film demonstrates the collaborative DIY culture found at Purchase—it stars musician Hannah Lee Thompson ’17 and several alums were on the crew.
The choreographer is the first-ever Asian American woman commissioned to create new work at the New York City Ballet.
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano swore in Beltran at a ceremony at Yonkers City Hall, just steps away from where she grew up.
The jazz sensation also won Best New Jazz Vocal Album.
Mitski collaborated with Son Lux and David Byrne on “This Is A Life” for the Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All At Once.
The recurring segment on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon challenges musicians to compose a song in under an hour.
Kirkus Reviews calls Our Lady of the Highway one of the Best Indie Books of 2022.
The students were honored to meet privately with Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.
The Critics Choice Award nomination is for the role of Jacob Hill in ABC’s smash hit workplace comedy.
Awarded by Boston’s Society of Arts + Crafts, the fellowship is given annually to an early-career furniture artist. “Her work in steel is like no other I have seen.”
Purchase alumni collaborate to answer the question.
The composer, flutist, and producer will be the eleventh Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow.
If you missed any of the sessions during this year’s Virtual & Global alumni events, the week’s lineup of programs is available to watch now on YouTube.
Independent curator and consultant with a specialization in artist estates
He was named the Claude and Alfred Mann Endowed Professor in Dance at USC Kaufman.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Silas Brown ’10 on his win and to David De Jesus ’04 and Lucy Kalantari ’98 for their work on Grammy®-winning projects.
The first Springboard-curated recipient of Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation AIR Founder’s Residency.
Congratulations to Laura Jobin-Acosta ’20 MM, a composer recently named a recipient of the first-ever IDEA Opera Residencies program by OPERA America.
Keerati Jinakunwiphat ’16 (dance performance) graces the cover of the latest issue of Dance magazine as first on its list of 25 to Watch in 2021.
In this new Alumni Spotlight series, I am excited to introduce you to Purchase College alumni who worked at the Neuberger Museum of Art while they were students and to talk with them about where they are today.
My first interview is with Annabel Rhodeen Spring who earned her Masters in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Criticism, and Theory from Purchase College in 2012.
This summer’s 2020 Obie Awards Ceremony presented Schriever with Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design honor.
We are pleased to announce a new Ella Fitzgerald Scholar, Yancy Garcia. We remain grateful to the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation for their essential support.
Alumnus Spike Wilner, owner of Smalls Jazz Club and Mezzrow, is using creative strategies to reopen. Smalls will be the first NYC jazz club to return to live, on-site performances!
Like so many when the pandemic hit, designer Alexander Whittenberg ’14 (theatre design/technology or D/T) was forced to pause his work. He used the opportunity to reflect, to appreciate those who inspired him, and to consider the industry’s future.
The history and studio composition double major is among two Purchase College graduating seniors to receive the prestigious 2020 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
Deputy director for advocacy and government relations at Amnesty International, the largest grass roots human rights organization in the world.
The former soccer stand out and up-and-coming actor is on a roll.
The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot went On the Road with Mitski.
She’s playing a five-night residency featuring her early songs.
Being at Purchase really helped me to create the career that I wanted for myself...the Purchase community feels like a family that I will have for the rest of my life.
Be the Cowboy, a new album by Mitski (studio composition), received rave reviews from Rolling Stone and more.
Dan Romer ’04 and Saul Simon MacWilliams ’05 recognized for original score.
Biomedical illustrator and educational application developer credits the interdisciplinary nature of her classes and surroundings as impacting her career path.
Major: Psychology
Minors: Biology and Visual Arts
In this public television series, she joins the likes of Bill Clinton, Samantha Power, Bono, and YoYoMa in immersive interpretations of a single American poem.
Purchase alumni David Grill ’86, Jonah Kaplan ’95, and Stanley Tucci ’82 all made the cut.