On Friday, June 28, Trae Harris (Lang ‘10) will have her first film showing at BAM. Harris, an actress, stars in Newlyweeds, the comedy/drama shot over three weeks in Brooklyn. The film will arrive at BAM after showings at Sundance and Cannes, and already has a deal for national distribution. For Harris, her starring role [...]
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With barely enough time to even frame their diplomas, four 2013 alumni are jumping headfirst into the waters of professional theater this summer. Inaugurating a collaboration with the Naked Angels, each newly minted New School for Drama playwright will present a first public reading of one of their works during a bi-monthly program, “Summer Mondays.” [...]
Ryan Reid recently had one of the more nerve-wracking weeks of her life. Reid, a 2013 graduate of the BAFA program at Lang and Integrated Design at Parsons, had written and directed a play called One Day in the Life of Henri Shnuffle, a painstakingly personal portrait of an elderly New Yorker, which had just [...]
T-Minus 6 Days: remember, the tassel goes on the right. We know you have a laundry list of things to get done before graduation mania takes over campus. Catch up on the latest happenings. This Time Next Week The countdown for commencement is now in the single digits! In just seven days, 3,263 of you [...]
So many intriguing tidbits peppered our days this week. Read ahead to catch the highlights. These…Are The Days of Our Lives Students, let us fill you in on a not-so-secret secret; life is usually better while in school. Yes, that includes finals and the three-meals-a-day of Cup Noodles. This weekend, those that came before us [...]
For the second year in a row, an alumnus of Parsons The New School for Design has won a National Design Award from the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. The design world’s highest honor, they recognize lasting achievement in American design. This year, Behnaz Sarafpour, who graduated from Parsons’ BFA Fashion Design program in 1992, [...]
