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PMA brings musical to Edinburgh Fringe Festival

3/25/2025 by : Beatrice Fenyes-Gartenberg , A&S Communications

“The Family Copoli," a “post-apocalyptic burlesque and re-population play,” is the brainchild of playwright Andy Colpitts ’26, a doctoral candidate in PMA, and composer Michael Wookey and the production involves more than a dozen Cornell alumni and students.

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PMA presents work at National Shakespeare Conference

3/19/2025 by : Beatrice Fenyes-Gartenberg , Department of Performing & Media Arts

Members of Cornell's Department of Performing and Media Arts are participating in the Shakespeare Association of America conference this week.

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PMA presents event with John Cameron Mitchell

2/27/2025 by : Beatrice Fenyes-Gartenberg , Department of Performing & Media Arts

Mitchell is best known as the writer/director/star of the rock musical and film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”

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New Feldshuh play premieres Nov. 1 at Schwartz Center

11/1/2024 by : Beatrice Fenyes-Gartenberg , Cornell Chronicle

“Orlando’s Gift,” a new play written and directed by David Feldshuh, professor of performing and media arts, and inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando,” will premiere Nov. 1 at the Schwartz Center.

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Short films from PMA course selected for festivals

10/18/2024 by : Beatrice Fenyes-Gartenberg , Department of Performing & Media Arts

Three short documentaries produced in a Rural Humanities Seminar, taught by PMA Associate Professor Austin Bunn, are headed to film festivals this fall.