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  • Jacqueline Firkins ’00MFA: beauty and the cancer beast

    Microscopic cell photography produces some stunningly beautiful images, akin to abstract art. Now Jacqueline Firkins ’00MFA has spun the... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | March 27 2014 06:26pm

  • Lupita Nyong’o ’12MFA: early Oscar frontrunner?

    "Many actors coolly shrug off Academy Awards buzz when asked about it on the film festival circuit,” the Canadian Press notes. Lupita Nyong’o... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | September 12 2013 12:05pm

  • Rocco Landesman ’76DFA

    Playwright Tony Kushner previews it as the American arts community’s “best news… since the birth of Walt Whitman.” Other colleagues... Read on
    the staff | May 15 2009 11:44am

  • Lynn Nottage ’89MFA

    She pulled down a MacArthur “genius” prize two years ago, so perhaps it was just a matter of time until playwright Lynn Nottage... Read on
    the staff | April 25 2009 11:37am

  • Liev Schreiber ’92MFA

    Liev Schreiber ’92MFA is perhaps not yet a household name, but he’s one of those actors you’re bound to have seen in something by now.... Read on
    the staff | January 2 2009 09:31am

  • Meryl Streep ’75MFA

    Meryl Streep ’75MFA didn’t get 14 Oscar nominations for just doing the same-old same-old. This weekend, she turns up singing and dancing in, of... Read on
    the staff | July 18 2008 02:46pm