Arts, Culture, & Lifestyle
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2000-2009
A special Academy Award for achievements in motion picture special effects went to Jonathan Cohen ’00, Jerry Tessendorf ’84 PhD and Michael Kowalski ’85, ’99 ScM. (Inside Science News, 2/6/08)
Maine’s first French Film Festival was established through the work of Katharine Harrington ’00 AM, ’05 PhD. (Bangor Daily News, 2/15/06)
Doug NeJaime ’00 and his partner have created a new handbag label called Tucker Paisley. (Boston Globe, 12/7/06)
Along with Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt ’02, Nelson Walker ’00 won a Student Academy Award for the documentary Lumo. Louis Abelman ’06 and Lynn True ’99 served as Lumo’s co-directors. (Alternative Film Guide, 5/23/07)
Bomb It, a documentary produced by Kate Christensen ’01, premiered in several international film festivals and was reviewed in Variety. (Variety, 2/25/08)
Noah Gelb ’01 was nominated for a Grammy for the production of Death Cab For Cutie’s Directions. (Variety, 12/7/06)
While writing for Law & Order: SVU, Paul Grellong ’01 still works on his plays, the most recent of which, Radio Free Emerson, premiered in Pawtucket. (Boston Globe, 6/8/07)
Lam Ho ’01 spoke on defiance and the myth of the “model minority” during Southeast Asian Heritage Week. (Brown Daily Herald, 11/6/07)
Leatherheads star John Krasinski ’01 talked to the New York Times about directing an adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, a project he conceived while at Brown. Krasinski of NBC’s The Office also starred alongside Robin Williams in the comedy License to Wed. In 2006, Krasinski was named one of People Magazine’s "Sexiest Men Alive". (NYTimes.com, 3/30/08; Business Wire, 5/23/06; People Magazine, 11/15/06)
Benjamin Percy ’01 has won the $10,000 Plimpton Prize for the best work of fiction published in The Paris Review, for his story Refresh, Refresh. Percy was also featured in Poets & Writers magazine. (The Elegant Variation, 3/28/07; Poets & Writers magazine, Nov/Dec, 2007)
Ben Lerner ’01, ’03 MFA was named a 2006 National Book Award finalist for his second book of poetry, Angle of Yaw. (Publishers Weekly, 10/11/2006)
Jennifer Needleman ’02 and Josh Asen ’02 have released their first full-length film, I Love Hip Hop in Morocco. (Brown Daily Herald, 3/4/08)
Cocalero, the first documentary by Alejandro Landes ’03, follows Bolivian President Evo Morales’s populist campaign. (indieWIRE, 1/3/07)
Louella Hill ’04 is making some of Rhode Island’s first artisan cheeses. (Brown Daily Herald, 12/05/07)
Playwright Quiara Hudes ’04 MFA has a Broadway hit with In the Heights. Latina playwright Hudes was also featured in the Village Voice. (Philly News, 3/12/08; Village Voice, 1/30/07)
Benjamin McGuire ’04 was profiled extensively in the New York Times about being young, gay, and married. (The New York Times, 4/27/08)
Lucy DeVito ’05 plays the title role in Seattle’s Intiman Theatre’s production of The Diary of Anne Frank. (The Seattle Times, 3/25/08)
Emily Miller ’05 and her band, the Sweetback Sisters, took second place in the "Talented Twenty-Somethings" contest on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion. (riDance.com, 4/21/07)
Tommy Urban ’05’s unique combination of Army training and anthropology took him to Iraq to help collect evidence in the trial of Saddam Hussein. (WBZTV.com, 8/24/06)
Dana Goldstein ’06 is a writing fellow for The American Prospect magazine. (The American Prospect, various)
Christine Montross ’06 MD, ’07 ScM wrote her book Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab while a medical student at Brown. (New York Times, 7/31/07)
Jed Resnick ’06 stars in national tour of Rent. (Brown Daily Herald, 2/6/06)
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1990-1999
From shunning mixed-fiber clothing to stoning adulterers, A.J. Jacobs ’90 spent a year attempting to follow every law in the Bible – and then wrote a book about it. (USAToday.com, 10/7/07)
In his new book The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic, Steven Johnson ’90 draws parallels between cracking the epidemic and finding information online. (New York Times, 12/4/06)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to writer Sam Lipsyte ’90.
Singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb ’90 has an upcoming children’s album,
Camp Lisa. (Albuquerque Journal, 4/18/08)
Elizabeth Mitchell ’90 reinterprets folk and rock songs for children on her new album, You Are My Little Bird. (NPR’s All Things Considered, 10/6/06)
Dara Khosrowshahi ’91* talked to the New York Times about growing up in Iran, former employment, and moving to Seattle when he was appointed CEO of Expedia, the online travel company. (New York Times, 8/8/05)
Documentary filmmakers Rory Kennedy ’91 and Liz Garbus ’92 tell stories of ordinary people facing extraordinary political and social controversies. Garbus and Kennedy also contributed episodes to the HBO series The Addiction Project, which won the Governors Award at this year’s Emmys. (Brown Alumni Magazine, Jan/Feb 2007; Variety, 8/6/07)
This is Not a Robbery, a documentary co-produced by Andrew Lauren ’91, screened at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. (NY1 News, 6/23/08)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to poet Reginald Shepherd ’91 MFA.
Rock violinist Lili Haydn ’92 recently performed on Jay Leno and opened a Dodgers game. (AntiMusic.com, 3/18/08)
American Ballet Theatre was led out of the black by Rachel Moore ’92. (Brown Daily Herald, 2/17/06)
A new memoir by Glasgow Phillips ’92, The Royal Nonesuch, chronicles his last 10 years - since his move to Los Angeles with the insurance payout from a motorcycle crash. (Los Angeles Times, 3/13/07)
Duncan Sheik ’92 has composed the music - and Heather Cousens ’95 is the stage manager - for the Broadway production of Spring Awakening. Sheik also received 2007 Tony Awards for best score and orchestrations for the musical. (New York Times, 12/26/06; Bloomberg, 6/10/07)
Ayad Akhtar ’93 co-wrote the new film The War Within about a terrorist plot against Grand Central Station. (South Florida Sun - Sentinel, 11/30/05)
Former attorney Warren Brown ’93 is now the star of a Food Network show dedicated entirely to desserts. (Brown Daily Herald, 2/28/06)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to filmmaker Rodney Evans ’93.
Daniel Alexander Jones ’93 AM has a new play, Phoenix Fabrik, with a high-powered cast that includes theater legend Vinie Burrows and jazz singer Rhonda Ross. (The Star Tribune, 5/28/06)
Joshua Marshall ’93 AM, ’03 PhD received a George Polk Award for his political blog, “Talking Points Memo.” Marshall and his blog, Talking Points Memo, are featured in an article about the way blogs are reshaping journalism. Also mentioned in the article is Duncan Black ’94 AM, ’99 PhD who writes on the site Eschaton. (New York Times, 2/25/08; Los Angeles Times, 3/17/07)
Keith Spiegel ’93 will see his 1997 film The Junior Defenders released direct-to-DVD. Narrated by John Waters, the low-budget indie features former “Brat Pack” actress Allie Sheedy and cameos from celebrities Michael Dukakis, Florence Henderson, Pauly Shore, Kevin Smith, Peter Tork, and more. (Boston Globe, 9/7/07)
Margaret Brown ’94 received a major emerging filmmakers grant from Women in Film. (MarketWire, 10/30/06)
At the 2007 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Robin Hessman ’94 received a grant for her documentary in progress. (Film Festival Today, 3/26/07)
Ted Keizer ’94 is featured in a documentary on the Outdoor Life Network for hiking in 50 states in under 100 days. (Brown Daily Herald, 1/31/06)
Aurorae Khoo ’94, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb ’97 and Timothy Barsky ’99 are among the six recipients of the 2006 Emerging California Playwright Awards. (Philanthropy News Digest, 1/28/07)
Tan Siok Siok ’94 discusses her documentary, Boomtown Beijing, about the Olympic city and its run-up to the games. (Audio) (The China Business Network, April 2008)
Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch ’95 is a novel about a former debutante who must adjust her dreams to the harsh reality of life. (Willamette Week, 4/9/08)
Screenwriter Simon Kinberg ’95 was named one of the 50 most influential British players in Hollywood. Director Doug Liman ’88 discussed his career, his filmmaking style (labeled “Limania” by friend and screenwriter Kinberg) and more, in New York Magazine. (The Evening Standard, 01/16/07; New York Magazine, 1/13/08)
Dany Levy ’95 and her staff have published Daily Candy A to Z: An Insider’s Guide to the Sweet Life. (Factio-magazine.com)
Anna Von Mertens ’95 showed her work at the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach. (Artdaily.org, 01/17/2007)
Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has purchased the film rights to a historical fantasy book series by Naomi Novik ’95. (New York Times, 10/11/06)
The End As I Know It, a new novel by Kevin Shay ’95, explores Y2K fears. (San Francisco Chronicle, 12/24/06)
Community MusicWorks, an arts-education group co-founded by Sebastian Ruth ’97 and Minna Choi ’96, was featured in the New Yorker’s fall education issue. (9/4/06; see also the Brown Alumni Magazine’s 2004 story)
Chitra Ganesh ’96 is one of 17 young artists with roots in Asia featured in a show at the Asia Society in New York. (Newsweek (International Edition), 10/02/06)
Mary Swerczek ’96, Peter Kovacs ’78 and Stephanie Grace ’87 are among those sharing a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. (Pultizer Web site, 4/17/06; Brown Daily Herald, 7/17/06)
New York Magazine named Jonathan Van Gieson ’96 (“Jonny Porkpie”) and his wife Christina Nicosia ’98 (“Nasty Canasta”) as Best Burlesque in their “Best of New York 2007” issue. (New York Magazine, 3/12/07)
Peter DuBois ’97 AM is the new artistic director of Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company. (Boston Globe, 12/23/07)
Peter Nachtrieb ’97 won one of the country’s most prestigious playwriting awards for Hunter Gatherers. (Boston Globe, 7/22/07)
Masi Oka ’97 stars in NBC’s new hit drama "Heroes." Oka was also featured on the cover of Wired. (New York Times, 12/4/06; Wired, April 2007; Brown Daily Herald, 9/18/06; Wired, 4/23/07)
Sarah Ruhl ’97, ’01 MFA was deemed “one of the hottest playwrights going” in a profile of the MacArthur grant-winning author in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Ruhl is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship or so-called "genius" award. (Star Tribune, 10/18/07; The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 9/19/06)
Contemporary Art Magazine featured award-winning documentary art photographer Taryn Simon ’97. Photography by Simon was on view at the Whitney museum in 2007. (Contemporary Art Magazine, April 2008; New York Times, 4/6/07)
Clare Burson ’98 received a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. (Jewish Review, 3/1/07)
The New York Times selected Throw People by Chris Elam ’98 as one of the top ten dance productions in NYC for 2006. Elam was also showcased in Dance Magazine’s feature on dance and technology. (PDF link) (New York Times, 12/24/06; see also Business Week interview, 2/23/07; Dance Magazine, Nov/Dec 2007)
OK Go singer Damian Kulash ’98, a member of the Future of Music Coalitions Rock the Net campaign, testified on Capitol Hill in support of net neutrality. Kulash and his band OK Go earned a Grammy Award for their "Here it Goes Again" video in 2007. (Washington Times, 3/11/08; Brown Daily Herald, 2/13/07)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to filmmaker Ben Russell ’98.
John Lloyd Young ’98 won a Tony for his performance as Frankie Valli in the hit Jersey Boys. (Brown Alumni Magazine, 6/12/06 and Nov/Dec 2006)
Kirstin Allio ’99 MFA, ’00 MAT is one of five young writers honored in the National Book Foundation’s annual “5 under 35.” (St. Paul Pioneer Press, 9/26/08)
Filmmaker Tanuj Chopra ’99’s Punching at the Sun won Best Narrative Feature at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. (Variety, 2/6/06)
Jane B. Spencer ’99 is part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team of journalists in the Hong Kong bureau of The Wall Street Journal. (Portland Press Herald, 6/3/07)
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1980-1989
Jody Adams ’80 was profiled recently among Ivy League graduates who are professional chefs in Boston. Earlier, Adams won the coveted Women Chefs and Restaurateurs’ Golden Whisk Award honoring "a woman whose passion and excellence as a chef or cook serves as a role model for others." (Boston Herald, 10/21/07; Women Chefs & Restaurateurs, 11/1/06)
2007 Pulitzer Prizes went to Marc Maremont ’80 and James Bandler ’89 of The Wall Street Journal. (Brown Daily Herald, 4/17/07)
Ralph Rugoff ’80, director of the Hayward Gallery in London, received a $100,000 award for contemporary art curators in partnership with a museum or exhibition space. (Philanthropy News Digest, 10/1/06)
Margaret Russell ’80, Editor in Chief of ELLE DÉCOR, is a judge for Bravo TV’s "Top Design" show. (New York Daily News, 1/30/07)
The TV version of radio’s This American Life with Ira Glass ’81 premiered last month on Showtime. (Boston Globe, 3/22/07)
A new book by Washington Post correspondent Glenn Kessler ’81 is a critical portrayal of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (Brown Daily Herald, 11/6/07)
Firefly restaurant founder and chef Brad Levy ’81 says he “found cooking by accident” while at Brown. (Brown Daily Herald, 10/31/07)
Philip Shenon ’81 tells the story behind the 9/11 report in The Commission. (New York Times, 1/4/08)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning 2002 novel Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides ’82, was selected by Oprah Winfrey for her book club. (Oprah.com)
The Secrets of Happily Married Men, a new book by Dr. Scott D. Haltzman ’82, ’85 MD describes male behaviors that lead to a happy marriage. (Brown Daily Herald, 2/27/06)
Randy Pausch ’82 and a book based on his “Last Lecture” will be profiled by Diane Sawyer on ABC on April 9. He was also on the cover of Parade magazine on April 6. (The Independent, 3/25/08; ABCNews, 3/21/08; Parade, 4/6/08)
Sean Altman ’83 is on the road with his solo comedy concert “Jewmongus.” Altman and Rob Tannenbaum ’83, formerly a rock duo who now tour separately, are members of the new “Jewish hipster movement.” (Washington Post, 12/21/07; Philadelphia Daily News, 12/15/06)
A new book by Eric Jay Dolin ’83, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, is receiving positive reviews. (Martha’s Vineyard Times, 7/19/07)
Ian Maxtone-Graham ’83 received an Annie Award in TV writing for “The Simpsons” episode “24 Minutes.” (Hollywood Reporter, 2/9/08)
Rick Moody ’83 discusses his new novel, The Diviners. (Dallas Morning News, 1/22/07)
Krista Tippett ’83 hosts and produces the popular "Speaking of Faith" public radio show about belief, doubt, ethics and meaning. (Star Tribune, 2/4/06)
Filmmaker Christine Vachon ’83 was named in Out magazine’s annual list of the most influential gays and lesbians in America. She also was honored with the 2007 Maverick Award at the Woodstock Film Festival. The presenter said Vachon’s movies are “as provocative and challenging as they are critically and commercially successful.” Vachon also published a memoir, A Killer Life, about her rise to the top ranks of independent film producers. Vachon*, founder of Killer Films, also made the Hollywood Reporter’s 2007 Indie Power 50 List. (Out Magazine, April 2008; PoughkeepsieJournal.com, 10/15/07; indieWIRE.com, 9/26/06; Hollywood Reporter, 1/18/07)
In Namaste Man, actor and first-time playwright Andrew Weems ’83 revisits his years as a boy growing up in Nepal. (The Seattle Times, 6/3/08)
Brian E. Parks ’84 has a new off-Broadway comedy, "Goner." (Detroit Free Press, 1/23/06)
Bad Voodoo’s War, a documentary by Deborah Scranton ’84, aired on PBS’s Frontline. Her documentary, The War Tapes, shot by soldiers who were given their own cameras while in Iraq, won Best Documentary Feature award at the Tribeca Film Festival. (Washington Post, 4/2/08; Wired News, 04/28/06; Brown Daily Herald, 10/27/06)
Journalist Doug Sovern ’84 thrives on the spontaneity of his career, from Mount Everest to the Tour de France. (Brown Daily Herald, 11/14/07)
A special Academy Award for achievements in motion picture special effects went to Jerry Tessendorf ’84 PhD, Michael Kowalski ’85, ’99 ScM and Jonathan Cohen ’00. (Inside Science News, 2/6/08)
Lauren Zalaznick ’84, president of Bravo network, was honored in Details’ annual “Mavericks” issue. (Details, April 2007)
Amanda Green ’85 wrote the lyrics for a musical based on the Nick Hornby novel High Fidelity. (New York Times, 12/3/06)
Todd Haynes ’85 has co-written a new film chronicling Bob Dylan’s life. Also involved are producer Christine Vachon ’83 and soundtrack supervisor Randall Poster ’84. (Variety, 1/2/07)
A new children’s book by Brian Lies ’85, Bats at the Beach, rocketed to #2 on Amazon and the New York Times children’s bestseller list, shortly after a rave review on NPR’s "Weekend Edition." (Boston Globe, 7/29/06)
David Munro ’85 wrote and directed the movie Full Grown Men, which received positive critical acclaim at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. Sheila Ennis ’86, financial mastermind behind the movie, formulated a new funding model that tapped into alternative private investors. (Nerve, 5/7/06)
Starting Out in the Evening by Andrew Wagner ’85 recently played to an audience of 600 at the Sundance Film Festival. (Hollywood Reporter, 1/23/07)
Designer Sheila Bridges ’86, named one of the world’s 25 most inspiring women by Essence, discusses her work in a Washington Post profile. (Washington Post, 11/8/06)
"An Inconvenient Truth," a film by Davis Guggenheim ’86 about Al Gore’s global warming presentations, premiered at Sundance. The film won an Academy Award as the best documentary feature. (New York Times, 5/23/06; New York Times, 2/26/07)
A bidding war has granted Twelve, founded two years ago by Jonathan Karp ’86, the rights to the memoirs of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. (CBS News, 11/27/07)
Laura Linney ’86* received her third Oscar nomination for her role in The Savages. (Providence Journal, 2/10/08)
Tim Blake Nelson ’86 played the role of Quince and George Morfogen ’54 the role of Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. (NYTheatre.com, 8/18/07)
Lynn Nottage ’86 is among the 24 recipients of this year’s MacArthur “Genius” Grants. She will receive $100,000 a year for five years. MacArthur Fellows are chosen on the basis of the winners’ creativity, originality, and potential. (Broadway.com, 11/25/07)
Writer and filmmaker Beena Sarwar ’86 was one of more than 180 journalists arrested for protesting the strict limitations put on Pakistani media by President Musharraf. (Inter Press Service, 11/23/07)
Suzanne Wang ’86 ScM, the hostess of House Hunters, is also a stand-up comic. (Brown Alumni Magazine, Nov/Dec 2006)
Michael Chorost ’87 wrote Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human and was featured in a PBS documentary about the cochlear implant in his skull that allows him to hear. (San Francisco Chronicle, 3/18/07)
Stephanie Grace ’87, Peter Kovacs ’78 and Mary Swerczek ’96 are among those sharing a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. (Pultizer Web site, 4/17/06; Brown Daily Herald, 7/17/06)
Afaa Michael Weaver ’87 AM was featured in Poets & Writers magazine. (Poets & Writers magazine, Nov/Dec, 2007)
Reknowned designer Jonathan Adler ’88 is a judge for Bravo TV’s "Top Design" show. (New York Daily News, 1/30/07)
“My Other Husband,” an essay by Ann Harleman ’88 AM, recently appeared in AARP Magazine. (AARP Magazine, 1/08)
“CSI: NY” star Hill Harper ’88 is also a philanthropist, businessman, and author. Harper has published a book about mentoring young black men. (Brown Daily Herald, 2/13/08; Associated Press, 5/13/06)
New York’s Museum of Modern Art has acquired The Bourne Identity and its sequels, each one directed or produced by Doug Liman ’88, for its permanent collection. Liman also discusses his career, his filmmaking style (labeled “Limania” by friend and screenwriter Simon Kinberg ’95) and more, in New York Magazine. Previously, Liman recalled Brown’s impact on his life in a film festival keynote. (The Los Angeles Times, 5/30/08; New York Magazine, 1/13/08; Brown Daily Herald, 4/16/07)
Inheritance, a book of photography by Andrea Stern ’88, chronicles 15 years of family gatherings and daily life. (Jewish Daily Forward, 3/30/07)
PBS airs "Wisdom for Life: A Guide to Western Philosophy" by James Thomas ’88. (Greenwich Citizen, 1/10/06)
2007 Pulitzer Prizes went to James Bandler ’89 of The Wall Street Journal, and Usha Lee McFarling ’89 of the Los Angeles Times. (Brown Daily Herald, 4/17/07)
Adam Bock ’89 AM won the playwriting award at the 52nd annual Obie Awards. (Backstage, 5/22/07)
David Kamp ’89 has authored The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation. (The New York Times, 10/01/06)
Tom Scott ’89, president of Plum TV, was honored in Details’ annual “Mavericks” issue. (Details, April 2007)
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1970-1979
The musical Michelangelo, by former priest Enrico Garzilli ’70 PhD, is being produced by Opera Providence. He has another work heading for Broadway next spring. (Providence Journal, 4/22/07)
At the 2007 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Ross McElwee ’70 garnered the Career Award. (Independent Weekly, 4/11/07)
Billie Tsien ’71 and her husband Tod Williams have been chosen by the Barnes Foundation to design its new $100 million museum on Philadelphia’s “museum mile.” Williams and Tsien were also hired to redesign the Lincoln Center Harmony Atrium. (New York Times, 9/10/07; New York Times, 11/1/06)
Lance Williams ’72 co-authored "Game of Shadows," investigating athletes’ use of designer drugs. (Brown Daily Herald, 3/16/06)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to artist Jeffrey Schiff ’74.
Associate Dean Marjorie Thompson ’74, ’79 PhD appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. (Brown Daily Herald, 2/28/08)
Thomas E. Rothman ’76 has been named by Entertainment Weekly as one of “the 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.”
Larry Tye ’76, a former Boston Globe reporter who now runs a fellowship program for medical journalists, collaborated with Kitty Dukakis on the new book, Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy. (NPR’s Fresh Air, 09/26/06)
Stacey Farley’s ’77* tile murals will add art to a renovated New Jersey Transit station. (New York Times, 11/25/07)
Inspired by a soldier’s ultimate sacrifice to save four squad-mates in Iraq, Seth Jackson ’77 wrote a song that has affected a number of lives. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 10/26/07)
New York Times reporter James Risen ’77 is one of the latest journalists to be subpoenaed by a federal grand jury to reveal his confidential sources. Risen received a Pulitzer for stories on the federal government’s domestic eavesdropping. (Brown Daily Herald, 2/5/08; Brown Daily Herald, 7/17/06)
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Art History Kaja Silverman ’77 PhD.
Children’s author Blue Balliett ’78 is profiled on NPR.org’s series "How Writers Create Their Fiction." (NPR.org, 11/23/06)
Lisa Birnbach ’78 received two Gracie Awards for her radio show. (Brown Daily Herald, 4/25/07)
Peter Kovacs ’78, Stephanie Grace ’87, and Mary Swerczek ’98 are among those sharing a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. (Brown Daily Herald, 7/17/06)
The design for a public service and storage pavilion for Aspen’s Wagner Park by Willis Pember ’78 is profiled in an article about photovoltaic installations. (Architectural Record, September 2006)
New York Times "notable" author Caroline Preston ’79 AM has a new novel, Gatsby’s Girl. (San Francisco Chronicle, 5/14/06)
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1900-1969
George Morfogen ’54 played the role of Egeus and Tim Blake Nelson ’86 that of Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. (NYTheatre.com, 8/18/07)
Joseph Bologna ’56 stars in Boynton Beach Club, a new movie about 60-somethings re-entering the dating world at an adult community in Florida. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8/25/06)
Elizabeth Landers ’64 is the author of The Script: The 100% Absolutely Predictable Things Men Do When They Cheat. (Detroit News, 6/8/06)
David Gockley ’65, ’93 DFA hon., director of the San Francisco Opera, has helped ink a deal with a local radio station to broadcast the company’s operas for the first time in 25 years. Gockley is also taking the opera to the public via movie theaters around the country. (San Francisco Chronicle, 3/13/07; San Francisco Chronicle, 12/19/07)
The Genius of America, co-written by Eric Lane ’65*, was well received by the New York Times. (New York Times, 11/28/07)
James Naughton ’67 has a new cabaret show at Feinstein’s at the Regency in New York City. (New York Times, 6/2/06)
Provost David Kertzer ’69 tells Publisher’s Weekly how he sets a historical scene his new book Amalia’s Tale. (Publisher’s Weekly, 12/10/07)
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