Penn Performing Arts Initiative

Such a wonderful evening celebrating the vibrancy of Penn's student performing arts groups! You can watch the livestream on-demand through Jan 7 (link in article).

In celebration of LGBT History Month, the Penn Cinema Studies Program is offering an online screening of the award-winning film 76 Days (2020) Oct 15-19 and an in-person discussion with filmmaker Hao Wu and screening of the short film All in My Family (2019). This free event takes place at the Annenberg Center on Oct 19 at 5 PM. Learn more and get access: https://bit.ly/3mzIeUL

Rock, country, dance or soul? You get to decide in CROSSOVER: Remixed, a new interactive musical experience from Penn performing arts alums Chelsea Cylinder, Danielle Moore, Hannah Spear and Noah Lee. Streamed digitally and from a Center City rooftop, catch the show Oct 1-3 as part of the 2021 FringeArts Festival: https://bit.ly/3kyyB8X

Student Performing Arts Night is this Thursday at 7 at the Annenberg Center! The annual showcase will feature dozens of student performing arts clubs including dance, music, poetry, theatre and more. Learn more and get tickets: https://bit.ly/38aXosC

Claire Sliney, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences in May, won an Oscar when she was a sophomore, making her the first Penn undergraduate to do so. The LA native heads to Paris next to make a documentary film supported by a Fulbright-National Geographic Society Storytelling Fellowship. Read more:

French connection | Penn Today May graduate Claire Sliney is the first Penn undergrad to receive an Academy Award, and to receive a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship. She heads to Paris to shoot a documentary about how female immigrants in France are portrayed in film.

From Wharton Magazine: University of Pennsylvania alumni and The Wharton School faculty share their thoughts on the dominance of streaming platforms in the entertainment industry. Read more:

This Streaming Life Wharton alumni and faculty weigh in on the $50 billion streaming video industry during a time of great promise and uncertainty for the sector.

Part of the 2021 FringeArts Festival, iNtuitons Experimental Theatre will hold its Alternative Theatre Festival Sep 17-18. The University of Pennsylvania's only student-run experimental theatre group will present four works at the Platt Student Performing Arts House: Once Upon A -, Feckless, the dawn and her mothernight and DELPHI. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Ad4xEL

Meg Carriero, who earned a marketing certificate here at the University of Pennsylvania, was recently named the new marketing director for Milford Arts Council, the MAC in Milford, CT. Congratulations, Meg! https://bit.ly/3eyX0aY

Have you watched Eat Wheaties yet? The 2021 comedy film centers around the planning of a University of Pennsylvania class reunion and creates a character out of C'96 graduate . Head to Penn Today for an exclusive interview with actor Tony Hale and producer/director Scott Abramovitch to learn more:

Penn has starring role in new comedy | Penn Today The new film “Eat Wheaties!” has a host of Penn connections. Lead actor Tony Hale and director Scott Abramovitch chat with Penn Today about Penn’s role.

"When Laura Lazarus Goldstein, C’91, PAR’23, and Saul Goldstein, G’96, W’96, PAR’23, decided to support the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, now Penn Live Arts (PLA), they wanted to have an immediate impact on the arts at Penn and ensure support for PLA for years to come."

We are so grateful for the generosity of University of Pennsylvania alums Laura Lazarus Goldstein, C’91, PAR’23 and Saul Goldstein, G’96, W’96, PAR’23, whose gifts to the Penn Live Arts annual fund will create an endowment to support our artistic innovation. Read more about their impact: https://bit.ly/3kzqBVK

Congratulations! University of Pennsylvania alum Dr. Whitney Laemmli, an assistant professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University, was recently named a fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. Her fellowship will focus on her current book project, Measured Movements, examining the history of human bodily movement over the 20th century. Laemmli completed her PhD at Penn in 2016. https://bit.ly/3w3cIlr