*SOA Wrapped is based on the information we have gathered from news sources across Emerson and SOA departments. While there may be Emersonian creative work we are yet to find, our heartiest congratulations and pride extend to our entire SOA community and beyond!
Cheers to another fruitful academic year! We are thrilled to present SOA Wrapped, a culmination and celebration of all the wonderful students, faculty, and alumni accomplishments this year. In the days to follow, keep an eye out for Emersonians’ creative pursuits, all wrapped up!
WLP Associate Professor Benoit Denizet-Lewis is releasing a new book! YOU’VE CHANGED is a nonfiction book that will guide its readers through personal transformations. We recommend you get your hands on a copy as soon as possible. Pre-order is available now!
Our very own Mimi Warnick ‘18, Artistic Director of the Delaware Theatre Company, has let her creative juices flow and conceived the new musical: THE CHEQUERBOARD WATCH. We are so proud to see her develop in the industry and share her ideas with the world. Congratulations Mimi!
Learn about black histories in the Beacon Hill neighborhood through augmented reality with artists Elisa Hamilton ’18 and Clareese Hill. They will lead a special walking tour of their public art projects on April 18, 1 pm, followed by a reception and Q&A at The Museum of African American History.
Dr. Horak is presenting her new book, TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS. She will be accompanied by PA Senior Distinguished Artist-in-Residence P. Carl, leading a discussion and Q&A. Bring your curious minds! You can find the link to the Zoom in our bio. #newbook #emerson
Last month, Emerson College hosted the third annual Mass Poetry Teen Spoken Word Festival with the help of WLP Assistant Professor Porsha Olayiwola. Students shared their works on campus and performed on the big stage. We cannot wait to see what their futures hold! Photography by Jeffrey Vock.
Cinema Emerson is hosting a Commemorative Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) screening of WUNDERKINDER on April 13 at the Bright Family Screening Room. PA Assistant Professor Ilana Toeplitz will moderate a Q&A with Co-Writer and SOF Senior Affiliated Faculty Stephen Glantz after the screening.
The Porter Square Writers in Residence program began in 2019 to support local writers by providing resources needed to write books. This year, our very own WLP Affiliated Faculty Fin Leary, MA ’17 is the Young Adult Writer-in-Residence. Congratulations!
MFA Theatre Ed and Applied Theatre graduate student Yasmeen Duncan is playing Precious ‘Pete’ Watson in the Lyric Stage Boston production of ANGRY, RAUCOUS, AND SHAMELESSLY GORGEOUS. The show is running until the 12th of April so make sure to catch a performance before it's too late!
The PEN Open Book Award recognizes an exceptional book-length work of any literary genre by an author of color. Asako Serizawa, MFA ’01 was one of the judges this year! Announced this week, the award went to Justin Haynes for IBIS, a Caribbean story of migration, superstition, and search for family.
Emerson Contemporary is hosting a student-curated exhibition from March 31st to April 8th. Fourteen undergraduate and graduate students sought out fourteen artists from New England. Join them for the student lightning talks on April 3rd at 12:00pm, followed by the opening reception from 5pm-7pm.
The Mass. Cultural Council has rewarded multiple of our fellow Emersonians with $5,000 grants for each of their creative projects. They were each awarded with literature, arts, or multidisciplinary grants. We could not be happier for you and wish you the best of luck!
Marlboro Institute Affiliated Faculty Christina Kappel's debut novel, BREAK THROUGH will be published in 2027 with HarperCollins under the pen name Christina Carrigan! We're excited to see Kappell's expertise in gender and media channel into fiction.
The annual ComEx! Show is right around the corner. Tickets are disappearing quickly… so grab yours fast! See you on April 10th and 11th.
Get your pitches ready! The WLP Pitch Slam is back with four amazing editors on March 26, 6 pm at the Bordy Theater. Tailor your pitch to one of the magazines and make sure it can be presented in under a minute. You need not pitch to attend, spectators are as welcome as participants!
This month's guest for the lunchtime speaker series “What Matters to Me and Why” is Performing Arts Assistant Professor Jonathan Kitt! He will be sharing bits and pieces of his journey, motivations, values, and why he does what he does. Join him tomorrow and enjoy his input… and some free lunch!
Get ready to snap your fingers for the next WLP Reading Series with award-winning poet and memoirist, Saeed Jones! RSVP at the link in bio and see you at The Judee Theater on Monday, 6 pm!
Now is the chance to support what inspires you with Emerson Giving Day! Join Emersonians worldwide on March 26-27, to fuel creativity, innovation, and excellence. Your generosity through your gift, as big or small as you are able to contribute, makes all the difference. Visit link in bio to support!
WLP Assistant Professor Porsha Olayiwola is known for her poetry, performances, and writing. What you may not know is that she served as Boston’s third Poet Laureate. Her poems are what led Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to declare January 23rd as Porsha Olayiwola Day in Boston. We couldn’t be prouder!
Not one, not two, but three of our alumni are currently working on Broadway productions. We are so proud to see Hawa Kamara ‘23, Lucas Babcock ‘23, and Anania ‘22 taking part in HADESTOWN, HAMILTON, and THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, and succeeding just a few years after graduating. Break a leg! #broadway
We’re excited to welcome you back from Spring Break to LIBERATION & CREATIVE AUTHORSHIP, an evening of discussion and interactive storytelling on March 16, 6 - 8 pm at the SPC Blackbox.
RSVP at the link in bio!
Happy Spring Break!
While we wait for the warm weather to return to Boston, enjoy a well-deserved and restful break, stay warm, and stay safe.
Performing Arts Professor Magda Romanska’s newest comparative research study about the (dis)advantages of digital programming: DIGITAL ACCESS TO THE PERFORMING ARTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LEGAL AND STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES, will be published on March 24th. We recommend you give it a read!
At AWP 2026 this week in Baltimore, Maryland, meet us at the bookfair and attend panels moderated and presented by Emersonians. Join us for the Emerson Party at 5pm, Thursday at Angels Rock Bar followed by Redivider’s 40th Anniversary celebration and a Ploughshares reading. RSVP via link in bio!
Our students, with the help of Associate Professor Scott LaFeber, performed a stripped-down version of CHANTECLER alongside Broadway performers Sam Simahk ‘10, Dru Serkes ‘11, and Lauren Chapman ‘13. We love to see our students learning and we hope that being on Boylston brought back happy memories.
The GenAI and Creative Practices Conference was held in Amsterdam last December. We are proud to share that MILAIS Assistant Professor Ioana Jucan and Associate Professor Russ Newman led the roundtable, “Disrupting AI Futures: Critical Creative Interventions in Technology and Society.”
The very first annual Teach-In on Timely Topics happens next week! This year’s theme is Public Knowledge, Memory, and Legacy. Check out the link in bio for more!
Assistant Professor Chris J. Lee has been awarded the Advancing Research Fellowships grant for their book project ASIAN HATERS: TRACING RACIAL ANIMUS IN MEDIA, CULTURE, AND POLITICS. We wish them a lot of success in their research and are excited to see the final results. #marlboroinstitute #emerson
After graduating with two degrees from Emerson College and moving to New York City, Kelly Young Chang ‘15 has sold her manuscript to AKAstory. Her book, THE SINS OF GOOD PEOPLE, is set to be published in April 2027. We cannot wait to read it! Congratulations! #published #emersoncollege #author