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“La Esperanza (Hope)” by Javier Cruz-Ginez (BA, moving-image production ’25) has been selected in this year’s Tribeca short program.
Through candid conversations, observational…
Sixteen students in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts attended the May 2026 "Arts Career Trek" in Atlanta, Georgia, where they met with film and media employers and Ohio State alumni…
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Beth Kattelman
October 28 – November 6
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MacDowell, the nation’s first artist residency program, has awarded 134 Fellowships to visionary artists working across seven disciplines for its Spring Summer 2026 season. These distinguished…
Assistant Professor Rasel Ahmed's film, Goodbye, Snoball, is headed to the Ann Arbor Film Festival at the end of March.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington, D.C., swings…
Associate Professor Alex Oliszewski co-designed media and narrates The Survivors' Way at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. Oliszewski brings together…
The department’s newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Hao Zho, is getting recognized for his work in documentary filmmaking.
“Ru Ni Sua Yuan” (“Correct Me if I’m Wrong”) is a…
We're looking for a Film and Video Equipment Coordinator to oversee the use and maintenance of the department's film and video production equipment. For complete details, see the application.
On October 29, students from the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts participated in a Career Immersion Day at WOSU Public Media, sponsored by ASC Career Success. The in-person event…
On Friday, September 19, students in Film Studies and Moving-Image Production attended a Career Immersion Day with Spacejunk Studios, a motion graphics and live-action studio in Columbus, OH…
The National Review Panel of the 2025-26 EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights’ Festival is pleased to announce the results of the competition: Acute Exposure, by August Hakvaag (First Place) and
Eleven majors in The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts attended the 2025 “Arts Career Trek” which took place in May in New York City. Students met with film and media employers and Ohio…
Associate Professor Maggie Flinn was nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work for Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande dessinée…
Assistant Professor Maranda DeBusk has been named to the inaugural Engaged Scholars Academy. The academy is a one-year, cohort-based leadership and professional development…
Associate Professor Maggie Flinn was shortlisted for the Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize for Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande dessinée and Women.
The Ohio State University Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is pleased to announce its 2025 – 2026 theatre season. Tickets go on sale in September.
The Squirrels…
The department is hiring a Post-MFA Scholar/Artist in Playwriting and New Work Creation. This is a two-year, full-time position beginning August 2025.
Accepting applications…
After graduating from Ohio State in 2017 with a BA in Theatre, Zachry J. Bailey (center in photo) attended the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he earned an MFA in stage management…
The Ohio State University Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is pleased to announce the autumn shows in its 2025 – 2026 theatre season. (Spring titles will be announced when rights are…
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures and Professor of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts (by courtesy) Yana Hashamova has been…
Dr. Beth Kattelman (Professor of University Libraries and Theatre, Film, and Media Arts (by courtesy) and Curator of the Theatre Research Institute) has been awarded a Greater Columbus Arts…
The department is hiring a narrative filmmaker at the rank of assistant professor. This faculty member will lead undergraduate narrative production classes focusing on visual storytelling…
The Ohio State University Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is pleased to announce its 2024 – 2025 theatre season.
August Wilson's Seven GuitarsGuest Directed by Terrence…
The National Academy of Television Arts Ohio Valley Regional College Student Production Awards selected Gibson Davis (BA, moving-image production '24) as the winner of a student…
Dinner at the House of Odysseus by Stratos E. Constantinidis offers a new and different treatment of Homer’s familiar epic tale about the Second Trojan War and its…
Lecturer Scott Spears along with Christina Paolucci won an Emmy in the Documentary--Historical/Nostalgia category for A Higher Law: The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue of 1858. They received…
Professor Mandy Fox is featured as the voice of The Chemist in Sumerian Six, a new video game from Artificer and Devolver Digital. A real-time tactical stealth adventure…
A group of department undergraduate students attended the 2nd Annual Arts Industry Trek to Los Angeles where they met with executives and alumni at Buck Design, Warner Bros. Animation, Amazon MGM…
Idris Goodwin, artistic director of the Seattle Children’s Theatre is the 2024 recipient of the Margo Jones Award.
The annual award honors "that citizen-of-the-theatre who…
Professor Laura Podalsky was named Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor.
Professor Linda Mizejewski received the Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award.
The Office of Outreach and Engagement named Lord Denney's Players a Program of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship. To support and promote high-impact engaged scholarship, the Office of Outreach and…
Associate Professor Tom Dugdale received the Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award.
Associate Professor Kevin McClatchy (MFA, '12) has been named The Ohio State University Artist Laureate.
The new home of The Ohio State University's Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts was celebrated on April 6th with an open house and speeches by university and college leaders.
Moving-Image Production Major Maddie McSteen won the Ohio Student Film Award for her documentary In English, & Then Spanish at the 51st Athens International Film + Video Festival.
Doctoral student Gabriela Trigo-McIntyre is one of the 2023-24 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) recipients. This award is the premier award for creating excellence in teaching at the…
Two alumni and three current undergraduate majors have work screening at the Athens International Film + Video Festival on April 12th: Rory Klein (BA, moving-image production; political science, …
Linda D. Taylor is screening her documentary Champions Together: An Anat Baniel Method NeuroMovement Practitioner Works with Special Needs Children and Their Parents on Friday, February…
Assistant Professor Rasel Ahmed was elected to the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA on Friday, December 1st. The Nomination Committee identified Ahmed as a potential…
Esther Kim Lee (PhD, '00) received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Theatre Research at its annual conference in Rhode Island. The award is given each year to a…
Sophie Barbour (BA, film studies; English '21) is interviewed in Film Matters Magazine about her article "Divines and the Constructed Self" (Film Matters, Volume 13, Issue 1,…
Alum Rory Klein (BA, moving-image production; political science '23) has been selected for the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival. Klein created his short film, World Between Our Ears (co…
The department is hiring a Recording Studio Engineer to oversee the daily operations of the recording studio and sound mix/screening room. This is a new position within the department to support…
Production Manger Sherée Greco is featured in an Ohio State Alumni Magazine article on mentoring. The piece focuses on her and Zach Bailey (BA, theatre '17) who is currently an assistant…
Esther Kim Lee (PhD, theatre '00), Frances Hill Professor of Theater Studies, International Comparative Studies, and History and Director of Asian American and Diaspora Studies at Duke University…
The department is hiring a Video Equipment Coordinator to manage and maintain our film and video equipment, including equipment check-out for our Moving Image Production courses.
Accepting…
The Wexner Center for the Arts is presenting Scrap Heap, Associate Professor Kevin McClatchy's one-man show about a US Army Special Forces veteran transitioning from military to civilian…
The Columbus Museum of Art is hosting a loop-based film performance by Professor Roger Beebe. Lineage is a loop-based film performance for four 16mm projectors using Norman McLaren's…
Bonnie Milligan (BA, theatre '06) won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Kimberly Akimbo. Kimberly Akimbo features a book and…
Professor Stratos E. Constantinidis' essay, "Playing the Persian Queen" appears in Building Embodiment: Integrating Acting, Voice, and Movement to Illuminate Poetic Text, edited by Baron…
The department is hiring a Sound Stage Manager to oversee the daily operations of the sound stage and media production lab. This is a new position within the department to support filmmaking…
Three faculty members within the department were promoted during this year's tenure and promotion process. Dr. Joseph Fahey (Mansfield) and Mandy Fox were promoted to professor. Tom Dugdale was…
Chad R. Mahan, scenic studio manager, received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award, recognizing staff members in the college who have demonstrated sustained excellence in…
The Ohio State University Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is pleased to announce its 2023 – 2024 theatre season (rights pending), the first season produced in the new Theatre and Film…
Professor Jeanine Thompson has announced her plan to retire at the end of this academic year. She has served the Department of Theatre and then the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts for…
Adrienne Kennedy's (BS '53, DRH '03) Ohio State Murders opened on Broadway last night at the newly christened James Earl Jones Theatre with six-time Tony-Award-winning Audra McDonald as…
Visiting Scholar Hongliang Zhou successfully completed his PhD degree in China this week. He defended his dissertation (220,000 words) before a six-member committee of faculty from the Shanghai…
SITI Company has announced that the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute (TRI) will be the recipient of its physical archive. Since 2017, SITI Company has been developing the SITI Legacy…
Alumnus Blake Anthony Edwards' (MFA '18) play The One and Only Sarah Stonley is the development production at CATCO's New Works Festival for Young Audiences. The two-week festival …
USITT-Ohio Valley Section announced the 2022 Ezekiel Award Winners. Third-year MFA student Jessica Hightower received the Ezekiel Award of Distinction for her scenic design of Sweat and…
USITT-Ohio Valley Section announced the 2022 Ezekiel Award Winners. Third-year MFA student Braden Graves received the Ezekiel Award of Outstanding Achievement for his scenic design of Violet…
Doctoral Candidate Adrienne Oehlers has been awarded a 2022-23 American Fellowship by the American Association of University Women (AAUW). This fellowship will enable Oehlers to focus on…
Ohio State Murders by Adrienne Kennedy (BS '53, DRH '03) is headed to Broadway in November. This will be the first time one of Kennedy's plays opens on Broadway despite a long and lauded…
Associate Professor Vera Brunner-Sung is one of six Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists selected for a new fellowship program by the Sundance Institute and The Asian American…
Toni-Leslie James (BFA, Theatre '79) has been nominated for her 4th Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for Paradise Square. This new musical…
Doctoral student Josh Streeter is heading to the United Kingdom. His paper "The Haunted Skene: A Practice-as-Research Case Study of Nikokhares' Fragmentary Herakles Khoregus" has…
Doctoral candidate Adrienne Oehlers is one of the recipients of the Graduate School's 2021-2022 Graduate Associate Teaching Awards. This award is Ohio State's highest recognition of teaching done…
Professor Stratos E. Constantinidis' article "The Didymus-Herodicus Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Choreograph and Perform the Puns in Persians?" was published in the Fall 2021 edition of
Post-MFA Artist Rasel Ahmed curated an online oral history exhibition, "Moving Memories", about the queer Bangladeshi migrants (documented, undocumented, asylee) living in the United States. This…
Congratulations to Associate Professor Ana Elena Puga, Assistant Professor Victor M. Espinosa (Ohio State Newark, Sociology), and Associate Professor Harmony Bench (Department of Dance) for their…
Post-MFA Artist Rasel Ahmed and Graduate Teaching Associate Lydia Cornett both have works in the Wexner Center for the Arts Unorthodocs 2021 Shorts. They will be screened this Friday, October 22,…
The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at The Ohio State University seeks an accomplished nonfiction filmmaker with a terminal degree in cinematic production (or a related field with…
The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts is proud to congratulate Moving-Image Production majors Maya Neyman and Gibson Davis on their nominations for the 2021 College…
The Dramatist Guild bestowed its highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, on Ohio State alumna Adrienne Kennedy (BS '50, DRH '03). The award recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement in…
The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts seeks an equipment and studio manager to oversee the use and maintenance of all film and video production equipment. See the job listing for full…
Ohio State Murders by Obie winner Adrienne Kennedy (BS, education '53; DRH, '03) is receiving a lot of attention this season. In addition to being produced as part of the Round House…
Over the past three semester, the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts has graduated nearly 100 undergraduate and graduate students. Congratulations to you all. We wish you all the best!
Alum Emily Jeu (BA, theatre '14) won Season 1 of the Burgschneider Challenge. Burgschneider, based in Frankfurt, Germany, supplies medieval clothing for festivals, stage, and screen.
In the…
The Department of Theatre has traditionally recognized a select group of students for their outstanding contributions in service, creative activity, scholarship, and teaching. Each individual has…