You’ve shot a pilot for a new Web series. Now what? Filmmaker Jon Reiss (who’s also Film Directing faculty at CalArts’ School of Film/Video) attempts to answer that question and…
Continue reading »CalArts’ Balinese Music, Dance Ensemble at REDCAT Next Week
The Ramayana is one of the great epic poems of India, and plays an important role in the Hindu canon. The story, attributed to the sage Valmiki, has been often…
Continue reading »Character Animation Assistant Dean Leo Hobaica at Aniwow! 2009 in Beijing
Though he can usually be found in his office or lecturing in the Palace at CalArts, Character Animation Assistant Dean Leo Hobaica Jr. is currently halfway around the world at…
Continue reading »Norman Klein’s Bleeding Through Onstage this Weekend
The production Bleeding Through opens this weekend at Shakespeare Festival/LA in Downtown Los Angeles. Co-written & co-directed by Theresa Chavez and Rose Portillo for Pasadena-based About Productions, the work is…
Continue reading »It’s a MADgirl World: Fashion Installations by School of Theater Alum
The designs of Portland, Maine-based artist Meredith Alex (Theater BFA 90) served as the centerpieces of the city’s Harvest on the Harbor festival this past weekend. But her signature works…
Continue reading »Visiting Artist Joe Ksander: On Animation and Filmmaking
Animator Joe Ksander has worked on a number of acclaimed feature films like Night at the Museum (2006) (animation supervisor); The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the…
Continue reading »Nothing Like You: Debut YA Fiction Novel from CalArts Grad Lauren Strasnick
Lauren Strasnick (Critical Studies MFA 05) wrote her first short story, “Yours Truly, The Girls from Bunk Six,” in a cloth-bound 5×4 journal, in the fifth grade. She’s come a…
Continue reading »Director, Animation Director from 9 at CalArts’ Bijou Theater Tomorrow
CalArts’ School of Film/Video Program in Character Animation is hosting a lecture tomorrow evening at CalArts with Shane Acker (director) and Joe Ksander (animation director) of the feature film 9….
Continue reading »South African Dancer Brings Beautiful Me to REDCAT through Sunday
Dancer Gregory Maqoma was born in Soweto during apartheid—the policy of segregation as well as economic and political discrimination against Black South Africans and other non-Europeans in South Africa. Out…
Continue reading »CalArts’ Ovation Award Nominees
The L.A. Stage Alliance’s Ovation Award nominees were announced on Monday evening at a ceremony at A Noise Within theater in Glendale, Calif. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the…
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