Animator Yoo Lee shines in stop motion
After 20 years in the fashion industry, Lee began making DIY stop motion music videos to entertain her young daughter. Now Lee is a standout film student.
Ella Fitzgerald Scholarship advances equity and diversity in musical theater
Funded by the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, this endowed award is a first for the USC School of Dramatic Arts’ Musical Theatre program.
Annenberg Inclusion Initiative releases study of representation in Netflix original productions
The streaming service generally receives high marks, though the LGBTQ+ community and people with disabilities rarely see themselves reflected on screen.
Two stars are born: New documentaries feature musical theater students
USC School of Dramatic Arts students Alana Bright and Nia Sarfo star in HBO Max’s Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020 and Netflix’s Giving Voice, respectively.
Celebrating Black history: Trojans create art inspired by social justice
More than 100 participants of all artistic skill levels attended “Black History in the Making” and enjoyed an evening of communal expression.
USC students gather to tell the story of the African diaspora
The ambitious virtual collaboration brings together artists from across the university to share a more complete history of the African American experience.
Shift to online learning allows Trojan to balance biology studies with a ballet career
Gabriella Schultze has been dancing with a company in Salt Lake City by day while pursuing her USC Dornsife studies at night.
USC School of Dramatic Arts announces new Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
The office will offer programming and serve as space to empower collaborative and cultural innovation.
From a distance, USC Thornton upperclassmen find a way to welcome new students
Unable to throw their usual welcoming party due to the pandemic, students in the Popular Music program organized a game night to embrace the latest members of the Trojan Family.
Katharine H. Coleman, 65, longtime USC professor and award-winning architect
The practicing architect, who taught at USC for more than three decades, is noted for several houses she developed, designed, built and even lived in as co-founder of Cigolle X Coleman Architects.
Partnership at USC School of Dramatic Arts focuses on arts and social justice
The school’s Institute for Theatre & Social Change will team with the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative to recruit and train middle school students interested in drama.
A playwright pays it forward, endowing award for student writers
Alumna Joan Beber creates an award at the USC School of Dramatic Arts for fellow playwrights.
Finalists named for 33rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards
The awards honor the year’s most accomplished film and episodic series adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based.
7 new films that tell the stories of older adults
Caroline Cicero of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology recommends a crop of recent movies that tackle important topics like caregiving and living with dementia.
A sequel 17 years in the making: How a USC staffer’s side project became the perfect follow-up to his cult hit
Though Patricio Ginelsa only makes films in his spare time, his recent passion project, Lumpia with a Vengeance, is winning awards and charming audiences.
Have you been naughty? Then beware: Krampus is coming
With a new movie, a comic book series and Krampus-based festivities growing in popularity, the scary Alpine holiday legend has gained a firm foothold in America.
The most significant social impact films of 2020, all streaming at home
This list of 15 movies and shows, compiled by the Media Institute for Social Change at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, highlights the stories that traumatized, moved and inspired us this year.
Student club helps introduce children to music, whether in person or on Zoom
USC junior Danika Banh created the Music Inspiring Community club to bring regular lessons to underserved elementary school classrooms.
USC musician brings his violin to essential workers during the pandemic
Etienne Gara, artist-in-residence at USC Dornsife’s Brain and Creativity Institute, has been staging outdoor classical music concerts for field workers all across California.
Dance adaptation: USC Kaufman student teachers keep kids moving through online classes
Elementary students dance like no one’s watching as they step into their virtual studio, taking part in a key program that’s expanding during a tough time.
Daniel Alejandro Leon-Davis explores activism through art and design
As a 2021 Civic Media Fellow at USC Annenberg, he wants to reinforce the idea that fashion is a form of media.
USC Kaufman alums return to teach dance in a virtual world
Three alumni find themselves in a unique scenario: teaching a piece they learned as freshmen to current USC Kaufman students, only this time it’s through Zoom.
Digital recording uses today’s tech to bring music students together
Lecturer Jason Yoshida shares his expertise in a special USC Thornton class that helps students learn essential skills in a rapidly evolving music world.
Celebrated female artists remind USC music students to defy expectations
In a series of virtual master classes, guitarists Molly Miller and Ari O’Neal and USC Thornton’s Patrice Rushen shared how they’ve succeeded in a male-dominated industry.