FTT Talks Lecture Series & ND Alumni Filmmaker Series
2011-2012 FTT Talks Lecture Series and ND Alumni Filmmaker Series
FTT Talks Presents: Antonia Ellis and Kevin Fortson, and Their Lecture, "Producing Successful Television Shows - Studio and Producer Perspectives"
4:30 PM, Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Eck Visitors Center Auditorium
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Antonia Ellis has been the producer of Sex & The City, Royal Pains and Men in Trees. She was also co-producer of The Corner, which won an Emmy for Best Mini-Series. Earlier, Ellis was a production executive and head of post-production at DreamWorks SKG Television, and before that was associate producer on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Ellis has also produced feature films and is developing a web series. She is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Producers Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, and Women in Film.
Kevin Fortson, in his current role, produces scripted and reality series. He oversees the hit reality franchise The Bachelor -- which includes The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad -- The Voice, Rizzoli & Isles, Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game, and Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew. Prior, Fortson was senior vice president of operations and studio facilities for Warner Bros. Earlier, he worked on shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Extra, Geraldo, and Now It Can Be Told.
For more information on Antonia Ellis and Kevin Fortson: click here.
Sponsored by the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts and Multicultural Student Programs and Services
Fred Nelson, President, People's Choice Awards, and His Lecture, "Popular Culture is NOT an Oxymoron"
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
The Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
4:00 PM
In his talk, Nelson will share pop culture insights he has gleaned from movies, TV, and music in the 25 years since he graduated from Notre Dame, while providing tips for career advanecment in film, television, and theatre, publishing and advertising.
Nelson is currently the President of the People's Choice Awards and has previously held positions at Entertainment Weekly, Time and Esquire magazines, and Leo Burnett Advertising. He was Co-Executive Producer of VH1's The World Series of Pop Culture and has shared his entertainment expertise on Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, E!, Bravo, Fox, CBS and ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
This is a free, but ticketed event. For tickets, contact the Ticket office at (574) 631-2800 or click here.
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters and Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
The iNDustry Alliance Alumni Filmmaker Series Presents:
Actor William Mapother (ND '87) and his film, Another Earth
Friday, November 4, 2011
The Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
6:30 PM and 9:30 PM
Rhonda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT's astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. John Burroughs (William Mapother; ND '87), a brilliant composer, has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of strangers become irrevocably intertwined. This Sundance winner offers an unusual hybrid of indie drama and science fiction.
William Mapother has appeared in over fifty films and television shows. Recent film work includes The Drew Peterson Story, the Sundance hit Another Earth, Edwin Boyd, and FDR: American Badass. Other films include the Oscar-nominated In the Bedroom, World Trade Center, The Grudge, Lords of Dogtown, The Burrowers, and Without Limits. His television-work includes Lost (as Ethan Rom), Prison Break, Criminal Minds, Touched by an Angel, CSI: Vegas, CSI: Miami, Law and Order: SVU, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent.
He is a founding partner and board member of Slated, a tech and finance company for the film industry. Slated will soon launch an exclusive online marketplace for film finance, the first of its kind, connecting filmmakers and financiers all over the world.
Mapother has made use of his varied interests and talents in unique ways, both on and off screen. His voice has been heard in animation, video games, documentaries, PSAs, and commercials. He is currently writing and producing a film based on an episode of This American Life. In July 2011, at NYC's Lincoln Center Festival, he appeared in three of David Michalek's remarkable Portraits in Dramatic Time, a series of high-definition super-slow motion films featuring Alan Rickman, Patti Lupone, Liev Schreiber and others, all projected on an 85' x 45' screen at the Lincoln Center Plaza.
He is a National Director of the Screen Actors Guild, a co-founder of the Flyover Film Festival, and a member of the Kentucky Film Commission. He is a spokesperson for the cause of Elder Abuse Awareness and on the Board of the Community Foundation of Louisville.
Prior to acting, Mapother worked in various positions in the film industry and taught grades seven to twelve in East Los Angeles. He grew up in Louisville, KY and received a BA in Literature from Notre Dame. He lives in Los Angeles.
Mary Luckhurst, and Her Lecture,
"Actors on Playing Real People"
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Mendoza College of Business
Room 158, 5:00 PM
Luckhurst's lecture is based on the research for her recent book, Playing for Real, for which she interviewed actors such as Ian McKellen and Jeremy Irons on their experiences playing roles that are "real people" rather than fictional characters. The book covers such roles as Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia, Charles Dickens, and Sigmund Freud.
Luckhurst is the author and editor of ten books about theatre history and performance processes, including On Acting, On Directing, Blackwell's Companion to British and Irish Drama, and Theatre and Celebrity. She is the principal investigator of a three-year UK Higher Education Academy project examining actor-training. This year, she is the director of two international theatre conferences at York. She is also the co-founder of the new Department of Theatre, Film, and Television a thte University of York, UK.
2010-2011 FTT Talks Lecture Series and ND Alumni Filmmaker Series
Improv Workshop with Michael Girts, '07 Alum
Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 1:30 PM
B024 Rehearsal Room DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
MICHAEL GIRTS has performed for The Second City in Rush Limbaugh! The Musical, Rod Blagojevich Superstar and Fair and Unbalanced. He has also performed for The Second City aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines, during which time he traveled to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. Other credits include the Chicago Improv Festival, Chicago Sketchfest, Laugh Out Loud Theater (Schaumburg, IL) and ImprovAcadia (Bar Harbor, ME). Michael is one-half of the award-winning improvised musical Kate & Mike: The Musical. He earned his BFA in Acting from Syracuse University and his MBA from the University of Notre Dame. Michael teaches improvisation and runs workshops for various universities and professional organizations.
FTT Talks presents Kassie Misiewicz, Executive Artistic Director of Trike Theatre and Professional Theatre for Youth Director: "Building Community Through Theatre"
Friday, April 8, 2011, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
B024 Rehearsal Room, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Kassie started out creating a play about Arkansas History for 3rd-6th graders, but didn't realize that this project would re-create her as a director. Follow the development of Trike Theatre's original production Digging Up Arkansas by Mike Thomas and work with Kassie to stage parts of the script.
Digging up Arkansas is a professional production with adult actors for young audiences. This play transports 3rd-6th grade students back to 1936 where three Works Progress Administration writers share the story of Arkansas History through artifacts, storytelling, narrative and songs. An incredibly successful production, the play will tour 70 schools this year and expand to 144 in 2011-12.
FTT Talks presents Julie Hebert, Writer and Director of Film,Television, and Theatre: "A Free-lance Life"
Monday, March 7, 2011, 6:00 PM
Room 158, Mendoza College of Business
Julie Hébert is a Peabody Award-winning film director and a two-time Pen Award honoree for her plays The Knee Desires the Dirt, and Tree. In addition to theater work with Cornerstone, Steppenwolf, the Magic, Women's Project, San Diego Rep and many others, Ms. Hébert has written and directed for film and television, including most recently The Good Wife and Blue Bloods. She adapted her play Ruby's Bucket of Blood for Showtime, starring Angela Bassett, wrote the film Female Perversions, nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at SunDance, and adapted Mark Salzman's best-selling novel, "Lying Awake" for HBO.
FTT Talks presents Elaine Romero, Playwright
Friday, February 23, 2011, 4:00 PM
Philbin Studio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Free, but ticketed event. For tickets, call the Ticket Office, 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu.
Elaine’s plays have been developed and produced at numerous theatres ranging from Actors Theatre of Louisville to San Diego Repertory Theatre. Her publishers include Samuel French, Vintage Books, Playscripts and more.
To learn more about Romero, visit her website.
FTT Talks presents Larry Karaszewski, Screenwriter
Friday, February 11, 2011
Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
6:30 PM - Ed Wood (1994)
9:30 PM – The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Larry Karaszewski and his writing partner Scott Alexander wrote the Academy Award® winning film ED WOOD for which they were nominated for Best Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America. They followed this with THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT which won them the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay, as well as a special Writers Guild Award given in recognition of work done for civil rights and liberties. They re-teamed with director Milos Forman on MAN ON THE MOON, a biopic about the legendary comic genius Andy Kaufman for which Jim Carrey received the Golden Globe for Best Actor. Other projects include producing the acclaimed Paul Schrader film AUTO FOCUS and directing the comedy SCREWED staring Danny DeVito and Dave Chappelle. They wrote the 2007 film adaptation of the Stephen King short story 1408 staring John Cusack and Samuel Jackson. Collaborators since their senior year at USC's School of Cinema, Larry and Scott began their careers with the box-office hit PROBLEM CHILD and its sequel.
Larry Karaszewski will be introducing the films.
Tickets: $6, $5 faculty/staff, $4 seniors, $3 students
Purchase tickets at the Ticket Office, 574-631-2800 or at performingarts.nd.edu
Co-sponsored by the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and iNDustry Alliance
Alumni Filmmaker Series: Stephen Susco, Screenwriter and Executive Producer of HIGH School
Thursday, November 11, 2010, 9:00 PM
Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Stephen (ND '95) has been a working screenwriter since 1996. He has written and sold over thirty scripts and pitches to New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers, Miramax, Paramount Studios, Lionsgate, Universal, Sony, and United Artists. His first produced film, THE GRUDGE, grossed over $100 million domestically, and nearly $300 million worldwide on video. He also penned THE GRUDGE 2, released in October 2006.
Don't miss out on this special event -- Come join us for the Alumni Filmmaker Series!
Tickets: $6, $5 faculty/staff, $4 seniors, and $3 all students
Purchase tickets online at performingarts.nd.edu or by calling the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Ticket Office at (574) 631-2800.
Sponsored by The Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, The Notre Dame Alumni Association, and The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.
For more information, click HERE.
Film Screening "You Are Here"
Thursday, October 28, 2010, 7:30 PM
Eck Visitors Center Auditorium
Free event
Follow a young medical student on a journey into the heart of rural Africa, where he volunteers at a community health clinic and faces tough questions about development, global disparities—and himself. A panel discussion will follow with: David Grew, Film Protagonist; Matthew Amenta, Director (ND ‘04), Ted Reilly, Producer (ND ‘04) and current Notre Dame students engaged in international work.
Cosponsored with Kellogg Institute for International Studies/Ford Family Program, Lifefinder Films, Center for Health Sciences Advising, Notre Dame Alumni Association, and Department of Film, Television and Theatre
The Big Read
The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnershp with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 7:00 PM,
Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium
A dicussion with Professor Pamela Wojcik and Screening of Hitchcock's "Rope"
Thursday, October 28, 2010, 7:00 PM Hesburgh Library, Carey Auditorium
A discussion with Professor Susan Ohmer and Screening of Hitchcock's "The Birds"
Sponsored by The Porgram of Liberal Studies, The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, The Office of Research, Hesburgh Library, WSND, The Alliance for Catholic Education, the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, and The Snite Museum of Art. Also sponsored by St. Joseph county Public Library and the Center for History.
FTT Talks presents Rolin Jones, Playwright and Television Writer
Monday, October 25, 2010, 6:00 PM
162 Mendoza School of Business
Rolin Jones' play The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. It received the 2006 Obie Award for Excellence in Playwriting. His full-length play, The Jammer, received a Fringe First Award for Best New Writing at 2004's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has written several short plays for the Actor's Theater of Louisville's Humana Festival, including Sovereignty, Ron Robby Had Too Big A Heart, The Mercury and the Magic, Extremely, and Chronicles Simpkins Will Cut Your Ass. He was a writer/producer on the first four seasons of Weeds and seasons four and five of Friday Night Lights. He is currently a Co-Executive Producer on season three of The United States of Tara and is writing a pilot, Grimm City, for HBO with Frank Rich.
Rolin will speak about his experiences and the writing process in different entertainment media.
Sponsored by the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
FTT Talks presents Tony Stoller, Independent British radio
Thursday, October 7, 2010, 6:00 PM
162 Mendoza School of Business
Tony Stoller was the regulator of commercial radio in the UK until his retirement in 2006. He has just published the definitive history of the medium, in Sounds of Your Life; The History of Independent Radio in the UK, describing an experiment in blending commercial and public service which is unique in the English-speaking world.
A graduate of Cambridge University, Tony was awarded a CBE by Britain's Queen Elizabeth in 2003 for services to broadcasting. He is currently a member of the Centre for Broadcasting History Research and a visiting fellow at Bournemouth University’s media school; the editor of The Friends Quarterly; and a member of the UK’s Competition Commission and of the Administrative Appeals Chamber in the UK’s information rights Tribunal.
He will discuss the history of and current state of radio in Britain and elsewhere.
Sponsored by the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and the Nanovic Institute.
FTT Talks presents Natalija Nogulich, Actress and Director
Thursday, September 30, 2010, 6:00 PM
160 Mendoza School of Business
Sponsored by the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
Originally from Chicago, Ms. Nogulich recently returned from NYC where she performed off Broadway in Restoration. Her Broadway work includes Hurlyburly, opposite Willam Hurt; The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards; and Accomplice with Jason Alexander. Ms. Nogulich is most recognized for her television role as Admiral Nechayev on Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as recurring roles on many other shows. Among her many film credits are five David Mamet pictures, including Hoffa, opposite Jack Nicholson. In 1994, she founded The Grace Playerstheatre company, where she acted as Artistic Director for fifteen years. Three of her adaptations of classical plays have been produced: Romeo and Juliet in the American Civil War, An Enemy of the People, and The Dame of New Orleans (Lady of the Camellias). Ms. Nogulich has taught acting and directing for over thirty years, has been a faculty member at Principia College and Cal Poly, and currently teaches at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Master Acting Workshop for Students with Natalija Nogulich
Friday, October 1, 2010, 10:00 PM - 1:00 PM
B024 DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Rehearsal Room
Students will work directly with Natalija on Arthur Miller's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People.
Students need to sign up in advance with Christina Ries at Christina.Ries.6@nd.edu
FTT Talks presents Katie O’Connell, Network Television Executive: "Navigating the TV Landscape - Jobs and the Business of Making Television"
Monday, September 13, 2010, 6:00 PM
158 Mendoza School of Business
Katie O’Connell has worked as a television executive for over 10 years. She was named Executive Vice President, Drama Programming, NBC Entertainment, in June 2008, where she oversaw all aspects of
drama development as well as current drama programming for NBC. That NBC drama slate included such shows as “ER”, “Heroes”, "Chuck", “Law and Order” and “Law and Order: SVU”. Previously, she headed development at NBC in New York, where she oversaw the pilot of the Emmy winning comedy “30 Rock” and “Lipstick Jungle”. Prior to NBC, she worked at Imagine Television overseeing, among other series, Emmy winners “Arrested Development” and “24”. She started her career in television at CBS, as director of comedy development. In addition to these projects, Katie volunteers her time as a mentor and advisor with the Maisha Film Lab in Africa. She has taught a television workshop and an eight-day screenwriting workshop in Uganda.
Cosponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the LIberal Arts.