Past Faculty & Faculty on Leave Archive

Mamadou Dia is a Senegalese film writer and director. A NYU Tisch graduate, he writes and directs films based on his life growing up in...

Gala Porras-Kim (1984, Bogotá) received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of...

Parastoo Anoushahpour (Iran / Canada) is an artist originally from Tehran now based in Toronto working predominantly with video and installation. She holds a BA...

Janicza Bravo is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. Her background is in theater.

John Gianvito is a director, teacher, and curator, based in Boston, Massachusetts. His films include the dramatic features THE FLOWER OF PAIN (1983), THE MAD...

Joan Darling has been nominated four times for an Emmy (the first woman to be nominated) and twice for a Director’s Guild of America Award,...

Stefon Bristol graduated from the best college in the United States of America, Morehouse College, and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, just like his...

Shaina Feinberg specializes in micro-budget filmmaking. 

A.R. Capetta (all pronouns) writes about magic, science, weirdness, mystery, and the places where they meet. Their eight YA novels include The Lost Coast...

Eshrat Erfanian is an artist and educator. She was born in Tehran and lives in Toronto.