AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, and GRANTS
2022 Puffin Foundation Grant Recipient for "I’ll Betray My Country: Youth Theatre in Palestine"
2021 "Block by Block" Documentary Photography Commission from Rattlestick Theatre, NY
2021 “Through My Window” Fellowship at CUNY Graduate Center, NY
2019 NY Public Humanities Fellowship for “Stage Left “
2019 Provost Digital Innovation Grant for “Stage Left”, CUNY Graduate Center, NY
2018 New Media Lab Fellowship for “Stage Left” at CUNY Graduate Center, NY
2014 “Photo of the Year” American Anthropological Association, DC
2013 "Photo of the Week" Time Out NY
2012 Ippie for “Best Photo Essay or Online Slideshow” for We Contain Multitudes: Occupy Wall Street Photos, NY (collective)
EXHIBITS (Individual and Collective)
2022 "We The People," Gallery and Virtual Exhibition at The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
2021 "Manhattan Plaza: New York's Socialist Housing Experiment," Rattlestick Theatre, NY
2021 "Theatre Scholar Portraits" Negotiating Quotidian: Performing the Everyday, CUNY Graduate Center, NY
2021 Juried Student Art Showcase, CUNY Graduate Center, NY
2017 "Imagining Theatre Post Apocalypse," Work of Imagining Festival at Jack Space, Brooklyn, NY
2016 "Student Activism" Generation Now at Wild Project, New York, NY
2012 "Student Activism" Culture Project, New York, NY
EDUCATION and MENTORSHIP
2023-2024 Tacet-Eye Core Workshop
2022 Long-Term Project workshop with Daniella Zalchman and Natalie Keyssar
2022 Editing Workshop with Daniella Zalchman and Natalie Keyssar
2022 Visual Storytelling and Caption Workshop - Brian Frank, Sarah Blesener, Jenny Stratton
2021 Documentary Practice and Personal Storytelling - Brian Frank and Sarah Blesener
2020 Developing Personal Projects - Brian Frank
LECTURES, INTERVIEWS, and REVIEWS (Selected)
2023 Portfolio Review, Social Documentary Network
2022 Delivered photography presentation at the Society for Visual Anthropology conference, Seattle, WA
2022 Delivered virtual TED Talk at TEDxBroadway on theatre in conflict zones, NY
2022 Portfolio Review, Social Documentary Network
2015 Delivered TED Talk at Columbia University on community-based storytelling practices, NY
CLIENTS and PUBLICATIONS
Time Out NY, NY Daily News, Huffington Post, The Advocate, The Indypendent, Our Town NY, Huffington Post, The Signal House Edition, Arab Stages, Performance Research, Anthropology News, About Performance, HowlRound Theatre Commons, Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, IFTR (International Federation of Theatre Research), Exequtive Entertainment, Green Room Blog, Eagle Project, Co-Op Theatre East, Girl Be Heard, Cookie Tongue Music, Hook Arts Media/Red Hook Fest, and others.
