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Dialogue Magazine

Serious Play

Fall 2024

Class of 2025 radio/television/film major Shay Park was director of photography last spring on the set of The Joy Scout. The production of the scripted show was funded in part by the department's annual sitcom sequence.

Fall 2024

Students perform "theatre for the very young" at last spring's celebration of Winifred Ward (C1905). The event marked a century since she pioneered the field of children's theatre here at Northwestern.

Fall 2024

Communication studies assistant professor Duri Long (right) demonstrates her AI art installation, which is now showing at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry.

Winter 2023

The animated short film By Water, directed by Iyabo Kwayana (GC17) and produced by Nevo Shinaar (GC17), screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the New Orleans Film Festival in November, and premiered at Blackstar Film Festival last August. The film will play on WORLD channel and America ReFramed on PBS later this year. Kwayana and Shinaar met as students in the MFA Documentary Media program.

Winter 2023

Stephanie Crawford, a PhD candidate in communication sciences and disorders, works with a child completing an autism diagnostic observation schedule (ADOS) as part of his participation in an NIH-funded study of family genetics and fragile X syndrome. The study is being administered by the Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Lab, led by Molly Losh, the Jo Ann G. and Peter F. Dolle Professor of Learning Disabilities.