All Things Alumni
Graduates of MMC’s Theatre program Bittner and Ashford recently guest starred as husband and wife in the seventh episode of the latest CBS show ‘Evil’ on Thursday, November 14.
Alumna Adrienne Warren ’09 is featured on the cover of the November 2019 issue of IN New York magazine. Read the feature story here.
Class of 2016’s Treneé McGee has been elected to the city of West Haven, Connecticut’s District 7 council, making her the youngest African American ever elected to the board.
Biology alumna Emma Kamen ’18 and Prof. Alessandra Leri have published an article describing a unique application of place-based learning in undergraduate STEM education.
Howard Weightman ’00, a Theatre Arts graduate and Naval officer, has been reunited with his beloved college ring 15 years after losing it aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower while stationed at Naval Station Norfolk in 2003.
Adrienne Warren ’09, Theatre Arts alumna and star of TINA: The Tina Turner Musical, was featured in an article in The New York Times in advance of the show’s Broadway debut on November 7.
Speech-Language Pathologists Christina Castronovo ’13 and Kelly Ann Peña ’13 presented important lessons for working with college students on the autism spectrum, as well as those with visual disabilities, at the Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence October Pedagogy luncheon.
Marymount Manhattan College’s annual Family and Friends Homecoming Weekend spanned across campus and from Roosevelt Island to Central Park and Chelsea, jam-packed with events and activities for the College community.
Samantha Butts ’19 is one of 13 new women joining the world-famous Rockettes for the 2019 Christmas Spectacular.
A graduate of MMC’s Art History program, Michael Quituisaca ’17 is now working toward his master’s in Art History at American University, where he and his peers have opened Moves Like Walter , the first exclusive exhibition from the Corcoran Legacy Collection.
Cornelison ’22, who is working towards a B.A. in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Writing for the Stage, shares her advice for before, during, and after making the choice to transfer colleges.
The MMC alumna walked the red carpet with date Chase Strangio, a lawyer with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, and spoke about the upcoming October 8 anti-discrimination Supreme Court case.
Ms. Kahn, who graduated from MMC in 1995 with a degree in Business, will challenge incumbent Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
English and World Literatures and Education graduate Annabelle Royer ’13 has been selected by the U.S. Department of State for a 10-month fellowship project training teachers and teaching English in Montenegro at The University of Montenegro. Royer is one of only 200 U.S. citizens selected for the 2019-2020 English Language Fellow Program.
Ashford will play Paula Jones in American Crime Story: Impeachment, the third installment of FX’s hit show, set to air on September 27, 2020.
Dr. Lia Leon Margolin, Associate Professor of Mathematics, presented a talk, “Constructing Wave Functions for Few-Body Systems in a Hyperspherical Basis Using Parentage Scheme of Symmetrization,” at the 15th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU-2019) , held at Cohon University Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Studio Art alum Heui Tae Yoon ’11 exhibits Bible: The Space Zero Enter Lowercase OLO at the Chosun Ilbo Museum in Seoul, South Korea, from August 7-12, 2019.
Marymount Manhattan College is pleased to announce the election of two new members to the Board of Trustees, which oversees the mission, fiscal integrity, and educational quality of the College. Marymount Manhattan is proud to welcome these new trustees, both of whom are alumnae of the College.
Amy Pekal ’15 Art History and Business major, Studio Art minor , was one of 6 [out of 110 applicants] selected to participate in Cittadellarte and Fondazione Zegna’s residential module, Rituals of the Contemporary.
Studio art alum and Mixed Media artist, Kristen Haskell’s Decomposition drawings are in “Vision Quest,” an exhibition of art, fashion and music at the Hartford ArtSpace.
Congratulations to Margaret Roleke ’84, Studio art alum, one of 6 artists selected for QAI 2019 (Queens Art Intervention)
Congratulations to MMC alumna Mia DeWeese ’13 and the entire cast and crew of Moulin Rouge! The Musical on Broadway, which opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Thursday, July 25.
“After a buzzed-about Off Broadway run, Jeremy O. Harris’s provocative exploration of race relations and sexuality will open at the Golden Theater.”
Former Studio Art major Ellie Ga ’98 will perform her narrative-based piece as part of the 2019 Whitney Biennial on Monday, July 22 at 7:00 pm.
Congratulations to Class of 2010’s Michael Lewis Mejia (BA Theatre, Musical Theatre minor) who has been cast in two highly-anticipated movie musicals, both set to be released in 2020: In the Heights and West Side Story.
A huge congratulations to alumnus Aaron Glick ’06 for his 2019 Tony win as a producer on The Boys in the Band, which received Best Revival of a Play.
MMC’s 2019 Alumni Reunion Weekend was held on Friday, May 17, and Saturday, May 18. More than six decades of alumni, ranging from the class of 1959 through our most recent grads in the class of 2019, came home to 71st Street to join in the festivities.
Ellie Ga ’98, MMC Studio Art alumna and internationally recognized artist, is one of just 75 artists selected to exhibit in the Whitney Biennial , the country’s most important showcase of contemporary art.
