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ALUMNI ADVICE: PURSUING A CAREER IN ENTERTAINMENT Acting: (from a guy’s and girl’s perspective) Advice for the actor who wants to move out to LA A Penn Alum Casting Director to Actors/Comics: Don’t Fall into this trap Music Career Novelist TV & Film Jobs TV writing and advice for moving out to LA MORE ALUMNI […]

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Hollywood Penn Alumni you should know about: Vol. 6

I’ve got some more alumni who are blowing up in the world of entertainment that you should know about! After the jump, learn about alumni who are appearing on, writing for and creating some great new TV shows. …Plus one alum who is writing about his experience producing one very newsworthy Broadway show. Happy new year […]

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Listen to this Penn alum ask Taylor Swift out on a date

The last time we checked in with Penn alum Hollywood actor Alex Weber (C’09, Lacrosse), he had a cameo on “The Young and the Restless”. Recently, Alex has starred in a commercial that needs your vote …and he made a music video for Taylor Swift that you’ll want to check out after the jump! Alex […]

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He’s a bitter lawyer and stand-up …and he’s telling all!

I’ve covered stand-up Matt Ritter (L’02) on DT before and all the great viral videos he’s created (my favorite one being THIS one). If you recall, like many Penn alumni making career changes, Matt has transitioned careers from being a lawyer to a standup. After the jump check out “Bottom Rung”, his new web series […]

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Their creative anti-twitter song

12 DT vlogs and 2 years later, it’s official. Ben Naecker (C’09, Water Polo) and Blake West (W’09, Jazz Combos), the Penn alumni friends who moved to Austin to pursue music and swore that “real jobs were not my forte” have split up because of “real jobs”. After the jump watch their final episode where: […]

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This “Gifted” Penn Alum schools actor Patrick Wilson

Over the past couple of years, Doctor Zach Lutsky (C’97) appeared on the Dr. Oz show, was the medical consultant for “Miami Medical” and “ER“, and even had an acting cameo on a TV show. Recently, Zach has been working on the new CBS show “A Gifted Man” (debuts tonight at 8 pm) as the […]

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