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This New Emmy-Award Winning Entrepreneur Knows How to Get To (and On) Sesame Street
After working in children’s television for nearly 10 years, most notably creating, producing and writing for: an award-winning series of animated shorts for “Sesame Street” Bill Cosby’s Emmy-winning Nick Jr. series “Little Bill,” and “Whoopi’s Littleburg,” (as lyricist) a series of specials also seen on Nick Jr., last month …Eric Weil (C’97. UTV-13 News, The […]
Penn Alumni You Should Know About Vol. 21
Welcome back to the wonderful world of Penn Alumni You Should Know About, where we feature the eye-popping, mind-blowing exploits of Penn Alumni in the entertainment industry. Before you read this edition, let’s welcome comedy writer Rafael Friedan (C’04, Phi Kap) to our Penntertainment blogger community. Rafael writes absurd, over-the-top comedy for film, TV, and […]
SNL Penn alum asked Lorne Michaels…what?
Last week, SNL (and Penn alum) Vanessa Bayer (C’04) was the commencement speaker at Annenberg’s undergraduate graduation ceremony. After the jump, watch the speech, find out about Vanessa’s path from Penn to SNL, which group at Penn passed on the “Bayer magic”, and why she didn’t really want to get a role in a Planters Peanut […]
Breaking News: Penn Alum Joins Cast of Saturday Night Live! (VIDEO)
It has just been announced that Penn Alum Vanessa Bayer (C’04, Bloomers) is one of three new cast members of the upcoming 36th season of Saturday Night Live! (source) Like many SNL castmates, Vanessa comes from doing Chicago’s Second City. Per her bio on the Second City website, “The Cleveland native was director of Bloomers […]
Best of DT 2009: My Top 21 Posts
Before the ball drops tonight, I wanted to wrap up 2009 with what I am deeming my “2009 best of” list. If I could say one thing about the type of posts I did about our alumni in 2009, I would say that self-expression was very prominent this year via the spoken word, the […]
