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Their Brilliant Mockumentary: “Dungeons and Dragons” Meets “Waiting for Guffman”

A bunch of Penn undergrads including some of the talented actors from Penn’s improv group Without a Net as well as some Drexel improv group students partnered together to create Wizards of West Philly, a mockumentary that can be best described as Dungeons and Dragons meets the TV stylings of “The Office” and/or the film […]

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A Wharton Class Takes On “The Apprentice” (VIDEO)

Yes, “The Celebrity Apprentice” ended last night, and while the winner wasn’t Penn alum Melissa Rivers, it did turn out to be her mother Joan Rivers. So there’s a close win for us anyway. On a related note, in a very last effort attempt to capitalize on this season’s Apprentice fever, check out a class […]

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UPenn Offers Free Online Education

It’s an Ivy League education with the price tag to prove it, but now the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies is offering the Ivy League experience to anyone with an internet connection. “The Open Learning Commons is really about opening windows to a wider audience… to students who don’t have […]

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Alumni with New Films, TV & Music + His Recurring Role on a Popular Soap Opera!

Some Hollywood bits and pieces from our Alumni this week: New sci-fi film being produced. New reality TV show debuting in May. New music featured on a TV show. New TV guest appearances on 2 popular shows (one tonight!). Dig into the details HERE. Reality honcho Mark Cronin (ENG’86), debuts his next VH1 reality show, […]

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Aspiring “Entertainment” Undergrads and Grads Want To Know the Answer to This Question

I recently got an email from Rachel Pearlman (C’07) a recent Penn grad (with a Masters in Film and Television Producing) who is looking for assistant positions in the Entertainment industry. As you may have suspected, this has been a question I continue to get from aspiring undergrads and alumni anxious to get into the […]

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Actress Elizabeth Banks Talks Trash And You’re Going To Like It

Between movies, tv and commercials, busy actress Liz Banks (C’96) manages to fit in another funny short video she did for the Funny or Die site. Check out the video above where “Mercy Corp will help with almost everything, except talking tabloid trash and boob jobs.” Other Penn actors here >Did you like this article? […]

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