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These 2 Penn Alumni Wrote Tomorrow Night’s NBC Muppet Christmas Special
(l to r): Scott Ganz (C’01) and Andrew Samson (C’01) Set your DVRs! Penn alumni Scott Ganz (C’01) and Andrew Samson (C’01) co-wrote tomorrow night’s TV movie “A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa” (Wed. Dec. 17th at 8pm on NBC). Both Scott and Andrew were Co-Editors of Punch Bowl Humor Magazine for three years, moved […]
If Only These Existed When I Went to Penn…
Two stories from today’s DP caught my attention. I would have loved advancements like these when I was at Penn… New feature allows students to track the status of their clothes SAS and Wharton create new dual degree(another way in which the college and wharton are working together!) Check out what else is happening on campus […]
He’s Won Two Prestigious Grants For His Tasty Short Film
More news of Hollywood alumni working together. Jake Avnet (C’05, Co-Chairman of Undergraduate Film Advisory Board, Founder of the Lecture Series, “Talking Film”) produced a short film called LAST MEAL with Penn alum writer Tracy Park (W’05), Micah Fitzerman-Blue (Harvard grad), and director Mark Stern (Princeton grad). This short film has been the recipient of two very prestigious […]
This Hollywood Penn Writer Has a Five Year Plan He Wants Picked Up
Writer Joe Port (C’97, DP Cartoonist) hopes someone buys into his Five Year Plan. Specifically the ABC network. A month ago, Joe shot a pilot for ABC (produced by NBC) called Five Year Plan, that he and his writing partner Joe Wiseman created and exec produced together. It stars Steve Howey, Will Sasso, Brooke D’orsay, […]
TV Writer and Animator Alumni Team Up for Comedy Central Series
(l to r): Ryan Levin (CAS, ’98) & Nye Warburton (C’97) And here’s another example of alumni who knew each other at Penn and continued working together to create some great projects… Ryan Levin (C ’98, Without a Net, Theater Arts, Penn Players) and Nye Warburton (C ’97, Without a Net) have co-created a new […]
Tuesday Tips: Advice for the Writer who Wants to Move Out to LA
Penn writers Phyllis Zimbler Miller (WG’80), Eric Barker (C’94), Hadley Davis (C’93), Josh Heald (C’00) In this week’s Tuesday Tips series, I have enlisted the help of my Penn alumni writer friends out here in Los Angeles to offer advice to the Penn undergrad or alum who has decided to move out to Los Angeles […]
