Ethan Fixell (C’04, Off the Beat Music Director, right in photo above) and best friend and comedy partner Dave really like to double date. They went on their first double date in 7th grade, then one in 10th grade. Who knew that this would spiral into something, much, much bigger… In 2008, almost 10 years […]
Comedienne Lesley Wolff (C’93, Bloomers) was recently featured on HGTV’s “Buying and Selling: 20 Best Secrets”. Watch Lesley put her comedic spin on these secrets in the video clip above. For you aspiring Penn undergrad and alumni stand-ups, Lesley is definitely someone you should know. She produces and hosts a “Fresh Faces” comedy workshop and […]
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 […]
Two alumni have teamed up to create a very moving, “gave me the chills” film… Co-directors Michael Pertnoy (C’06) (left) and Michael Kleiman (C’06) (below left) are preparing to launch their feature documentary The Last Survivor which focuses on genocide awareness, prevention, and survivor advocacy. The film follows the lives of survivors from The Holocaust, Rwanda, […]
While Fielding Edlow (C’95) is primarily a playwright, she recently collaborated on her first short The Long Nap (see above) with her director Adrian Fulle, in the writer’s group, Safehouse, in Santa Monica. The short is about “a woman who wakes up from a 12 year relationship nap.” Look out for Penn alum Jessie Schneiderman (C’05) […]
So I found out what the deal was with yesterday’s random pillow fight on Locust Walk. This makes me laugh actually. The pillow fight was apparently a “flash mob”, which is a large group of people joining together, doing a random activity for a short amount of time, and then leaving. Per an anonymous source, […]