Penn Alumni You Should Know About: Vol. 19

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FILM

Alison Greenspan (C’94, Bloomers) produced a film that recently debuted! If I Stay is about a woman deciding between following her musical dreams at Juilliard or staying with the love of her life, Adam. Check out the trailer below:

Todd Lieberman (C’95, Mask and Wig) is about to head back to set. The Muppet Movie and The Fighter producer is about to go into production on Tupperwear Unsealed,based on the popular non-fiction book by Bob Kealing. He will be reuniting with his The Proposal star Sandra Bullock is slated to star and is bound to teach you all you ever wanted to know about Tupperwear.

Josh Heald (C’00) is back in the hot tub hot seat. Heald’s hit film Hot Tub Time Machine is getting its sequel just in time for Christmas. Check out the trailer below and get excited for his next installment!

If you liked Ben Affleck’s and Matt Damon’s “Project Greenlight” then you’re going to love the new series “The Chair” because:

#1, this documentary series compellingly follows 2 first-time film directors (a youtube star and awriter/actor/filmmaker) each given the opportunity to direct separate films adapted from the same original screenplay

and #2, Penn alum Dan Schoffer (C’05) is the screenwriter who provides the original screenplay and appears regularly throughout the series

You can watch the first 5 episodes online here

Jordan Rosenblum (C’09), a writer for the History Channel show “World Wars” was nominated for an Emmy this summer. Check out a clip from his show below:

Jerry Liu (C’12) is working on his YouTube brand, LiuTube. Jerry goes out into the streets and gets to know various people on camera by serenading them, dancing with them, and now, asking them trivia questions. His goal is to prove that Americans are smart. See if his point is proven by checking out the video below!

This summer, Penn’s (and the world’s) first and premier Hindi a cappella group, Penn Masala filmed a scene in Elizabeth Banks (C’96) and husband Max Handelman’s (C’95) film Pitch Perfect 2. The film also stars Ben Platt (“Benji Applebaum”), son of Penn Alumni President Julie Platt (C’79) and Marc Platt (C’79).

Next up: Penn alumni in TV (click through page links below)

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• Below Deck
• Bob Kealing
• Dan Schoffer
• Elizabeth Banks
• Emma Frisch
• Extant
• Fitbit
• Food Network Star
• Hot Tub Time Machine
• Idiot Test
• If I Stay
• Jerry Liu
• Joan Rivers
• Jordan Rosenbum
• Josh Heald
• Kelly Diamond
• Lists
• Mandeville Films
• Mark Cronin
• Mattel
• Max Handelman
• PJ Lewis
• Resident Advisors
• Rob Murat
• Sandra Bullock
• Sherri Miller
• Todd Lieberman
• Tory Burch
• Tupperwear Unsealed
• World Wars
• YouTube