Juliane Godfrey took a 15-hour round-trip flight to New York for an audition that lasted 90 seconds. Read more...
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Fourth-year musical theater student Juliane Godfrey will be traveling to New York after graduation to perform in “A Chorus Line” and “Anything Goes.”
During your time at UCLA, what was your favorite arts and entertainment event on campus? Read more...
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Claire DeBolt
4th year, PsySci major
Printed across the top white layer of the middle drum, the words "Power" and "Determined" serve as inspiration for fourth-year psychology student and drummer Solveig Deranteriasian, who also goes by her musical nickname, "Sozo." As she begins to beat her drums with greater intensity, the delicate white skin of the snare head breaks, and she stops to replace it with her calloused hands. Read more...
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Solveig Deranteriasian rehearses drumming at Pacifique Studios, her family’s recording studio in North Hollywood. Deranteriasian mixes the intensity of metal music with the grooves of hip-hop and rap.
(Courtesy of Solveig Deranteriasian)
Less than a year after he started to DJ, Rej Dhingra found himself performing onstage with Wolfgang Gartner, a Grammy-nominated DJ and producer, in Los Angeles on a Friday night. Read more...
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Fifth-year philosophy student Rej Dhingra, whose DJ name is Funk the Fresh, runs “Controversy” at The Standard Hotel located in Hollywood. Dhingra’s musical style also incorporates elements of funk music.
(Courtesy of Michael Melwani)
For fourth-year communication studies student Josie Loren, the definition of a panic attack includes balancing auditions, having a lead role on ABC Family's "Make It or Break It" and being a full-time student, which is exactly the life she lived for the past four years at UCLA. Read more...
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Fourth-year communication studies student Josie Loren balances being a full-time student with her acting career, which includes a leading role in ABC Family’s “Make It or Break It,” as well as guest roles in other shows, including “Castle.”
Vanessa Knutsen, a graduate film student, recently traveled overseas to Israel, where she single-handedly put together a film crew and filmed a 15-minute short film titled "The Promised Land." Read more...
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Directing and production graduate student Richard Parkin’s film, “Contra el Mar,” will be featured in the Directors Spotlight at this year’s UCLA Festival of New Creative Work, which begins Friday. The film follows a deep-sea clam diver in Mexico who must decide between a job that could kill him and a job that could get him arrested.
Cynthia Mersten was in hysterics. The second-year theater student threw props all over the floor, screaming and pounding the ground as Bill Barker, a graduate film student, watched in horror, unable to stop her. Read more...
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Graduate film student Bill Barker and second-year theater student Cynthia Mersten rehearse for “Kathleen Turner’s Ear.”
