The Astronomy Club, a new Netflix sketch comedy show featuring the first all-Black house team at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in New York is receiving rave reviews and earning loyal audiences beyond the stage it first originated. The award-winning troupe features visiting faculty member and founding member Shawtane Bowen. Variety raved, “The premiere of Astronomy Club is so dense with fully-formed jokes, wry social commentaries, and wild left turns that you’d be forgiven for wondering if you accidentally dropped into the show’s second season rather than its first.” In December, The Boston Globe wrote,“The six episodes in this first season, each around 20 minutes, make for such addictive viewing that I had to resist bingeing them all at once. I wish there were more.” And in January, BuzzFeed’s review, titled, “Sorry, SNL, Astronomy Club Is Coming For Your Wig,” wrote, “Astronomy Club, which sits at an impressive 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, you’ll be laughing moments after you hit the play button.” Prior to streaming on Netflix, Bowen and the troupe had a smaller screen debut as a Comedy Central web series.
Senior CAPA Fellow, founder of Bennington’s Beyond Plastics institute, and former EPA administrator Judith Enck has been all over the news as a top expert in plastics reform ... [more]
Faculty member Mary Lum was one of 100 leading and emerging artists who made work for DYKWTCA (Do You Know Where The Children Are?) ... [more]
Associate Director of Bennington’s Elizabeth Coleman Center for Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) David Bond and Beyond Plastics founder and visiting CAPA faculty member Judith Enck discovered PFAS in soil and water surrounding
the incinerator ... [more]
The Astronomy Club, a new Netflix sketch comedy show featuring the first all-Black house team at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in New York is receiving rave reviews and earning loyal audiences beyond the stage it first originated ... [more]
Nigel Poor ’86, co-creator of the hit podcast Ear Hustle, was nominated this year for a Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting. Speaking with the Sacramento Bee Poor reacted to the nomination, “To me, it came as a shock, a total shock ... [more]
Forbes featured Asad J. Malik ’18—founder and head of 1RIC—this past fall after the exclusively Augmented Reality (AR) studio inked a seven figure investment deal ... [more]
Shirley—the novel by Susan Scarf Merrell MFA ’09, which takes Shirley Jackson as its main character and is plotted on Bennington College’s campus—was adapted into a critically acclaimed, genre-blending film by the same name ... [more]
Work by visiting faculty member Farhad Mirza ’12 and Katarina Burin was exhibited in Boston’s Anthony Greaney last fall. The show received a rave review and was featured in The Boston Globe ... [more]
Cubby, a “quirky queer coming-of-age comedy” co-directed by Ben Mankoff ’11, made the rounds of the international queer film festival circuit since its release last year ... [more]
Last summer, journalist Ellen Ann Fentress MFA ’08 penned an essay for The Bitter Southerner about her experience attending a segregated school—a reality more than an estimated 750,000 white children experienced in the 1970s ... [more]
NPR favorites, Sylvan Esso (Amelia Meath ’10 and Nick Sanborn) performed another Tiny Desk Concert in May, this time at home ... [more]
True crime podcasts are enjoying a heyday. Following the hit, groundbreaking podcast Serial, hundreds of serialized crime podcasts have sprung up on public radio stations and online ... [more]
This past year, Jonathan Mann ’04 announced the launch of his new podcast, “As it Happens: Song a Day.” Mann’s YouTube Channel, Song A Day Guy, publishes a new song every day, that is written, performed and produced by Mann ... [more]
Forbes featured Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Stamford Hospital Dr. Michael Coady ’89 in a report published this past December ... [more]
When The New York Times featured the work of Fanny Pereire ’XX in May, she summed up her role on film and tv in one sentence: “I create art collections for people who don’t exist.” ... [more]
This spring The Liz Swados Project was released, an album of 14 songs from 10 of her works for stage ... [more]