Program Director

Jack Bryant

Associate Professor and Program Director, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies
Specialty: Writing for Film, Video Games, and Emerging Media

Faculty

Nick Bennett

Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies
Specialty: Writing for films and video games

Julie Blumberg

Associate Professor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies
Specialty: Writing For Screen Media, Writing For Series TV, Writing The Series Pilot, Thesis: Television Writing

Steven Ginsberg

Associate Professor and Pendleton Endowed Chair, JB Pendleton Center Los Angeles

Robert Hummel

Instructor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies

Adam Jackson

Instructor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies

Nick Sagan

Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies

Dominique Saint Malo

Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies

Thomas Seeley

Assistant Professor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies

Our faculty are exceptional educators who love to share their expertise with students.But they are also active in their profession. Jack Bryant is the writer of Fair Haven and The Madam of Purity Falls, which premiered theatrically in Los Angeles in May 2019 and premiered on Lifetime in July. The film is currently screening in Europe via Beta and will continue to air on Lifetime here in the US. Nick Sagan wrote the science fiction novels Idlewild, Edenborn, and Everfree, and his screen credits include episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. Julie Blumberg came to Ithaca in 2007 from Los Angeles, where she worked as a screen and television writer. Among other credits, she was a staff writer and story editor for J.J. Abrams’ first television series Felicity, starring Kerri Russell, Scott Speedman, and Scott Foley. She also co-wrote the screenplay forThe Manhattan Front, a feature film that debuted in Ithaca in October 2017.