Notable Park School Former and Current Faculty Roy H. Park School of Communications

rod serling, creator , host of twilight zone
jeff cohen, founder of fairness , accuracy in reporting
dr. patricia zimmermann noted screen studies researcher , co-director of finger lakes film festival www.fleff.org currently, serves on editorial boards of journals wide angle, journal of film , video, sixties , moving image: journal of association of moving image archivists. has served trustee of international film seminars, home of robert flaherty film seminar. has served on national boards of women make movies, northeast historic film archive (maine), konscious.com, , search common ground film festival (an international non-governmental organization dedicated conflict resolution).
marlena grzaslewicz emmy-winning (outstanding sound editing nonfiction programming for: war, 2007) sound editor , graduate of lodz film school of poland. editing credits include: baseball, dir. ken burns; jefferson, dir. ken burns; lewis , clark, dir. ken burns; jazz, dir. ken burns; new york, dir. ric burns; donner party, dir. ric burns; way west, dir. ric burns; warhol, dir. ric burns; celebrity, woody allen; people vs. larry flynt, dir. milos forman; smartest guys in room, dir. alex gibney , others
dr. stephen tropiano director of los angeles program, editor of journal of film , video, , author of several books on television , culture.
megan roberts media artist , composer, working collaboratively raymond ghirardo in video, sound sculpture, installation , performance on 30 years. have received sgrants national endowment arts, new york foundation arts, new york state council arts, experimental television center, minnesota state arts board, western states regional arts fellowship, southwest independent production fund , others. awards include james d. phelan award in video , grand prize @ tokyo video festival.
steve gordon teaches television production, development , digital distribution, following 20 years in television industry in hollywood , new york executive vice president of creative affairs viacom productions. there, in charge of prime time programming on 2000 hours of programming produced including series sabrina teenage witch abc, chris issak show showtime, ed nbc , emmy nominated 4400 usa network. creating/producing work in television continues 2 projects 2014: independent feature film, santa con, reuniting sabrina , executive producer paula hart , star/director melissa joan hart , third in four-part series, creating television, pitch production academy of television arts , sciences foundation. recently, co-produced , co-directed six-part comedy series rocky mountain pbs, grief .
dr. matt mogekwu chairs journalism department, , internationally recognized research , advocacy in capacity-building journalists in developing countries , in peace journalism.
nick muellner photo-based artist, writer, , curator. teaches photography , critical studies.
ahrlene flowers, associate professor of public relations, has held senior management positions @ leading new york city agencies, including ruder finn, hill , knowlton , middleton & gendron representing airlines, destination travel locations, hospitality companies, , art organizations on world.
cathy lee crane recipient of 2013 guggenheim fellowship in film-video. had received 2009 new york foundation arts artist fellowship film , grant new york state council on arts. work has been invited screen @ national gallery of art in 2015 part of new series american originals now.
changhee chun has completed collaborative productions on several feature films major korean production companies. works have been selected screening @ cinestud @ international film festival, amsterdam, netherlands; film fan awards, richmond, va.; rochester international film festival; st. louis international film festival; blue sky international film festival; james river festival of moving image; telluride film festival; philadelphia asian american film festival; dc asian pacific american film festival; independents film festival; da vinci film festival; east lansing film festival; muskegon film festival, tacoma film festival, 32nd asian american international film festival, urban suburban film festival , on. in addition, film creation featured on season premiere episode of north carolina visions @ pbs in north carolina.
jason harrington works in range of animation techniques. recent film, tree lights in it, received multiple awards, including best animation (snob film festival), best animation (digit film festival), , aglet award (red rock film festival). other films have included origin, showed @ cork international film festival, changing light series, , discrepancies.
ron jude has been exhibited @ venues such photographers’ gallery (london), daugeu cultural center (daugeu, south korea), proekt_fabrika (moscow) , roth/horowitz gallery (new york). jude co-founder of a-jump books , author of alpine star, postcards, other nature , emmett. lick creek line published mack in april 2012 , named 1 of best books of year foam, pdn, gerry badger, alec soth , john gossage, among many others.