18 UArts Alumni Behind Your Screen

June 29, 2020

Did you know about all the incredible UArts alumni behind the bingeable TV shows, movies and video games keeping you occupied in quarantine?

Here are just a few.

  1. Murad Ainuddin BFA ’01 (Illustration) is associate art director at Treyarch (Call of Duty), focusing on the character art, weapon art and vehicle art departments.
     
  2. Kelli Barrett BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) plays Liza Minelli in FX’s Fosse/Verdon on Hulu.
     
  3. Eric Braddock BFA ’08 (Illustration) is a 3-D prop artist and illustrator working on World of Warcraft at Blizzard Entertainment.
     
  4. Darnell Brown BFA ’10 (Writing for Film & TV) is a staff writer at HBO.
     
  5. Marc Cantone BFA ’01 (Writing for Film & TV) is executive producer of Nick Jr.’s YouTube channels, for which he oversees creative and production of over 36 original videos a month for more than 13 million subscribers. 
     
  6. Joseph Game a.k.a Chogrin BFA ’07 (Illustration) recently worked in the animation department doing character clean-up for the Disney animated series Big City Greens, available on Hulu and Disney+.
     
  7. You can see Aime Kelly BFA ’09 (Acting) on recent episodes of CBS’ Blue Bloods (Hulu), USA’s The Sinner (Netflix) and NBC’s Manifest (Hulu). Kelly also appears in older episodes of the Netflix series Iron Fist and Season 1 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime Video.
     
  8. Nichola Latzgo BFA ’18 (Animation) worked as a digital compositor on the new Netflix animated series The Midnight Gospel and the Netflix docu-series Losers.
     
  9. Dani McCole BFA ’14 (Illustration) is currently working as a 2-D illustrator and concept artist for Kabam Games (multiplayer social games) in Montreal, and has created commissioned work for Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft) and Riot Games (League of Legends). 
     
  10. In 2015, Jason Piperberg BFA ’12 (Illustration) released his original comic book Raising Dion, which is now a Netflix series adaptation featuring Michael B. Jordan.
     
  11. Carlos Rios BFA ’14 (Writing for Film & TV) is a staff writer for Showtime’s On Becoming a God in Central Florida (Hulu), starring Kirsten Dunst.
     
  12. Kim Roberto BFA ’10 (Writing for Film & TV) is creative director of television at DC Comics. She oversees creative aspects of returning series, including the evaluation of weekly scripts regarding concept, character development, character definition, story structure, humor and dialogue, as well as all DC-specific elements and assets.
     
  13. Zach Rubin BFA ’10 (Film & Video) worked as a camera assistant on Hulu's Ramy.
     
  14. Marvin Ryan BFA ’06 (Dance) appears as DJ in the Hulu Original series Little Fires Everywhere.
     
  15. Sara Waite BFA ’17 (Musical Theater) appears in the Miami episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3. 
     
  16. Andrew Wheeler BFA ’01 (Film) was cinematographer for Netflix’s Small Crimes, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
     
  17. Kevin Wright BFA ’12 (Writing for Film & TV) was an associate producer on Ant-Man and the Wasp (Netflix). He was also a production and development manager on Doctor Strange (Disney+), Black Panther (Disney+), Avengers: Infinity War (Netflix) and Captain Marvel (Disney+). Additionally, he was interviewed for the Marvel Studios documentary Expanding the Universe (Disney+).
     
  18. Mehdi Yssef BFA ’00 (Animation), lead animator at Sony Santa Monica, has worked on every title in the God of War series for Playstation.