George Stevenson

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Associate Professor
Media Arts and Technology

EMAIL: gstevenson@bmcc.cuny.edu

Office: S-622G

Office Hours: Tu/Th 3:30pm-5:00pm and by appointment

Phone: +1 (212) 346-8469

M. George Stevenson is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Technology, and the Program Coordinator for Media Studies. He teaches film history, scriptwriting, producing and video editing, has served as Deputy Department Chairperson, and is the Course Coordinator for MES 140, Introduction to the Moving Image.

He directs the BMCC Time Warner Screenwriting Fellowship, which offers a year-long intensive workshop to a select group of BMCC screenwriters and holds annual readings of their work by professional actors in TribecaPAC Theater 2.

Professor Stevenson was awarded a Faculty Development Grant for the 2020-2021 school year for his project, “Adapting Dawn Powell’s ‘My Home is Far Away’ as an Audio Podcast.” In his role as a scholar, he gave a paper at the Orson Welles Centennial Symposium at Indiana University in 2015 and has lectured or taught at Columbia University, Drexel University, the University of the Arts, William Paterson University, New York Institute of Technology and the New York Film Academy.

Professor Stevenson is a filmmaker whose works include The Sea in My Brother (2018), which premiered at the Workers Unite! Film Festival and But Enough About Me… (2000). HIs photographs have appeared in The New York Times, People, New York Newsday, and The New York Daily News.

He is also an actor who has appeared in Approval Pending (2019), Dream Work (2015), Night of the Working Dead (2014) and Show Me the Aliens (2014). He is a sketch comedy writer and performer whose troupe, TunnelVision, has played venues in New York City including Caroline’s, the Gotham Comedy Club, StandUp NY and Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and he is a widely published critic, writer, and editor, whose articles have been featured in The New York Daily News, Newsday, Variety, Business Week, and elsewhere.

Expertise

Screenwriting, producing, directing actors, the aesthetic and business aspects of film and video making; performance practice and history; American and European film history, and journalism history and practice.

Degrees

B.A. from Columbia College

M.F.A in Film Directing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Courses Taught

MES 153 (Script Writing)

Research and Projects

BMCC Time Warner Screenwriting Fellowship website and podcast productions of staged readings held at the end of each cohort (three grants awarded; new grants pursued)

Adapting Dawn Powell’s novel My Home is Far Away (1945) as an audio podcast series (first grant awarded for writing script; presentation planned for 2021)

You Could Never Make a Film about Andrew Paulson (documentary – grant stage)

Publications

Honors, Awards and Affiliations

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