Medium Man on Campus

The Georgetown Players and a gaggle of alumni get a shout out in comedian Mike Birbiglia's recent interview with New York Press.

Paid Positions in New DC Film Academy

Kevin Miniter (COL '05) is looking for applicants for an exciting new project in DC. This innovative film academy will open this summer by admitting high school students to programs in Directing and Acting for the Camera. In the future, the academy will evolve to provide a multitude of exciting programs for both students and adults.

We are searching for the following paid full and part-time job positions. We will be starting them in the month of June.

1. Directing Instructors: Individuals with film degrees and teaching experience or with directing experience to teach the directing programs.
• Directing Teacher's Assistants: individuals with some film experience.
2. Acting Instructors: Individuals with acting degrees and teaching experience or substantial acting experience.
• Acting Teacher's Assistants: Individuals with some acting experience, or who are in acting programs in college.
3. Technically savvy individuals with camera and editing experience
   

Interested? Contact Kevin at kminiter [at] gmail [dot] com.

Sit Down, Shut Up to include a Hoya voice

Nick Kroll, '02, will join the voice cast of the new animated feature on Fox, Sit Down, Shut Up. The show also reunites several members of the cast of Arrested Development.

"Sit Down," from Tantamount, Sony and Granada, centers on staff members at a high school who are preoccupied with their own needs and agendas, which means the students come second. Fox greenlighted a table read of "Sit Down," based on the live-action Australian series, last month.

Read the complete article in the Hollywood Reporter.

Good Boys and True premieres at Second Stage

Good Boys and True, a new play by Georgetown alum Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, opens at Second Stage Theatre in New York on April 23.

For generations, Saint Joseph’s Prep, an all-boys Catholic school in Washington, D.C., has taken privileged young men and shaped them into “good boys and true." In the late 1980’s, a scandal rocks the school, drawing in a mother and her son — the school’s star football player — forcing each to judge the difference between teenage irresponsibility and what might be a deeper, more unsettling lapse of character.

In New York? Want to see the play with other alumni? Email Christina at christina.logothetis@gmail.com.

Mike Birbiglia's Secret Public Journal gets Greenlight at CBS

Mike Birbiglia, '01, who has had two Comedy Central specials and was the youngest comic to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman will have a TV version of his wildly popular blog, My Secret Public Journal, on CBS this fall. The pilot tapes in Los Angeles on April 22.

Read the article in the Hollywood Reporter.

Georgetown Alumni on the Fall TV Lineup!

Two Georgetown alumni will have new shows on television this fall. Paul Sciarrotta ('03) is writing for "Gossip Girl" on the CW, and Nick Kroll ('02) is starring in "Cavemen." Click READ MORE for details and links.

Know of other alumni with TV shows? Leave a comment, or email gutheatre@gmail.com!