By Jacob Nelson Krizelle Cuevas’ early encounters with the creative sector mostly unfolded in front of a crowd. She sang in her elementary school choir, played violin in high school, and took piano and jazz/hip-hop dance lessons. Then, while majoring in biochemistry at UCLA, Cuevas got involved with a Filipino choral group and a Filipino
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By Nick Roman The Fray, Michelle Branch, Five for Fighting, and Brandi Carlisle are few of the many artists that MSLCE Professor Gregg Latterman discovered in his career as a music and entertainment entrepreneur. Latterman, who teaches the Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries course, recently sat down with MSLCE students to chat about the history
By Jacob Nelson Kristen Holt has always been fascinated with television and movies, but she really fell in love when she received her first video camera at 11-years-old. The MSLCE student and Long Beach, Calif. native began writing plays and short films. “I would force my younger cousins to be the actors and actresses to
By Charlie Wein So, you submitted your cover letter and your resume, you waited anxiously, then you got the call, they want to interview you for the job! But how should you dress? What should you say? How do you make yourself stand out from everyone else? Students in the MSLCE program at Northwestern had
By Jacob Nelson Deana Haggag is the president and CEO of United States Artists (USA), a fundraising organization that grants fellowships to artists in different fields and from different backgrounds across the country. (USA recently announced its 2018 awards.) During Thursday night’s first Speaker Series event of 2018, Haggag described the origins of USA. The
By Jacob Nelson Lauren Schatzel first grew interested in the arts at a Spice Girls concert. She saw Sporty Spice do a backflip while “singing,” and asked her mom how such a feat was even possible. That’s when she learned the meaning of “lip-sync.” Some people might have been disappointed by the realization that the
By Jacob Nelson Criss Henderson has held only one “real” job throughout his adult artistic career – as Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s executive director. After nearly three decades, he still finds both of these facts surprising. “At 25, Shakespeare was the last theatrical genre I saw myself hitching my wagon to,” Henderson said during a recent
By Dominique Warren From the first day of The Power of Pitching class, Professor Laverne McKinnon challenged MSLCE students to rethink “pitching” as a match to be made, not a prize to be won. Ultimately, students learned that the most important element of a pitch is the person delivering it. People invest in other people
By Charlie Wein Have you ever wondered why movies don’t release around the world at the same time? Or why you can’t say certain words on TV? Or how games that are free to play generate revenue? MSLCE students explored the answers to these questions through the fall term in Professor Jacob Smith’s “Understanding Creative
By Minda Cerva MSCLE students in Ágnes Horvát‘s Culture and Arts Analytics class spent this fall quarter with numbers and science. “Big data” has become a ubiquitous buzz phrase, but the course proved that it has the potential to predict market trends for creative products. Horvat is an assistant professor who works at the Northwestern Institute