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Theatre and Speech Alum, Victor Almanzar Accepts the Townsend Harris Award and Shares His Journey from the Military to the Stage

Victor Almanzar is a New York-based actor who immigrated from the Dominican Republic at an early age. Before pursuing acting, Victor served in the United States Marine Corps, completing tours in Kosovo and Iraq. His journey into acting began at City College of New York, where discovering the Theater and Speech program rekindled his passion for the performing arts. At City College, he earned recognition, awards, and encouragement from professors who inspired him to consider acting as a serious career. Since then, he has performed on the New York stage, in regional theaters, and in London. He appeared as Oswaldo in the Pulitzer Prize-winning production of Between Riverside and Crazy at The Atlantic Theater and Second Stage Theater (NYC) and the Steppenwolf Theater (Chicago). He was nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award for his role in Between Riverside and Crazy and is a proud lifetime member of The Actors Studio.

Link: Bio — Victor Almanzar

2024 Stuart Z. Katz Professorship Installation

A special celebration for Professor Boukary Sawadogo as The 2024-2025 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in Humanities and the Arts
Tuesday, October 29 · 4:30 - 7pm EDT

CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
85 Saint Nicholas Terrace Auditorium New York, NY 10031

About Professor Boukary Sawadogo

Boukary Sawadogo is a scholar and practitioner of African cinemas, the author four books on African film. Professor Sawadogo is the founding director of the Harlem African Animation Festival, the first film festival in the United States that is exclusively devoted to African animated film and series. Beyond film, Boukary Sawadogo has broadened his research and teaching interests to encompass African immigration to the United States, and Harlem as a site of global encounters and exchanges.

About Stuart Z. Katz Professorship

The Stuart Z. Katz Professorship in the Humanities & the Arts at The City College of New York established in 2017 by a generous gift from Mr. Stuart Z. Katz, a 1964 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of CCNY supports the research and creative activity of one outstanding professorial faculty member in the Division of Humanities & the Arts for an academic year.

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Renata Kobetts Miller named Dean

of the Division of Humanities & the Arts

Author and Professor Renata Kobetts Miller has been appointed dean of the Division of Humanities and the Arts at

The City College of New York.

Full story here.

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