Tisch School of the Arts

Tisch School of the Arts (known more commonly as Tisch or TSOA) is one of the 14 schools that make up New York University (NYU).

History

The School of the Arts at New York University was founded in 1965 to provide rigorous conservatory training in theatre and film in the context of a large research university. The School quickly established itself as one of the leading art schools in the country, creating additional departments of dance, theatre design and lighting, and cinema studies within a few short years. The undergraduate Department of Drama was founded in 1974. The establishment of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (1979), the Department of Dramatic Writing (1980), the Department of Performance Studies (1980), the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (1981), the Department of Photography and Imaging (1982), the Department of Art and Public Policy (2002), the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program (2003) and the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music (2003) rounded out an extraordinary period of growth in terms of enrollment and breadth of programs of study. In 1982 a gift from Laurence Tisch and Preston Robert Tisch made possible the acquisition and renovation of 721 Broadway, where most of the School?s programs are currently housed; in recognition of the Tisches? generosity, the School was renamed the Tisch School of the Arts.

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1965 - Theatre - Film - Research university - Art school - Dance - 1974 - Telecommunications - 1979 - 1980 - Photography - 1982 - 2002 - 2003 - Clive Davis - Laurence Tisch - Preston Robert Tisch

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Currently Tisch is best known for its film and acting departments. In 2004 the Independent Film Channel followed four graduate film students at Tisch in a documentary series called Film School.

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2004 - Independent Film Channel

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