Please see our exciting line-up below. Links will be emailed to Dodge students or can be found at events.chapman.edu.<\/p>\n
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Wednesday 2\/3 @ 7:00pm – SURPRISE GUEST<\/strong><\/p>\n To launch\u00a0the spring semester Master Classes,\u00a0join us for our\u00a0surprise guest.\u00a0This award-winning actor-director is one of the most admired talents working in Hollywood today.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday\u00a02\/10\u00a0@ 7:00pm – LENA WAITHE, screenwriter-actor, <\/strong>Master of None<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n One of the most talked-about artists in Hollywood, Lena Waithe is a writer, producer and actor. In 2017\u00a0she became the first Black woman to win an Emmy Award for outstanding writing in a comedy series \u2014 for Master of None<\/em>, in which she also starred.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday 2\/17 @ 7:00pm – DEE DEE MYERS, former White House <\/strong>press secretary <\/strong>and Warner Bros. head of communications<\/strong><\/p>\n Dee Dee Myers served as the 17th\u00a0White House press secretary during the first two years of the Clinton Administration; she was the first woman and second-youngest person\u00a0ever\u00a0to hold that position. Myers later co-hosted the news program Equal Time<\/em> and was a consultant on The West Wing<\/em>. From 2014 until 2020, she\u00a0headed corporate communications at Warner Bros.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday 2\/24 @ 7:00pm – BARRY JENKINS, writer-director, <\/strong>Moonlight<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Barry Jenkins became an overnight sensation with his Oscar-winning Moonlight<\/em>. The writer-director followed that with If Beale Street Could Talk<\/em> and now he\u2019ll tell us about his new project: an adaptation of the bestselling Underground Railroad<\/em>. In 2017, Time<\/em> magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday 3\/3 @ 7:00pm – BARBARA KOPPLE, documentarian,\u00a0<\/strong>American Dream<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n One of the most revered documentary directors in the world, Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award winner whose\u00a0films\u00a0include\u00a0Harlan County, USA\u00a0<\/em>and American Dream<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday 3\/10\u00a0@ 7:00pm – Frank Marshall, producer, <\/strong>Jurassic World<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n One of Hollywood\u2019s top producers, Frank Marshall has made some of the biggest blockbusters of all time \u2014 including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Jurassic World.\u00a0<\/em>A longtime partner of Steven Spielberg, he\u2019s worked with a who\u2019s who of Hollywood, from Martin Scorsese to Clint Eastwood to Brad Pitt.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday 3\/17 @ 7:00pm – JASON BLUM, producer,\u00a0Paranormal Activity<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The king of the low-budget horror film, Jason Blum is known for such blockbusters as the\u00a0Paranormal Activity<\/em>\u00a0franchise\u00a0and\u00a0Insidious. <\/em>But he\u2019s also one of Hollywood\u2019s most admired producers, with Oscar nominations for<\/em>\u00a0Whiplash, Get Out <\/em>and BlacKkKlansman.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday 3\/31 @ 7:00pm – DAMIEN CHAZELLE, director, <\/strong>La La Land<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Damien Chazelle is a\u00a0director, producer and screenwriter known for Whiplash, La La Land<\/em> and First Man<\/em>. In 2016 he became the youngest person in history to win\u00a0the Oscar for Best Director.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday 4\/7 @ 7:00pm – BONG JOON HO, director, <\/strong>Parasite<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Bong Joon Ho became world-famous last year when his Parasite\u00a0<\/em>became the first non-English-language\u00a0film to win an Oscar\u00a0for Best Picture, one of three Academy Awards the Korean master won that night. He\u2019ll be interviewed by Chapman professor Nam Lee, the author of a new book about his movies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday 4\/28\u00a0@ 7:00pm – TED SARANDOS, CEO of Netflix<\/strong><\/p>\n Arguably the single most powerful man in Hollywood \u2014 he\u2019s spending $16 billion on content this year alone \u2014 Ted Sarandos is Netflix’s co-CEO and Chief Content Officer\u00a0and the man who greenlights hits such as The Crown, The Queen\u2019s Gambit <\/em>and Bridgerton<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday 5\/12\u00a0@ 7:00pm – PETE DOCTER, head of Pixar<\/strong><\/p>\n Currently the Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios, Pete Docter is the director of such films as\u00a0Monsters, Inc., Up, Inside Out<\/em> and Soul<\/em>. He started his journey at Pixar in the early 1990s and was one of the lead screenwriters for Toy Story<\/em>. 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