LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts

09/04/2026

Congratulations to LMU CFA theatre arts alumna Linda Cardellini ’97 on her Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Cardellini was recognized for her role as Carol Love-Smernitch in “DTF St. Louis.” The nomination was announced by the Television Academy on July 8, 2026.

CFA is cheering for you Linda Cardellini 👏 Shout out your support in the comments!

09/04/2026

Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies and Director of Jazz Ensembles Emma Dayhuff has become one of the most dynamic and highly regarded voices on the Los Angeles jazz scene, earning recognition for her artistry as a performer, composer, bandleader, and educator.

As the first tenure-track faculty member in jazz at Loyola Marymount University, Dayhuff has illuminated a growing interest in the genre. Learn more about her work in and out of the classroom: https://newsroom.lmu.edu/campusnews/lmus-emma-dayhuff-emerges-as-a-leading-voice-in-los-angeles-jazz/

Dayhuff's new album "Mountains" is out today! Stream it where you get your music.

09/03/2026

CFA Calendar cover reveal! Pick up a CFA calendar on campus. You will find them in our spaces - St. Robert's Hall, Murphy Recital Hall, Laband Art Gallery, Thomas P. Kelly Student Gallery etc.

The cover features Corynn Broadwater '27, performing in Res(t)ilence in LMU Dance's 2025 Fall Concert.

Res(t)ilence by Assistant Professor Kara Jenelle Wade is a choreographic love letter honoring the labor, creativity, sacrifice, and resilience of women who came before us. The work celebrates their cultural, political, and spiritual contributions while reclaiming space, embracing sisterhood, and honoring rest as resistance. Res(t)ilence is a celebration of remembrance, unity, empowerment, and the peace that lives within.

Photo credit:
Design by: Lana Zuccala '27

cfa.lmu.edu/calendar/

09/01/2026

🌟This summer, dance majors Kaylin Moore ’27 and Emma Shane ’28 were Arnhold Summer Fellows at the 92NY Dance Education Laboratory, where they joined a national cohort of dance educators, performers, and students for immersive professional development.

“My biggest takeaway was learning how to make dance education more creative, inclusive, and student-centered,” says Moore.

“As a neurodivergent dancer, the tools I learned in [the second] session taught me how I can be a teacher and mentor to the next generation by being the teacher I wish I had when I was younger,” says Shane.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4cHkrNB

Photos by Christopher Duggan

Dance majors Kaylin Moore ’27 and Emma Shane ’28 were selected as 2026 Arnhold Summer Fellows at the 92NY Dance Education Laboratory.

08/25/2026

Loyola Marymount University has been named one of the nation’s top destinations for aspiring theater artists, earning the No. 22 spot on The Princeton Review’s list of Best College Theater programs. Based on student assessments of campus theater experiences, the ranking recognizes programs that excel in artistic training, faculty mentorship, production opportunities, and professional preparation.

08/25/2026

This summer marked twenty years of LMU’s Summer Arts Workshop (SAW), an art-therapy based program for underserved youth and their families, run through the Helen B. Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic. Since the workshop’s launch, it has touched the lives of over 500 children and families.

08/12/2026

This summer, LMU Professor of Multimedia Arts Dmitry Kemell is one of 70 artists who transformed St. Vincent Hospital in Los Angeles from a place of medicinal healing to artistic healing. The immersive art exhibition, “Hospital of Emotions,” invites visitors to explore eight departments dedicated to different emotions, and brought to life by the vision of each artist.

Kemell's installation, called “Toward the North Star,” is dedicated to hope, honoring personal memories of his family's immigration from the former Soviet Union to Los Angeles.

08/03/2026

Meet new LMU Communication Studies faculty members!

Shelby N. Carter is joining the department as a full-time instructor. Originally from western Kentucky, she earned her B.A. at the University of Louisville and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Arizona. Her work examines how interpersonal communication shapes relationships between people with diverse social and cultural backgrounds. Beyond scholarship, her passion is supporting students and local communities through engaged teaching and mentoring. In the fall, Professor Carter will be teaching Nature of Inquiry and Relational Communication. She is excited to be a Lion!

Moonhoon Choi joins the department as a clinical assistant professor after teaching communication courses at Gallaudet University and California State University, San Bernardino. He earned his M.A. from the University of Florida and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His teaching and research focus on public relations, strategic communication, marketing communication, and sports communication, with an emphasis on building meaningful relationships between organizations and their stakeholders. Professor Choi will be teaching Communication Approaches to PR
and Writing for Public Relations.

08/03/2026

Meet new LMU Music faculty member Marisa De Silva!

Professor De Silva, the new director of the Sinatra Opera Program, is a professional singer, voice teacher, opera director, and Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique. Her research interests include mitigating music performance anxiety, the rhetorical use of gesture in period opera, and uncovering the biography of the composer Camilla de Rossi. This fall she is teaching the Vocal Experience class, where she focuses on creating a safe space for everyone to feel comfortable performing, and she is directing the Sinatra Opera Program's scenes concert. Stay tuned for show dates and audition announcements!

08/03/2026

Meet new LMU Dance faculty member Roya Carreras!

Roya Carreras is joining the department as an assistant professor. She holds an MFA in Dance from Bennington College, a B.A. in Dance from the University of California, Irvine, and is an ABT® Certified Teacher. She is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, choreographer, and embodied performance coach whose work ranges across dance, film, theater, and commercial media. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, having also been a guest artist and lecturer at Cornell University, Yale University, and Northwestern University. Professor Carreras current research explores improvisation, voice, embodied memory, recovery, and futurity as choreographic methodologies, examining how movement can function as a site of resilience, transformation, and collective care. This Fall, she is teaching First Year Seminar 1000: What the Body Knows and Rehearsal & Performance 4790: Choreography.