Meet Our Alumni

Kyle Finnegan filming on set
Kyle Finnegan, BA Film and Video Studies, 2017

Film and Video Studies alumnus (2017) Kyle Finnegan's recently released documentary short, Mysterious Savory Grains is now streaming on PBS.

Alumni List

  • Christine Papaniclou
    Christine Papaniclou is a first generation American with parents from Greece and Hong Kong. She has her MFA in painting and critical theory from Central Saint Martins in London.  
  • Seon Gyu Park

    Doctoral Candidate in Vocal Performance

    “It is a great honor for me to attend George Mason University’s School of Music and receive the Peterson Endowment in Vocal Arts to continue my education and advanced training in Vocal Performance.
  • 2010, Film and Video Studies, BA

    Alex Plank, Film and Video Studies alum
  • Bill Podolski

    2005, BM Music Education

    Bill Podolski is in his eighth year as Director of Choral Activities at H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program where he teaches six middle and high choral ensembles, which collectively involve a quarter of the school’s student population.
  • Daniel Puneky

    2006, Dance, BFA

    Daniel graduated from George Mason with a BFA in Dance in 2006. Following graduation he moved to New York City where he danced for danceTactics Performance Group, cornfield dance, Propel-her Dance Collective and Wallie Wolfgruber.
  • Installation of In/Between | A Rock and a Hard Place

    BFA Visual Art, 2014

    Justin is a conceptual and research based artist working along the Northeast Corridor, in and between New York and Washington, D.C. His childhood home was haunted, and he was seemingly predestined to involve himself in areas of the uncanny...
  • Owen Robertson, 1997, Theater, BA

    1997, Theater, BA

    I'm currently the founder and Executive Director of Lab Theater Project, a theater company devoted to the development of new works and new theater artists. I am also a Doctoral Student at the University of South Florida, College of Education, with a focus in Program Development. My research is in Storytelling and what can be taught through Narrative.
  • Alicia Rodriguez

    2020, Film and Video Studies, BA

    Alicia Rodriguez's first documentary “Cultivation and Community” about urban agriculture in D.C. was selected for the 2018 Best of Film at Mason and screened at Community Stories Film Festival. In 2019,  Alicia was the only undergraduate awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Princess Grace Scholarship Award for her thesis experimental documentary film  "A Diasporic Boricua." 
  • Dustin Rogers

    MFA, Painting/Art and Visual Technology, 2011

    Dustin obtained his MFA in Painting at Kendall College of Art and Design after relocating to Grand Rapids, Michigan on scholarship. He obtained his BFA in Art and Visual Technology: Painting at George Mason University in my hometown of Fairfax, Virginia.
  • Raul Rosado

    2012, Film and Video Studies, BA

    Raul Rosado is a 2012 FAVS alum.