Dartmouth Creatives Networking Symposium

Demystify the career paths for creatives while connecting with the vibrant Dartmouth community. This is your opportunity to exchange ideas and build relationships with alumni experts in their fields, including alumni speakers Genevieve Adams ’11, Luke Katler ’15, Lilly Kanso GR’06, and Ricki Stern ’87. Following the discussion, connect with fellow alumni from various creative walks of life, including film, theater, media, curation, writing, and music.

Contact: Dartmouth Alumni Relations

Registration

• General Participants: $10
• Young Alumni: $5
• Students: Free

Your registration includes an upscale brunch with coffee and cocktails. See who's attending.

Speakers

Luke Katler ’15
Tony Award-winning theater producer

Lucas Katler is a Tony Award®-Winning producer who develops innovative projects across theater and film. Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (Best Revival Tony Award®), Slave Play (the second most Tony Award®-nominated play in Broadway history), POTUS (BroadwayWorld Audience Pick for Best Play of 2022), and David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s groundbreaking Here Lies Love. Lucas also produced Off Broadway (NYT Critic's Pick), directed by Robert O'Hara, for Broadstream in association with Jeremy O. Harris and Safety Not Guaranteed at BAM, written by Nick Blaemire and Guster's Ryan Miller and directed by Lee Sunday Evans. Lucas has worked for theater agent Susan Weaving at WME, as associate producer to the Tony Award®-Winning Producer Barbara Whitman (Fun Home, A Strange Loop), and across all departments for Scott Rudin. Lucas completed the Commercial Theater Institute's 14-Week Producing Intensive and is a proud alumnus of Dartmouth College.

Ricki Stern ’87
Award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of Break Thru Films

Ricki Stern ’87 is an award-winning documentary film director, producer and writer. Most recently, she co-directed and co-produced with Jesse Sweet ’98 the HBO documentary Nature of the Crime. Her many directing credits include the five-part series UFOs: Investigating the Unknown (2023), the six-part series Surviving Death (2021) and the Emmy-nominated Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. She has been to the Hop many times with her film partner Annie Sundberg ’90 to present Reversing Roe, Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing, In My Father’s House, Knuckleball!, The Devil Came on Horseback, and The Trials of Darryl Hunt. Her first film was the Emmy-nominated Neglect Not the Children (1992).

Lilly Kanso GR’06
Vice president of creative operations at Vox Media

Lilly Kanso has spent her career in the production, film, and digital media landscape. She is currently vice president of creative operations at Vox Media, home to Vox.com, New York magazine, Eater, Vulture, and The Verge, amongst many others. Lilly currently oversees Creative Operations for Vox Creative, Vox Media’s in-house creative studio. Previously, Lilly developed and produced short and long-form video content for clients including Travel Channel, HGTV, PBS, Fatherly, and Scripps Networks. She has extensive experience as a producer and director, and was the co-writer and producer of a feature film that was distributed by Showtime. She is currently a board member of the Dartmouth Club of New York and is serving a three-year term as Dartmouth Alumni Council Representative for New York City.

Genevieve Adams ’11
Actor / Writer / Director / Producer

Genevieve Adams is a New York-based actress, writer, director and producer. She wrote, produced and stars in I'm Obsessed With You (But You've Got To Leave Me Alone). Genevieve wrote, produced, directs and stars in Simchas and Sorrows, an independent romantic dramedy in which she acts alongside Hari Nef, Thomas McDonell, and John Cullum. The film premiered virtually at Cinequest as a part of their Spotlight category, had its in-person premiere at Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Festival, in addition to being selected by the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, garnering positive reviews. Simchas and Sorrows is being distributed digitally by Gravitas Ventures and theatrically for a limited run in Los Angeles. Genevieve has appeared in featured roles in the following films: Pascale Ferran's Bird People, The Skeleton Twins, A Walk Among the Tombstones, How To Be Single, Jason Bateman's The Family Fang, Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, and Jodie Foster's Money Monster. Television credits include The OA (Netflix), and a recurring role on Marti Noxon's Dietland (AMC). Genevieve graduated from Dartmouth College with honors, and a BA in English Literature. Genevieve is currently developing a musical with composer Johanna Samuels about the life of Margaret Wise Brown, starring Jane Bruce and Brooke Shields.

Hosted by Dartmouth Alumni Relations and the Hopkins Center for the Arts