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Ethan Kuperberg is a writer, filmmaker, and comedian from Agoura Hills, CA. He graduated from Yale University in May 2011.
Ethan directed, edited, and co-wrote Yale University’s new admissions video, which has over 1,000,000 hits on Youtube. An innovative, musical take on the staid admissions video format, the video was featured on The Today Show, ABC News, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, the UK Guardian, and many others. It won the 2010 Best in Show Award for Higher Ed Marketing, beating out over 2,500 entries from colleges around the country. Whoopi Goldberg responded to the video on The View by saying, “”Love it! Love it! It’s so great. If you want to get kids to come to your school, you better make it interesting and make it good and alluring for them. I want to go to Yale!””
Other recent film projects include The Dining, a short comedy film starring Henry Winkler and Amy Madigan, and Yale’s 2011 Class History Video, a faux 80s instructional guide to graduation for the intellectual elite.
His film “Anthony in the Key of B,” produced while he was in high school, won the Grand Festival Award for Young Producers at the Berkeley Video & Film Festival 2005, Best Youth Film at 2005 Ojai Film Festival, 1st Place High School Film at the 2006 Malibu Celebration of Film, and Best Overall Video at the 2005 Conejo Video Festival. Other film accolades include honors at the 2008 Santa Barbara Film Festival (one of 18 selected for its “Applebox Collection” of short films) for his claymation music video “To Fly” and top honors at the Methodfest Film Festival and Santa Cruz Film Festival for his mockumentary “A Trip to the Barbershop.”
While at Yale, Ethan directed and performed with improv comedy troupe Just Add Water. An English major in the Writing Concentration, Ethan wrote several plays, including Cold Turkey, which was featured as part of the 2010 Ars Nova Theater Festival in New York City. In 2011, his play Pecking Wild, a political farce, was accepted into the prestigious Yale Playwrights Festival. His written work has been featured on the national page of CollegeHumor.com as well as published bi-monthly in the Yale Daily News.
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