Carson School featured in Variety's Education Impact Report

April 24, 2025

Isaiah Griffith (left) and Marley Hewitt, second-year students in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, pose in motion-capture suits that will help transform them into animated characters on the surrounding screen.
Isaiah Griffith (left) and Marley Hewitt, second-year students in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, pose in motion-capture suits that will help transform them into animated characters on the surrounding screen.
Photo by Craig Chandler, University Communication and Marketing

Lincoln, Neb.--The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film is featured in Variety Magazine's 2025 Education Impact Report.

The article is available online at https://go.unl.edu/variety2025. 

The article noted the recent changes to an entertainment design degree that includes immersive games, digital and live performance.

"....We’re training those thought leaders, designers, game designers, animators,” Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Director Hank Stratton said in the article. Nebraska sports top production facilities with an eye to emerging media arts. “We have a sequence of three on-camera acting classes within our BFA in acting, and one of the sequences on top of that is motion capture. So they learn to be in the motion capture studio, they’re on stage with a green screen and they’re in a virtual environment right away."