This post was updated June 12 at 5:11 p.m.
Keke Palmer is taking on a new role in Westwood.
The Emmy Award winner announced Thursday morning that she will begin a five-year Artist in Residency program with UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, titled “From Blocking to Broadcast.” The program will go into effect during the 2026-27 academic year and is in collaboration with KeyTV, which Palmer co-founded in 2021.

Matthew Smith is ready to take on the world’s main stage.
From music to theater, fourth-year musical theater student Matthew Smith said he had always been drawn to the arts.

Keara Hedican’s final bow as a Bruin has arrived as the actor-director-producer prepares for future projects.
The fourth-year theater student with an acting emphasis said she hopes to continue all three facets of entertainment production after graduation.

Artist Mahek Jindani has brought a global perspective to dance at UCLA.
The fourth-year applied linguistics and dance student – who is of Indian heritage – was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and spent the first 15 years of her life in the nation’s capital of Kinshasa.

Ryan Bucu knows how to make it pop.
The fourth-year sociology student made history as the second male member of the UCLA Dance Team at the start of his junior year.

To Alicia Keys, “Hell’s Kitchen” is still a concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
Featuring music and lyrics by Keys, inspiration from a book by Kristoffer Diaz and direction by Michael Greif, “Hell’s Kitchen” is a coming-of-age musical about a biracial teenager growing up in the city of dreams.

This post was updated May 27 at 8:57 p.m.
Hanlin Su has been telling stories since before he knew what he was doing.
Su, a first-year psychology student, runs Retrever Entertainment, a boutique animation studio he launched after enrolling at UCLA last fall.