Theodore R. Life, Jr
Associate Professor
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Teaches courses in Basic Television, Advanced Television and Film Directing. His credits include, Eve, Sister Sister, A Different World, Sesame Street, as well as serving as Production Executive and Director for The Cosby Show.  He is the recipient of many film awards and produced the critically acclaimed trilogy of films on Japan, entitled

Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan, Doubles: Japan and America’s Intercultural Children and After America, After Japan.

Professor Life is a Fulbright, Japan Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and Ushiba Memorial fellowship recipient. He has been honored by the Black Filmmaker Hall of Fame and he is one of the Sony Innovators of 1991. He serves on the Board of Governors for the Japanese American National Museum, the New York State Council for the Arts, and he is a former Commissioner for the Japan-United States Friendship Commission.

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