Liz Appel
New York-based playwright Liz Appel graduated from Hunter’s MFA program in Playwriting in 2021, where she was awarded a Roberts Foundation Fellowship. Originally from Toronto, Appel also holds an MA and an MPhil from Yale University. Upon finishing her degree, Appel described her experience at Hunter College as “a decade’s worth of learning in two years—I’m exhausted, but thrilled.”
Deepak Rauniyar
A writer, producer, and director whose work in film, radio, and television production spans over two decades, Deepak Rauniyar earned his MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College in 2021, while teaching film studies. He came to Hunter already having debuted two feature films at top international film festivals.