Sentences with phrase «first as acting director»

Alving, 65, is a hematologist who served as deputy and acting director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and also headed the Women's Health Initiative before she came to NCRR, first as acting director.

Not exact matches

Rogers, who worked with the Obama administration during the planning of his first inauguration in 2009, will become Director of the Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a job that includes working with outside religious groups and acting as the top White House official on religious issues.

Ms. Bova - Hiatt has served with the Office of Storm Recovery since January 2014, first as General Counsel, then Acting Chief Operating Officer and most recently as its Acting Executive Director.

While Burberry — first under American businesswoman Rose Marie Bravo who installed Bailey as designer and then under the double - act of Angela Ahrendts as chief executive and Bailey as creative director — focused on its distinctive British heritage, Tisci's track record shows his heart to be in a dark, gothic sensibility laced with a subversive southern Mediterranean soul.

Redirecting his energies to the theater, Caesar wrote the popular one - act play Napoleon's Barber, which was adapted for the screen as director John Ford's first talkie.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, kicks Paths of Glory off with an admittedly less - than - engrossing stretch, as the movie boasts (or suffers from) a somewhat talky first act that doesn't contain much in the way of compelling elements - although, by that same token, it's clear that the film benefits substantially from Kubrick's stellar directorial choices and a host of above - average performances.

Dustin Hoffman, a 75 - year - old first - time feature director better known as a great old acting pro, conducts at a pleasant tempo.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

You catch the final act and you forget that first - time feature director Carl Rinsch has no experience or apparent skill for this material and that his leading man is every bit as much of a stiff as he.

The first act is admittedly a bit messy as director Colin Trevorrow gets all of his pieces on the board, but the story really picks up once the Indominus Rex breaks free from confinement, turning into a full - fledged adventure film with no shortage of dinosaur - caused destruction.

Since she first appeared as Nina in Goran Dukić's Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006), Seimetz has been active in the independent film scene in many capacities — as a collaborator to Joe Swanberg (which involves wearing many hats), (14) a producer (for Barry Jenkins's elegant and sensitive Medicine for Melancholy [2008], among others) and an actress for edgy, polyvalent directors who often blur the boundary between acting, directing, writing and crewing: Jay Keitel (also the DP for Sun Don't Shine), Lawrence Michael Levine, Lena Dunham, Kentucker Audley, David Robert Mitchell, Adam Wingard, Cherie Saulter, Josh Slates, Dan Bush and Tomer Almagor.

It is also a tribute to the talent of Kirk Douglas, who here takes on the role of a French colonel in the trenches of the First World War with such explosive energy that one realizes how many films (and directors) were unworthy of Kirk's genius as an actor — his first acting role, by the way, was onstage as the servant in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, with Catherine Cornell, Judith Anderson, and my mother as the sisters and Ruth Gordon as the dreadful sister - in -First World War with such explosive energy that one realizes how many films (and directors) were unworthy of Kirk's genius as an actor — his first acting role, by the way, was onstage as the servant in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, with Catherine Cornell, Judith Anderson, and my mother as the sisters and Ruth Gordon as the dreadful sister - in -first acting role, by the way, was onstage as the servant in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, with Catherine Cornell, Judith Anderson, and my mother as the sisters and Ruth Gordon as the dreadful sister - in - law.

It's no surprise this crime dramedy earned its writer - directors their first screenplay Oscar — cementing them in Hollywood as a creative force to reckon with — and star Frances McDormand her first acting Oscar.

While he initially planned to act as producer for an adaptation of The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien's first novel and the world's introduction to that fantasy realm — Jackson eventually decided to take over as director.

For the first time in the 7 - year history of The LCJ Movie Awards, there are 7 nominees in each of the four individual acting categories, as well as Best Director and The Roger Ebert Actor of the Year Award.

Finding its way to the DVD format just a couple of weeks before another haunted house flick (Cold Creek Manor) debuts on the big screen, veteran television director Dan Curtis's horror quickie is one of those comfortable relics that doesn't scare so much as mildly chill, offering countless opportunities to shout at the screen without any sort of discernible payoff — until the end, that is, but even that shocker of a conclusion has been telegraphed since at least the midway point of the first act, muffling its surprise.

Julie Swan, acting executive director for General Qualifications at Ofqual, said: «I am pleased that we can ensure that no student taking AS or A levels will have to effectively study for a new qualification if things don't go to plan the first time around.

«Tom Gentzel's deep knowledge of education and the policymaking process is a valued asset as the Learning First Alliance is turning its attention to the Every Student Succeeds Act and other federal actions,» said LFA Executive Director Richard M. Long.

Nickel held the position of Director of Curriculum; she briefly acted as Chief Academic Officer when Kishimoto's first pick for that slot was rejected by the board on May 27, 2014.

The reenactment acts as a D.I.Y. homage to the first music video to be made by a major Hollywood director.

Atlas acted as Consulting Director for «Art in the Twenty - First Century» (Seasons 2 through 5), creating the original opening programs for each hour - long segment of Season 2, as well as supervising the «Stories,» «Loss and Desire,» «Memory,» «Play,» «Protest,» and «Paradox» episodes.

As the CRU's first director, Mojica played an integral role in the adoptions of the current post-grant review system, enacted as part of the America Invents AcAs the CRU's first director, Mojica played an integral role in the adoptions of the current post-grant review system, enacted as part of the America Invents Acas part of the America Invents Act.

This isn't to say that there aren't bumps in the road ahead for law firm IPOs — as a colleague of mine says, wait for the first shareholder action that charges a law firm's board of directors failed to act in the shareholders» best interests.

One of those things that does act as a pretty powerful disincentive for speaking to an educator, is when there's a track record that's built up of the educators or the director or whoever you've been dealing with, not following through, so you may have had discussions about something that's concerning you about your child and how they are fitting in or how they are coping with certain things, and you've been assured that changes will be made and your child will be accommodated, but then you discover that that hasn't been done or maybe it was done for the first week and then it just dissipated.

For almost 8 years, I worked with the White Mountain Apache Tribe, first in suicide prevention and intervention, and then as the Family Enrichment Coordinator, the Clinical Coordinator, and the Acting Clinical Director at a substance abuse treatment center.

John Webb acting as the first director.