Full Sail University, Winter Park, FL (2026)

09/09/2026

Comedy-drama The Bear has enjoyed widespread critical acclaim, including dozens of Emmy nominations and wins, since its first season released in 2022 – and Full Sail alum Pat Christensen has worked behind the scenes on the show’s audio since the beginning. The Recording Arts grad is an ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) Mixer at Sound Lounge, an audio post-production studio in Manhattan, and his work on The Bear has earned him three Emmy nominations and one previous win. Pat’s post-production career has been a blast, and his Full Sail education helped him get started.

Pat was drawn to Full Sail because he wanted to get into the audio industry as soon as possible.

“I knew that [Recording Arts] was a condensed program, so I wouldn’t have to go to a four-year school. I wanted to focus. And a lot of people were getting into audio by just going to studios and starting their careers that way. And knowing that there was a school that would help me maybe get a leg up, that's why I went down to Full Sail in Florida,” he explains.

“And the greatest thing besides the education was, Full Sail has a very good [Career Development department],” he continues. “They pointed me in the right direction many times after I had graduated. I told them that I was moving to New York City, so they gave me a lot of good places to check out.”

One of those places was Howard Schwartz Recording, a famed post-production studio. Pat landed a steady job there after graduating, then did freelance audio work before settling at Sound Lounge, where he’s spent the last 22 years.

For the last 17 years at Sound Lounge, Pat’s focus has been ADR mixing. ADR mixers work with a project’s actors on a soundstage to re-record lines of dialogue that are difficult to understand or have been rewritten. The goal is to make those lines flawlessly fit into a scene that’s already been shot – and that challenge is Pat’s favorite part of ADR work.

“I really like helping craft the actors’ performances [on the soundstage],” he says. “Because the last thing an actor wants to hear is, ‘Oh, you went through this giant dramatic performance [when they originally shot this] and there was an air conditioner making noise or a bad mic,’ and then they have to recreate things. But if you can make it comfortable for them to come into the studio, then they can just flow back right into where the character was and you’ll get exactly what you need,” he says.

“And sometimes when you play it back for the actors, they're like, ‘Was that what I just did or was that from the day we shot the scene?’ And for them or anybody in the production to question it, that's high regards and high, high marks.”

Pat’s lent his ADR expertise to hundreds of projects over the years, including IT: Welcome to Derry, The Substance, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Will Trent, They Will Kill You, and many more. But working from start to finish on The Bear has been one of his career highlights.

“We were very lucky [at Sound Lounge] to get The Bear for the first season, and seeing the first episodes as they rolled in, and just the way it was shot and the acting, I was like, ‘I think we have something special,’” Pat shares.

By the show’s second season, Pat received his first-ever Emmy nomination for ADR mixing on The Bear. He won his first Emmy the following year for the episode “Doors,” and this year he’s earned a third nomination for ADR mixing on “Scallop” from the show’s final season.

“Being nominated for an Emmy is exhilarating and daunting and a little surreal. And then to be up for one this year is just a testament to the show itself and staying creative and keeping the story moving in a direction that's still captivating… Some shows, they’re a distant memory after their first season. But The Bear has stayed in the zeitgeist,” he says.

Pat’s ADR prowess and 20-plus years of experience have helped him win awards and contribute to many standout projects – and he says that his undergraduate degree was essential to his success.

“Full Sail was instrumental in my journey, in getting me to where I am today.”

https://www.fullsail.edu/about/full-sail-stories/recording-arts-grad-nominated-at-2026-emmys-for-adr-mixing-on-the-bear

09/08/2026

From calling sporting events in broadcast booths to narrating highlights in a television studio, Rishi Barran has a wealth of experience in sports media on his resume. Since 2018, he’s shared his multifaceted background with students in Full Sail University’s Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting, and he currently serves as Program Manager.

09/07/2026

Bringing imagination to life, one frame at a time. 🎥🎬🎞️

At Full Sail, film-focused students develop skills in areas including, but not limited to: Directing, Production (Pre and Post), Scriptwriting, Cinematography, and Editing.

Full Sail graduates have contributed to recent projects such as The Odyssey, Cape Fear, Widow’s Bay, and The Boroughs, and have gone on to careers and projects with notable companies including Universal, Paramount, Hulu and more. This year (2026) Full Sail teams also swept all three categories of the prestigious nationwide Coca-Cola Refreshing Films Program competition.

09/05/2026

2026 has been a big year for Judah Getz. The Recording Arts grad, who is an ADR Mixer with Signature Post in Burbank, California, is nominated for three Emmy awards for his post-production audio work on the hit shows Widow’s Bay, Pluribus, and Beef. Judah’s time at Full Sail and his work ethic helped him forge a satisfying career in the audio world.

Judah had a lifelong interest in audio, and he found Full Sail’s Recording Arts degree in his mid-20s when he was looking for a career change from social work. “The idea of being able to get a degree in a year from Full Sail and get some sort of experience and hopefully job placement was very appealing,” he says.

Starting a degree when he was a little older also gave Judah the perspective he needed to tackle the accelerated program and make connections.

“I had already established a work ethic, but just gaining the confidence in audio, being able to put in extra work and show instructors I was serious within group projects and stuff like that, gaining the respect of friends and professors, it really went a long way. I think once I graduated, it had given me the confidence that, okay, I can actually do this.”

After graduation, Judah got started freelancing in LA. He moved from music studios to film and television production and eventually found his way to ADR (Additional Dialogue Replacement) mixing – a post-production role that involves working with a project’s actors on a soundstage to re-record lines of dialogue that are hard to understand or have been rewritten. After a few years, he landed at Technicolor and did ADR there for more than 13 years. Today he’s an ADR Mixer at Signature Post and still occasionally freelances on the side.

Judah’s earned major accolades for some of the work he’s done at Signature Post: On top of previous Emmy nominations and a win for ADR mixing on The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, he’s earned nominations and wins at the Cinema Audio Society Awards and the Golden Reel Awards. This year’s three Emmy nominations for ADR mixing on Widow’s Bay, Pluribus, and Beef speak to the hard work he did to help perfect the shows’ dialogue tracks.

“I did all of the principal ADR for Pluribus’s nominated episode. There is one particular scene where two characters are outside playing a game of catch. One of the characters sounded much louder than the other one, so we ADR’d the one speaking the loudest to bring down their projection and match the other character’s, while keeping it appropriate for the scene. The end result turned out fantastic!” Judah explains.

“For Widow’s Bay, Stephen Root’s character has a monologue in the bar where he's kind of explaining the history of the island and the lore. Some of that dialogue was rewritten and ADR'd, and I believe helped add positively to the scene. Beef is completely different than the other two; Sunny, [the showrunner] is very detail-oriented and likes to use ADR not to replace full lines, but to just replace syllables or individual words, so a lot of those sessions involved sometimes cutting in just single words or syllables.”

Working on so many popular shows at once is impressive, but for Judah, it’s all in a day’s work – and being recognized at the Emmys is a surprise bonus.

“I'm still kind of in shock. Three Emmy nominations feels like almost too much maybe!” he laughs. “But to be remembered at the end of the [post] process and then included [on the nomination ticket] by the mix team definitely feels special. I’m very grateful to the supervisors and mixers I’ve gotten to work with, and hope to continue to work with them.”

https://www.fullsail.edu/about/full-sail-stories/emmy-nominated-grad-does-audio-work-for-widows-bay-pluribus-and-more

09/05/2026

Gothic Cathedral Modular Kit modeled, UVed, and textured by Full Sail Game Art student Nicole Govostis.

Inspired by the Milan Cathedral this project was modeled, UVed, and textured to create a cohesive kit which can be built in any structural setup desired.

“I chose this architectural style specifically to refine my skills capturing intricate detail and design in my modeling. Spending time working on the high detail attributed to gothic architecture was a meticulous effort, but I enjoyed and learned a lot from it. I was also able to experiment with utilizing displacement maps for the highly detailed sculpted work found on the doors and windows. Creating this kit was a rewarding experience, and I hope to be able to create more like this in the future.”

Software Used: Maya, Unreal Engine, Substance 3D Designer, Substance 3D Sampler, Substance 3D Painter, Photoshop
https://www.artstation.com/project_ibex

09/05/2026

For years, Full Sail University graduates have frequently been in the credits of nominated TV shows at the Primetime Emmy Awards, and 2026 is no exception. Grads from degree programs like Film, Recording Arts, Entertainment Business, Computer Animation, and more helped out on nominated projects this year, and several grads were nominated for their own Emmys. In total, 254 Full Sail University graduates were credited on 208 nominated projects in 104 categories at the 2026 Emmy Awards, and 17 grads were nominated by name for 20 Emmy Awards of their own.

Seventeen Full Sail grads from a range of degree programs were nominated for a total of 20 individual awards at the 2026 Primetime Emmys. They are:
Sean Sforza – Film (Producer: The Beast In Me)
Eric Kovtun – Film (Executive Producer: Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette)
Michelle Ivan Messina – Film (Editor: The Amazing Race)
James Miller – Recording Arts (Sound Designer: Predator: Killer of Killers)
Brad North – Recording Arts (Co-Supervising Sound Editor: Alien: Earth, “Neverland”)
Andy Sisal – Recording Arts (Co-Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer: Spider-Noir, “The Man In The Mask”)
Ruy Garcia – Recording Arts (Supervising Sound Editor: The Beast In Me, “Sick Puppy”)
Jerry Lafuente – Entertainment Business, Recording Arts (Sound Effects Editor: Beef, “It Will Stay This Way And You Will Obey”)
Debora Lilavois – Recording Arts (Music Editor: Billy Joel: And So It Goes)
Judah Getz – Recording Arts (ADR Mixer: Pluribus, “We Is Us”; Beef, “It Will Stay This Way And You Will Obey”; Widow’s Bay, “What To Expect On Your Trip” )
Michael P. Clark – Recording Arts (Re-recording Mixer: Stranger Things, “Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up”)
Jamison Rabbe – Recording Arts (ADR Mixer: Monster: The Ed Gein Story, “Sick As Your Secrets”; Shrinking, “I Will Be Grape”)
Patrick Christensen – Recording Arts (ADR Mixer: The Bear, “Scallop”)
Jeffrey Roy – Recording Arts (ADR Mixer: Shrinking, “I Will Be Grape”)
Gary A. Rizzo – Recording Arts (Re-recording Mixer: John Candy: I Like Me)
John A. Pitron – Recording Arts (Production Mixer: The Amazing Race)
Tal Anderson – Film (Guest Actress: The Pitt, “5:00 P.M.”)

Full Sail graduates nominated for individual Emmy awards graduated from Full Sail’s Film bachelor’s program and the university’s Recording Arts program.
Full Sail’s Film program is offered on campus and prepares students for entry-level film industry roles through hands-on projects. Students can explore areas like writing, casting, building sets, visual effects, editing, producing, and audio work by using industry-standard equipment and facilities – like cameras, lighting equipment, soundstages, the university’s virtual production studio, editing software, and more – to develop a professional portfolio.

Full Sail’s campus Recording Arts program can help students get ready for entry-level roles in recording jobs across a range of industries, like music; live event production; post-production for movies, TV, and games; and more. Through hands-on projects, students can develop skills like recording, sound design, mixing, mastering, and vocal production, which they then use to create a professional portfolio to show to employers and clients.

Full Sail grads worked in sound, production, visual effects, editing, props, and more on this year’s nominated projects. Film grad Mark Sawa was a VFX Assistant Editor on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (nominated for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Season or Movie), and fellow Film grad Katherine Henderson was a Production Assistant on Fallout (10 nominations in categories like Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Period or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More) and Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes).

Film grad Kelly Walton worked in the Props department on Widow’s Bay (nominated in 19 categories including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Production Design, and Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series), while Recording Arts grad Joshua Adeniji was a Sound Effects Editor on The Pitt (25 nominations in categories like Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series). Greg M. Silverman, a Computer Animation graduate, was a Visual Effects Artist on The Beast in Me (nine nominations, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and Outstanding Music Composition).

Additional graduates worked as location scouts, set dressers, grips, lighting technicians, creative layout supervisors, music editors, script supervisors, and more on nominated shows.

https://www.fullsail.edu/about/full-sail-stories/2026-emmy-awards-full-sail-grads-on-nominated-projects

09/04/2026

Full Sail University Recording Arts grad and Emmy winner Jeff Roy recently achieved a career-long dream: shooting ADR loops for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The ADR Mixer and longtime Spider-Man fan works for Warner Bros. Discovery and has contributed to shows and movies like 2025’s Superman, The Last of Us, Abbott Elementary, Weapons, The White Lotus (which he won an Emmy for in 2022), Shrinking (which he was nominated for at the 2026 Emmys), and many more. Jeff credits his current success to his love of television and movies and his time at Full Sail.

Jeff’s fascination with audio began when he watched Spider-Man 2 on his home theater setup. It quickly became his favorite movie and inspired him to get into film sound. He also met Full Sail grad and Hall of Fame inductee Marc Fishman on a home theater message board; that connection developed into a longstanding mentorship with Marc and inspired Jeff to head to Florida for Full Sail’s Recording Arts program.

“The Recording Arts program was just a really thorough way to get the basics, to learn Pro Tools, to learn mic and audio theory, to dabble in post-production. And then once I finished the program, I was ready to go right out to LA and basically get my first gig and start going. So, I've always felt really prepared from going to the school and felt like it gave me a really good launching pad just to go to LA and jump right into things,” Jeff says.

The grad got started in LA with non-union audio work, then ran an independent facility for several years, where he earned his first Emmy for ADR mixing on The White Lotus. That helped him get in the door at Warner Bros. Discovery, where he’s now a full-time ADR Mixer with a permanent stage on the Warner lot.

As an ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) Mixer, Jeff works with a movie or TV show’s sound team to record and replace lines of dialogue that are unusable for technical reasons, or he records new dialogue to accommodate rewrites. When a project’s actors come to Jeff’s stage, he helps guide them to match the pitch, tone, and mood of their voice to the production dialogue. Then he mixes the ADR tracks into the existing dialogue and plays it for the producers and supervisors in the room to make sure it will fit seamlessly into the scene.

“ADR in particular can be challenging because you're working with A-list people a lot of the time, and you need to really work on your people skills, and how to run a room and stuff like that,” Jeff says. “But it’s truly a dream job for me, and I get sad when I don't have work for the day, which I didn't used to say for other jobs. I just love going to work every day.”

Jeff’s work on the 2026 Emmy-nominated Shrinking episode “I Will Be Grape” was a recent career highlight that allowed him to stretch his creative wings. In addition to his regular ADR contributions, he got to do a special recording session with the entire Shrinking cast and singer Christina Perri.

“The theme of the episode is them constantly reprising “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri. So we brought everybody in to do a separate cast recording on my ADR stage of them singing the song, which plays over the end credits. I'm not really a music guy, so I got to go out of my comfort zone to host them and the music crew on the show for the whole day for that extra little touch on the episode, which was really neat,” Jeff explains.

Jeff’s Emmy nomination wasn’t the only thing that’s made 2026 a big year for him: He also hit a career milestone by working on the latest Spider-Man movie.

“I got a little emotional when the director came in. I was just kind of like, man, I'm a kid from Canada, and I worked in the DVD department when Spider-Man 2 came out and got to curate the new release wall the morning it came out. So getting to shoot some stuff for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, even a small contribution, was really, really exciting.

“There's been a lot of different challenges at different levels of the industry to get me to this point, but it's worked out,” he continues. “And again, Full Sail was really the catalyst for all that. There was some luck involved, but I don’t think I would be where I am without Full Sail.”

https://www.fullsail.edu/about/full-sail-stories/full-sail-recording-arts-grad-is-emmy-winning-adr-mixer

09/04/2026

Grad mode: on 🙌🎓🧡✈️ Congratulations to all of our new Full Sail alumni!

Thank you to The Graduation Photographer for always capturing the best moments from graduation! Head over to their website to find your graduate's special memories: https://www.thegraduationphotographer.com/

09/03/2026

More nominations for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards are here! In total, 17 Full Sail graduates are nominated for a total of 20 Emmy Awards.

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series
Tal Anderson - Guest Actress as Becca King - The Pitt

Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
Sean Sforza - Producer - The Beast In Me
Eric Kovtun - Executive Producer - Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette

Outstanding Picture Editing For A Structured Reality or Competition Program
Michelle Ivan - Editor - The Amazing Race

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation
James Miller - Sound Designer - Predator: Killer of Killers

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour)
Brad North - Co-Supervising Sound Editor - Alien: Earth
Andy Sisal - Co-Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer - Spider-Noir

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Limited Or Anthology Series, Movie or Special
Ruy Garcia - Supervising Sound Editor - The Beast In Me
Jerry Lafuente - Sound Effects Editor - Beef

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Nonfiction Or Reality Program
Debora Lilavois - Music Editor - Billy Joel: And So It Goes

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour)
Judah Getz - ADR Mixer - Pluribus
Michael P. Clark - Re-Recording Mixer - Stranger Things

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie
Judah Getz - ADR Mixer - Beef
Jamison Rabbe - ADR Mixer - Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation
Patrick Christensen - ADR Mixer - The Bear
Jamison Rabbe - ADR Mixer - Shrinking
Jeffrey Roy - ADR Mixer - Shrinking
Judah Getz - ADR Mixer - Widow’s Bay

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Nonfiction Program
Gary A. Rizzo - Re-Recording Mixer - John Candy: I Like Me

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Reality Program
John Pitron - Production Manager - The Amazing Race

09/02/2026

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