Theatre Directing Archive

The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2021-2022 Mainstage Season opened October 15, 2021, with American Origami/#HereToo-CCC, a program of two devised plays in dialogue about America’s gun violence epidemic. This original production is the result of an exciting collaboration...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly launches its 2021-2022 Mainstage Season with an exciting collaboration between the Theatre Department, Columbia College’s Museum of Contemporary Photography, the national theatre/activism initiative #HereToo, and the internationally acclaimed Tectonic Theatre Project: American...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Tyler Anthony Smith ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, presents his one-person show People Do Do Such Things October 7 through 10 at Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret,...
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are bringing the musical theatre event Songs for Nobodies to Northlight Theatre, located at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts at 9501 Skokie Boulevard in the Chicago...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum and former faculty member Joanie Schultz ’00, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, has been named associate artistic director of the Cincinnati Playhouse, one of the nation’s top regional theatres....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Rose Freeman ’07, a graduate of the Theatre Department‘s Theatre Directing program, is directing the opening production of the Third Eye Theatre Ensemble‘s eighth season — a double bill of one-act operas running...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Isaiah Silvia-Chandley ’18 and Michael George ’16 won a rave review from the Chicago Reader for their choreography for the professional Chicago-area regional premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots — the...
Sheldon Patinkin (August 27, 1935-September 21, 2014)
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department fondly honors the memory of Sheldon Patinkin – longtime chair of the Theatre Department, noted director and teacher, and cherished friend and mentor to many in the Chicago theatre community — who was...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is delighted to welcome longtime faculty member Susan Padveen to the position of Interim Allen and Lynn Turner Chair of Theatre. Padveen, an associate professor, replaces former Chair Carin Silkaitis, who has joined...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, was interviewed in the Chicago Tribune‘s digital edition about his plans for guiding Chicago’s venerable, award-winning Raven Theatre back to live...