Jake Ganzer Archive

Otherworld Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, has extended its hit production of Twihard! A Twilight Musical Parody. The show, co-written and directed by Columbia College alum Tiffany Keane Schaefer ’12, a graduate of...
Otherworld Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents Twihard! A Twilight Musical Parody, co-written and directed by Columbia College alum Tiffany Keane Schaefer ’12, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program. Schaefer...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and student talent is featured in the musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, running November 17 through December 23 at the Citadel Theatre, located at 300 Waukegan Road in the northern Chicago...
Columbia College Chicago alumni are in the cast and production team of the Chicago premiere of 4000 Days, running October 1 through 31 at Chicago’s LGBTQ-focused PrideArts theatre company. PrideArts’ artistic director — Columbia alum Jay Españo MFA ’16,...
The talents of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students and alumni are featured in holiday-season productions at some of the Chicago area’s top theatres. Among them: Sophie Vitello, a senior in the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are featured in the musical Grand Hotel, presented by Chicago’s Kokandy Productions. The show’s cast includes Columbia College alums  Darren Patin ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Ann Delaney ’14 and Jake Ganzer ’15 are in the cast of Hobo King, a new drama by Chicago playwright Javon Johnson, now receiving its world premiere from Congo Square Theatre. Inspired by...
Ren Griffith (BFA ’15), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, has two projects coming to fruition the first week of March. She’s the assistant choreographer for Applause, the musical based...
Graduates of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are in the company of Side Show, the first show in Porchlight Music Theatre‘s 2015-2016 season. This production is the exclusive first post-Broadway staging of the newly revised version...
"Dancing on the Ceiling and Other Moments of Connection"
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, students, and faculty are collaborating on a festival of devised work, Dancing on the Ceiling and Other Moments of Connection, running July 10-August 1 at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, Chicago.   Presented...