Jelani Smith Archive

Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department were honored with 2017 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards at the BTAA’s annual awards ceremony on Monday, October 23. The event was held at Columbia College Chicago‘s Conaway Center in Chicago’s...
Columbia College Chicago will host the 2017 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards on Monday, October 23, at the college’s Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash, in Chicago’s South Loop. The evening will begin with a reception at 7 PM followed...
Columbia College Chicago will host the 2017 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards on Monday, October 23, at the college’s Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash, in Chicago’s South Loop. The evening will begin with a reception at 7 PM followed...
Alumni and students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department have been nominated for 2017 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards by Chicago’s Black Theater Alliance Awards. Columbia College Chicago alums and students honored with nominations for this year’s awards include: Tyla Abercrumbie...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Alicia Watley ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, and student Jelani Smith, a senior in the Acting BA program, received a rave review in the Chicago Reader, Chicago’s leading...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Alicia Watley ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, and student Jelani Smith, a senior in the Acting BA program, are featured in By the Apricot Trees, running February 24-April...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student Jelani Smith, a senior in the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, is featured in Just Numbers, a new “lyric play” presented by Chicago Slam Works Ensemble Theatre October 7-November 11 at Stage 773, located at...