Month: April 2015
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s John McFarland Named ‘Master Teacher’ by British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member John McFarland, who teaches in the Theatre Department’s Stage Combat and Voice programs, has been awarded the rank of Master Teacher with the British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat. The BASSC is a London-based organization that trains actors to perform in scenes of a violent nature on…
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Web Series Created by Columbia Theatre, Cinema, and Education Alumni Is Showcased by Tribeca Film Festival
The Web series You’re So Talented, created by alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre, Cinema Art + Science, and Education departments, is featured in the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival‘s Tribeca N.O.W. (New Online Works) program. Presented as part of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, one of the most significant showcases of…
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Longtime Columbia College Theatre Chair Sheldon Patinkin Honored by Chicago Improv Festival
The 18th annual Chicago Improv Festival, running April 20-26 at multiple venues in Chicago, is dedicated in part to the late director and teacher Sheldon Patinkin, longtime chair of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department. “For many people, Sheldon was the nexus point of Chicago theater and Chicago improv/comedy as well as an ambassador, a…
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Columbia College Theatre Alumni Gear Up for New Shows on Chicago Stages
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are gearing up for new shows opening shortly on Chicago stages. Michael Allen Harris, a 2011 graduate of Columbia’s BFA program in Acting, is in the cast of Adventure Stage Chicago‘s world premiere of Worthy, running April 17-May 16. The family-friendly show is an adventure quest about four young…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni in New Films Making Rounds of Spring Festival Circuit
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Samuel Munoz (BA, Acting, 1999) and Aaron Munoz (BA, Acting, 2001) are featured in two independent films making rounds of the festival circuit this season. They costar in the short film 53:1, which will be screened at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival on April 19. Samuel Munoz is also…
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Steep Theatre’s U.S. Premiere of German Drama ‘Martyr’ Features Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty, Student, and Alumni Talent
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and students are joining forces for Martyr, the new show at Chicago’s acclaimed storefront Steep Theatre. This important new production marks the U.S. premiere of a controversial drama by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg about a young man’s journey towards religious radicalism. The play premiered in Berlin in 2012 and…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumnus Michael Stahl-David in New Show at New York’s Public Theater
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Stahl-David is featured in the Off-Broadway production Buzzer, which opened April 8, 2015, at New York’s prestigious Public Theater. The play by Tracey Scott-Wilson concerns the tense relationship between a black attorney, his white girlfriend, and the attorney’s white childhood friend (played by Stahl-David) who comes to live…
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Columbia College Alumni and Faculty Perform in Concert Reading of New Musical April 13-14
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty are appearing in a concert reading of a new musical Monday-Tuesday, April 13-14, at the Windy City Playhouse, 3014 W. Irving Park Rd., in Chicago. Presented by the FWD Theatre Project, the show is called Love and Other Fables. Columbia College Musical Theatre Performance BFA program alumnus…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Dance Alumni Team Up for New Musical at National WWII Museum in New Orleans
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cavan Hallman has a new show opening April 10. Called On the Air: A Live Radio Broadcast Musical, it’s a “jukebox musical” set to hits of the World War II era by such artists as Louis Jordan, the Mills Brothers, and Nat King Cole. On the Air runs through…
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Columbia College Musical Theatre Alumni ‘Tap Out with Bailiwick’ on April 14 at Revolution Brewpub
Jeff Award-winning musical theatre performer Callie Johnson, a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BFA program in Musical Theatre Performance, will be a guest artist at Tap Out with Bailiwick, a benefit for the adventurous Bailiwick Chicago theatre collective. The event is organized by Bailiwick’s administrative coordinator Jon Martinez, an alumnus of Columbia’s…