Month: November 2015
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(VIDEO) Singer-Songwriter Jess Godwin Releases New Video in Advance of Her Dec. 4 Concert at Athenaeum Theatre
Singer-songwriter-actor Jess Godwin (BA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, headlines Jess Godwin: 12 at the historic Athenaeum Theatre on Friday, December 4, at 8 PM. The concert is the culmination of the Godwin Anthology, a music video “book” Godwin has created over the past year. “Each…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Michael Stahl-David Shares Industry Expertise with Acting Students
Actor Michael Stahl-David (BA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, visited the Theatre Department on November 20 to facilitate a workshop for students in the acting program. Stahl-David shared his industry expertise with the students, offering career advice and acting tips drawn from his experience as a…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Comedy Writing & Performance Alum Creates Sketch Comedy Web Series
Actor/comedian Willy J. Sasso (BA ’14), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Comedy Writing and Performance, is the co-creator and co-star of an online sketch show called The Drew & Bill Show. The web series was created with Sasso’s longtime friend and collaborator Drew Byerly. Sasso and Byerly write, direct,…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Alumni Perform in Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus’ Winter Production ‘Miracle on Thirty-Funk Street’ Starting Nov. 29
Several current and former Columbia College Chicago students are performing in the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus‘ winter production, Miracle on Thirty-Funk Street. The show features the entire CGMC chorus of 150 singers, dancers, and a six-piece band to provide the holidays with the colorful CGMC aesthetic as they perform some holiday favorites with a funky…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Teacher’s ‘Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol’ Goes Global for the Holidays
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Tom Mula‘s play Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol has become a popular item with theatres locally, nationally, and internationally as the winter holidays approach. The play, adapted from Mula’s 1995 novel, retells the story of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol from the perspective of Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge’s longtime…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum David Engel Talks About His Big Apple Circus Clown Care Work with Pediatric Patients
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus David Engel (BA ’88) was recently featured in Mediander Blog discussing his work as a clown in the Big Apple Circus. The article — “I, Clown: An Interview From the Front Lines of Happiness” — focused on Big Apple Circus’ Clown Care outreach program, which brings the joy of…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Jess Godwin Partners with Youth Empowerment Performance Project for New Music Video and Dec. 4 Concert
Singer-songwriter-actor Jess Godwin (BA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, has released her latest music video, “When the Snow Thaws,” featuring members of the Youth Empowerment Performance Project (YEPP), a group of young artists giving voice to the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth.…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Launch New Web Series ‘Superfreaks’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Jessica Curtis (BA ’03) is the co-creator of a new web series, Superfreaks, which debuted November 14 on Youtube. Curtis, who wrote and directed the show’s pilot episode, is a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre. Alumnus Jai Sanghvi (’13), a graduate of Columbia College’s…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumnus Michael Allen Harris Chosen to Pilot New Play Development Project with Drama About LGBT African Americans in the South
Actor and playwright Michael Allen Harris (BFA ’11), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s acting program, has been selected to participate in a new initiative of the Broken Nose Theatre. Called “The Paper Trail,” the program seeks to develop new work for the theatre by providing an outside artist with the resources and…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumnus Establishes Ed.Arts to Help Aspiring Artists Fight Student Debt
Chicago actor Derrick Trumbly (BA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, has established Ed.Arts (educatedartists.org), a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working to help aspiring artists avoid, emerging artists manage, and committed artists achieve financial freedom from student loan debt. Trumbly, whose credits include roles at American Theater Company…