Monthly Archive:: January 2016

Actor-director Brian Shaw (BA ’86), a Columbia College Chicago graduate and a professor in Columbia’s Theatre Department, has directed a short film, Four Monologues, now available as a free iTunes app. The film was developed from an artist’s book...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member and alumnus Brian Posen was featured in Michigan Avenue Magazine on the occasion of the opening of the 15th annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, which Posen founded in 2002. “Sketchfest” is the...
Get ready, ’cause here he comes: Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Chester Gregory (BA ’95) is starring in the national touring company of Motown: The Musical. Gregory portrays Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records, in this hit show....
Columbia College Chicago Dance Department alum Sara Maslanka (BA ’13) has been named the new artistic director of Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble. After graduating from Columbia, where she studied dance pedagogy, Maslanka studied in London at Trinity Laban Conservatory of...