Month: June 2017
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Teacher Directs ‘Beauty and the Beast’ as Little Theatre On The Square’s 60th Anniversary Season Opener June 7-18
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Ashton Byrum, a coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre Performance BFA Program, is directing the musical Beauty and the Beast as the opening production of the 60th anniversary season at the Little Theatre On The Square in Sullivan, Illinois, one of America’s most respected summer stock theatres.…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Wins 2017 Jeff Award for Fight Choreography
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Ryan Bourque ’09 has won a 2017 Joseph Jefferson Award for Non-Equity Theatre — aka the Jeff Award — for his Fight Choreography for Prowess, presented by Jackalope Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni. Bourque is a graduate of the Theatre…
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Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Student Snags Deal to Develop New TV Series for HBO
Sam Bailey, a former student in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Acting program, has secured a deal with HBO to develop a new, still-untitled TV series based on Brown Girls, a webseries that Bailey directs. As previously reported in this blog, Brown Girls, which debuted online in February at ELLE.com, is written by poet…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Film Alumni’s New Film Wins Festival Awards
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Samuel Muñoz ’99, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in the award-winning short film Broken and Outcast, now making the rounds of the festival circuit. Directed, written, and edited by Columbia College Chicago alumnus Jak Gavriel ’98, a graduate of the college’s film…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Featured in Kids’ Sci-Fi Comedy Through June 24
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Ryan Jendrycki ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in the weekend children’s show Crash Landing on GorkDork: An Alien Adventure at Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood. Though Gorilla Tango is known for its adult-oriented burlesque programming, it also has…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Historic Getz Theatre Gets Major Upgrade in Renovation Project
Work is well underway for the renovation of Columbia College Chicago‘s Emma and Oscar Getz Theatre, the mainstage auditorium at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department. As reported previously in this blog, the Getz is slated for a makeover as part of the college’s efforts to update campus spaces. The renovation of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center is…