Participants include:

performance artist Jenny Magnus, founding co-Artistic Director of the Curious Theatre Branch and a long-time adjunct faculty member in the Columbia College Chicago Art and Art History Department.

alumnus Jonathan Goldthwaite ’12, a graduate of Columbia College’s Performing Arts Management BA program who also studied in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department. Goldthwaite is the director of Infinity Burns, about 17th-century Franciscan monk Giordano Bruno, whose views on an infinite universe brought him into dangerous conflict with the Roman Catholic Church and early astronomers alike. Infinity Burns melds conventional playwriting with ensemble-devised movement work to mirror the convention of the inquisition and the freedom inherent in an infinite universe.

alums Caleb Walker ’18, a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Theatre, and Jordan Conrad, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting. Walker and Conrad perform in a work written by Walker, 11 Empty Frames, about an inexperienced art museum guide who leads the audience through a tour of art and their own experience therein. The guide finds their tour becoming increasingly more personal, and is confronted by those responsible for their strife. Based on a real Boston art museum heist, 11 Empty Frames is a meditation on our relationship with art, the public, and public art.

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Chris Zdenek ’07 and Ian Tranberg ’07, both graduates of the Theatre Department’s Acting program. Zdenek is the author of I’m Not Having Anyone Talk About Me in the Past Tense! and Tranberg is a member of the show’s cast.

For a complete Rhinofest performance schedule, click here. For tickets, click here.