Monthly Archive:: December 2019

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and teaching artists Christopher Ellis ’94, Luis Crespo ’01, and Brian Shaw ’86 have launched Growing Voices, a serial podcast that showcases the process of youth theatre from building an ensemble to the...
Jared Grant
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Jared David Michael Grant ’12, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is featured in Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre’s production of Working, which runs through January 26, 2020. Based...
Jackalope Theatre, a company founded and led by alumni and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, has announced a change in leadership for its 2020-2021 season. Columbia College alum Kaiser Ahmed ’08, a graduate of the...
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni whose theatres have received $150,000 grants from the Bayless Family Foundation’s “Stepping Stone” program. According to a report in Block Club Chicago, the foundation, established by celebrity chef Rick Bayless,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are featured in TSCS: T4lk N3rdy 2 M3, the latest installment in Underscore Theatre Company‘s Tiny Storefront Concert Series, on December 15 and 16 at the Understudy Theatre, located at 4609 N. Clark...
The country musical Always . . . Patsy Cline, which features faculty and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department in its cast and creative team, has been extended due to popular demand at the Den Theatre...
Current and former students in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are featured in the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, running December 7 through 29 at the Edge Theatre, located at 5451 N. Broadway in...
Congratulations to  Columbia College Chicago alumni T.J. Pieffer ’18 and Brad Kemp ’12, whose science-fiction musical comedy Abduction has been selected for a 2020 production by MTAP–Musical Theatre Artists of Pittsburgh. This will be the first staging of the...