Month: June 2020
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Wins 2020 Joseph Jefferson Award
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates alumnus Paul Deziel ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Technical Theatre program, who won the 2020 Joseph Jefferson Award — Chicago’s top theatre award — for his Projection Design for Jackalope Theatre’s P.Y.G. or The Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle. The 47th Annual Jeff Awards for Non-Equity…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alumni Bring Theatre and Gaming Together at Otherworld Theatre
Otherworld Theatre, a troupe founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is profiled in an article published May 27, 2020, by the Chicago Reader, Chicago’s longest-established alternative publication. Headlined “Otherworld Theatre Unites Gamers and Theater Nerds,” the article focuses on ways in which Otherworld’s founding artistic director — Columbia College alum Tiffany…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Present ‘Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too, August Wilson)’ in a Live Streamed Performance June 19
Mirrorbox Theatre, an Iowa theatre company led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Cavan Hallman ’05, presents a live streamed performance of the play Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too, August Wilson) on Friday, June 19, at 8 PM (Central). The reading is part of “Out the Box,” Mirrorbox Theatre’s new reading series of…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty Member Heather Gilbert Wins Drama Desk Award for Lighting Design in Her Broadway Debut
Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Heather Gilbert, who won the 2020 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play. Gilbert, a teacher in the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design Program, was honored for her lighting design for the drama The Sound Inside, which ran on Broadway from September 2019 through…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Teacher Named Executive Producer of Second City
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Anthony LeBlanc has been named Interim Executive Producer of The Second City, the nation’s premier comedy theatre and training center. LeBlanc succeeds the theatre’s longtime CEO and Executive Producer Andrew Alexander, who announced on June 5, 2020, that he is stepping down, fully removing himself from overseeing The…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alums Support June 5-12 Supply Drive for Black Lives & Chicago Protesters
A group of theatre companies in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre District are conducting a drive for donations of food and other supplies to redistribute to other organizations in Chicago directly supporting protestors and in neighborhoods where food supplies are limited. The participating theatres include Jackalope Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumni Playwright Tyla Abercrumbie: ‘There is no turning back’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98 is profiled in a post by Chicago Theater, a Facebook group by and for Chicago’s theatre community. The group was created by a group of Chicago theatre artists and administrators as “a public platform for Chicago Theater Community to come together during the [Coronavirus] pandemic, and…