Month: January 2021
-
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Nominated for LA Stage Alliance’s Ovation Award for Fight Direction
Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Jen Albert ’97, who has been nominated for a 2021 Ovation Award from the LA Stage Alliance in Los Angeles, a non-profit arts service organization dedicated to building awareness, appreciation, and support for the performing arts in Greater Los Angeles. Albert is nominated for Fight Direction for…
-
(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum’s Dance Film ‘Leverage’ Premieres Online Jan. 23
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Rachel Damon ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design BA program, will debut her new dance film Leverage on Saturday, January 23, as part of the In/Motion International Dance Festival 2021. Presented entirely online, this year’s In/Motion Festival focuses on the importance of dance film as activism. Leverage…
-
Tony Award-Winning Columbia College Chicago Alum Tonya Pinkins To Star in ABC’s ‘The Women of the Movement’
Columbia College Chicago alum Tonya Pinkins ’96 — Tony Award-winning star of such Broadway musicals as Caroline, or Change and Jelly’s Last Jam — will co-star in ABC’s upcoming limited series The Women of the Movement, according to a report from the show-business news site Playbill. Pinkins will portray the grandmother of Emmett Till, the…
-
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum Kerry Reid in the Chicago Reader: ‘Artists Did What They Always Do Best: They Improvised and Collaborated’ in 2020
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Kerry Reid ’87, the theatre and dance editor of the Chicago Reader newspaper, eloquently and insightfully assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Chicago’s performing arts world in her year-end wrapup for the Reader. “This is my last column for the year, and in place of writing some…