Columbia College Chicago Theatre alum J. Cody Spellman ’13, a graduate of the Theatre Program’s Theatre Directing program, is producing the second annual Living News Festival presented by Pittsburgh’s Throughline Theatre. The event, which features new short plays by Pittsburgh-area playwrights based on real news stories, runs July 17 through 20 at the Carnegie Stage, located at 25 W. Main in the Pittsburgh suburb of Carnegie, Pennsylvania. For tickets, click here.

Among the playwrights featured in the festival is Columbia College Theatre alum Patrick Cannon ’12, a graduate of the Theatre Program’s BA Program in Musical Theatre. As previously reported in this blog, Cannon is artistic director of Little Lake Theatre, a Pittsburgh-area community theatre.