Several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team for The Green Bird, presented by The Cuckoo’s Theatre Project June 3-19.

The cast includes Kegan Witzki (BA ’14), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre BA program with a Stage Combat Minor. Witzki has been accepted into the Master of Arts in Classical Acting for the Professional Theatre program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA), the oldest drama school in the United Kingdom. He begins school in London on October 4.

 

Also in The Green Bird — an updated adaptation of a 1765 comedy by Venetian playwright Carlo Gozzi — is Kate Lass (BA ’14), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Acting BA program with Minors in Stage Combat and Literature.

The set design is by Hannah Starr (BA ’15), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program.

The Green Bird, presented by The Cuckoo’s Theatre Project, plays at Collaboraction’s Pentagon Space, 1579 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. For tickets, call 312-882-8201 or click here.