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Albert Williams

Jackalope Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums and former students, presents its eighth annual Living Newspaper Festival, an evening of six 10-minute plays inspired by newspaper articles from around the nation. The...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Jerome Riley Jr. ’16 and Nate Braga ’06 are featured in the world premiere of the new musical Trevor, running August 9-September 17 at Writers Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Glencoe. Riley is a...
Alumni and students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department have been nominated for 2017 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards by Chicago’s Black Theater Alliance Awards. Columbia College Chicago alums and students honored with nominations for this year’s awards include: Tyla Abercrumbie...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Casey S. Campbell ’15, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in the late-night sketch comedy show 26, running August 5-September 23 at the Pride Arts Center, 4147...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are featured in the Factory Theatre‘s summer hit Fight City, running through August 26. The cast includes Columbia College alums Mandy Walsh ’99, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Mallory Maedke ’14, a graduate of the Columbia College Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is in the cast of Hair, opening August 3 and running through September 17 at the Mercury...
Pulse Theatre Chicago, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents a new production of Edward Albee’s landmark 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? August 4-20 at City Lit Theatre, located in the Edgewater Presbyterian Church at...
A group of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and Columbia College Chicago Music Department alumni have partnered to form the Bittersweet Arts Company, described as “a collective of multi-talented artists whose unique ambitions and spirits are brought together through...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are featured in The Food Show, a new devised, site-specific performance piece created by the Neo-Futurists, one of Chicago’s leading experimental theatres, in partnership with Metropolitan Brewing. The show runs July 27-September 2 at Metropolitan Brewing’s new location...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Emma Ladji ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, stars as Juliet in Shakespeare’s classic romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, presented in a touring open-air adaptation July 26-August 27 at various locations...