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Albert Williams

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Kathleen Perkins, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s student skills assessment program and co-coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Acting with International Performance Study BFA program, will speak at the 2016 International Society for the...
Behzad Dabu
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Behzad Dabu ’08, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting Program, “is among the most hated characters in television this fall,” according to an article on Syracuse.com, a digital publication in Dabu’s hometown...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student Jelani Smith, a senior in the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, is featured in Just Numbers, a new “lyric play” presented by Chicago Slam Works Ensemble Theatre October 7-November 11 at Stage 773, located at...
  The company of Refuge Theatre Project‘s production of bare: a pop opera, running October 7-November 6, includes Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students Alanna Lovely, a student in the Comedy Writing and Performance BA program, and Natalie Savoy and...
Columbia College Chicago’s Emma and Oscar Getz Theatre, the mainstage auditorium at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, is slated for a makeover as part of the college’s efforts to update campus spaces. Details of the planned Getz renovation were...
Jess Godwin
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Jess Godwin ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, has won a 2016 3Arts Award, presented by 3Arts, a nonprofit grantmaking organization based in Chicago. Godwin, a singer, songwriter, and actress with...
  Otherworld Theatre Company — a troupe founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni — presents its second annual Paragon—A Sci-Fi/Fantasy Theatre Short Play Festival Saturday and Sunday, October 1 and 2, at the Public House Theatre, 3914 N. Clark,...
Dawn Renee Jones
Dawn Renee Jones, assistant to the chair of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, has been named to the Goodman Theatre’s 2016-17 Playwrights Unit, a year-long residency offered by Goodman in partnership with Chicago Dramatists. The playwrights in this...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate chairperson Paul Amandes, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Playwriting/Writing for Performance BA Program, will co-host and perform in Banned Together: A Censorship Cabaret on Monday, September 26, at 8 PM at Davenport’s Piano Bar, 1383...