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Albert Williams

Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are featured in Bite: A Pucking Queer Cabaret, presented by Pride Films & Plays July 8-August 14. Nathan Cooper (BFA ’13), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Caroline Neff (BA ’07), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, and Columbia College Theatre faculty member Kendra Thulin are featured in the U.S. premiere of Wastwater, by British playwright...
A short play by Kyle Hamlin, a senior in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Writing for Performance/Playwriting, will be showcased in “College Night: Histories,” a program of readings of works by student writers, presented Wednesday,...
  Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Pat Whalen (BA ’10), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, headlines a “Special Budgetary Edition” of his monthly show Good Evening with Pat Whalen on Friday, July 1, at 11 PM at...
Columbia College Chicago alums Sam Bailey and Samantha Lee are profiled in an article on Wear Your Voice, an online magazine focused on intersectional feminist media. Bailey, an alum of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Acting BA program,...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud that two theatres headed by Columbia College Theatre alums were ranked tops in the “Best of Chicago 2016” poll published in the June 23, 2016, edition of the Chicago Reader, the...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is presenting a new edition of its interactive production Fight Quest, playing Wednesday nights through July 27 at CSz Theatre Chicago, 929 W. Belmont,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and creative/production team of Anon(ymous), presented by the Cuckoo’s Theatre Project. Written by Naomi Iizuka, and inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, the play concerns a young refugee wandering the U.S....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Oliver Austin Berger (BA ’14), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, is featured in the musical comedy Friends: The One Where They Sing! (An Unauthorized Musical Parody). This stage musical...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Kelsie Huff (BA ’03), Alannah Courtney (BA ’16), and Lea Ciastko (BA ’16) are appearing in the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. Huff will...