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Albert Williams

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Kaiser Ahmed (BA ’08), a graduate of Columbia College’s theatre directing program, is featured in the Chicago premiere of the Off-Broadway drama The Awake, presented by the First Floor Theater at Collaboraction’s Room...
Michael Matthews
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is thrilled to announce that alumnus Michael Matthews (BA ’99), artistic director of the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles, will be honored for career achievement in direction by the Los Angeles Drama Critics...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members are on the creative/production team for the world premiere of Cocked, by Sarah Gubbins, at Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre. The show is directed by Joanie Schultz (BA ’00),...
Zachary Gray (BA ’15), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Musical Theatre, will direct Fugitive Songs, presented by BoHo Theatre February 11-March 13 at the Heartland Studio Theatre, located at 7016 N. Glenwood...
The 2016 symposium of the Network of Ensemble Theatres will take place in Chicago May 20-22, 2016. Titled “Intersection: Ensembles + Universities,” the event will be presented in partnership with the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the League...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s first mainstage production of the Spring 2016 semester, the musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, runs February 10-20 in the Getz Theatre, 72 E. 11th St. With a book by...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Performance BFA Program will be featured in LaunchingFWD : Season 2, an industry concert on Monday, February 8, presented by the FWD Theatre Project, a company dedicated to the...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is presenting a new sci-fi adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing called Messina 3004 opening February 5. The show will be performed as...
Actor-musician Spencer Meeks (BA ’15), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is the musical director for Pop Waits, the new prime-time production by Chicago’s acclaimed Neo-Futurists theatre company. Created and performed...
Caroline Neff (BA ’07), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, is co-starring in the Chicago premiere of The Flick, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The show runs February 4-May...