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Albert Williams

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...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are involved in the Refuge Theatre Project’s production of High Fidelity, the rock musical based on Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel and on Stephen Frears’ 2000 feature-film adaptation. The show’s ensemble includes...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Stephen Walker (BA ’95) and Rudy Galvan are featured in David Mamet‘s American Buffalo, running January 28-March 6 at Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company, located at 735 W. Sheridan, Chicago. The production’s lights are designed...
J. Bernard Bowse
Jazz pianist, vocalist, and songwriter J. Bernard Bowse, a Columbia College Chicago Music Department student, is in the process of recording his debut EP and has launched a Kickstarter fundraising project to support the recording and an EP release...
Samuel Munoz and Aaron Munoz in "53:1"
A film co-starring Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Samuel Munoz (BA ’99) and Aaron Munoz (BA ’01), graduates of the Theatre Department’s BA program in Acting, is featured as an official selection in the 2016 Fargo Film Festival,...