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Albert Williams

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are on the design teams  for two shows running at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood:   Paul Deziel (BA ’14), a graduate of Columbia’s BA program in technical theatre,...
Joanie Schultz
Columbia College Chicago alumna Joanie Schultz (BA ’00), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s directing program, is directing two world premieres at noted Chicago theatres this winter. First up is Bruise Easy, running January 8-February 14...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Adam Goldstein is directing a world premiere adaptation of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s classic 1873 novel. The play, adapted by Paul Edwards (Goldstein’s...
Behzad Dabu
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Behzad Dabu (BFA ’08) is co-starring in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced at Seattle Repertory Theatre. The show, directed by Columbia College Theatre Department faculty member Kimberly Senior, is a co-production with Chicago’s...
Actor-director Brian Shaw (BA ’86), a Columbia College Chicago graduate and a professor in Columbia’s Theatre Department, has directed a short film, Four Monologues, now available as a free iTunes app. The film was developed from an artist’s book...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member and alumnus Brian Posen was featured in Michigan Avenue Magazine on the occasion of the opening of the 15th annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, which Posen founded in 2002. “Sketchfest” is the...
Get ready, ’cause here he comes: Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Chester Gregory (BA ’95) is starring in the national touring company of Motown: The Musical. Gregory portrays Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records, in this hit show....
Columbia College Chicago Dance Department alum Sara Maslanka (BA ’13) has been named the new artistic director of Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble. After graduating from Columbia, where she studied dance pedagogy, Maslanka studied in London at Trinity Laban Conservatory of...
Derrick Trumbly
“We helped student artists start to manage their debt . . . and we’re going to keep doing it. Please support us as we do.” Ed.Arts, a nonprofit organization co-founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Derrick Trumbly...