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Albert Williams

Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are planning to create a Theatre Department Advisory Board, with the intent of launching the new organization in January of 2024. Columbia College Theatre alums are invited to email ccctheatreadvisoryboard@gmail.com for...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Asha Ward ’21, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Comedy Writing and Performance, has been identified as one of “The Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2023: 25 Comics...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are on the creative team of Household Spirits, a Halloween-season world premiere. The comedy runs October 6 through November 11 at Theater Wit, located at 1229 W. Belmont in Chicago’s Belmont Theatre District....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and creative team of the hit musical A Taste of Soul, which has been extended through October 29 at the Black Ensemble Theatre, located at 4450 N. Clark in...
Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Marvin Quijada ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, whose play The Dream King was honored at the 2023 Joseph Jefferson Awards ceremony on Monday, October 2,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Koray Tarhan ’13, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is a member of the company of the much-anticipated Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim‘s musical Merrily We Roll Along,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and creative team of Pearl Cleage‘s play The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years, running through October 22...
Jackalope Theatre, a company founded and led by alumni and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, hosts a family-friendly “Jackalope Theatre Block Party” on Saturday, September 30, as part of the Andersonville Arts Weekend in Chicago’s...
Rose Freeman (BA ’07), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Theatre Directing program, is directing the Third Eye Theatre Ensemble‘s production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize-winning chamber opera The Consul, running September 23 through October...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Khanisha Foster ’02, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, has been named Director of Equity, Belonging, and Engagement at the nonprofit Center Theatre Group arts organization, located in Los...