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Albert Williams

The Columbia College Chicago Career Center invites members of the Columbia College community — including alumni, current and prospective students and their parents, and faculty and staff — to a Zoom panel on “The Art of the Self-Tape” on...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and Columbia College’s office of Academic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are sponsoring “State of the Arts: Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Theatre & Dance,” a webinar focused on antiracist and inclusive pedagogy in theatre, dance,...
Two Chicago-based marketing and communications agencies led by Columbia College Chicago alumni,  Direction Tour Marketing + Promotion and Acacia Consulting Group, are collaborating on a new fundraising initiative, “Support Chicago Arts,” to assist arts organizations in Chicago that are...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are featured in Sweet Home Chicago, a new music video produced by HMS Media as a fundraiser for the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund, an organization helping Chicago-area artists struggling in the wake...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates alumnus Paul Deziel ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Technical Theatre program, who won the 2020 Joseph Jefferson Award — Chicago’s top theatre award — for his Projection Design for...
Otherworld Theatre, a troupe founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is profiled in an article published May 27, 2020, by the Chicago Reader, Chicago’s longest-established alternative publication. Headlined “Otherworld Theatre Unites Gamers and Theater Nerds,”...
Mirrorbox Theatre, an Iowa theatre company led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Cavan Hallman ’05, presents a live streamed performance of the play Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too, August Wilson) on Friday, June 19, at 8...
Heather Gilbert
Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Heather Gilbert, who won the 2020 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play. Gilbert, a teacher in the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design Program, was honored for her...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Anthony LeBlanc has been named Interim Executive Producer of The Second City, the nation’s premier comedy theatre and training center. LeBlanc succeeds the theatre’s longtime CEO and Executive Producer Andrew Alexander, who...
A group of theatre companies in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre District are conducting a drive for donations of food and other supplies to redistribute to other organizations in Chicago directly supporting protestors and in neighborhoods where food supplies are limited....