Acting Archive

Students at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in an upcoming episode of The College Tour, a TV series streaming on Amazon Prime that provides an inside look into college campuses around the world, making it accessible...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, produced by the Invictus Theatre Company October 21 through November 21 in the company’s new venue at 1106 W. Thorndale in Chicago’s Edgewater...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates the Columbia College alums and faculty members who have been selected to receive 2021 Make a Wave grants from the Chicago-based nonprofit grant-making organization 3Arts. The grant recipients were announced October...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Connar Brown ’19, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting with a Minor in Voiceover and a Minor in Video Production, is featured in Theatre Above the Law‘s world premiere...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Preston Max Allen ’13 and Jayae Riley Jr. ’16 will join a discussion on “Flipping the Script: How to Thrive as a Trans, Gender Nonconforming, or Nonbinary Performer,” presented by Columbia College Chicago...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Tyler Anthony Smith ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, presents his one-person show People Do Do Such Things October 7 through 10 at Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret,...
Broken Nose Theatre, one of Chicago’s premier Pay-What-You-Can theatre companies, is launching its tenth season with an audio adaptation of Kingdom, a drama by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Allen Harris ’11, a graduate of the Columbia...
Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Acting program student Matthew Schufreider is appearing in Ira Levin’s murder mystery Deathtrap at the historic Woodstock Opera House, located at 121 Van Buren in Woodstock, Illinois. Presented by Theatre 121, the play...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Kevin Wiczer ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is directing the musical Something Rotten!, running September 25 through October 24 at Cutting Hall Performing Arts Center, located at...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Preston Max Allen ’13 — a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting who also took courses in the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre and Comedy programs —will present a concert performance...