Acting Archive

Jackalope Theatre, a company founded and led by alumni and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, presents the Chicago premiere of The Smuggler, starring Jackalope cofounder Andrew Burden Swanson, a former student in the Columbia College...
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and Columbia College Chicago Music Department are in the cast and creative team of Invictus Theatre Company’s production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, running February 13 through March...
Congratulations to the alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and Columbia College Chicago Music Department who have been nominated for Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The Non-Equity “Jeff Awards” honor excellence in Chicago’s non-Equity...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and creative team of The Music Man in Concert, a concert performance of the classic Meredith Willson musical, running February 2 through 11 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and creative team of the musical Grey Gardens, running January 12 through 28 at Prairie Lakes Theatre, located at 515 E. Thacker in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Joseph Sikora ’98, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, will return for a third season of his hit TV series Power Book IV: Force, reports the entertainment news outlet Blex Media. In an...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Almanya Narula ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, brings her award-winning solo show Noor Inayat Khan: The Forgotten Spy to Chicago on Monday, December 11, following its engagement at New...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Jess Godwin ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is releasing a new solo album on Tuesday, December 5, 2023. Titled Dreamer, the 10-song album features singer-pianist Godwin performing her...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Tyler Anthony Smith ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in Hell in a Handbag Productions‘ world premiere comedy The Golden Girls Save Xmas, running November 26 through December...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Victor Holstein ’04, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, stars in Christmas With Elvis, running November 24, 2023, through January 7, 2024, at the Chopin Theatre, located at 1543...