Alumni and students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department have been nominated for 2017 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards by Chicago’s Black Theater Alliance Awards. Columbia College Chicago alums and students honored with nominations for this year’s awards include: Tyla Abercrumbie...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Casey S. Campbell ’15, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in the late-night sketch comedy show 26, running August 5-September 23 at the Pride Arts Center, 4147...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are featured in the Factory Theatre‘s summer hit Fight City, running through August 26. The cast includes Columbia College alums Mandy Walsh ’99, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting,...
Pulse Theatre Chicago, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents a new production of Edward Albee’s landmark 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? August 4-20 at City Lit Theatre, located in the Edgewater Presbyterian Church at...
A group of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and Columbia College Chicago Music Department alumni have partnered to form the Bittersweet Arts Company, described as “a collective of multi-talented artists whose unique ambitions and spirits are brought together through...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Emma Ladji ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, stars as Juliet in Shakespeare’s classic romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, presented in a touring open-air adaptation July 26-August 27 at various locations...
Sam Bailey, a former student in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Acting program, has been nominated for a 2017 Emmy Award as co-producer of the OpenTV web series Brown Girls, which Bailey also directs. The series was nominated...
A new play by Dawn Renee Jones, the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s administrative assistant and also a part-time faculty member, will receive a staged reading at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago’s premier institutional nonprofit theatre, on Sunday, July 16....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Klahr Thorsen ’91, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre, is joining the International Actors Ensemble, a company formed in 2015 devoted to “exploring the power of international voices and...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Behzad Dabu ’08, whose acting career is on a roll with his recurring role on the hit TV series How to Get Away with Murder, is making his debut as a theatrical producer with the world...