Acting Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Cassandra Rose ’10, Reeny Hofrichter ’10, and Lyndee McPeek ’11 are among the playwrights whose new work will be featured in the 2017 Chicago One-Minute Play Festival: “Nevertheless, We Persisted.” The marathon evening...
Faculty, alumni, and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department have been honored with nominations for 2017 Joseph Jefferson Awards for Non-Equity Theatre — aka the Jeff Awards — which were announced April 24, 2017. The Non-Equity...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Music Department are pooling their talents for You Don’t Own Me: Songs from the 50s and 60s, a benefit concert for Firebrand Theatre on Monday, May 1....
Alumni, faculty, and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative/production team for Not About Nightingales, the rarely-seen early drama by Tennessee Williams that Chicago’s award-winning Raven Theatre is presenting through June...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in two world premiere Chicago theatre productions opening this week. Marvin Quijada ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in the world premiere...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Erin Renee Baumrucker ’06, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is featured in the musical comedy Ruthless!, running through April 30 at the Steel Beam Theatre in the...
  No Stakes Theater Project, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the classic musical Cabaret April 20-May 6 at the Berger Park Coach House, 6205 N. Sheridan, in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. The...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Kaitlin Larson ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, stars in her own one-woman show, Kaitlin: A Solo Comedy Review, running Apil 17-May 7. The show, which Larson wrote,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Vanessa Stalling is directing the midwest premiere of Hookman, by San Francisco playwright Lauren Yee. Described as a “bitingly funny, edge-of-your-seat scary” work, Hookman is an “existential slasher comedy” about grief, adolescence,...
Michael Pogue
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Aaron Pogue ’06, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, is directing the opening production of Eclipse Theatre‘s 25th anniversary season: Force Continuum, by Kia Corthron. The drama — about...