Acting Archive

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...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Dominic Rescigno ’13 and Alexis Allotta ’16, both graduates of the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, are featured in the hit Chicago production of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, the long-running audience-participation comedy about...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Sean Patrick Leonard ’97, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, has been nominated for Best Actor in a Short Film by the 2017 Twister Alley International Film Festival. Leonard was...
Caroline Neff
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Caroline Neff ’07, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in Steppenwolf Theatre Company‘s world premiere production of Linda Vista, by Tracy Letts. Neff and Letts are both...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Joel Reitsma ’08 and Cody Estle ’11 won glowing reviews for their work on By the Water, running through April 23 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd. in the northern Chicago suburb of Skokie. The...