Acting Archive

    Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Julia Farrell Diefenbach (BA ’15), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program with a Minor in Stage Combat, is directing a long-delayed North American premiere — The Dark Ages: Otho the...
    Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Melanie McCullough (BA ’04), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in The Marvin Gaye Story (Don’t Talk About My Father Because God Is My Friend), running June...
    Several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team for The Green Bird, presented by The Cuckoo’s Theatre Project June 3-19. The cast includes Kegan Witzki (BA ’14), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s...
    A new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Allen Harris (BFA ’11), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s acting program, is receiving a staged reading on Saturday, June 5, at 7 PM at Victory Gardens Theater,...
    Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Pat Whalen (BA ’10), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, headlines a “Special Deja Vu Edition” of his monthly show Good Evening with Pat Whalen on Friday, June 3, at 10:30 PM at...
    Metropolis Performing Arts Centre‘s new production of the rock opera Rent, whose cast and creative team boasts alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre and Acting programs, received a rave review from the Northwest Herald newspaper,...
    Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Kevin Wiczer (BA ’05), a graduate of Columbia College’s BA Program in Acting, is directing the Tony Award-winning musical Urinetown for Theatre Nebula, a company located in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. The cast includes...
    Laura Reitsma Joel Reitsma Ian Randall Abigail Phelps The LIVINGroom, an ensemble of solo writer/performers including several alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, presents a special event for Memorial Day weekend. On Sunday, May 29, the group...
    Firebrand Theatre, a new company co-founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Harmony France, presents P!nk: Sung by Her!, a tribute to celebrated music artist P!nk featuring some of Chicago’s best female talent. The concert takes place Memorial...
      The Network of Ensemble Theatres‘ 2016 national symposium, “Intersection: Ensembles + Universities,” presented in partnership with Columbia College Chicago and the League of Chicago Theatres, was held May 20-22 at various locations on Columbia College Chicago’s campus in...