Acting Archive

Pat Whalen (BA ’10), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, is featured in the world premiere of Rolling, running February 24-April 2 at Broadway Armory Park, 5917 N. Broadway, in Chicago’s Edgewater...
Chicago’s Raven Theatre is presenting William Inge’s rarely-revived drama A Loss of Roses, with a cast and production team that includes Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, students, and faculty members. The 1959 play will be directed by Raven’s...
Michael Matthews
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is thrilled to announce that alumnus Michael Matthews (BA ’99), artistic director of the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles, will be honored for career achievement in direction by the Los Angeles Drama Critics...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members are on the creative/production team for the world premiere of Cocked, by Sarah Gubbins, at Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre. The show is directed by Joanie Schultz (BA ’00),...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is presenting a new sci-fi adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing called Messina 3004 opening February 5. The show will be performed as...
Caroline Neff (BA ’07), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, is co-starring in the Chicago premiere of The Flick, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The show runs February 4-May...
J. Bernard Bowse
Jazz pianist, vocalist, and songwriter J. Bernard Bowse, a Columbia College Chicago Music Department student, is in the process of recording his debut EP and has launched a Kickstarter fundraising project to support the recording and an EP release...
Samuel Munoz and Aaron Munoz in "53:1"
A film co-starring Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Samuel Munoz (BA ’99) and Aaron Munoz (BA ’01), graduates of the Theatre Department’s BA program in Acting, is featured as an official selection in the 2016 Fargo Film Festival,...
Steep Theatre, one of Chicago’s most acclaimed storefront companies, is presenting the U.S. premiere of Posh, by British playwright Laura Wade, and several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty members, students, and alumni are involved in the production. The...
Columbia College Chicago alum Hannah Ii-Epstein (BA ’15), a graduate of the college’s fiction writing program, has a new play opening in her native Hawaii. Ii-Epstein’s drama Not One Batu receives its world premiere January 21-February 21 at the...