Acting Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are participating in Kafkapalooza, a festival of new plays, running August 14-22 at Collaboraction’s Pentagon Theatre in the Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Presented by the First...
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, faculty, and students are bringing British playwright Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice to the stage of Chicago’s Theater Wit August 14-September 5. Presented by the No Stakes Theater Project,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Gillian Hastings, a graduate of the BA Program in Acting, is organizing “gRACE: A Graceful Dialogue on Race,” scheduled for August 14-16 at various locations in Chicago’s Washington Park/Hyde Park, Bridgeport, Garfield Park,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and students appear in The LIVINGroom: Hotheads, an evening of solo performance on Sunday, August 9, at 8 PM. Eight performers offer rants about what they just can’t take any more–and in some...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Marvin Eduardo Quijada, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is the creator of the Silent Theatre Company‘s new production The Dueling Gentlemen. Described as “a love letter to old...
Scarlet Sheppard, a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, is the writer, director, and co-star of Karmic, a new Web series debuting on Youtube Wednesday, July 29. This new comedy “about learning to...
Fabulation
Pulse Theatre Company Chicago, a young troupe founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Aaron Mitchell Reese (artistic director) and Christopher Jackson (producing artistic director), is presenting Lynn Nottage’s Obie Award-winning play Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine....