Category: Class Notes
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s European Devised Performance Practice MFA Program Alum Appointed to Duke University Faculty to Pursue Performance Project
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates Johann Robert Wood ’20, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s MFA Program in Acting and Contemporary Performance Making (formerly the European Devised Performance Practice MFA). Following a year as an Artist-in-Residence at the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Wood has…
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Tony Award-Winning Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum Anna D. Shapiro Returns to Broadway with ‘The Minutes’ April 2
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15, winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for the Broadway hit August: Osage County, is returning to Broadway as director of The Minutes, which begins previews April 2 at Studio 54 in New York City prior to a…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alums in Broadway Hit ‘Six’ Featured in ‘Playbill: The Game Show’ for Women’s History Month
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Courtney Mack ’15 and Mallory Maedke ’14, both graduates of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, are cast members of the hit Broadway musical Six, now playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City. Six recounts the lives and legends of the six wives…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum Featured in Drury Lane Theatre’s ‘King and I’ April 1-May 22
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Victor Holstein ’04, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting. is featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, running April 1 through May 22 at Drury Lane Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Oakbrook Terrace. Holstein plays British diplomat Sir Edward Ramsey…
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Columbia College Chicago Hosts Special Alumni Network Innovators Event March 31
Attention Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni: The Columbia College Chicago Alumni Relations office hosts a special Alumni Networking and Social Event on Thursday, March 31, from 5 to 7 PM Central Time. The live, in-person gathering takes place at Resolution Studios, one of Chicago’s premier media production companies, located at 2226 W. Walnut on…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alums Featured in ‘Winnie the Pooh’ Musical at Mercury Theatre
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are featured in the Chicago company of the Off-Broadway hit Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation, running through June 12 at the Mercury Theatre, 3745 N. Southport, Chicago. The family-friendly puppet musical features Columbia College alums Carolyn Plurad ’14, a graduate of the Columbia College Theatre…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum’s Interactive Sci-Fi Mystery ‘Murder on Horizon’ Runs March 25-May 1
Otherworld Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the live, immersive “sci-fi noir” production Murder on Horizon March 25 through May 1. Directed by Columbia College alum Tiffany Keane Schaefer ’12, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, the show brings audiences to the distant future,…
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(VIDEO) Emmy Award-Winning ‘Transparent’ Creator Joey Soloway Talks About ‘Flipping the Script’ with Columbia College Chicago TV/Theatre Alum Devlyn Camp
Columbia College Chicago has posted the video of Flipping the Script with Joey Soloway, a Zoom webinar featuring Emmy Award-winning writer/director/producer Joey Soloway, a former student in Columbia College’s Film and Video program, in conversation with Columbia College alum and LGBTQ history journalist Devlyn Camp ’14, who graduated with a BA in Television Writing and…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alumni Join Free Webinar on ‘Keeping It Going: Life After Theatre School’ on March 22
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are featured in a free Zoom webinar titled Keeping It Going: Life After Theatre School on Tuesday, March 22, from 7 PM to 8 PM CST. Columbia College alums Bre Jacobs ’20, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, and Sar Cohen ’18, a…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Mainstage Season Continues March 16-26 with Nilo Cruz’s ‘Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams’; Live Performances Held at Getz Theatre Center in Chicago’s South Loop
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2021-22 Mainstage Season continues with the drama Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, running March 16 through 26 in the Sheldon Patinkin Theatre of the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College, located at 72 E. 11th St. in Chicago’s South Loop. For tickets, click here. Directed by Theatre Department…