Category: European Devised Performance Practice
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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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Columbia College Chicago’s Theatre and Business & Entrepreneurship Departments Present ‘Third Mask Festival’ of New Devised Performance — Live and Online April 26-May 1
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Business and Entrepreneurship Department present the third annual Third Mask Festival, running April 26 through May 1, 2021. The festival showcases the thesis projects of students in Columbia College Chicago’s MA/MFA Program in European Devised Performance Practice, a program of the Theatre Department in…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Named Associate Artistic Director of Double Edge Theatre in Massachusetts
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates alumnus Travis Coe ’15, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, on his appointment as Associate Artistic Director of the Double Edge Theatre, a multigenerational, experimental ensemble located in Ashfield, Massachusetts. Coe is also the youngest company member of Double Edge, whose mission is…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Launches 2020-2021 Mainstage Season with Free Live-Streamed Performances of Election-Year Show ‘The Race: 2020’ Oct. 21-24
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department launches its 2020-2021 Mainstage Season with The Race: 2020, a devised theatre piece for this election year, streaming online October 21 through 24. All performances are free. Performances are Wednesday-Thursday, October 21-22, 7:30 PM (previews); Friday, October 23, 7:30 PM (opening); and Saturday, October 24, at 2 PM and…
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(VIDEO) MANIFEST RISES! Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Video Performances Highlight 2020 Manifest Urban Arts Festival in Its Digital Debut — Online May 11-15!
Columbia College Chicago‘s student-powered Manifest Urban Arts Festival makes its digital debut this year, going online for its landmark 20th annual edition May 11 through 15, and the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will be proudly participating! To access the Theatre Department’s online performances and exhibits, click here. Rising up in the spirit of…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Business & Entrepreneurship Departments Present ‘Third Mask’ Festival of New Devised Performance — Online May 11-15
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Business and Entrepreneurship Department present the second annual Third Mask Festival, running May 11 through 15 and presented virtually at www.thirdmaskfestival.com. Presented in conjunction with the college’s student-powered 2020 Manifest Urban Arts Festival, the Third Mask Festival is a platform for new performative works…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Hosts Shakespeare Masterclass by LAMDA’s Rodney Cottier — FREE Special Event Feb. 5
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud to host a FREE Shakespeare Masterclass led by Rodney Cottier, head of the Drama School at the renowned London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), the world’s oldest drama conservatory. The event, presented in association with the Theatre Department’s MA/MFA Program in European Devised Performance Practice,…
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Columbia College Chicago Alums Featured in 31st Annual Rhinoceros Theatre Festival Jan. 11–Feb. 23
Alumni, former students, and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured as performers, writers, directors, and designers in the 31st annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival (Rhinofest 2020), running January 11 through February 23 at Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston, in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood. Founded in 1988, Rhinofest is the longest-running multi-arts fringe festival…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Hosts Dramatists Guild Program on Devised Theatre Nov. 22
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will host a special program on devised theatre presented by the Dramatists Guild of America, the membership association of playwrights, librettists, composers, and lyricists writing for the stage in the United States. The event takes place Friday, November 22, from noon to 2 PM in the Classic Theater of…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty Bring Nabokov’s ‘Invitation to a Beheading’ to Chopin Theatre Through Sept. 14
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Michael Brown, co-director of the Theatre Department’s MA/MFA Program in European Devised Performance Practice, is the co-creator of Invitation to a Beheading, a devised work of puppet and mask theatre based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. Presented by Rough House Theatre, Invitation to a Beheading runs through September 14…