Category: Playwriting
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Showcase Highlights 20th Annual Manifest Urban Arts Festival May 10-14
Columbia College Chicago‘s student-powered Manifest Urban Arts Festival is both online and in-person in this year’s Manifest: Reach. The 20th-anniversary edition runs May 10 through 14, and the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will be proudly participating! From Acting and Solo Performance to Musical Theatre and Dance to Stage Combat, Comedy Writing and Performance,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum’s New Play Dramatizes ‘Martha Mitchell Effect’
A new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Skye Robinson Hillis ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, is being presented by the MFA Program in Playwriting at Ohio University, where Robinson Hillis is currently a third-year student. Titled The Martha Mitchell Effect, the play is inspired by the…
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Columbia College Chicago Hosts Playwright Regina Taylor for Online Program ‘Social Justice and Creative Practice’ on April 12
Columbia College Chicago will host “Social Justice and Creative Practice: The Power of the Creative Voice in Advancing Social Change,” an online conversation with renowned playwright, actor, director, activist, educator, and Columbia College honorary degree recipient Regina Taylor HDR ’11, on Monday, April 12, at 2 PM Central Time. The free one-hour event will be…
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Columbia College Chicago Alum’s Pegasus Theatre Wins NEA Grant to Support Young Playwrights Festival
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates Columbia College alum Ilesa Duncan ’99, executive/producing director of Pegasus Theatre Chicago, which has been approved for a $20,000 Grant for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant will support in-school and production programming for Pegasus’ annual Young Playwrights Festival. “We are…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Launch New Playwriting Initiative at Chicago’s Raven Theatre
The Chicago Tribune reports that Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98 has been selected as the inaugural playwright in a new $25,000 play development initiative by Chicago’s Raven Theatre, whose artistic director is Columbia College alumnus Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program. The new program will…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum’s Play Featured in New Works Virtual Festival on Dec. 23
Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Kevin Wiczer ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting. Wiczer’s new play A Man with No Opinion will be performed in a live-streamed reading on Wednesday, December 23, at 7 PM Central Time (8 PM Eastern Time, 5 PM Pacific Time) by a…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum’s Play Selected for California Theatre Company’s Festival
Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Niv Elbaz ’18, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Playwriting program, whose play Delilah has been selected for Panndora Productions‘ Panndora’s Box 14th Annual New Works Festival. Panndora Productions is an ensemble theatre company based in Long Beach, California. The company focuses on the development of new…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Present ‘Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too, August Wilson)’ in a Live Streamed Performance June 19
Mirrorbox Theatre, an Iowa theatre company led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Cavan Hallman ’05, presents a live streamed performance of the play Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too, August Wilson) on Friday, June 19, at 8 PM (Central). The reading is part of “Out the Box,” Mirrorbox Theatre’s new reading series of…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumni Playwright Tyla Abercrumbie: ‘There is no turning back’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98 is profiled in a post by Chicago Theater, a Facebook group by and for Chicago’s theatre community. The group was created by a group of Chicago theatre artists and administrators as “a public platform for Chicago Theater Community to come together during the [Coronavirus] pandemic, 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…