Theatre Design Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty are in the cast and production team of You on the Moors Now, a new production from The Hypocrites, one of Chicago’s most innovative theatre companies. The show, a Chicago premiere, is...
  Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is bringing a world premiere adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic sci-fi novel A Princess of Mars to the stage September 9-23. The...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni have been nominated for 2016 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The list of nominees, announced August 30, includes Jesse Klug ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design...
Jackalope Theatre Company, a collective founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents its 7th Annual Living Newspaper Festival August 25-29. In homage to the 1930s Living Newspapers of the Federal Theatre Project, Jackalope has assembled...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are featured in the musical Cabaret at Dunes Summer Theatre at 288 Shady Oak Drive in Michigan City, Indiana, running July 14-24. The show is presented by the Dunes Arts Foundation. Kellen Marie (BA...
The Portrait, a new one-person play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate professor Susan Padveen, receives its world premiere July 15-August 14 as part of “Solo Celebration!,” an eight-month series of provocative and powerful one-person plays. Padveen, coordinator...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and creative/production team of Anon(ymous), presented by the Cuckoo’s Theatre Project. Written by Naomi Iizuka, and inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, the play concerns a young refugee wandering the U.S....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Oliver Austin Berger (BA ’14), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, is featured in the musical comedy Friends: The One Where They Sing! (An Unauthorized Musical Parody). This stage musical...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and design team of Writers Theatre‘s new production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company. Jess Godwin (BA ’05), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, plays “April”...
Heather Gilbert
Heather Gilbert, one of Chicago’s top theatrical lighting designers and head of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s lighting design program, is profiled in the May 2016 issue of Live Design, a magazine serving the live entertainment industry with...