The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud that two theatres headed by Columbia College Theatre alums were ranked tops in the “Best of Chicago 2016” poll published in the June 23, 2016, edition of the Chicago Reader, the...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is presenting a new edition of its interactive production Fight Quest, playing Wednesday nights through July 27 at CSz Theatre Chicago, 929 W. Belmont,...
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 alumni Kelsie Huff (BA ’03), Alannah Courtney (BA ’16), and Lea Ciastko (BA ’16) are appearing in the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. Huff will...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Julia Farrell Diefenbach (BA ’15), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program with a Minor in Stage Combat, is directing a long-delayed North American premiere — The Dark Ages: Otho the...
Actor-playwright James Sherman, a Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member who teaches playwriting and improvisation, brings his one-man play The Ben Hecht Show to the Piven Theatre in the northern Chicago suburb of Evanston starting June 10....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Courtney Mack (BFA ’15), a graduate of Columbia’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, received the 2016 Joseph Jefferson Award for Non-Equity Theatre for Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for...
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...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Melanie McCullough (BA ’04), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in The Marvin Gaye Story (Don’t Talk About My Father Because God Is My Friend), running June...