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Kirsten Fitzgerald, a teacher in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Acting program, has a featured role in The Exorcist, Fox TV’s filmed-in-Chicago series about demonic possession. Fitzgerald plays Maria Walters, a regular character in the drama, described as...
The LIVINGroom, an ensemble of solo writer/performers including alumni and students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, will present The LIVINGroom: From Where I’m Sitting, an evening of solo performances, on Sunday, November 13, at 8 PM at Stage 773,...
Samantha Bailey, a former student in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Acting program, is forging a fast-track career as a writer, director, producer, and performer for the stage and screen. Bailey is the director and producer of Brown...
Precious Jennings
Precious Jennings, who teaches body movement for Acting students at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, was named “Best Emerging Dancer” by Newcity in the publication’s “Best of Chicago 2016” feature, published October 27. Said Newcity: “Among the more compelling...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are bringing the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof to the Wilmette Park District’s Center for the Arts November 4-13. The show runs in the theatre of the Wilmette Park District’s Community Recreation Center, 3000...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni David Stobbe ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, and Rachel Gabrielle ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, have joined Shattered Globe Theatre’s Protégé Program, a free...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Dana Dajani ’10, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting program, was named Woman of the Year 2016 in the “Artists” category by Emirates Woman, a leading women’s fashion and lifestyle magazine published in the United Arab Emirates....
  Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Stephanie Shaw ’92 appears as part of the spoken-word ensemble BoyGirlBoyGirl in Warman’s Practical Orthoepy and Critique, an evening of stories inspired by Professor Edward Barrett Warman’s exceedingly thorough 1887 guide to proper English pronunciation....
  Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Stahl-David ’05 has landed a role on the Netflix original drug cartel drama Narcos, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the TV industry trade publication. Stahl-David, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty, alumni, and students are involved in Raven Theatre‘s current production of Red Velvet, Lolita Chakrabarti’s drama about Ira Aldridge, the 19th-century African-American who became the first black actor to portray Shakespeare’s Othello on...