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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Stephen Walker (BA ’95) and Rudy Galvan are featured in David Mamet‘s American Buffalo, running January 28-March 6 at Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company, located at 735 W. Sheridan, Chicago. The production’s lights are designed...
J. Bernard Bowse
Jazz pianist, vocalist, and songwriter J. Bernard Bowse, a Columbia College Chicago Music Department student, is in the process of recording his debut EP and has launched a Kickstarter fundraising project to support the recording and an EP release...
Samuel Munoz and Aaron Munoz in "53:1"
A film co-starring Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Samuel Munoz (BA ’99) and Aaron Munoz (BA ’01), graduates of the Theatre Department’s BA program in Acting, is featured as an official selection in the 2016 Fargo Film Festival,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are on the design team for The Hypocrites‘ production of Tennessee Williams’ classic drama The Glass Menagerie, running January 22-March 6 at the Den Theatre, 1329 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood....
Steep Theatre, one of Chicago’s most acclaimed storefront companies, is presenting the U.S. premiere of Posh, by British playwright Laura Wade, and several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty members, students, and alumni are involved in the production. The...
Columbia College Chicago alum Hannah Ii-Epstein (BA ’15), a graduate of the college’s fiction writing program, has a new play opening in her native Hawaii. Ii-Epstein’s drama Not One Batu receives its world premiere January 21-February 21 at the...
Alumni of the Columbia College Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are featured in a new production of the Broadway musical Hairspray, running January 20-February 21 at the Paramount Theatre, located at 23 E. Galena in the western Chicago suburb of...
Anna D. Shapiro
Chicago’s Newcity newspaper and website has released its annual listing of Chicago theatre’s top artists and practitioners, and Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members figure prominently. The article — “Players 2016: The Fifty People Who Really...
Congratulations to film and TV writer-producer Dino Stamatopoulos, an alumnus of Columbia College Chicago‘s film program. The 2015 film Anomalisa, which he co-produced, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. While attending Columbia College in 1983-86,...
The Sarah Siddons Society, which offers scholarships and programming that benefit theatre students at Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, Northwestern University, and Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, is presenting “Advice to the Singing Actor,” a conversation with...