Uncategorized Archive

Columbia College Chicago Alumni Launch ‘Support Chicago Arts’ Initiative to Help Arts Organizations in COVID-19 Crisis

Posted by
Two Chicago-based marketing and communications agencies led by Columbia College Chicago alumni,  Direction Tour Marketing + Promotion and Acacia Consulting Group, are collaborating on a new fundraising initiative, “Support Chicago Arts,” to assist arts organizations in Chicago that are...
Read More
, , , Acting, Theatre, Uncategorized Comments are off

(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Featured in Arts for Illinois Relief Fund’s ‘Sweet Home Chicago’ Video

Posted by
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are featured in Sweet Home Chicago, a new music video produced by HMS Media as a fundraiser for the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund, an organization helping Chicago-area artists struggling in the wake...
Read More
, , , , , , , Musical Theatre, Theatre, Uncategorized Comments are off

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Wins 2020 Joseph Jefferson Award

Posted by
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates alumnus Paul Deziel ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Technical Theatre program, who won the 2020 Joseph Jefferson Award — Chicago’s top theatre award — for his Projection Design for...
Read More
, Technical Theatre, Theatre, Theatre Design, Theatre Technology, Uncategorized Comments are off

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alumni Bring Theatre and Gaming Together at Otherworld Theatre

Posted by
Otherworld Theatre, a troupe founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is profiled in an article published May 27, 2020, by the Chicago Reader, Chicago’s longest-established alternative publication. Headlined “Otherworld Theatre Unites Gamers and Theater Nerds,”...
Read More
, , , Acting, Theatre, Theatre Directing, Uncategorized Comments are off

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Present ‘Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too, August Wilson)’ in a Live Streamed Performance June 19

Posted by
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...
Read More
, , , Acting, Playwriting, Theatre, Theatre Directing, Uncategorized Comments are off

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty Member Heather Gilbert Wins Drama Desk Award for Lighting Design in Her Broadway Debut

Posted by
Heather Gilbert
Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Heather Gilbert, who won the 2020 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play. Gilbert, a teacher in the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design Program, was honored for her...
Read More
, , Theatre, Theatre Design, Theatre Directing, Uncategorized Comments are off

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Teacher Named Executive Producer of Second City

Posted by
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Anthony LeBlanc has been named Interim Executive Producer of The Second City, the nation’s premier comedy theatre and training center. LeBlanc succeeds the theatre’s longtime CEO and Executive Producer Andrew Alexander, who...
Read More
, , Comedy Writing and Performance, Theatre, Uncategorized Comments are off

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alums Support June 5-12 Supply Drive for Black Lives & Chicago Protesters

Posted by
A group of theatre companies in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre District are conducting a drive for donations of food and other supplies to redistribute to other organizations in Chicago directly supporting protestors and in neighborhoods where food supplies are limited....
Read More
, , Theatre, Theatre Directing, Uncategorized Comments are off

Columbia College Chicago Alumni Playwright Tyla Abercrumbie: ‘There is no turning back’

Posted by
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...
Read More
, Acting, Playwriting, Theatre, Uncategorized Comments are off

Columbia College Chicago Alum Brad Kemp Releases New Video Concept Album ‘Letters’

Posted by
Columbia College Chicago alum Brad Kemp ’12, a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Music Department‘s Bachelor of Music Composition program who also took courses in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre program, is preparing to release...
Read More
, , , , , , , Musical Theatre, Theatre, Uncategorized Comments are off
© Copyright 2014. Theme by BloomPixel.