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...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members are bringing the rock musical [title of show] to the Open Door Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park starting January 15. Directed for the Open Door Repertory Company...
Tyler Anthony Smith
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, students, and faculty are featured in the 19th annual Fillet of Solo Festival, presented January 15-31 at venues in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. Produced by Lifeline Theatre and Live Bait Theatre, the fest...
Actor-singer Callie Johnson (BFA ’12), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Performance BFA program, is in two high-profile upcoming productions at top theatres in the Chicago suburbs. Johnson, winner of a Joseph Jefferson Award...
Alluvion Dance Chicago, an emerging contemporary dance company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Dance Department student Johnny Huntoon, kicks off its 2016 season with “Introductions,” a benefit event on Saturday, January 16, at the historic Fine Arts...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and student talent are on board for Tennessee Williams’ rarely-revived drama The Mutilated, running January 14-February 28 at A Red Orchid Theatre, located at 1531 N. Wells in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood. The...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are on the design teams  for two shows running at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood:   Paul Deziel (BA ’14), a graduate of Columbia’s BA program in technical theatre,...
Joanie Schultz
Columbia College Chicago alumna Joanie Schultz (BA ’00), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s directing program, is directing two world premieres at noted Chicago theatres this winter. First up is Bruise Easy, running January 8-February 14...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Adam Goldstein is directing a world premiere adaptation of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s classic 1873 novel. The play, adapted by Paul Edwards (Goldstein’s...
Behzad Dabu
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Behzad Dabu (BFA ’08) is co-starring in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced at Seattle Repertory Theatre. The show, directed by Columbia College Theatre Department faculty member Kimberly Senior, is a co-production with Chicago’s...