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Actor/comedian Willy J. Sasso (BA ’14), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Comedy Writing and Performance, is the co-creator and co-star of an online sketch show called The Drew & Bill Show. The web…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Alumni Perform in Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus’ Winter Production ‘Miracle on Thirty-Funk Street’ Starting Nov. 29
Several current and former Columbia College Chicago students are performing in the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus‘ winter production, Miracle on Thirty-Funk Street. The show features the entire CGMC chorus of 150 singers, dancers, and a six-piece band to provide the…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Teacher’s ‘Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol’ Goes Global for the Holidays
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Tom Mula‘s play Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol has become a popular item with theatres locally, nationally, and internationally as the winter holidays approach. The play, adapted from Mula’s 1995 novel, retells the story…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum David Engel Talks About His Big Apple Circus Clown Care Work with Pediatric Patients
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus David Engel (BA ’88) was recently featured in Mediander Blog discussing his work as a clown in the Big Apple Circus. The article — “I, Clown: An Interview From the Front Lines of Happiness”…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Jess Godwin Partners with Youth Empowerment Performance Project for New Music Video and Dec. 4 Concert
Singer-songwriter-actor Jess Godwin (BA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, has released her latest music video, “When the Snow Thaws,” featuring members of the Youth Empowerment Performance Project (YEPP), a group of…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Launch New Web Series ‘Superfreaks’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Jessica Curtis (BA ’03) is the co-creator of a new web series, Superfreaks, which debuted November 14 on Youtube. Curtis, who wrote and directed the show’s pilot episode, is a graduate of the Theatre…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumnus Michael Allen Harris Chosen to Pilot New Play Development Project with Drama About LGBT African Americans in the South
Actor and playwright Michael Allen Harris (BFA ’11), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s acting program, has been selected to participate in a new initiative of the Broken Nose Theatre. Called “The Paper Trail,” the program seeks to…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumnus Establishes Ed.Arts to Help Aspiring Artists Fight Student Debt
Chicago actor Derrick Trumbly (BA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, has established Ed.Arts (educatedartists.org), a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working to help aspiring artists avoid, emerging artists manage, and committed artists achieve…
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Columbia College Chicago Alum Tonya Pinkins Stars in Off-Broadway ‘Mother Courage’ Musical
Tony Award-winning actress Tonya Pinkins (BA ’96), a graduate of Columbia College Chicago (and a native of Chicago, where she attended Whitney Young Magnet High School before going to Columbia), will star Off-Broadway in Mother Courage and Her Children,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Joel Reitsma Featured in Eclipse’s ‘Lisbon Traviata’; Playwright Terrence McNally to Attend Nov. 13 Performance
Joel Reitsma (BFA ’08), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s acting program, is featured in Eclipse Theatre‘s production of The Lisbon Traviata, running through December 13 at the Athenaeum Theatre. Reitsma plays a gay doctor whose eight-year…