Allison Cain Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast of Last Call: A Night of Closing, a world premiere comedy running June 9 through July 22 at the Factory Theatre, located at 1623 W. Howard in Chicago’s Rogers...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members are featured in the 23rd annual Fillet of Solo Festival, presented January 10 through 26 by Lifeline Theatre. Celebrating the breadth of Chicago’s enduring storytelling and live lit scene, Lifeline...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members are featured in the 21st annual Fillet of Solo Festival, presented January 12-28 by Lifeline Theatre. Celebrating the breadth of Chicago’s enduring storytelling and live lit scene, the event brings...
The talents of alumni and former students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in Night in Alachua County, a new thriller by Chicago’s horror-focused WildClaw Theatre. The show’s cast includes alumnae Kathryn Acosta ’11 and Mandy Walsh ’99, both...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Kaiser Ahmed ’08, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, is directing the world premiere of Vanya (or, “That’s Life!”), a multicultural reinvention of Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov’s classic seriocomic study of...
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...
Paul Holmquist
  Paul Holmquist, a faculty member in the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Arts Therapies as well as the department’s  academic manager/coordinator,  will lead a workshop on “Deepened Dynamics” as part of a day of workshops about the...
Callie Johnson in Bailiwick Chicago's "Carrie: The Musical"
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty, alumni, and students figured heavily in the nominations for the 2015 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson (“Jeff”) Awards honoring excellence in Chicago theatres not operating under an Actors’ Equity union contract. Columbia teachers and graduates...