Anna D. Shapiro Archive

Obie-Winning Director and Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Teacher David Cromer Returns to Chicago for Benefit Performance of His Acclaimed ‘Our Town’ Jan. 22

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Obie Award-winning theatre director David Cromer, a former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student and faculty member now based in New York, will return to Chicago for a one-night-only reading of the classic Thornton Wilder drama Our Town, which he directed...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Success Stories of 2016: News from Around the World

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The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s blog “The Green Room” has chronicled the professional activities of our talented and accomplished alumni, faculty, and students over the past year. We covered news as it poured in not only from Chicago but...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Joanie Schultz Named Artistic Director of Texas’ WaterTower Theatre

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Joanie Schultz has been named Artistic Director of the WaterTower Theatre in Addison, Texas, just north of Dallas. Schultz, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s theatre directing program, begins her new position January 1,...
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Columbia College Chicago Alum Anna D. Shapiro Directs Premiere of David Rabe Drama at Steppenwolf Sept. 15-Nov. 6

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Columbia College Chicago alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, artistic director of Chicago’s internationally acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company, will direct the opening production of the troupe’s 41st season — the world premiere of Visiting Edna, by Tony Award-winning playwright David Rabe. Shapiro, who...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Make the Chicago Reader’s ‘Best of Chicago 2016’ Poll

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The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud that two theatres headed by Columbia College Theatre alums were ranked tops in the “Best of Chicago 2016” poll published in the June 23, 2016, edition of the Chicago Reader, the...
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Columbia College Chicago Alum Anna D. Shapiro Directs New Tracy Letts Play Running March 31-May 29 at Steppenwolf

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna D. Shapiro (BA ’90), artistic director of Chicago’s acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company, is directing the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts’ new drama, Mary Page Marlowe. Shapiro’s previous collaborations with...
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Columbia College Theatre Alumni and Faculty Highlighted in List of Chicago Theatre Leaders–‘Players 2016: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago’

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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...
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(VIDEO) Anna D. Shapiro and David Cromer Speak to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Graduates at 2015 Commencement

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The 2015 commencement ceremony for Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department graduates featured inspiring talks by two alumni: Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s incoming artistic director, Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15–recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Arts from Columbia College–and her...
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Columbia College Theatre Teacher Cecilia O’Reilly Coaches National Theatre of Great Britain’s Production of ‘Motherf**ker with the Hat’

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate professor Cecilia O’Reilly, coordinator of the voice training component of the Acting Program, is the dialect coach for the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain‘s upcoming production of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly...
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Columbia College Chicago Alumna Anna D. Shapiro, Steppenwolf Theatre’s Incoming Artistic Director, Names Columbia Theatre Faculty Member Jonathan Berry as Steppenwolf Artistic Producer

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Steppenwolf Theatre Company‘s incoming artistic director Anna D. Shapiro–a 1990 graduate of Columbia College Chicago–is bringing Columbia College Theatre Department faculty member Jonathan Berry onto the Steppenwolf artistic staff. In a profile of Shapiro published April 23, 2015, Chicago...
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