Anne Libera Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Anne Libera, director of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Comedy Writing and Performance, will co-moderate a panel on “The History of Chicago Comedy” as part of the first World Comedy Expo,...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department continues its 2021-2022 Mainstage Season with a new comedy, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody, running December 1 through 11 in the Courtyard Theatre of the Getz Theatre Center of...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate professor Anne Libera, director of the Theatre Department’s B.A. Program in Comedy Writing and Performance, is featured in Inventing Improv, a new documentary produced by television station WTTW, Chicago’s Public Broadcasting Service outlet....
“A central tenet of the Comedy Writing and Performance major at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is the idea of comedy cross-training, thinking about comedy from multiple perspectives (writing, directing, performing) across mediums,” says Theatre Department Assistant Professor...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department has announced the remainder of its 2020-2021 Mainstage Season — an exciting mix of in-person and virtual student-performed productions, starting with Are You There God, It’s Me, Katniss Everdeen, running March 24 through...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the college’s office of Development and Alumni Relations invite alumni and supporters of Columbia College‘s Theatre Department to the first-ever Columbia College Theatre Reunion Weekend October 19 and 20, 2018. The event...
Congratulations to former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Ashley Nicole Black, who just won a 2017 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special. Black, a former teacher in the Columbia College Theatre Department’s nationally acclaimed...
Cat Booty, an improv comedy group consisting of current and former students in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s nationally lauded Comedy Writing & Performance BA program, won the 10th annual College Improv Tournament (CIT10), a national competition for...
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...
  The Network of Ensemble Theatres‘ 2016 national symposium, “Intersection: Ensembles + Universities,” presented in partnership with Columbia College Chicago and the League of Chicago Theatres, was held May 20-22 at various locations on Columbia College Chicago’s campus in...