Cody Estle Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty, alumni, and students are involved in Raven Theatre‘s current production of Red Velvet, Lolita Chakrabarti’s drama about Ira Aldridge, the 19th-century African-American who became the first black actor to portray Shakespeare’s Othello on...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing Program, is directing the Chicago premiere of Scarcity, running September 7-October 9 at Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryn Mawr, in Chicago’s Edgewater...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle (BA ’11), a graduate of Columbia College’s Theatre Directing program, is directing a new production of Anton Chekhov’s classic drama The Seagull at The Artistic Home, 1376 W. Grand, Chicago. Estle,...
Chicago’s Raven Theatre is presenting William Inge’s rarely-revived drama A Loss of Roses, with a cast and production team that includes Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, students, and faculty members. The 1959 play will be directed by Raven’s...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni BrittneyLove Smith (BFA ’11) and Cody Estle (BA ’11) are helping Northlight Theatre bring Charm to the stage of Steppenwolf Theatre‘s Merle Reskin Garage Theatre. Charm is a new play by Chicago writer...
Raven Theatre‘s Midwest premiere of Direct From Death Row The Scottsboro Boys (An Evening of Vaudeville and Sorrow) employs the talents of current and former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students. The production employs vaudeville-style music and dance to...
Don't Go Gentle
Haven Theatre Company, co-founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Carol Cohen and Cody Estle, closes its 2014-2015 season with the Chicago premiere of Stephen Belber’s Don’t Go Gentle. The play–about a conservative white judge whose offer of...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni are bringing two new plays to Chicago stages this month. Susan Padveen, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s BFA program in Theatre Directing, is staging the world premiere of Anna in the...
Michael Ryczek
Columbia College Theatre Department academic manager and directing teacher Michael Ryczek is directing a fully staged workshop of Chicago playwright Susan Lieberman’s Netta at Ninety, running Monday-Wednesday, February 23-25, at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark, Chicago. The workshop is part of...