Columbia College Chicago Music Department Archive

Columbia College Chicago alumnus Brad Kemp (BMus ’12), who graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Columbia College Chicago Music Department‘s Bachelor of Music in Composition program and also took courses in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre...
Katie Hanley (left) and Jim Jacobs.
Actor-writer Jim Jacobs — co-author of the hit musical Grease and benefactor of the Jim Jacobs Musical Theatre Scholarship at Columbia College Chicago — and Broadway and film actress Katie Hanley will headline a special event at Chicago’s American...
Laura Reitsma Joel Reitsma Ian Randall Abigail Phelps The LIVINGroom, an ensemble of solo writer/performers including several alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, presents a special event for Memorial Day weekend. On Sunday, May 29, the group...
Strawdog Theatre Company, whose ensemble includes several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the classic American comedy Once in a Lifetime April 22-June 4. The production will be Strawdog’s last show in its longtime space at 3829 N....
Veteran Chicago actor-singer and Columbia College Chicago Music Department faculty member Sharon Carlson, who teaches singing classes and private voice lessons for students in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre BA and Musical Theatre Performance BFA programs,...
  Columbia College Chicago alumni are featured in the musical Dreamgirls, presented by Porchlight Music Theatre starting April 8 at Stage 773. Porchlight’s Dreamgirls co-stars Candace Edwards (BA ’08), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Journalism Department‘s Broadcast...
J. Bernard Bowse
Jazz pianist, vocalist, and songwriter J. Bernard Bowse, a Columbia College Chicago Music Department student, is in the process of recording his debut EP and has launched a Kickstarter fundraising project to support the recording and an EP release...
Actor-director Brian Shaw (BA ’86), a Columbia College Chicago graduate and a professor in Columbia’s Theatre Department, has directed a short film, Four Monologues, now available as a free iTunes app. The film was developed from an artist’s book...
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...
Otherworld Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, celebrates Halloween with Gone Dark, a new gothic thriller. Directed by Tiffany Keane (BA ’12), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s theatre directing program, this...