Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni have been nominated for 2016 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The list of nominees, announced August 30, includes Jesse Klug ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Pogue ’06, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, co-stars in a new production of Amiri Baraka’s landmark drama Dutchman, presented August 26-September 25 by American Blues Theater at the...
Jackalope Theatre Company, a collective founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents its 7th Annual Living Newspaper Festival August 25-29. In homage to the 1930s Living Newspapers of the Federal Theatre Project, Jackalope has assembled...
Courtney Mack
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Courtney Mack (BFA ’15), a graduate of Columbia’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is highlighted in the Chicago Tribune’s “Hot New Faces of Chicago Theater 2016” feature, published Wednesday, August 10. Mack...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and Music Department alumni talent will be on display in Underscore Theatre Company‘s third annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. Created to showcase and support Chicago’s burgeoning field of musical theatre creators, this year’s festival...
Aisha de Haas
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Aisha de Haas costars in the national tour of the Disney Theatrical Productions Broadway hit Newsies, playing in Chicago July 28-August 7. De Haas plays vaudeville performer Medda Larkin, a friend of the...
The LIVINGroom, an ensemble of solo writer/performers including several alumni and students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, will present an evening of solo performances on Friday, July 22, at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, Chicago....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are featured in the musical Cabaret at Dunes Summer Theatre at 288 Shady Oak Drive in Michigan City, Indiana, running July 14-24. The show is presented by the Dunes Arts Foundation. Kellen Marie (BA...
Singer-songwriter Jess Godwin (BA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, has released her first full-length album, Comfortable. The album, containing nine songs written and performed by Godwin, is available on iTunes....