Tag: Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Staffer Dawn Renee Jones Named to Goodman Theatre’s Playwrights Unit
Dawn Renee Jones, assistant to the chair of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, has been named to the Goodman Theatre’s 2016-17 Playwrights Unit, a year-long residency offered by Goodman in partnership with Chicago Dramatists. The playwrights in this residency program meet bi-monthly to discuss their plays-in-progress with the Goodman’s artistic team. The residency culminates…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty, Alumni, and Students Team Up for ‘Banned Book Week’ Performance Sept. 26
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate chairperson Paul Amandes, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Playwriting/Writing for Performance BA Program, will co-host and perform in Banned Together: A Censorship Cabaret on Monday, September 26, at 8 PM at Davenport’s Piano Bar, 1383 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. The event — part of Banned Book Week (September…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Behzad Debu Joins Cast of TV’s ‘How to Get Away with Murder’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Behzad Dabu ’08, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting Program, is featured in a recurring role on the 2016-17 season of the ABC TV series How to Get Away with Murder. The show, now in its third season, stars Viola Davis as a university law professor and criminal defense attorney who selects…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Explore Case of Female Serial Killer in ‘Self Defense’ Sept. 26
The No Stakes Theater Project, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents a staged reading of Carson Kreitzer’s drama Self Defense, or Death of Some Salesmen on Monday, September 26, at 7 PM at Uncommon Ground coffeehouse, 1401 W. Devon, Chicago. Admission is “pay what you can.” For information, call…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Invite Audiences to Tour ‘The Colored Museum’ Sept. 23-Oct. 23
Pulse Theatre Company Chicago, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents George C. Wolfe’s satire of African-American stereotypes, The Colored Museum, September 23-October 23 at ETA Creative Arts Foundation, 7558 S. South Chicago, on Chicago’s South Side. The production is co-directed by Aaron Mitchell Reese ’12, a graduate of the…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Directing Alums Selected for Victory Gardens Theatre’s Directors Inclusion Initiative
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Kaiser Ahmed ’08 and Arianna Soloway ’13 — both graduates of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing Program — have been selected to participate in Victory Gardens Theatre‘s 2016-17 Season Directors Inclusion Initiative, which aims to encourage and develop talented emerging stage Chicago stage directors identifying as people of color,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Help Bring Columbia Staffer’s New Play to the Stage
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are on the production team of the world premiere of Dead Children, a new play by Robert Tenges, Assistant Provost for Continuing & Community Education at Columbia College. The production’s set designer, Milo Bue ’16, is a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre Design. Properties designer/manager Ashley Osborne…
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Columbia College Chicago Musical Theatre Alumni Featured in ‘Young Frankenstein’ at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre Sept. 22-Nov. 6
Graduates of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are featured in the musical Young Frankenstein, running September 22-November 6 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. In this stage adaptation of the classic Mel Brooks film parody of Frankenstein, alumnus Nathan Cooper ’13 — a graduate of…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Bring ‘Bardy Bunch’ Musical Spoof to Mercury Theater Sept. 15-Nov. 27
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team of The Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady, an Off-Broadway hit musical receiving its Chicago premiere September 15–November 27 at the Mercury Theater, 3745 N. Southport, Chicago. The Bardy Bunch is a musical parody mash-up of a dozen…