Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Barbara Robertson and alumnus Harter Clingman (BFA ’11) are in the company of The Tempest at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. In this inventive re-imagining of William Shakespeare’s great comedy, Robertson, who teaches “Professional...
Congratulations to the current and former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students honored at the 2015 Joseph Jefferson Awards on Monday, October 5. Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre acting student Anthony Fleming III won the Jeff Award for Actor in...
  The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud to present Glockenspiel, written and directed by Visiting Professor Steven Dykes from Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in the United Kingdom. With a cast and crew of Columbia...
A new musical by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department teacher Peter Gwinn (Emmy Award-winning writer for The Colbert Report) and Columbia College Musical Theatre Program alumnus Jody Shelton (co-author of the off-Broadway hit 50 Shades! The Musical) will have...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Terry McCabe‘s new stage adaptation of Nicholas Meyer’s novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution will open the 2015-16 season at Chicago’s City Lit Theater, where McCabe is artistic director. The production’s cast includes Columbia...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department hosted a reception on Monday, September 28, to celebrate the legacy of the late Sheldon Patinkin–teacher, director, friend, and mentor to thousands of theatre artists around the world, and longtime chair of the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty are joining forces to bring the world premiere of The Cheats, by Hamish Linklater, to the stage of Steep Theatre, one of Chicago’s finest Off-Loop companies, this fall. Joanie Schultz (BA...
Aaron Nelson as Simba in "The Lion King"
Columbia College Chicago alumnus Aaron Nelson (BA ’12) returns to his hometown in December to play Simba in the North American touring company of Disney’s The Lion King–a leading role Nelson has been playing in the show’s Broadway production...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Skye Robinson Hillis (BA ’11), a graduate of Columbia’s Theatre Directing Program, is staging the Spartan Theatre‘s production of Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women, running September 24-October 11 at the Royal George Theatre, 1641...
Columbia College Chicago alumni are collaborating on the world premiere of Punk Punk, an interactive comedy with music about Chicago’s punk scene.   The show is presented by Nothing Without a Company, whose artistic director, Anna Rose Ii-Epstein (BFA ’07),...