Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Archive

A group of theatre companies in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre District are conducting a drive for donations of food and other supplies to redistribute to other organizations in Chicago directly supporting protestors and in neighborhoods where food supplies are limited....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98 is profiled in a post by Chicago Theater, a Facebook group by and for Chicago’s theatre community. The group was created by a group of Chicago theatre artists and administrators...
Columbia College Chicago alum Brad Kemp ’12, a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Music Department‘s Bachelor of Music Composition program who also took courses in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre program, is preparing to release...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department mourns the passing of Riad Ismat, who died May 13, 2020, of complications related to COVID-19. Ismat was the former Minister of Culture of Syria until he stepped down due to the escalation...
  Columbia College Chicago‘s student-powered Manifest Urban Arts Festival makes its digital debut this year, going online for its landmark 20th annual edition May 11 through 15, and the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will be proudly participating! To...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Business and Entrepreneurship Department present the second annual Third Mask Festival, running May 11 through 15 and presented virtually at www.thirdmaskfestival.com. Presented in conjunction with the college’s student-powered...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud to be among the 88 local theatres participating in the “Chicago Acts Together” campaign to support the Chicago Theatre Workers Relief Fund, which provides direct financial assistance to theatre workers who have...
Congratulations to the alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, the Columbia College Chicago Music Department, and the Columbia College Chicago Cinema and Television Arts Department who have been nominated for 2020 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s...
Heather Gilbert
Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Heather Gilbert, who has been nominated for a 2020 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play. Gilbert, a teacher in the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design Program, was...