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Columbia College Chicago Alum Precious Brady-Davis Serves as Community Grand Marshal for 2024 Chicago LGBT Pride Parade June 30

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LGBTQ-rights advocate, environmental activist, and Columbia College Chicago alum Precious Brady-Davis ’13, who graduated from Columbia College with an Interdisciplinary BA in Theatre and Liberal Education, will be a Community Grand Marshal for the 2024 Chicago LGBT Pride Parade...
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(AUDIO/VIDEO) Remembering Composer and Columbia College Chicago Music Department Founder William Russo (June 25, 1928-January 11, 2003)

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The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department remembers composer, author, and teacher William Russo on the anniversary of his birth. Russo, who founded what is now the Columbia College Chicago Music Department in 1965, was born in Chicago on June...
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Performances and Displays Highlight ‘Manifest: Breakthrough’ Arts Festival at Getz Theatre Center – Friday, May 10

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Manifest: Breakthrough, the 2024 edition of Columbia College Chicago‘s annual student-powered Manifest Arts Festival, takes place Friday, May 10, to celebrate student achievements at the end of the 2023-24 school year, and the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proudly...
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Columbia College Chicago Alum Vincent Williams Honored at Black Arts & Culture Alliance of Chicago’s 2023 Black Excellence Awards

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Columbia College Chicago alum Vincent Williams ’03, founder and president of the Black Theatre Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards, was posthumously honored at the Black Arts & Culture Alliance of Chicago‘s 23rd Annual Black Excellence Awards, presented November 6, 2023, in...
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Tony Award-Winning Columbia College Chicago Alum Tonya Pinkins Named Chair of Theatre at Fordham College at Lincoln Center

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The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department warmly congratulates Columbia College Chicago alum Tonya Pinkins ’96 — Tony Award-winning star of such Broadway musicals as Caroline, or Change and Jelly’s Last Jam — on her appointment as the Denzel Washington...
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Columbia College Chicago Alum and Trans Advocate Precious Brady-Davis Appointed as Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner

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LGBTQ-rights advocate, environmental activist, and Columbia College Chicago alum Precious Brady-Davis ’13, who graduated from Columbia College with an Interdisciplinary BA in Theatre and Liberal Education, has been appointed by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to the Board of Commissioners...
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Columbia College Chicago TV/Theatre Alum’s ‘Queer Serial’ Podcast Chronicles LGBTQ History on the Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots

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Columbia College Chicago alum Devlyn Camp ’14 — who graduated with a BA in Television Writing and Producing from what is now the Columbia College Chicago Cinema and Television Arts Department and a Minor in Acting from the Columbia College...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Performances and Displays Highlight Manifest Arts Festival May 12

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The 2023 edition of Columbia College Chicago‘s student-powered Manifest Arts Festival takes place Friday, May 12, to celebrate student achievements at the end of the 2022-23 school year, and the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proudly participating, with...
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Columbia College Chicago Alum Directs World Premiere of ‘Aztec Human Sacrifice’ May 5-June 18

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Columbia College Chicago alum Jay Españo MFA ’16 – a graduate of the college’s MFA program in film directing and recipient of a Graduate Certificate in Laban Movement Analysis from Columbia College’s Dance Movement Therapy program — directs the world...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum Tyla Abercrumbie Keynotes Columbia College Cultural Opportunities & Diversity Expo April 11

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Tyla Abercrumbie ’98, star of the Showtime series The Chi and author of the award-winning play Relentless, will be the keynote speaker at CODE: Cultural Opportunities and Diversity Expo, hosted by the Columbia College...
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