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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...
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...
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...
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...
Columbia College Chicago alums and faculty are in the cast and creative team of Porchlight Music Theatre‘s New Faces Sing Broadway 1951, a revue of songs from classic shows that ran on Broadway in 1951, including Guys and Dolls,...
Columbia College Chicago is introducing a new Intimacy for Stage and Screen Certificate program – the first college-level program of its kind in the U.S. Applications are now being accepted for the program, which will launch in Fall 2023....
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates Columbia College Chicago alum Tyla Abercrumbie ’98 on winning the 2022 Lorraine Hansberry Award for Writing of a Play for her drama Relentless, which received its world premiere from Chicago’ TimeLine...
Columbia College Chicago alum Tonya Pinkins ’96 — Tony Award-winning star of such Broadway musicals as Caroline, or Change and Jelly’s Last Jam — will star in the Public Theatre’s off-Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry‘s groundbreaking drama A Raisin...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates the Columbia College Chicago alumni and faculty who have been nominated for 2022 Black Theatre Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards honoring the work of Chicago-area theatre artists during the 2021-2022 theatre season. The...
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...