Elya Bottiger Archive

Elya Faye Bottiger, a senior in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Performance BFA program, is featured in the classic musical Gypsy, running June 2-12 at Timber Lake Playhouse in Mt. Carroll, Illinois. Bottiger will play Tessie...
Ren Griffith (BFA ’15), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, has two projects coming to fruition the first week of March. She’s the assistant choreographer for Applause, the musical based...
Several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department teachers and current or former students are pooling their talents for “Broadway in Oak Park,” a benefit concert to raise money for Open Door Repertory Company in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park....
Open Door Theater’s The Marvelous Wonderettes, whose cast and creative/production team include several Columbia College faculty, students, and alumni, got a glowing review from Oakpark.com blogger Doug Deuchler. “If you’re looking for a night out that is pure escapism,...