Tag: Frances Maggio
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Advisory Board Announces Sept. 21 Event Celebrating Longtime Theatre Program Head Sheldon Patinkin
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in Acting, Alumni Advisory Board, Class Notes, Columbia College Theatre Alumni and Friends, Comedy Writing and Performance, Improv, Intimacy Direction, Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee, Scholarships, Stage Combat, Technical Theatre, Theatre, Theatre Advisory Board, Theatre Design, Theatre Directing, Uncategorized, VoiceoverThe Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance is proud to announce the creation of the Theatre Advisory Board composed of alumni and friends of the Theatre Program at Columbia College. With a mission to leverage the expertise of the Columbia College Theatre Program’s alumni and other industry members through strategic guidance, collaborative partnerships,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alums Launch Theatre Advisory Board
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are planning to create a Theatre Department Advisory Board, with the intent of launching the new organization in January of 2024. Columbia College Theatre alums are invited to email ccctheatreadvisoryboard@gmail.com for more information on this new initiative. And for more information on Theatre Alumni activities, click here.…
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Columbia College Chicago Faculty and Alums Bring Shows to Edinburgh Festival Fringe Aug. 2-28
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty members and alums are heading to Scotland in August to participate in the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Branded as “the world’s greatest platform for creative freedom,” the fringe festival runs August 4 through 28 at multiple venues in Scotland’s capital city. As previously reported in this blog, a…
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Columbia College Chicago Faculty and Alums Bring Shakespearean Spoof ‘Macbeth by the Sea’ to Chicago Audiences July 20-23 Prior to Edinburgh Festival Fringe Run
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty members and alums are collaborating on a new comedy, Macbeth by the Sea, which is headed for the prestigious Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a two-week run August 4 through 19. Before they bring their send-up of Shakespeare’s “Scottish Play” to Scotland, they’ll preview the show at Otherworld Theatre, located…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty Bring Nabokov’s ‘Invitation to a Beheading’ to Chopin Theatre Through Sept. 14
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Michael Brown, co-director of the Theatre Department’s MA/MFA Program in European Devised Performance Practice, is the co-creator of Invitation to a Beheading, a devised work of puppet and mask theatre based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. Presented by Rough House Theatre, Invitation to a Beheading runs through September 14…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty Bring ‘Invitation to a Beheading’ to Steppenwolf July 25-28
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Michael Brown, co-director of the Theatre Department’s MA/MFA Program in European Devised Performance Practice, is the co-creator and principal producer of Invitation to a Beheading, a devised work of puppet and mask theatre based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. Presented by Brown in association with Rough House Theatre, Invitation…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center’s 2017-18 Mainstage Season Continues with ‘Dog Act’ Feb. 7-17
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2017-2018 Mainstage Season resumes Wednesday, February 7, with Dog Act, by Liz Duffy Adams. Directed by Columbia College alumna and Theatre Department faculty member Stephanie Shaw ’92, MFA ’09, the play runs through February 17 in Studio 404 of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center, 72 E. 11th…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni and Faculty Nominated for 2016 Joseph Jefferson Awards
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni have been nominated for 2016 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The list of nominees, announced August 30, includes Jesse Klug ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design Program, for his lighting designs for two productions: Man of La Mancha at the Marriott Theatre…
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‘The Producers’ Features Columbia College Chicago Musical Theatre Alumni April 14-June 26 at Mercury Theater
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s musical theatre program are featured in The Producers, playing at Chicago’s Mercury Theater starting April 14. The Producers, the hit musical comedy about two crooked Broadway producers trying to put on a sure-to-fail show, co-stars Harter Clingman (BFA ’11), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre…
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Columbia College Chicago Teachers and Alumni Collaborate on Film ‘Four Monologues’
Actor-director Brian Shaw (BA ’86), a Columbia College Chicago graduate and a professor in Columbia’s Theatre Department, has directed a short film, Four Monologues, now available as a free iTunes app. The film was developed from an artist’s book created by Columbia College Chicago’s Center for Book and Paper Arts. With text by noted poet…