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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty Member Nominated for Drama Desk Award for Lighting Design in Her Broadway Debut

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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...
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Columbia College Alumni and Faculty Bring ‘Bug’ to Steppenwolf Theatre Jan. 23-March 8

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Alumni and faculty members of Columbia College Chicago are in the cast and creative team for Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of Bug, the skin-crawling, mind-bending cult classic by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts. A...
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Theatre Department Teachers Bring ‘The Sound Inside’ to Broadway

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Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student and faculty member David Cromer HDR ’17 — winner of the 2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for The Band’s Visit and recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Arts...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alums and Faculty Bring Griffin Theatre’s ‘The Harvest’ to the Stage July 21-Aug. 25

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty are in the cast and creative team for Griffin Theatre Company‘s Chicago premiere of The Harvest, Samuel D. Hunter’s drama about a group of young missionaries preparing to travel to the Middle East. The...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre, Music, and Cinema/TV Dept. Alumni and Faculty Nominated for 2018 Jeff Awards

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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 have been nominated for 2018 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Student, Alumni, and Faculty Talent Bring ‘9 to 5’ to the Stage April 7-May 20

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Alumni, students, and faculty members of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative team of 9 to 5 the Musical, presented April 7-May 20 by Firebrand Theatre at the Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee,...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Faculty Win Rave Review for New York Production of ‘Pirates of Penzance’

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty members Andra Velis Simon and Heather Gilbert — musical director and lighting designer respectively for The Hypocrites theatre company’s Off-Off-Broadway production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta Pirates of Penzance — were praised by...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Featured in BoHo’s ‘Marie Christine’ Oct. 21-Dec. 10

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and creative/production team for BoHo Theatre‘s production of the musical drama Marie Christine, by writer-composer Michael John LaChiusa. In previews October 21-27, the show opens October 28 and runs...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni and Faculty Talent Bring World Premiere ‘Queen’ to Victory Gardens Theatre April 14–May 14

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Joanie Schultz ’00, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s theatre directing program, is directing the world premiere of Queen, running April 14–May 14 at Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln, Chicago. Schultz’s design...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Success Stories of 2016: News from Around the World

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The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s blog “The Green Room” has chronicled the professional activities of our talented and accomplished alumni, faculty, and students over the past year. We covered news as it poured in not only from Chicago but...
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