Ilesa Duncan Archive

Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago alumni and faculty cited in Newcity Stage‘s annual new year’s salute to movers and shakers in Chicago’s vibrant performing-arts scene. Among those listed in...
Lifeline Theatre presents Miss Holmes Returns, a mystery comedy written by former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department  student Christopher M. Walsh, a Lifeline ensemble member. The play — inspired by the works of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of fictional...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and creative team of Middle Passage, running April 15 through June 5 at Lifeline Theatre, located at 6912 N. Glenwood in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. Columbia College alum Ilesa...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates Columbia College alum Ilesa Duncan ’99, executive/producing director of Pegasus Theatre Chicago, which has been approved for a $20,000 Grant for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts....
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago alumni, students, and faculty who have been nominated for 2020 Black Theatre Alliance Awards. The nominees were announced August 7, 2020. Among those nominated are: Aaron Reese Boseman ‘12, a graduate of the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members are featured in the 23rd annual Fillet of Solo Festival, presented January 10 through 26 by Lifeline Theatre. Celebrating the breadth of Chicago’s enduring storytelling and live lit scene, Lifeline...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will host the 33rd annual Young Playwrights Festival presented by Pegasus Theatre Chicago, running January 8 through 25 at the Courtyard Theater in the Getz Theater Center of Columbia College Chicago, located at...
James Sherman in "The Ben Hecht show"
Actor-playwright James Sherman, a Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member who teaches playwriting and improvisation, performs his one-man play The Ben Hecht Show as part of “Teatron: Chicago’s Jewish Theatre Festival,” running November 3 through 10 in conjunction...
Columbia College Chicago will host the 25th Annual Black Theatre Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards on Monday, October 14, 2019. The awards ceremony takes place at the college’s Conaway Center, located at 1104 S. Wabash in Chicago’s South Loop. The event...
Kudos to the alumni, faculty, and current and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, the Columbia College Chicago Communication Department, the Columbia College Chicago Music Department, and the Columbia College Chicago Cinema and Television Arts Department who...