Tag: Maggie Rogers
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Named Artistic Director of Seattle’s Washington Ensemble Theatre
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Maggie Rogers ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, has been named as the next artistic director of the Washington Ensemble Theatre in Seattle, Washington. According to a report in BroadwayWorld Seattle, Rogers will succeed current artistic director Samie Spring Detzer by the end of the…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Makes ‘The Case for Normalizing Fatness Onstage’ in ‘American Theatre’ Magazine
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Maggie Rogers ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre with a concentration in directing, published an article titled “All Sizes Fit All: The Case for Normalizing Fatness Onstage” in the January 2018 issue of American Theatre magazine, the nation’s leading publication for the nonprofit theatre…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Bring ‘The Few’ to Steep Theatre April 9-May 21
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Travis Coe (BA ’15), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, is featured in The Few, running April 9-May 21 at Steep Theatre. This Chicago premiere of Samuel D. Hunter’s drama concerns three people — a middle-aged man and woman and their assistant, a 19-year-old would-be poet…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumna Anna D. Shapiro, Steppenwolf Theatre’s Incoming Artistic Director, Names Columbia Theatre Faculty Member Jonathan Berry as Steppenwolf Artistic Producer
Steppenwolf Theatre Company‘s incoming artistic director Anna D. Shapiro–a 1990 graduate of Columbia College Chicago–is bringing Columbia College Theatre Department faculty member Jonathan Berry onto the Steppenwolf artistic staff. In a profile of Shapiro published April 23, 2015, Chicago Tribune theatre writer Chris Jones revealed that “Shapiro intends to expand her artistic office. She already…