Paul Deziel Archive

The House Theatre of Chicago is presenting a return engagement of its acclaimed 2016 production United Flight 232, adapted and directed by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Vanessa Stalling. Based on Laurence Gonzales’ book Flight 232, the show won 2016 Joseph...
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Music Department have been nominated for 2017 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The list of this year’s “Jeff Award” nominees, announced August...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and creative/production team of It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!, American Blues Theatre‘s annual holiday show. Performed in the manner of a live 1940s radio broadcast, the production features Foley...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Grant Sabin (BFA ’05) and Paul Deziel (BA ’14) are winning rave reviews for their design work on The Hypocrites‘ production of Tennessee Williams’ classic drama The Glass Menagerie, running through March 6 at the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are on the design team for The Hypocrites‘ production of Tennessee Williams’ classic drama The Glass Menagerie, running January 22-March 6 at the Den Theatre, 1329 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are on the design teams  for two shows running at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood:   Paul Deziel (BA ’14), a graduate of Columbia’s BA program in technical theatre,...
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, faculty, and students are bringing British playwright Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice to the stage of Chicago’s Theater Wit August 14-September 5. Presented by the No Stakes Theater Project,...
Callie Johnson in Bailiwick Chicago's "Carrie: The Musical"
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty, alumni, and students figured heavily in the nominations for the 2015 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson (“Jeff”) Awards honoring excellence in Chicago theatres not operating under an Actors’ Equity union contract. Columbia teachers and graduates...
Michael Allen Harris in "Worthy"
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are gearing up for new shows opening shortly on Chicago stages. Michael Allen Harris, a 2011 graduate of Columbia’s BFA program in Acting, is in the cast of Adventure Stage Chicago‘s world premiere...