Tag: Scott Adsit
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Anna D. Shapiro Named Dean of Drama Program at New York’s Juilliard School
Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago Theatre alum and Tony Award-winning director Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15 – a 1990 graduate of Columbia College’s theatre program and a 2015 recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Columbia College – on her appointment as Richard Rodgers Dean and Director of the Drama Division at the…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Anna D. Shapiro’s Staging of ‘Are You Now’ Is ‘Theatre to Make the Blood Boil’
“I direct plays really for one reason, and that is to make the audience’s world bigger.”–Anna D. Shapiro
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(VIDEO) Birthday Salute to Longtime Columbia College Chicago Theatre Chair Sheldon Patinkin (Aug. 27, 1935-Sept. 21, 2014)
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance lovingly honors the memory of Sheldon Patinkin – longtime head of the Columbia College Theatre Program, noted director and teacher, and cherished friend and mentor to many in the Chicago theatre community — on the occasion of what would have been his 90th birthday. Sheldon was…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum’s TV Series ‘Moral Orel’ Named ‘Best Stop-Motion Show of All Time’
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance heartily congratulates film and TV writer-producer Dino Stamatopoulos, an alumnus of Columbia College Chicago‘s Theatre Program, whose 2005-2008 stop-motion-animation TV series Moral Orel has been named the best stop-motion animated TV series in history by the online entertainment news-and-reviews site Collider. Moral Orel, which Stamatopoulos created, wrote,…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Named No. 1 School for Comedy Students
Columbia College Chicago has been named No. 1 in College Magazine‘s list of “Top 10 Colleges for Aspiring Comedians,” published July 11, 2019. With its nationally recognized BA Program in Comedy Writing and Performance at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, Columbia topped a list of schools that also includes New York University, Harvard, Northwestern,…
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Columbia College Student Comedy Talent Featured at Chicago Improv Festival March 27-April 2
Current and former students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will be featured in the 20th annual Chicago Improv Festival, running March 27-April 2 at multiple venues in Chicago. Cat Booty, an improv group consisting of current and former students in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s nationally lauded Comedy Writing & Performance BA…
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Sheldon Patinkin Celebration Video Posted
An archival video of “A Celebration of the Life of Sheldon Patinkin” is available for viewing at the Columbia College Chicago web page for the Sheldon Patinkin Endowed Award. The memorial tribute to Patinkin–longtime chair of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, who died September 21, 2014–was held on January 26, 2015, at the North Shore…