Tag: Skye Robinson Hillis
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum’s New Play Dramatizes ‘Martha Mitchell Effect’
A new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Skye Robinson Hillis ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, is being presented by the MFA Program in Playwriting at Ohio University, where Robinson Hillis is currently a third-year student. Titled The Martha Mitchell Effect, the play is inspired by the…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumni Work Featured in 2017 Chicago One-Minute Play Fest Feb. 21-22
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Cassandra Rose ’10, Reeny Hofrichter ’10, and Skye Robinson Hillis ’11 are among the playwrights whose new work will be featured in the 2017 Chicago One-Minute Play Festival: “America Is . . .” The marathon evening of one-minute plays by more than 60 of Chicago’s established and emerging playwrights…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumni and Student Talent Featured in Rarely-Revived Tennessee Williams Drama at A Red Orchid Theatre Jan. 14-Feb. 28
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and student talent are on board for Tennessee Williams’ rarely-revived drama The Mutilated, running January 14-February 28 at A Red Orchid Theatre, located at 1531 N. Wells in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood. The show’s cast includes Lauren Vogel, a senior in the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre.…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Directs Neil Simon Comedy at Royal George Sept. 24-Oct. 11
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Skye Robinson Hillis (BA ’11), a graduate of Columbia’s Theatre Directing Program, is staging the Spartan Theatre‘s production of Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women, running September 24-October 11 at the Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted, Chicago. The comedy concerns a struggling novelist who handles the women-packed world in his…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Faculty, Alumni, and Students Salute Female Pirates in ‘Nobody’s Wench’ Sept. 17-Oct. 4
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A crew of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department teachers, alumni, and students are on board for Nobody’s Wench: Six Tales of Pirate Women on the Rolling Seas, presented by Fury Theatre and Badass Broads September 17-October 4 at Chase Park, 4701 N. Ashland, Chicago. This collection of short plays about real-life female pirates is the…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Talent Featured in ‘Kafkapalooza’ New Play Festival Aug. 14-22
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are participating in Kafkapalooza, a festival of new plays, running August 14-22 at Collaboraction’s Pentagon Theatre in the Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Presented by the First Floor Theater, the two-week event features eight short works by Chicago writers who have found inspiration…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumna Skye Robinson Hillis’ Play ‘The Running Mate’ Will Be Performed May 16 at Chicago Dramatists
A new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Skye Robinson Hillis, a 2011 graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, will be performed in a staged reading at Chicago Dramatists, Chicago’s leading center for the development of new plays. Robinson Hillis’ The Running Mate will be performed at Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W.…