Vanessa Stalling Archive

Congratulations to the current and former faculty and students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department who were honored with 2019 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award, at the annual Jeff Awards ceremony on October 21. The winners...
Congratulations to the alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, the Columbia College Chicago Music Department, and the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago who have been nominated for 2019 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre...
Congratulations to the alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Music Department who have been nominated for 2018 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The list of nominees for this...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Vanessa Stalling is directing The Wolves, running February 9-March 11 at the Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, in downtown Chicago. This comedy concerns a suburban high school girls’ soccer team whose nine...
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members highlighted in Newcity‘s “Players 2018: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago.” Published January 4, 2018, the Newcity Stage feature by Kevin Greene saluted 50 influential...
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...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Vanessa Stalling is directing the midwest premiere of Hookman, by San Francisco playwright Lauren Yee. Described as a “bitingly funny, edge-of-your-seat scary” work, Hookman is an “existential slasher comedy” about grief, adolescence,...