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Professor Anne Bogart Receives SDCF Gordon Davidson Award

Theatre Professor and Head of the Directing Concentration Anne Bogart will receive the 2023 Gordon Davidson Award, presented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.

Film alum Jonathan Van Tulleken '10 has co-executive produced the first two episodes Shōgun, a newseries set to premiere on FX on February 27, 2024. Van Tulleken also directed two episodes of the first season.

Writing alumniAshley Nelson Levy ’12 and Adam Z. Levy ’12  met on their first day in the Fiction program at the School of the Arts. The two would later marry and, in 2015, found Transit Books, a nonprofit indie press dedicated to publishing works in translation and international literature.

Directing student Camille Hamadé has been awarded the BAFTA-Yugo Short Film Commissioning Grant, which provides a cash award to support further development of a short film project.

Carlie Hoffman '16 has been awarded a 2024 National Jewish Book Award for her poetry collection When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023). 

Writing alumna Tracy K. Smith ’97 recently published To Free the Captives, a new memoir, with Knopf. 

Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films have announced the official release date of We Grown Now, a coming-of-age film executive produced by Professor of Professional Practice James Schamus.

Miami's Rubell Museum and Miami New Drama have partnered up to present The Museum Plays, a series of six new plays running from February through March at the Rubell Museum. The series is co-directed by Theatre alumni Michel Hausmann ’14 and Tatiana Pandiani ’16.

Visual Arts alumna Cecilia Caldiera ‘23 has unveiled her new solo exhibition, Our House, at Subtitled NYC.

The winners of the 67th annual Obie Awards were recently announced, with several notable Columbia theatre artists on the list.

Bicheng Liang ’21 and Yixuan Shao ’21, the artistic duo that comprises Alchemyverse, met in the Visual Arts + Sound Art Program at the School of the Arts.

From March 8 until April 20, 2024, the prestigious Rachel Uffner Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side will present Plan B, the second solo exhibition by Visual Arts Alumna Susan Chen ’20.

Writing alumna Meg Matich ’15 has translated Ásta Sigurðardóttir's Nothing To Be Rescued (Nordisk Books, 2023), introducing her stories to English-speaking readers for the first time.

The 74th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival came to a close last weekend, and two films by School of the Arts filmmakers won big at the festival.

2024 Writers Guild Award Nominations have been announced, and several Columbia filmmakers have been nominated for their stellar work in film and television. 

Theatre alumna Cha Ramos '21, a fight directing specialist, brings her expertise to the Broadway stage in the highly anticipated musical adaptation of Sara Gruen's critically acclaimed bestseller, Water for Elephants, which premiered on February 24, 2024 at the Imperial Theatre.

Climate change has been in our cultural discourse for decades, with artists often wielding their work to bring people’s attention to the state of the environment. Director and playwright Adam Marple ’10 is taking this idea to the next level, along with longtime collaborator, playwright Steven Gaultney ’10.

Winners of the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards were announced last week, and several Columbia filmmakers brought home major awards. 

 

 

 

Rankine read from her new work-in-progress ‘Triage’ and discussed the current political moment.

Writing alumna Terese Svoboda '78 has recently published The Long Swim (MIT Press, 2023), a compelling collection of stories exploring womanhood and humanity that was awarded the Juniper Prize for Fiction last year.

Several projects from Columbia filmmakers are headed to the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, which will take place March 8-16, 2024.

Ghina Fawaz is an MFA student in the Theatre Program at School of the Arts. When she isn’t creating her own dramatic projects at Columbia, she is most likely in the audience at one of countless productions that take place all over the city.

Theatre Professor and Directing Concentration Head Anne Bogart has reunited with famed avant-garde La MaMa resident theatre group, Talking Band, to direct Existentialism, running through March 10, 2024.

Visual Arts alumna Anna Ting Möller ’23 is currently showcasing her solo exhibition, grafting, for that which grows and that which bars, at Tutu Gallery.

Ramin Bahrani discusses If Dreams Were Lightning with Wafaa El-Sadr.

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Professor Lance Weiler about the potential and challenges of generative AI, the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, and how discovering our own voice can lead to a more effective use of technology.

Winners of the 96th Academy Awards were announced last night, and projects by Columbia filmmakers took home awards. 

Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm(Knopf, 2024), a debut essay collection by Writing alumna Emmeline Clein ’22, begins by asking the reader: “Have you ever seen a girl and wanted to possess her?”

In Splinters, her first memoir, Leslie Jamison explores her divorce and the birth of her daughter.

Moving Pictures, a solo show by Visual Arts alumna Nora Griffin '11, is currently on view at Fireman Gallery on the Lower East Side.

She discussed her work, the importance of dialogue with others, and the essentiality of the arts.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre Vinson Cunningham has published his debut novel, Great Expectations. Published by Hogarth Books, the novel follows a historic presidential campaign which changes the trajectory of the life of a young Black man. 

Theatre Professor and Head of the Directing Concentration Anne Bogart will receive the 2023 Gordon Davidson Award, presented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.

The NBC TV Writers Program has announced its newest cohort of eight writers, which includes Film alum Neda Jebelli '21 and Theatre alum Bixby Elliot '05.

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