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Professor of Professional Practice and Dramaturgy Department Head Christian Parker ’98 has been named a 2023-24 Michael I. Sovern/Columbia University Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
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 Jaquira Díaz about using the first person plural, writing about your own community, and why you should be wary about a redemptive ending in a memoir.
Wandering In All Directions of This Earth, a poetry collection and two-time Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize finalist by Writing alumna Loisa Fenichell ’23, was published by Ghost Peach Press last month.
Transit Books, a Bay Area-based publishing house founded by Writing alumni Adam Levy ’12 and Ashley Nelson Levy ’12, is largely responsible for the circulation of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse’s work in the United States.
Visual Arts alumna Kelsey Shwetz ’22 creates paintings that are hyper realistic and full of tenderness, which is entirely fitting for A Lamp is Not the Only Sign of Glass, her current solo show with Half Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.
The 31st Annual Hamptons International Film Festival is happening now through October 15, 2023, and several Columbia filmmakers are screening their work at the world renowned showcase.
Theatre alumni Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16 and Sam Grabiner ’21 are among the select thirteen playwrights chosen to receive this year’s prestigious Sloan Commission.
Theatre Management & Producing student David O'Brien is co-producer of the new musical Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages.
On Sunday, October 1, 2023, Visual Arts alumna Linnéa Gad ’22 will present and perform a new multi-disciplinary work created as part of the Immigrant Artist Biennial on Governor’s Island in New York City.
Writing alum Orla Tinsley ’20 has received an honorary Doctorate of Literature from The University College of Dublin for their achievements in writing and healthcare.
Prescription for Pain, a debut true crime book by Philip Eil ’11 will be published in April 2024 by Steerforth Press.
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Racquel Gates is co-editing a book series for Duke University Press called Console-ing Passions: Television and Cultural Power.
Mikhaela Mahony ’19 is the director of the New York premiere of Redwood, premiering in October at Off-Broadway’s Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Starting this October, the renowned Visual Arts Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija will be the focus of a major exhibition at New York's MoMA PS1, titled Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE.
A shrine of white stone ringed by thin-leafed trees. A smoking battleship, a mass of crushed rubble. A soldier lifting a sandbag. A stretch of shoreline, a child wearing a ribboned straw hat. These were some of the images screened for the audience during “A ‘Toy Film’ History of Shōwa: The Second Sino-Japanese War, 1931–1945,” presented at the Lenfest Center for the Arts on September 17, 2023.