Theatre Arts Alumni
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David Wilson Barnes recently appeared in a critically acclaimed role in Becky Shaw at Second Stage Theatre, for which he received a Drama League nomination, as well as rave reviews from The New York Times and Variety. He made his Broadway debut with The Lieutenant of Inishmore and starred in Fifth of July at the Bay Street Theatre. He has also appeared in Hamlet at the Public Theater, Britannicus and Olly’s Prison at the American Repertory Theater, St.
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('03SOA) -
Beau Willimon is a playwright and screenwriter. Plays include: Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club, 2010); Farragut North (Atlantic Theater Company, 2008). Lower Ninth (Flea Theater, 2008). Additionally his work has been seen at the Actors Theater of Chicago, Battersea Arts Center, Cherry Lane, Geffen Playhouse, HERE, New Dramatists, Phoenix Theater, Red Stitch, South Coast Rep and many others in the U.S. and overseas. He has written films for Warner Bros., Fox 2000 and Summit Entertainment.
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('05SOA) -
Barbara Whitman is a Tony and Drama Desk award-winning theatrical producer. She made her Broadway debut producing A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sean Combs. Other Broadway credits include Red (Tony and Drama Desk Awards, Best Play), Next to Normal (Pulitzer Prize), Hamlet starring Jude Law, 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda, Mary Stuart, Legally Blonde - The Musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In the West End, she produced Piaf, starring Elena Roger.
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Beth Whitaker has been with Signature Theatre Company for seven years, first as literary manager, then as artistic associate and now as associate artistic director. Previously, she was literary manager for Tectonic Theater Project, artistic associate for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference from 2000 to 2003, literary manager for the Williamstown Theatre Festival for three seasons, and Literary Associate for the Alliance Theatre Company in Atlanta for two seasons.
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('07SOA) -
Kim Weild is a New York-based director, choreographer, performer, writer and teacher. For ten years she was a student at The School of American Ballet and performed with The New York City Ballet. She first developed movement-oriented theatre pieces in 1986, when she worked as an actor with Robert Wilson in the Richard Strauss opera Salome, performed at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. She also collaborated closely with Beatrice Lees, a pioneer in improvisational dance movement, from 1988 until her death in 1995.
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('98SOA) -
Darko Tresnjak's Shakespeare credits include Coriolanus, All's Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, A Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles (The Old Globe); All's Well Than Ends Well, The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra (Theatre for New Audience); The Merchant of Venice (RSC Complete Works Festival); Twelfth Night (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Two Noble Kinsme
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('87SOA) -
Michael Stotts is in his fifth year as managing director of Hartford Stage. During his three-year tenure as managing director at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, Mr. Stotts produced a significant number of new plays, including works by Paula Vogel, Craig Lucas, James Lapine and Julia Cho, among others. Sixteen Wounded by Eliam Kraiem moved to Broadway in 2004, and Cho’s BFE and Lapine’s Fran’s Bed with Mia Farrow subsequently transferred to or were produced at Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons.
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('02SOA) -
For the past ten years Jay Scheib has been directing and designing plays, operas and hybrid performance works throughout Europe and the United States. Recent works include a new staging of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Saarländische Staatstheater in Saarbrücken and Brecht's Puntila und sein Knecht Matti at Theater Augsburg in Germany. Bellona, Destroyer of Cities premiered at The Kitchen in New York and will be presented at the Exit Festival, Maison des Arts, Cretéil (Paris), followed by a run at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
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('00SOA) -
Ken Rus Schmoll is a theater director who has achieved a string of Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway successes. Most recently, he garnered positive reviews with Will Eno’s Middletown (Vineyard Theatre). He won an Obie Award for his direction of Ariana Reine’s Telephone (Cherry Lane), a tryptich the poet adapted from Avital Ronell’s philosophic work The Telephone Book. Other recent productions include Ann Marie Healy’s dystopian drama What We Once Felt (The Duke on 42nd Street), part of the Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3 series.
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('97SOA) -
Diane Paulus is a director of opera and theater. She was appointed the artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the first ART season under her direction will be 2009-2010.
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('06SOA) -
Tommy Nohilly made his Off-Broadway debut to critical acclaim with Blood from a Stone for The New Group. The play, starring Ethan Hawke, is Nohilly’s first and was his thesis play for Columbia. It opened to rave reviews from The New York Times, Slant, and others. Nohilly—an ex-Marine who has also worked as a security guard, waiter, bouncer, and bartender—has acted in films and TV series. He began writing while in Marines boot camp and became hooked on playwriting after seeing Brecht’s The Irresistable Rise of Arturo Ui.
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('98SOA) -
Anson Mount received his BA from the University of the South (1995) and his MFA from Columbia University (1998). He began his professional career at Manhattan Theater Club playing the leading role in Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi for which he was honored by The Drama League in 1998.
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('07SOA) -
A native of Malaysia and New Zealand, K.K. Moggie has worked in both Malaysia, New Zealand and now New York. She moved to New York to attend Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Program. Since graduating in 2007 with her MFA in acting, she has done several theatre projects.
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('84SOA) -
Three-time Tony Award-winning producer Hal Luftig has worked in Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres for the past 20 years. His plays and musicals have garnered 23 Tony Awards, 6 Drama Desk Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.
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('06SOA) -
Pavol Liska, a native of Slovakia, began directing plays after he graduated from Dartmouth in 1995. During this time he cofounded the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, a theater company taking its name from Kafka’s Amerika. After taking a break from directing, he returned to Columbia for an MFA in directing. While a student of the Theatre Program, he directed Kasimir and Karoline and Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at Classic Stage Company.
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('06SOA) -
Ashlin Halfnight’s plays include Second Life (2012 O’Neill Playwright’s Conference Finalist), A Hard Wall at High Speed (Directed by May Adrales, APAC, Nominated for Outstanding Premiere Production of 2011, NYITA), Balaton (Nominated for Best Play of 2009, NYITA), Good Pictures (Outstanding New Play – 2008 Talkin’ Broadway), God’s Waiting Room (Best Play, 2005 NYFringe), Diving Normal (Plays and Playwrights 2007), and Artifacts o
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('97SOA) -
Shirley Fishman is the director of play development for the La Jolla Playhouse, where she has also served as dramaturg on Carmen, The Deception, Most Wanted, The Wiz, Culture Clash's Zorro in Hell, The Scottish Play, Palm Beach, Eden Lane, When Grace Comes In, Adoration of the Old Woman, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Diva, I Am My Own Wife (2004 Pulitzer Prize) and Dracula, The Musical.
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('96SOA) -
Liz Engelman is a freelance dramaturg who splits her time between Whidbey Island, WA, and Ely, MN. She has served as the literary director of the McCarter Theatre; the director of new play development at ACT Theatre in Seattle, Washington; literary manager/dramaturg at Seattle’s Intiman Theatre; and assistant literary manager at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.
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Julie Dubiner is the associate director of American Revolutions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. American Revolutions is a commissioning project with the goal of creating 37 new plays concerning moments of great change in US history.
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('03SOA) -
Bathsheba Doran’s play Parents’ Evening will receive its world premiere at The Flea Theater in April 2010, directed by Jim Simpson. Her play Ben and The Magic Paintbrush will receive its world premiere at South Coast Repertory Theater in June 2010.
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Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.