Theatre Arts Alumni
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Adjunct Professor -
Marybeth Abel’s career in the theatrical industry is marked by 30 years of consistent employment. Highlights of her Broadway career include Production Supervisor for 10 years of all the North American companies of Les Miserables, including the Broadway Company.
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Adjunct -
Keith Josef Adkins is a playwright, screenwriter and artistic director. His plays include Sugar and Needles (2013 Prototype Production at Epic Theater – NYC), Sweet Home (2012 production MPAACT Theater Company – Chicago), The Final Days of Negro-ville (2012 Playwrights Foundation Rough Reading Series – San Francisco, 2011 Represent Festival at A.C.T.
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('09SOA) -
J.J. Adler is co-executive producer and director of the 2011 TV series The Onion News Network, currently airing on IFC, as well as The Onion’s Peabody Award-winning web-series of the same name.
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Professor and Chair -
Gregory Amenoff (b. 1948) is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and Tiffany Foundation. He has had over fifty one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe.
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('95SOA) -
Jonathan Ames is the author of eight books: I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What's Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, Wake Up, Sir!, I Love You More Than You Know, The Alcoholi'c (a graphic novel) and The Double Life is Twice As Good. He is the creator of the HBO Original Series Bored to Death which starred Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis.
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Associate Professor -
Donald Antrim is the author of three novels, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist, as well as a memoir, The Afterlife. He contributes fiction and nonfiction to The New Yorker, and his work has appeared in The Paris Review and Harper's. He has had fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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('06SOA) -
Bogdan Apetri, a Romanian director now based in New York, made his directorial debut with Outbound (Periferic). Funded in part by Romania’s National Centre for Cinema, the film was selected for the New Directors/New Films festival at MoMA and the Lincoln Center, and at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, it won the top prize, the Best Feature Film Award, as well as the Greek Film Critics Association Award.
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('03SOA) -
Kamrooz Aram was born in Shiraz, Iran. He received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, before graduating with an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2001. He has had solo exhibitions at Perry Rubenstein Gallery in New York, Olive Kamm/5BE Gallery in New York, Wilkinson Gallery in London, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
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SOA Alumna -
Alice Arlen made her screenwriting debut with the 1983 film Silkwood, which she cowrote with Nora Ephron. The film, which received an Oscar nomination for best screenplay, starred Meryl Streep in the real-life story of a worker at a plutonium plant who is killed in a suspicious car accident when she takes too close a look into murky dealings at her job site. She also teamed up with Ephron to write the 1989 gangster comedy Cookie, which she also executive produced.
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Professor -
Arnold Aronson is a theatre historian and has taught at Columbia since 1991. He is the author of Exhibition on the Stage: Reflections on the 2007 Prague Quadrennial (2008); Looking into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography (2005); American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History (2001); Architect of Dreams: The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban (2001); American Set Design (1985); and The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography (1981), as well as chapters in several anthologies. In 2007 he served as the first non-Czech General Commissioner of the Prague Quadrennial of Stage Design and Theatre Architecture. Prof. Aronson served as the editor of Theatre Design & Technology from 1978 to 1988.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor -
Ms. Ayvazian is the author of 8 full-length plays and 7 one act plays, published variously by Samuel French and Dramatist Play Service. Some have been included in annual anthologies of best plays. Nine Armenians won the John Gassner/Outer Critics Award for best new play, The Roger L. Stevens Award, and second place for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Rosemary and I received an honorable mention from the Susan Smith Blackburn jury.
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Assistant Professor -
Born and raised in North Carolina, writer/director Ramin Bahrani’s films, Man Push Cart (2005), Chop Shop (2007), and Goodbye Solo (2008) have premiered and screened at Venice, Cannes, Sundance, Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals.
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Playwriting Mentor -
Annie Baker's full-length plays include CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), THE ALIENS (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Obie Award for Best New American Play), BODY AWARENESS (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright), and an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA, for which she also designed the costumes (Soho Rep).
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Adjunct -
Calvin Baker is the author of three critically acclaimed novels. Naming the New World, Once Two Heroes and Dominion, a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Award, New York Daily News “Best Books of the Year,” and a New York Magazine Critic’s Pick for “Best Books of the Decade.” He has been called one of the best younger writers in America by Esquire and The Millions, and his work lauded in numerous other national publications.
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('98SOA) -
Mary Jo Bang is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Apology for Want (1997), which received the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize; Louise in Love (2001); The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans (2001); Elegy (2007), which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award; andThe Bride of E (2009). She was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2003, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. Bang was the poetry co-editor of the Boston Review from 1995 to 2005.
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Adjunct -
Corinna Barsan is a senior editor at Grove/Atlantic. She started in publishing at Farrar, Straus and Giroux before joining the independent publishing house Other Press. She has edited literary fiction and nonfiction from around the world, including books by Yan Lianke, Peter Nathaniel Malae, Michelle Hoover, Leslie Maitland, Kathleen Alcott, José Manuel Prieto, and Bonnie Nadzam, among others.
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Assistant Professor -
Nico Baumbach holds a BA from Brown University and a PhD in Literature from Duke University. His research and teaching focus on critical theory, film theory, documentary and the intersection of aesthetic and political philosophy.
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Adjunct -
Paul Beatty is the author of three novels, Slumberland, Tuff, and The White Boy Shuffle, and two books of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce. He is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor.
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Dean of Faculty -
Carol Becker is Dean of Faculty and Professor of the Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts. She was previously Dean of Faculty and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs as well as Professor of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She earned her B.A. in English literature from State University of New York at Buffalo and her PhD in English and American literature from the University of California, San Diego.
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('83SOA) -
Albert Berger formed Bona Fide Productions with Ron Yerxa in 1993. Their producing credits include King of the Hill (1993), Election (1999), The Wood (1999), Pumpkin (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Bee Season (2005), The Ice Harvest (2005), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and Little Children (2006). Bona Fide’s executive producing credits include the Wilco documentaryI Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002), Hamlet 2 (2008)and the documentary Chevolution (2008).
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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.
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.