Visual Arts Alumni
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Sameh Zoabi is a writer and director from Iksal, a small village in Israel. His feature debut, Man without a Cell Phone, was selected for the New Directors/New Films festival at MoMA and the Lincoln Center. His short film, “Be Quiet,” won third prize in the Cinéfondation Selection at the Cannes Film Festival. He has bachelor’s degrees in film studies and English literature from Tel Aviv University and attended the M.F.A. Film Program at Columbia on a merit scholarship.
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Professor, Director of Pedagogy -
Alan Ziegler received a B.S. from Union College and a Masters in Creative Writing from City College of New York, where he studied with Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, and Joel Oppenheimer. His grants and awards include a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Word Beat Fiction Book Award (selected by George Plimpton), four PEN Syndicated Fiction awards, a CAPS (Creative Artists in Public Service) fellowship, and National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts grants for Some literary magazine and Release Press, which he co-edited.
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('89SOA) -
Alex Zamm has directed a number of films, including the Disney original features Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, My Date with the President’s Daughter, Inspector Gadget 2, The Pooch and the Pauper; the family comedy Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts; the ABC Family Christmas special Snow; the children’s horror video R.L. Stein’s Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It; and the comedy film Chairman of the Board.
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Adjunct -
Matvei Yankelevich is the author of the poetry collection Alpha Donut (United Artists Books) and Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books), a novella-in-fragments.
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Chair, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, Barnard College -
W. B. Worthen, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre, is the author of several books, including The Idea of the Actor (Princeton University Press, 1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (Univ.
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('09SOA) -
Lauren Wolkstein was born and raised in Baltimore, Md., by her mother, a schoolteacher, and her father, a colonel in the Air Force who served in several wars, including the Gulf War and the current Iraq War. Lauren received her BA in computer science from Duke University and won the Duke Undergraduate Filmmaker Award. Lauren lived in Los Angeles for a year assisting film producer Chris Hanley at Muse Productions ("The Virgin Suicides," "American Psycho," "Buffalo '66").
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Niky Wolcz studied at the Theater Universitat in Bucharest. For decades, he has been in high demand as an actor, teacher, and director throughout Europe. He has been on the faculty at Columbia since 1996, where his productions have included Twelfth Night, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (directed with Andrei Serban), Ionesco's Bald Soprano and The Lesson, and Turandot (directed with Ursula Wolcz).
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Ursula Wolcz attended the Theatre Academy in Bucharest. She has performed in Frankfurt, Essen, Berlin, Stuttgart, Bochum and Berna and at theatre festivals in Holland, Venice, Paris and Verbier. Her important roles include Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Luisa, Anja and Nina from works as varied as those of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Brecht, Gozzi, Goldoni, Lorca, Buchner, Calderon and Gorki. She previously taught acting at the Musik-Hochschule Frankfurt. Since 1996, she has taught acting at Columbia University.
Ulla’s work at Columbia is primarily carried out through individual and small group labs.
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Brenda Wineapple's White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginsonwas a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award and a New York Times "Notable Book"; it was also named best nonfiction of 2008 in such publications as The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Economist, and TLS, among others, and selected by NPR as one of its 2008 best. She is also the author of Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner; Sister Brother
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('98SOA) -
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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('09SOA) -
Adam Wilson is the author of the novel Flatscreen (Harper Perennial, 2012). His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, The Literary Review, Washington Square Review, The New York Tyrant, The Coffin Factory, Meridian and the anthology Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging. He is a founding member of the international online newspaper The Faster Times, and former culture editor for Blackbook.
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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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SOA Alumnus -
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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Hannah Weyer is a filmmaker living in New York who has written, directed and produced narrative and documentary films. Her films have screened at MoMA, Sundance, the New York Film Festival, and others around the world and have won recognitions, including awards from LoCarno, Sundance, Doubletake Documentary and South by Southwest Film Festivals.
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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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Alyson Waters is a translator of modern and contemporary literary fiction, criticism, and theory, as well as art history. Her book translations include works by Vassilis Alexakis, Louis Aragon, Daniel Arasse, René Belletto, Reda Bensmaia, Emmanuel Bove, Eric Chevillard, Albert Cossery, Yasmina Khadra, and Tzvetan Todorov.
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Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and received her M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Walker has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions.
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William Wadsworth received his BA from the University of Wisconsin and his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His collection of poems, The Physicist on a Cold Night Explains, was published by Vaso Rota Press in 2010.
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Tomas Vu-Daniel received a B.F.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso and an M.F.A. from Yale University. His work has recently been exhibited in "Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness" at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York; "Boston High Tea: Master Print Series" at the Sunshine Museum in Songzhuang, China; and "Organische Abstraction" at the Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Black Ice in New York, Flatlands I and Flatlands II in Milan and Rome, and Opium Dreams at the Museum Haus Kasuya in Yokuska, Japan.
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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.