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Sarah Cole, Interim Dean of Faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts, has announced that preeminent playwright James Ijames will speak at the School’s convocation, hosted on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 7pm.
Acting Professionally, the renowned book of professional advice for actors by Associate Professor of Professional Practice James Calleri, has been re-released in a brand new edition published by Bloomsbury, with additional writing by Robert Cohen.
Film alumna Sarah Nerboso '12 wrote nine episodes for the second season of the hit animated series Monster High on Nickelodeon.
On February 8, 2024, celebrated artist Arthur Jafa joined Kellie Jones, Chair of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, and Hans Hofmann, Professor of Modern Art, for a conversation in Columbia University School of the Arts’s Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Film student Aisha Amin was recently selected to participate in the The Black List and Women in Films (WIF) 2024 Episodic Lab, which prepares women writers and writers of underrepresented genders for a career in television writing.
Theatre professor David Henry Hwang’s opera, An American Soldier, will premiere in New York this spring at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Lower Manhattan.
To honor Rachel Chavkin '08’s prolific and versatile work, the city of New York officially renamed 48th Street “Chavkin Way” in a ceremony held on March 20 outside the Longacre Theatre.
First and foremost a sculptor, Fishman makes small- and large-scale sculptures from biomaterials as varied as wood cellulose and tanned fish skins. Often, she uses bioplastics, which are biodegradable, compostable materials fabricated from a bio-based source.
WATCHNIGHT, the Laughlin Award-winning collection by writing alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books this April.
Writing alumna Kao Kalia Yang ’05 has published Where Rivers Part (Simon and Schuster, 2024), a memoir that centers her family’s escape from the genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, resulting from the U.S. Army’s involvement in Laos.
Selman Nacar '21, Claire Brooks '21, and Kunao Yan '23 have been selected to participate in the 53rd edition of the New Directors/New Films Festival presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art.
L’Air Du Temps (1985), a novella by Writing alumna Diane Josefowicz ’08, was published by Regal House Titles earlier this month.
Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 has been named the first-ever artist in residence of the Prospect Park Alliance, a non-profit organization that collaborates with the city to manage the borough's second-largest green space.
The results are in and two Columbia-affiliated projects were announced as winners at this year’s SXSW Film Festival.
Theatre alum Ryan Bogner ’15 will co-produce the first Broadway production and newest iteration of satirical musical revue, Forbidden Broadway, opening at the Hayes Theater this summer.