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It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which was assistant-edited by Film alum Sushant Chaudhary '21, has been nominated for the American Cinema Editors’ Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary Feature.
Metrograph Pictures is presenting a special survey event, Politics of Time, showcasing several films from Associate Professor of Film Anocha Suwichakornpong '06 between February 21 and March 1, 2026.
The Independent Spirit Awards have celebrated the best in indie cinema, across film and television, for over forty years. The 2026 ceremony will showcase the contributions of six Columbia alums who were nominated for seven awards, including Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.
Award winning novelist and Writing alum Sigrid Nunez '75 is set to publish her first collection of short stories this summer with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
After years of writing for theatre, Playwriting alum Kim Merill '95 has shifted her focus to fiction. Her newest book Red Girl Jumping (The Journal of Experimental Fiction, 2026) is described as an experimental memoir written by memory personified.
The Perelman Performing Arts Center has selected Dramaturgy alum Blossom Johnson '19 as one of nine artists for the second Democracy Cycle program.
Visual Arts alum Krista Gay '24 recently opened a solo show, The Tips of My Grandmother’s Finger Itch When I Say Her Name, at Sinkhole in Ridgewood, NY.
Any Minute Now, written by Playwriting alum Alix Sobler '17 and directed by Peter Jay Fernandez, Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Co-Concentration Head of Acting, premiered at HERE Arts Center in Soho this past January.
Teach Me, a new series written and executive produced by Film alum Lisa Rubin '13, is set to go into production for A24 and Peacock this year with Mandy Moore starring.
After a West End run which earned the play three Olivier Awards, Giant by Mark Rosenblatt is coming to Broadway in March, with Associate Professor of Professional Practice Michael Passaro joining the team as Production Stage Manager.
Writing alum Dolapo Demuren '17 was selected as a winner of the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, a national award from America's oldest poetry organization which includes publication of his manuscript, American Love Sonnets.
Professor of Visual Arts Sarah Sze’s debut gallery exhibition at Gagosian Beverly Hills, Sarah Sze: Feel Free, opened recently, bringing together two immersive video installations with new large-scale paintings featuring Sze's signature layered surfaces.
Alum and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Esteban Cabeza de Baca '14 recently opened his third show with Garth Greenan Gallery, Esteban Cabeza de Baca: Pollinators.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Karen Dias has a new solo exhibition, Karen Dias: A Dotted Line, on view at Twelve Gates Arts, a gallery centering South and West Asian diasporic artistic voices in Philadelphia.
Steppe, a novel translated from the Russian by Elina Alter '16, was published January 20, 2026 with Catapult Press.