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“I dreamed there was a city. My home. And the sky arched blue above it as if to hold it in its gaze. As if it would last forever. Great in its history. Famous in its exploits.”
Acting alumna Nadia Sepsenwol ’09 is a resident actor at The Mercury Store who is currently working with Directing alumnus and former Adjunct Professor Robert O’Hara ’96. O’Hara is a prominent playwright and director. He recently directed Jeremy O’Harris’ Slave Play, which premiered on Broadway and was nominated for twelve Tony Awards, including Best Director.
Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform that helps bring creative projects to life, recently featured the short film project Brenda by Undergraduate Writing alumna Bernadette Bridges ('19 CC).
Constructing Futures: Making Ecological Art in a Time of Uncertainty is a biweekly series that features artists who use found materials, natural resources, and the landscape to construct work that addresses the harsh realities of our ecological age.
Wilder Shorts! opens with a pair of people on stage, chatting. An actor, and a stagehand; they’re not in character, they’re simply talking.
Alumna Gina Atwater '11 recently signed a multi-year overall deal with Netflix in which she will create, write, and produce new series and other projects for the streaming service while focusing on content across multiple genres that put traditionally underrepresented characters front and center.
Two films by Columbia filmmakers received an Emmy at the 42nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards on September 29, 2021. Belly of the Beast, a feature documentary produced by alumna Angela Tucker '05, took home the Emmy in the Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary category while The Story of Plastic, a feature documentary produced by alumna Kyle Cadotte '17, won in the Outstanding Writing: Documentary category.
The Swallows of Lunetto by alumnus and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Creative Writing Joseph Fasano '08 was recently bought by Mallory Smart at Maudlin House.
Playwriting alumna Ayvaunn Penn ’18 is directing Associate Professor Lynn Nottage’s play Fabulation or, the Re-Education of Undine at Jubilee Theatre. The Jubilee Theatre is a historically Black theater located in Fort Worth, Texas.
Playwriting alumna Kristin Slaney '16 and Film alumnus Jabari McDonald '18 both participated in Outfest’s 2021 Screenwriting Lab as two of eleven writers earlier this month.
No Crying in the Garden, the debut poetry collection by alumna Michelle Dominique Burk ’16, will be published by Barnes & Noble Press on October 15, 2021.
A Poet’s Life is a series in which we talk with Columbia poets about everything from living as a poet to making a living as a poet. Here, we talk with Associate Professor Shane McCrae about the interaction of sound and sense, the influence of music on poetry, and how the world has changed since the pandemic.
Theater director Anne Bogart draws connections between visual art, performance theory, neuroscience, music, and architecture in her new book.
“It’s much more like a rhythm that’s unfolding over time. And so it requires memory. Visual and somatic memory of encountering those works, and it requires that the viewer see both parts of the show,” curator Amy Sadao said of the current installation in Lenfest Center for the Arts.