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A group of speakers involved in the creation of The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia gathered this month for a conversation exploring the history, form, and process behind the creation of the powerful new memorial.
On Thursday, The Center for Fiction announced the winners of their 2020 NYC Emerging Writer Fellowship, among them alumnae Raluca Albu '18 and Sasha von Oldershausen '19.
MFA Film, Second Year Students, Chair Update 10-16-2020
MFA Film, First Year Students, Chair Update 10-16-2020
The American Theatre Wing announced the 74th Annual Tony Award nominations today, which include many Columbia faculty, alumni, and students. In total, 24 Columbia artists worked on 12 Tony Award nominated productions, earning a collective total of 93 nominations at the 2020 Tony Awards.
Film students Kathy Esquenazi-Mitrani and Aliza Brugger are currently on a strong, respective festival run. Buzzkill, a short film written and directed by Esquenazi-Mitrani and co-produced by Brugger and student Manqing Cang, will have its world premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival, where it will screen digitally from October 14-25 as part of the Shorts 5 program.
Welcome to another edition of On A Global Scale. This bi-weekly series celebrates the international spirit of the Columbia University film program and the incredible global collaborations coming out of it.
The Tree - An American Rock Musical, co-written by Playwriting Student Alle Mims, will be staged by Dallas’ Imprint Theatreworks from October 29 to November 14, 2020.
The 27th edition of the Austin Film Festival is coming up with two films by Columbia filmmakers included in the virtual line up.
The Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival kicked off its third year (and first virtual run) this month with a reading of Rarámuri Dreams written by Camila Villegas. Villegas is a Mexican playwright who after studying economics and living for two years with the Tarahumaras—an indigenous community of Northern Mexico—redirected her career towards theatre.
Last week, the Poetry Society of America announced that alumnus Nathan Xavier Osorio '16 won a 2020 30 & Under Chapbook Fellowship.
Poetry Alumna Elizabeth Metzger ’15 pays tribute to former undergraduate writing student, 2020 Nobel Prize recipient, Louise Glück through a meditation on her poetry of transformation and the power of reading it in a global pandemic.
Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.