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WalkUpArts produces Baby Jessica’s Well-Made Play, penned by alumnus Philip Santos Schaffer ’18 with dramaturgy by alumna and staff member Anna Woodruff ’18, is a phone adventure to the bottom of the well and back again.
Assistant Professor Sable Elyse Smith has work in the MoMA PS1 group exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration with her piece “Pivot II” and other works.
Adjunct Associate Professor Deborah Brevoort pened the libretto to Dinner 4 3, an opera inspired by Boccaccio’s The Decameron (Day 5, Story 10). Brevoort wrote the 10-minute opera with composer Michale Ching.
Dramaturgy student Yibin (Bill) Wang is the Associate Director of the Artistic Department for the inaugural B·O·N·D International Virtual Live Performance Festival.
Columbia Stage Managers are working on exciting artistic projects on Broadway, off Broadway, on tour, and internationally.
The documentary, Totally Under Control, chronicling the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, co-directed and produced by alumna Ophelia Harutyunyan ’15, with Alex Gibney and Suzanne Hillinger also directing, will be released by NEON this month.
Theatre alumni Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, Celine Song ’14, and Mei Ann Teo ’14 will be guest speakers in The Path Forward Virtual Conference, which aims to teach artists new tools for success in the pandemic era.
This week, the Center for Fiction announced that Adjunct Assistant Professor Hilary Leichter '19 has been shortlisted for the 2020 First Novel Prize for her novel, Temporary (Coffee House Press, 2020).
Theatre Acting alumnus Neil D’Astolfo ’13 voices characters on CBS All Access’ Tooning out the News and on Showtime’s Our Cartoon President. Both shows are executively produced by Stephen Colbert.
Associate Professor and Director of the Translation program Susan Bernofsky took part in the 2020 Translating the Future conference last week, which was co-sponsored by the PEN Translation Committee, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. Bernofsky is an award-winning literary translator, and she has translated the works of Robert Walser, Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Uljana Wolf, and others.
The Catch, a short film directed by alumna Thais Drassinower '18 and written by alumna Camila Zavala '19, screened virtually at NewFilmmakers Los Angeles's (NFMLA) Latinx & Hispanic Cinema Festival. NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences teamed up for the annual NFMLA Film Festival InFocus: Latinx & Hispanic Cinema Festival, presented virtually, in collaboration with the streaming platform Seed&Spark.
I’m No Longer Here (Ya No Estoy Aquí), a film written and directed by alumnus Fernando Frías de la Parra '15 and produced by alumnus Gerry Kim '11 won big at the Ariel Awards for Mexican Cinema, sweeping the trophies in 10 categories including the Best Film and Best Director sections.
Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.
Alumnus Duy Hoàng '17 is featured in a group exhibition, Art Off-Screen, in New York and in The 2020 Festival Images Vevey in Switzerland.
“You’ve seen vaudeville acts. You’ve seen comedies where fat people fall. Now come and witness a daring vaudeville comedy act starring a Fat person. Enter, if you dare,” warns playwriting student Greg T. Nanni who stars in his one man show FAT.