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Theatre student Kanika Vaish directs Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj for SoHo Shakespeare Company. 

Looking forward to the start of first-year production in just a little over a month from now. Checking in to update and re-brief you on some of the production specifics

The American Literary Translators Association recently announced that alumna Shoshana Akabas '18 is among the recipients of its 2020 Virtual ALTA Travel Fellowship.  

Film and Media Studies alumna Kate Saccone '13 programmed and co-hosted an outdoor, paddle-in screening of Filibus: The Mysterious Air Pirate (1915) for The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club earlier this month.

When School of Arts Dean Carol Becker imagined the theme of Repair for the 2020-2021 Public Programs and Engagement season, she was thinking about the election. 

Vichitra by Theatre alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, an episodic, audiovisual project, will be produced at The Bushwick Starr this winter. Chowdhury’s Vichitra is “the fourth installment of an experiment in queer South Asian imagination,” where “Carnatic classical music is the shapeshifting protagonist.”

Theatre alumnae Daaimah Mubashshir ’15, Gethsemane Herron-Coward ’19, Zizi Majiid ’20, and Katherine Wilkinson ’19 have been selected for the 2020-2021 Women’s Project Theater Lab. 

Paint, co-produced by film alumnus Gabriel Wilson ’19, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at Dances with Films this past August. Must Love Pie, written and directed by film alumnus Patrick Clement ’20, and Diabla, produced by film alumna Maya Korn ’19, were also featured at the festival. 

Four Columbia alumni had their films screened at the Short Shorts Film Festival (SSFF & ASIA) in Tokyo. Greenhouse, a short film written & directed by Xixi Wang '19  and produced by Haichao Fang '19, screened on Monday.

Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art is a bi-weekly series and a play on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. We interview artists about their art and 'getting art'.

The Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center hosted Associate Professor Hilton Als in honor of the center’s 20th anniversary. 

Welcome to the second first edition of On A Global Scale! This bi-weekly series is a continuation of last year’s series that celebrates the international spirit of the Columbia University film program and the incredible global collaborations coming out of it.

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, the new documentary by Professor Trey Ellis won an Emmy at the 41st News & Documentary Emmy Awards last night. 

The Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School has awarded theatre alumna Anna Rebek ’20 the 2020-2021 Opera Directing Fellowship, a nine-month program. 

Alumna Nadja Marcin ’10 is showing in a group exhibition Even the rocks reach out to kiss you at Transpalette - Centre d'art Contemporain in Bourges, France.