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We recently reconnected with Jelani Cobb and Trey Ellis. Cobb is the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism and a staff writer at the New Yorker.
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, the new documentary by Professor of Professional Practice Trey Ellis just won a Peabody Award.
Professor Emerita Kristin Linklater passed away at the end of last week. She was in her home on the Orkney Islands, where she went to live and teach after retiring from the Theatre Program and the School of the Arts in 2014. She was a legendary master teacher whose unique voice training techniques have influenced generations of actors and educators. I was always inspired by her brilliance, depth and fierceness. She was a great advocate for women artists and for women in leadership roles as well. Together with Andrea Haring we developed a program called “Taking the Stage” for…
Columbia Transportation and Public Safety have partnered with Via to transition Evening Shuttle service to an on-demand app-based system.
Theatre alumna Ashley Tata '12 launched her livestream production of Mad Forest, a co-production of Theater for a New Audience and the Fisher Center at Bard College. The show played online three times between May 22 and May 27 with quarantined Bard acting students from 14 remote locations via Zoom.
The Brooklyn-based gallery Kunstraum LLC presents work from alumna Nadja Verena Marcin ’10 at the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) FAIR. The FAIR is a new art fair initiative designed to be entirely online, function cooperatively, and act as a benefit for NADA’s community of galleries, nonprofits and artists. According to NADA, “A percentage from each sale made from FAIR will directly benefit all participating galleries and artists. In addition, a percentage of each sale will go towards supporting NADA for their efforts in producing FAIR, their continued work…
Adjunct Associate Theatre Professor Deborah Brevoort was hired by the Florida Studio Theatre (FST), a regional theatre in Sarasota Florida, to participate in a nationwide new play initiative called the Playwrights Project which sets out to create new work for the stage. She is one of 33 playwrights, sketch comedy writers, and musical theatre developers who will be working on a full length play under the current title The Drolls which will be considered for future production on FST's Mainstage. With funding from the Paycheck Protection Program, all participants…
Due to the global pandemic, the Cannes Film Festival did not take place under its usual conditions from May 12 to May 23 this year, but that didn’t stop the organizers from revealing its 2020 lineup. Four films by Columbia filmmakers are listed among the 56 movies chosen for the Official Selection picked out of a total of 2,067 feature films submitted.
Tales from the Mano River is a site-specific mural by visual artist Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18. It was curated by Kalia Brooks Nelson and commissioned by Miller Theatre—where it has been viewed by thousands of concertgoers since September 2019. Fawundu’s haunting composited images of the West African river extend her research into the water deity, Mami Wata. We were happy to reconnect with them in early May.
Alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19 won the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry with their book Slingshot.
Work by alumna Vesna Pavlović ’07 is currently included in Viral Self-Portraits, an online exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
I write to you in the midst of the deep pain and understandable outrage many at the School, the University, in this country, and around the world are feeling as a result of the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. The protests we are witnessing across the U.S. are in response to these killings and to the many other abuses, injustices, and indignities that have been visited upon people of color, particularly upon brown and black people.
Current Writing student Taylor Michael was selected as the inaugural A Public Space Editorial Fellow. This new fellowship for aspiring editors aims to support the next generation of editorial talent and encourages a more diverse publishing community. She was chosen among almost 200 applications and began her work in March.
Adjunct Associate Writing Professor Benjamin Taylor’s new memoir Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth was published by Penguin Random House on May 19, 2020 to much praise.
Sorry for Your Trouble, his fourteenth work of fiction, is “a book of short stories about Irish Americans—or, Americans in Ireland.”