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Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.
Diversity in Film is a bi-weekly series covering underrepresented groups in Film.
This week, we sat down with recent graduate Rtusha Kulkarni ’19 to discuss how her cinephile parents changed her life, learning not to whitewash her own characters, and the importance of diversity in TV writers’ rooms. Kulkarni is an Indian American writer, director, and producer from Minnesota.
Alumna NJ Agwuna ’18 was selected as a Director for The Drama League 2020 DirectorFest.
Alumna Gnaomi Siemens '18 was recently awarded an ALTA Travel Fellowship given every year to a select group of emerging translators.
Professor Susanna Coffey will have a solo exhibit opening November 20, 2019 at the Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in New York.
Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State, written by poetry alumnus Nick Neely ’14, was published this month by Counterpoint Press.
First Time, written & directed by current student Shu Gao and produced by current student Molly Jiang, won the Best Director Award at the sixth annual Portland Comedy Film Festival last week.
Alumna Patricia Treib ’06 currently has a solo show at the Kate MacGarry gallery in London.
The last and coming weeks have been great for Faculty Member and Directing Concentration Supervisor Tom Kalin.
On A Global Scale is a bi-weekly series about international co-productions by Columbia filmmakers.
On the heels of a sold-out run at 59E59 Theaters earlier this year, New Light Theater Project's production of Imagining Madoff picks up Stage Management alumna Caitlyn Annelise Dominguez ’19 for its Off Broadway transfer. Dominguez joins the show as Production Stage Manager with its transfer to Theatre Row.
The Cherry Orchard directed by current student Kelly O’Donnell opens Friday, November 15th at the Theatre @ Schapiro, at Columbia University. This production brings MFA students from both Columbia and New York University together to produce the two hour play with a cast of fourteen actors and four musicians.
Columbia MFA Acting Thesis Where Do We Live brings conversation around sexuality, relationships, and community to the forefront. For the second of two thesis productions featuring the Columbia MFA Actors presented at Lenfest this November, 20-23, Where Do We Live examines the path to self-expression and identity in the face of oppression.
We sat down with cast member Clayton David McInerney to discuss decompressing when performing heavy material, his aspirations, and Where Do We Live.
Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art is a bi-weekly series and a play on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.