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Recent alumnus David Mar Stefansson ’19 is set to write for the new original Netflix show Katla, co-created by the award-winning Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and showrunner Sigurjón Kjartansson.
Alumna Kim Katzberg ’09 wins the 2019 New York Innovative Theatre Award in the Outstanding Solo Performance category for her production of Dad in a Box. This is Katzberg’s second award. She previously took home the 2016 award for Outstanding Original Short Script. An acclaimed actor and writer, Katzberg has debuted original work at alternative performance series all over New York. She has performed at the Bushwick Starr in Catch Performance Series, dead darlings at Judson Memorial Church, Showgasm at Ars Nova, The Upstart Festival at BAX and the OBIE Award-winning Little Theatre…
Diversity in Film is a bi-weekly series covering underrepresented groups in Film.
Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.
Reprisal, a series directed by alumnus Jonathan Van Tulleken ’10, will premiere on Hulu in December.
Alumnus Jeffrey James Keyes ’10 recently won the top prize in Creative Technology at the 2019 NYC Media Lab for his work on Digital Arrest. The NYC Media Lab awarded $25,000 in prizes to projects that represent the creativity, technical depth and potential impact of the latest ideas in emerging media.
The Edge of Democracy, co-written & associate produced by current student Moara Passoni, was nominated for two Critics' Choice Documentary Awards for Best Political Documentary and Best Narration.
Directing Alumnus Rory McGregor '17 writes, directs, and produces Conway which will be presented at TheaterLab. McGregor recently served as the Associate Director for the Broadway production Sea Wall/A Life starring non degree Columbia College alumnus Jake Gyllenhaal ’02 and Tom Sturridge. McGregor also served as the Associate Director for Ink on Broadway this past spring, and he directed the world premiere of Nick Payne's short play Interior, at the Summer Shorts Festival this year at 59E59.
Three Columbia alumni and one current student were nominated for Gotham Awards last week.
This year, sound art alumna Lemon Guo ’18 was an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Sophie Shen.
In St. Petersburg, Russia, alumna Alexandra “Sasha” Lerman ’12 will have a solo exhibit opening this Saturday, running until Nov. 3, 2019. The exhibit is called Soldiers of the Sun or the Right to Future Tense, and will be shown as part of the ProArte festival, “Contemporary Art at the Traditional Museum.”
From Oct. 30 to Nov. 3, recent alumna Hinda Weiss ’19 will have a solo show in Basis Projektraum, in Frankfurt, Germany. The show, Frankfurt Notes, features Weiss’s new works she made in the last three months as part of her residency at AIR_Frankfurt in partnership with Artport TLV. This exhibition is part of the Frankfurt Jewish Culture Weeks program for 2019.
A number of films by Columbia filmmakers are screening at this year’s Austin Film Festival. The festival started last week and will run through October 31.
The opening reception for the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery’s latest show took place on October 25 from 6-8 pm. The show, titled Waiting for Omar Gatlato: Contemporary Art from Algeria and its Diaspora, borrows its title from a 1979 publication on early Algerian film, edited by Wassyla Tamzali, which references Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and Merzak Allouache’s 1976 cult classic film Omar Gatlato.