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Poetry alumnus Adam O. Davis '06 is a 2019 winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, presented by Sarbande Books. As winner, Davis will release his first poetry collection, Index of Haunted Houses.
At the Jerusalem Film Festival, House of Hummingbird, written and directed by alumna Bora Kim ‘11, won the prize for best first feature in the International category.
Acting alumnae Folami Williams '16 and Emily Murphy '17 are set to join the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Legendary producer Sheila Nevins and MTV picked up St. Louis Superman, a short documentary directed by two Columbia alumni, Sami Khan '09 and Smriti Mundhra '09. St. Louis Superman tells the tale of Bruce Franks Jr., a Ferguson activist and battle rapper who was elected to the overwhelmingly white and Republican Missouri House of Representatives, who must overcome both personal trauma and political obstacles to pass a critical bill for his community. The documentary first premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival New York in 2019.
Four Visual Arts faculty members are featured in Venice Bienniale's 58th Annual Art Exhibition, running May 11 to November 24, 2019.
Peak Performances at Montclair State University will present the world premiere of Falling & Loving, a play written by Obie Award-winning Professor Charles L. Mee and directed by School of Arts Directing Concentration Head Professor Anne Bogart, on September 24, 2019.
The Black List and Women In Film, Los Angeles announced the participants in their 2019 Feature Residency program as well as their Annual Feature Lab, and alumni Anya Meksin '11 and Jimmy Keyrouz '16 both had projects selected by the Annual Feature Lab.
Current students Henry Anker, Patrick Bayly, Susan M B Chen, Yifan Jiang, James J.A. Mercer, Kathryn Ann Miller, Stipan Tadic, Kiyomi Taylor, Meredith Pence Wilson, and Mark Yang all have work on display as a part of Columbia’s MFA Painting Show, Whams of Summer, curated by Ki Smith. The exhibition is on view from August 3-August 24, 2019 at the Ki Smith Gallery in Harlem.
Visual arts alum N. Dash '10 has a solo show on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
The 76th Venice International Film Festival, which is the oldest film festival in the world, selected two shorts by Columbia filmmakers this year.
Columbia School of the Arts faculty and alumni were recently named NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program Recipients and Finalists by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Stephanie Falkeis, a current Film student, was chosen to participate in the Telluride Student Symposium at the 46th Annual Telluride Film Festival.
Alumnus Sameh Zoabi's ‘05 and Professor Dan Kleinman’s film Tel Aviv on Fire opened to glowing reviews and has been nominated for four Israeli “Ophir” Awards.
Léa & I, a documentary written and directed by current nonfiction writing student Camille Shooshani, premiered on Netflix on August 2, 2019.
Bat Out of Hell, the musical based on the Meat Loaf album featuring songs by Jim Steinman and directed by alumnus Jay Scheib '02, debuted in New York to rave reviews last week. The musical is showing Off-Broadway at New York City Center and will run through September 8, 2019. The Bat Out of Hell musical made its official debut at the Manchester Opera House in the winter of 2017, then played in London and Toronto over the next two years. Scheib is quoted saying he was interested in Bat Out of Hell specifically because of its reputation as an unstageable…