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The Visitors by Elisabeth Frankel ’19 (Playwriting) and directed by Kathleen Capdesuñer will be the fourth play presented as part of the New Plays Festival 2019 featuring seven new plays by the graduating MFA playwriting class.
Alumna Gnaomi Siemens '18 was awarded The Poetry Society of New York Micro-Residency at The New York Public Library.
Alumna Carlie Hoffman ‘16 had her first collection of poems,This Alaska, picked up by Four Way Books, forthcoming in 2021.
Where There’s Smoke, an immersive storytelling experience created by Faculty member Lance Weiler, received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this month.
On April 3, 2019 at 6pm, the Digital Storytelling Lab (DSL) hosted its fourth-annual Breakthroughs in Storytelling awards at Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center in Lincoln Center.
Over twenty-three Columbia filmmakers were selected to participate in this year’s Tribeca Film Festival which ran from April 24 to May 5th, and several took home awards. The festival announced their winning filmmakers on May 4th marking the culmination of its 2019 Festival, where 113 feature-length films, 63 short films, and 33 immersive storytelling projects representing 44 countries were screened.
Recently, The New York Times Style Magazine, T Magazine did a special feature where they asked 15 playwrights to create original works around their visions of America set in 2024.
Acting alumna Phumzile Sitole ’16 is cast for Tori Sampson’s If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka as Kaya.
DOG by Anna Jastrzembski ’19 (Playwrighting) and directed by Katherine Wilkinson ’19 (Directing) will be the third play presented as part of the New Plays Festival 2019 featuring seven new plays by the graduating MFA playwriting class.
The Directors' Fortnight section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival has selected two features by Columbia alumni—Cancion Sin Nombre (Song Without a Name) by Melina Leon 08’, and Huo Zhe Chang Zhe (To Live to Sing) by Johnny Ma ’16.
Associate Professor Deborah Paredez was awarded a Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant from Columbia's Division of the Humanities in the Arts and Sciences for her forthcoming poetry book, Year of the Dog.
Writing professors Susan Bernofsky, Ben Marcus, and current adjunct Mitchell S. Jackson have all been named 2019-2020 Cullman Center Fellows by The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
The Learning Curve by Mandy Berman ‘15 is set for release through Random House on May 28. The book is available for preorder now.
Visiting Professor Thomas Elsaesser recently published a new book titled European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film As Thought Experiment, through Bloomsbury Media.