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Ella in the Tundra, written by Marianna Staroselsky ’19 (Playwriting) and directed by Daniella Caggiano will be the second play performed as part of the New Plays Festival 2019 featuring nine new plays by the graduating MFA playwriting class.
Babes in the Wood, written by Emily Wiest '19 (Playwriting) and directed by Kate Bergstrom will be the first play performed as part of the New Plays Festival 2019 featuring nine new plays by the graduating MFA playwriting class.
Jessica Shields '18 was recently awarded the Humanitas Prize's Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Fellowship for her pilot Rue Pigalle. “The Humanitas prize was created to honor film and TV writers whose work inspires compassion, hope, and understanding in the human family” as stated on Deadline. “The Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Fellowship exists to recognize and reward the talents of young writers with financial support to empower them to tell meaningful stories,” according to the Humanitas Prize's website.
Pink Slipped, by Professor Jane M. Gaines was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2018.
Refuge, directed and co-written by Federico Spiazzi '18, co-written by Fernanda Frotte '17, produced by Federica Belletti '18 and co-produced by Maggie Briggs ’19 will have its world premiere at the Montclair Film Festival in early May.
Annie Jin Wang ’20 (Dramaturgy) will be the dramaturg for Flower Drum Song with book by Professor David Henry Hwang (Faculty). Directed by Lily Tung Crystal, with music direction by Amanda Ku, and choreography by Alex Hsu, the production will run from April 27 to May 12 at the Palo Alto Players in California. Flower Drum Song tells the story of Mei-Li who flees Mao's communist China after the murder of her father and finds herself in San Francisco's Chinatown.
NJ Agwuna '18 has been named as one of the renowned Drama League 2019 Directors Project fellowship.
Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts, has announced that Oskar Eustis will speak at this year’s School of the Arts Convocation, to be held Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 2 pm in Miller Theatre on the Morningside Campus. Eustis will salute the School’s MFA graduates in Film, Theatre, Visual Arts, and Writing, and MA graduates in Film and Media Studies.
South Mountain, written & directed by faculty member Hilary Brougher, made its world premiere in the Narrative Feature Competition at the South By Southwest Film Festival last March.
Three Columbia filmmakers have been nominated for 2019 BAFTA Awards in Television.
Visual Arts alumna Patrice Aphrodite Helmar '15 is in a solo exhibition at The Skirt presented by Ortega y Gasset Projects located in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Helmar’s site-specific installation, Feeling Good About Me, will be in exhibition until April 28, 2019.
Visual Arts alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor Heidi Howard '14 is in exhibition at the Queens Museum in New York until August 2019.
The Historical Range of Ursus Americanus is the next Directing Thesis premiering at Lenfest Center for the Arts tomorrow.
Paper Chase, co-written and directed by Angela Tucker ‘15 and co-written by former staff member, Lauren Domino, will be produced by Queen Latifah through her Flavor Unit production company.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to announce that Peter Jay Fernandez has been appointed Assistant Professor of Theatre.