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Theatre alum Nadia Foskolou '08 has recently translated Declan Donnellan's seminal text, The Actor and the Target, which has been published in Greece by the prestigious Patakis Publishers.
2nd Murderer, a new play by Theatre alum Kanika Asavari Vaish '22 opened October 9, 2025 at The Flea Theater in Downtown Manhattan and will run until November 1, 2025.
On October 17, Netflix premiered The Twits, an animated retelling of Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s book, co-directed and co-written by Film alum Phil Johnston '04.
Writing alum Eduardo Martinez-Leyva '15 has been awarded the 2025 Lammy Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry for his book Cowboy Park (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024).
Film student Çağla Demirbaş, an award-winning filmmaker, flexed her chops behind the camera at 212 Photography Istanbul, which sprawled across the city this autumn from September 29 to October 12.
The 37th edition of NewFest wrapped on October 21, 2025 and Film alum Nana Duffour '25 emerged as one of the night’s brightest stars, sweeping three top honors across the Jury, Audience and Emerging Black LGBTQ+ Filmmaker categories.
Writing alum Kevin Wang '22 published his translation of Terao Tetsuya's Spent Bullets with HarperVia on October 14, 2024.
Film alum Mounia Akl '17 has directed three episodes of Netflix’s show House of Guinness, created by the same team as Peaky Blinders.
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Columbia artists in major new Dia Art Foundation commission by Duane Linklater, Duane Linklater: 12 + 2, and its accompanying performance series, buffalounit for bison bison (dance_hum for dirtbath).
Professors Wanda Strauven and Alexandra Schneider showcased children’s cinematic expressions from past and present.
The latest exhibition on view in Columbia University Butler Library's third-floor display cases, Streets Taken, features photographs by prominent New York photojournalist Edward Schwartz from the Butler Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML) alongside new works by MFA Visual Arts student Francisco Javier Ramírez.
Theatre alum Liba Vaynberg has been selected as one of two playwrights for the 2025 Roundabout Underground Playwright Residency.
Tony Award-winning producer and Theatre alum Barbara Whitman '05 is set to receive the James C. Hormel Spirit of Tectonic Award from Tectonic Theatre Project at their annual benefit gala, A Tectonic Cabaret, on Monday October 25, 2025.
For Zefan Wang, SoA ’25, what started out as a casual browse of film festival submission platforms ended with him accepting a trophy bestowed by filmmaker Jon M. Chu.