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The Public Theater's inaugural Judith Champion New Work Series will feature work by Directing alum Shayok Misha Chowdhury '16 and a play directed by Adjunct Assistant Professor Saheem Ali '06.
Writing alum Carolyn Jack '16 explores family trauma and the world of opera in her debut novel The Changing of Keys, released in August by Regal House Publishing.
Seth Cluett, prolific multi-hyphenate in the arts and academia who serves as Director at Columbia’s Computer Music Center and Assistant Director of the Sound Art MFA Program, debuted two new works on Sunday, September 22 in a show at the historic Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn.
Visual Arts student Lukeson Michael Igwe and alum Andie Carver ‘24 were selected as 2024 recipients of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant. The Foundation was created in 1955 by Charles Glass Greenshields in memory of his mother, Elizabeth.
In diva-like fashion, Deborah Paredez, associate professor of professional practice in writing at the School of the Arts and chair of the School of the Arts Writing Program, captured the attention of the audience in the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room.
A message from Katrina Armstrong, Interim President of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Theatre alum Saheem Ali ’07 will direct the Broadway premiere of Buena Vista Social Club, a musical inspired by the story of the eponymous Cuban band and their Grammy Award-winning album. 2006 Prince Fellow Orin Wolf will produce the musical, which opens next spring at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
Adjunct Professor Brenda Wineapple's latest book, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation, explores the infamous 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial." Published by Random House in August, the book examines the trial of John T. Scopes, a Tennessee school teacher prosecuted for teaching the theory of evolution, through the lens of America's ongoing struggles with religious fundamentalism and the teaching of science.
Several projects by School of the Arts filmmakers, including faculty, alumni, and students are on the slate for this year's Gotham Week Project Market.
Visual Arts alum Meaghan Elyse ’23 has a new show at The Boiler, ELM Foundation titled Lighthouse of Moth. Reflecting upon waste, violence against the earth and other bodies, this work asks: can the frequency of a body be felt across a room? Across the earth?
Calvin Atkinson presents Sally for the School of the Arts's first Directing Thesis production this year. Sally is a reworking and reimagining of Jerome Kern’s forgotten 1921 gem that queries the iconic “rags to riches” story and examines the early American musical itself. Featuring a new book by playwriting student Meg Ledford and new orchestrations by New School MM composer Calvin Hitchcock, the show interrogates the American Dream as it seemed to be in the 1920s, from today’s vantage point.
Visual Arts Professor Sarah Sze played an integral role during the New York Mets’s 7-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox last Tuesday night. The evening kicked off with a flourish as Professor Sze threw out the ceremonial first pitch, and the first 15,000 attendees received a baseball cap featuring a fragmented blue-and-orange globe designed by Sze.
Writing alum Rachel Kushner ’01 was officially confirmed to the 2024 Booker Prize shortlist on Monday, for her novel Creation Lake.
Several Columbia Alumni and Students feature in this year’s NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program, its 39th edition. 10 different Columbia alumni are represented across three disciplines, including five Fellows, three Finalists, and two Panelists.
The 76th Emmy Awards were held in Los Angeles on Sunday night, with numerous Columbia alums and their affiliated shows dominating the primetime ceremony. The Creative Arts Emmys, which focus primarily on behind-the-camera craft awards, were held a week earlier, and Columbia-affiliated shows also took home several wins.