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Ramin Bahrani discusses If Dreams Were Lightning with Wafaa El-Sadr.

Ghina Fawaz is an MFA student in the Theatre Program at School of the Arts. When she isn’t creating her own dramatic projects at Columbia, she is most likely in the audience at one of countless productions that take place all over the city.

Theatre Professor and Directing Concentration Head Anne Bogart has reunited with famed avant-garde La MaMa resident theatre group, Talking Band, to direct Existentialism, running through March 10, 2024.

Writing alumna Terese Svoboda '78 has recently published The Long Swim (MIT Press, 2023), a compelling collection of stories exploring womanhood and humanity that was awarded the Juniper Prize for Fiction last year.

Climate change has been in our cultural discourse for decades, with artists often wielding their work to bring people’s attention to the state of the environment. Director and playwright Adam Marple ’10 is taking this idea to the next level, along with longtime collaborator, playwright Steven Gaultney ’11.

Alumni Spotlights is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.

Winners of the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards were announced last week, and several Columbia filmmakers brought home major awards. 

 

 

 

Rankine read from her new work-in-progress ‘Triage’ and discussed the current political moment.

Theatre alumna Cha Ramos '21, a fight directing specialist, brings her expertise to the Broadway stage in the highly anticipated musical adaptation of Sara Gruen's critically acclaimed bestseller, Water for Elephants, which premiered on February 24, 2024 at the Imperial Theatre.

The 74th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival came to a close last weekend, and two films by School of the Arts filmmakers won big at the festival.

Writing alumna Meg Matich ’15 has translated Ásta Sigurðardóttir's Nothing To Be Rescued (Nordisk Books, 2023), introducing her stories to English-speaking readers for the first time.

From March 8 until April 20, 2024, the prestigious Rachel Uffner Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side will present Plan B, the second solo exhibition by Visual Arts Alumna Susan Chen ’20.

Bicheng Liang ’21 and Yixuan Shao ’21, the artistic duo that comprises Alchemyverse, met in the Visual Arts + Sound Art Program at the School of the Arts.

Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films have announced the official release date of We Grown Now, a coming-of-age film executive produced by Professor of Professional Practice James Schamus.

Miami's Rubell Museum and Miami New Drama have partnered up to present The Museum Plays, a series of six new plays running from February through March at the Rubell Museum. The series is co-directed by Theatre alumni Michel Hausmann ’14 and Tatiana Pandiani ’16.