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The Sundance Institute recently announced its selections for the acclaimed Screenwriting Lab and Screenwriters Intensive, and several School of the Arts filmmakers were selected to participate in the two opportunities.
How To Become Stupid, a poetry chapbook by Peter Patapis ’20, has been published by Bottlecap Press.
Last December, Professor of Film and Media Studies Richard Peña reflected on his career by selecting six influential films to screen in a three-day festival at The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room in Columbia University School of the Arts's Lenfest Center for the Arts.
First-year Theatre Management and Producing student Melissa d'Arabian is working as a co-lead producer of White Rose: The Musical, a new production currently running off-Broadway at Theatre Row.
Professor David Henry Hwang is leading the creation of Billion Dollar Whale, a new television series; and nearly all the members of the show's producing and writing teams are Columbia alumni.
Writing alumni Jane Marchant ’18 (GS ’15), Meg Matich ’15, and Mary South ’14, are three among thirty-five writers who have been awarded National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships.
Invasive Species, written & directed by Film student Annie Ning and produced by Film student Aisha Amin, just screened at Slamdance Film Festival last week, in the Narrative Shorts program.
Film student Emily Everhard just won the 2024 Sundance x Sloan Episodic Fellowship for her TV pilot, Tektite, and accepted the award at the Sundance festival last week.
The 35th GLAAD Media Award nominations have been announced, honoring works which feature the talents of many Columbia filmmakers and theatre artists.
Every spring, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair is the must-attend destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. This year, a host of Columbia writers, alumni, and faculty will be stealing the show as the conference takes over Kansas City, Missouri.
Visual Arts alumna Jacqueline Silberbush '19 has published a book of photos, What Shod I be!!!!? with Dashwood Books. The book, which is an extension of her ongoing photographic series by the same title, follows the lived experiences of a young woman’s life from the moment of her birth to that of her child’s.
Nimisha Misra arrived in New York from India to achieve her goal of becoming a global filmmaker. Columbia is helping her achieve that dream.
2024 Sundance Film Festival winners were announced Friday, and two Columbia filmmakers took home prestigious awards.
Another Land of My Body, a new poetry collection by Writing alumnus Rodney Terich Leonard ’18, will be published by Four Way Books in March 2024.
On March 1 and 2, 2024, Adjunct Associate Professor of Visual Arts Pamela Sneed will direct and star in A Tribute to Big Mama Thornton at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in New York City.