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The famous John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath is getting a television reboot, and Associate Professor Ramin Bahrani (CC ‘96) is set to write and direct the series.
Award-winning theatre group The Civilians has announced that Dramaturgy alumna Elizagrace Madrone ’20 is one of the artists selected for the group’s 23-24 R&D Group. Playwriting alumnus Kareem Fahmy ’07 has also been named one of two inaugural artists in a new project by The Civilians, The Next Forever: New Stories for a Changing Planet.
For Visual Arts alumna Daria Irincheeva '18, whose solo show at big screen in Brooklyn has been extended until December 3, 2023, memory serves as both catalyst and subject.
Until November 26, 2023, the walls of Wave Hill Gardens’ Glyndor Gallery are bursting with color. The gallery is exhibiting paintings by two Visual Arts alumni, Heidi Howard ’14 and Esteban Cabeza de Baca ’14 in a show entitled, Light from Water.
Daniel Byers '22 recently won the Austin Film Festival Jury Prize for Horror, for his feature screenplay Paradise. The screenplay was selected from over 11,000 submissions this year.
Writing alumna Chyana Marie Sage ’23 is set to publish her memoir Soft as Bones with House of Anansi in January 2025.
In Dramatic Influences, we catch up with Columbia Theatre artists and ask them about the things that keep them up at night. What drives these individuals, even as it drives them crazy? This week we spoke with Directing alumnus Kareem Fahmy ’07 about Edward Albee, Wikipedia plays, and Princess Diana.
Rachel Chavkin ’08 is directing the new musical Lempicka which is headed to Broadway in March of next year.
In Stagecraft, a survey of photographic works by Visual Arts alumna Vesna Pavlović ’07 on view at the Harriman Institute until December 15, 2023, one encounters a time capsule of emotion.
The Heart of Rock and Roll, a new musical coming to Broadway in March, features the stage management expertise of two Columbia University faculty members.
Brysen Boyd ’20 has been named one of twelve finalists for the 21st annual Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship.
The newest Kilroys List has been released, featuring plays by Gethsemane Herron ’19 and Playwriting student Katie Đỗ.
On October 4, 2023, poet Kim Hyesoon joined her decade-long translator and fellow poet Don Mee Choi for a special evening at Columbia University School of the Arts’s Lenfest Center for the Arts, where they read excerpts from their work and spoke about their creative processes and experimentation.
We talk with Assistant Professor Chloé Cooper Jones about writing as a safe space, the tension within the self, and how writers can build their unique lens through which to view the world.
Writing Program alumnus Paolo Iacovelli '21 will publish his debut novel with Clash Books in July 2024.