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Acting student Trí Lê has been cast in the ensemble of Shakespeare in the Park’s 2023 production of Hamlet.
Each year, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation partners with Columbia University to award a series of grants to recognize projects that excel in their depictions of scientific themes or characters.
Playwriting alumnus Matt Barbot ’17 has been awarded a $10,000 commission by Miami New Drama and the Black List to develop a new play alongside the artistic team at Miami New Drama.
The Silk Factory, a new memoir from alumnus Michael Hickins ’86 (CC ’83), is coming next month from Amsterdam Publishers.
Writing alumnus Raffi Joe Wartanian ’21 has been named the first Poet Laureate of Glendale, California.
The 2023 Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Easy Award Winners have been announced, and several Film and Media Studies alumni and faculty members are among the honorees.
Film student Christian Schifano’s short film, On Point, will be made into a feature film.
Lucky Dogs, a new novel from alumna Helen Schulman ’86, is coming soon from Knopf.
Poetry alumna Emily Simon ’21 has published her first book titled In Many Ways (Winter Editions, 2023), a lyrical essay on selfhood, memory, and language in New York City during the pandemic.
David Sedaris is the graduation speaker at this year's School of the Arts convocation ceremony on May 17, 2023. In advance of that celebration, we asked Sedaris to share his advice for the graduating class, and he doubled down on his idea of finding art in the painful and mundane.
Here, we talk to Adjunct Assistant Professor Piotr Orlov about Saturday Night Fever, mixtapes, and music storytelling.
From April 21, 2023 to March 10, 2024, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 is presenting In the Spirit of Àṣẹ at the Newark Museum of Art.
Five films from Columbia filmmakers will take part in the prestigious international 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Catherine Lacey ’10 and Adjunct Professor Brenda Wineapple have been named 2023 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
On Thursday, March 30, 2023, the School of the Arts Dean’s Council welcomed our community of alumni, parents, and generous friends to the 2023 School of the Arts Spring Party at the Lenfest Center for the Arts, honoring Dean Carol Becker for sixteen years of tremendous leadership of the School.