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Directing student Liz Peterson has been awarded one of University Life’s Social Justice Mini-Grants for 2022-2023.

Adjunct Associate Professor of Visual Arts Pamela Sneed has been awarded a Creative Capital award for the 2023 cycle.

Film alumnus Donovan Tolledo ’22 has been named one of thirty Project Involve Fellows as part of Film Independent’s Artistic programs.

The swailing, a debut poetry collection from alumnus Patrick James Errington ’15, will be released this spring from McGill-Queen's University Press.

Professor David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face will be adapted for the audio storytelling platform, Audible, as the first venture of a multi-project development deal with actor, director, and producer Daniel Dae Kim. 

Sound Art alumna Lauren Covey ’21 has recently been named an Associated Artist by Culture Push, where she will receive fiscal, institutional and creative support for a project called Sonic Portraits of NY.

Kate Saccone ’13, an alumna of the Film and Media Studies Program, was invited to curate a program of films titled New Beginnings as part of the Netherland Silent Film Festival—the biggest film festival in the Netherlands in the field of Silent Film. 

In her first book, Butts, journalist Heather Radke ’19 takes a serious look at a cheeky topic. 

Three Columbia alumni have collaborated on a highly anticipated new film from A24 and AppleTV titled Sharper, set to release in select theaters and on Apple’s streaming service on February 17, 2023. 

Tiffani Swalley presents Medea for The School of the Arts's fifth directing thesis production this year. The timeless play meditates on taking fate into one's own hands and asks how far one would go to take back one's life. In our interview, Tiffani describes her inspiration for the production, and why this version of a 2,000 year old story is relatable to a modern audience.

Directing alumnus Carl Cofield ’14, Associate Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH), directs CTH’s one-week-only production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

Theatre Management & Producing student Talia Escobedo has been awarded a Cody Renard Richard Scholarship. The scholarship, founded by Adjunct Assistant Professor Cody Renard Richard, seeks to uplift and support the next generation of theatre leaders of color.

Visual Arts students Kevin Cobb and Nick Farhi, and alumnus Elzie Williams III '22, are participating in MZ.25 (My Condolences), a reimagined group exhibition at the renowned M+B Gallery in Los Angeles, California. 

Visual Arts student Kat Lowish and alumni Asif Mian ’21, Emma Schwartz ’19, and Elzie Williams III ’22 are featured in Thierry Goldberg Gallery’s group show, True Alchemy.

The 73rd Berlin International Film Festival will take place February 16–26, 2023.