News
Cove, a third book of poetry by alumnus James Brasfield ’79, is out now from Louisiana State University Press.
PEN America has announced the longlist for their 2023 Literary Awards, naming three Columbia authors in the fields of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction.
Fall 2022 Adjunct Assistant Professor Lloyd Suh has won a 2022-2023 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for The Far Country.
Adjunct Professor of Visual Arts Shirly Bahar has been awarded a Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship to be carried out at the University of Michigan.
Acting alumna Jensen Austria Olaya ’12 voices Jade’s mother, Gram Gram, and friend Lucy in the new animated TV series Jade Armor.
Public Obscenities, a new play written and directed by Directing alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, will begin performances on February 15, 2023 at Soho Rep.
Composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Hahn Rowe has taken up residence in The Lantern at the Lenfest Center for the Arts and is building a unique performance that is the culmination of the musical tools and processes he has spent his career building. The latest in Columbia’s To Transform series of public programs, the work—titled Something about the weather—will premiere on January 31, 2023, and February 1, 2023.
This year’s Joe A. Callaway Award for directing has been awarded to alumnus Saheem Ali ’07 for his work on James Ijames’ Fat Ham.
Come Here (2021), a film by Assistant Professor Anocha Suwichakornpong ’06, will be screened at the e-flux Screening Room in Brooklyn, New York on January 26, 2023, at 7pm ET.
Visual Artist Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 is featured in multiple shows this year, from the Bamako Encounters—African Biennale of Photography in Mali and a group exhibition in the Goodman Gallery in Capetown/Johannesburg, South Africa, to a show in the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
This March, Lone Women, the newest novel by Associate Professor Victor LaValle ’98, will be released from One World.
Dramaturgy alumna Anne Hamilton ’94 co-authored Dramaturgy: The Basics with Walter Byongsok Chon.
Second-year Film student Alex Bateman has been awarded the American Australian Association Arts Grant, which provides financial assistance, mentorship, and a global network of fellow artists.
Over the course of 2023, three Visual Arts alumni will partake in the prestigious month-long Fountainhead Residency.
Fuccboi, a debut novel from Sean Thor Conroe ’21, is now out in paperback from Back Bay Books.