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Acting alumna Heather Alicia Simms ’96 will star as Mrs. Drinkwater in the New York premiere of Des Moines at Theatre for a New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
Coming next month from Common Consent Press is East Winds, a new memoir by alumna Rachel Rueckert ’21.
Kevin Cobb creates remarkable works on canvas, paper, panel, and the screen. An artist of many trades, to which he brings a tremendous amount of generosity of care and spirit, Kevin is also one of the Visual Arts Program’s student representatives.
Here, we talk with Theatre Associate Professor María José Contreras Lorenzini about her career as an artist, the perks of blending theory and practice, and why we should aim to be rigorously undisciplined.
A new play by Acting alumna Liba Vaynberg, The Gett, will have its world premiere at Rattlestick Theater.
Film Chair and Associate Professor Jack Lechner has written three original songs that will be featured in Big Shot, a new dance narrative from The Chase Brock Experience.
Theatre alumni Benita de Wit ’16, Alison R. Simone ’19, and Robbie Armstrong ’22 work on Straight Line Crazy, currently running at The Shed.
The Changing of Keys, a debut novel from alumna Carolyn Jack ’16, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing in 2024.
Her topic is the power of stories, especially those about the stranger, the diasporic wanderer.
Playwriting alumna Rehana Lew Mirza ’07 will present Words We Believe at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 2022 New Works Festival in Saratoga, California. Audiences have two opportunities to see the new show: November 9 and 13, 2022.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to announce a new addition to the Film MFA Program: the Writing for Film & Television concentration. This three-year program is designed specifically for students whose main focus is writing.
Assistant Professor Wes Enzinna has been awarded the prestigious Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.
The 34th Annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, NewFest, kicked off this year on October 13. Two Columbia filmmakers and Film faculty member Tom Kalin screened their films.
For the first of two thesis productions featuring Columbia MFA actors presented at Lenfest this fall, the company of Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven shows the effects of displacement on a group of women seeking refuge at a shelter. We sat down with cast member and Acting student Katherine George to discuss her acting process and the upcoming production.
For the first of two thesis productions featuring Columbia MFA actors presented at Lenfest this fall, the company of Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven shows the effects of displacement on a group of women seeking refuge at a shelter. We sat down with cast member and Acting student Tenneh Sillah to discuss her acting process and the upcoming production.