News
Hulu and 20th Century Fox’s Digital Studio have partnered up for the third time to premiere the Bite Size Halloween series, which includes Fracture, a science fiction short film written and directed by Jon K. Jones ‘21.
Entering into the world of Visual Arts alumna Julia Phillips ’15 is like entering into a dream: nothing is certain, everything doubles, even triples, as something else.
Past Lives is an interview series with School of the Arts Writing faculty, students, and alumni who began their professional lives on different career paths. Here, we talk to Adjunct Associate Professor Joshua Furst about his time as an eight-year-old dramaturg, commercial art vs. self-expression, and finding your literary voice.
In Theatre in Motion, we discuss theatre's movement across stages, through time, and within communities with its creators and practitioners. We talked about theatre’s history and how that history resonates on stages today with Adjunct Professor, Dr. Peter Campbell ’97 (GSAS ’03).
If you have never heard Professor Margo Jefferson (JN ‘71) speak aloud—and I would encourage you to try to do so as soon as possible—you should imagine that each word she utters appears in a different font.
Second year Dramaturgy student, Cami Rose Hancock, is working as a dramaturg for New York City Center’s upcoming Annual Gala Presentation of Parade. The production runs for seven performances only, from November 1–6, 2022.
Dear fellow members of the Columbia community, I write to share that Carol Becker, Dean of our School of the Arts, plans to step down at the end of this academic year.
Film Program alumna Ida Yazdi ’22 has been selected to join the 2022-23 class of the NBC TV Writers Program.
Friend of the Pod, a new novella from Associate Professor Sam Lipsyte, is out now from Picture Books, an imprint dedicated to publishing fiction by leading authors alongside contributions by celebrated contemporary artists. The series, conceived by Emma Cline ’13, author of Daddy (Random House, 2020) and The Girls (Random House, 2016), pairs each writer with an artist.
The School of the Arts dean will speak about Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal, both writers, priests, and revolutionaries who attended Columbia.
Playwriting alumnus Harrison David Rivers ’09, alongside Ethan Pakchar and Douglas Lyons, workshopped the new musical, Five Points, at Discovering Broadway Inc.’s fifth Writer’s Retreat in Indiana.
Writing Assistant Professor Lynn Xu will partake in a solo exhibition of her book-length poem And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson.
Joseph Liatela ’22 presents Nothing Under Heaven at The Montclair State University Galleries this fall, marking his first solo museum show.
The Confessions of Matthew Strong, a work of historical fiction by alumnus Ousmane K. Power-Greene ’21, is out next week from Other Press.
In a flourish of literary expression, Columbia Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing graduates Kai-Lilly Karpman and Zoe Engels presented their works, as well as their fellow translators and writers from Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) who participated in the Word for Word workshop in 2020-2022.