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In this series, we catch up with Columbia Film Professors and ask them to dish on what they're watching right now, which movies and shows blew them away or didn't live up to expectations, and what it's like to watch through a filmmaker's eyes.
I’m heartbroken to share the news that our beloved faculty member Rebecca Godfrey died on October 3 after a long struggle with cancer.
Your Own Personal Exegesis, a new play by Playwriting alumna Julia May Jonas ’12, will have its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater. Performances for the production’s limited run begin November 19, 2022; the show officially opens December 5 and closes December 31.
Playwriting alumnus Sam Grabiner ’21 is the recipient of the Verity Bargate Award for 2022. Grabiner’s play, Boys on the Verge of Tears, was selected after an extensive consideration process that included nearly 1,500 submissions which were condensed into a longlist of 17 plays, followed by a shortlist of six.
Sprinting Through No Man’s Land, the debut work from narrative nonfiction alumnus Adin Dobkin ’20, has been named among the six “coups de cœur” in the run-up to the announcement of the 2022 American Library in Paris Book Award winner.
Professor Lien-Hang Nyugen ensures the accuracy of The Greatest Beer Run Ever, directed by School of the Arts alumnus Peter Farrelly ‘86.
We talked about dramaturgy, specifically how it moves in traditional text-based theatre and in the nonverbal dance world, with Professor of Professional Practice and Dramaturgy Concentration Head, Christian Parker ’98.
After two years away, the annual Morningside Lights festival returned to its traditional route through Morningside Park, and residents turned out by the hundreds to witness the spectacle.
Six Film alumnae and their feature length narrative projects have been chosen to participate in Cine Qua Non’s Script Revision and Storylines Labs. They are: Missy Hernandez ‘17, Agnes Karlsson ‘22, Moara Passoni ‘21, and Madi Stine ‘22 for the Script Revision Lab and Charlotte Glynn ‘13 and Katya Skakun ‘20 for the Storyline Lab.
An electric fragility surrounds Dark Dreams, a solo show by Yuri Yuan ’21, at Alexander Berggruen gallery on the Upper East Side.
Associate Professor Shane McCrae’s book Cain Named the Animal (Little Brown, 2022) has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, one of the most influential awards for new poetry in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Steven Chaikelson, Professor of Professional Practice and Head of Theatre Management & Producing, produces the Broadway comeback of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, considered one of the greatest American plays of the twentieth century.
From September 30 to November 27, 2022, fifty-one days in all, the Okayama Art Summit will ask the public to wonder: do we dream under the same sky.
Alumni Daphne Palasi Andreades ’19 and Jessamine Chan ’12 are both recognized on the shortlist for the 2022 First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction.
For the first of two thesis productions featuring Columbia MFA actors presented at Lenfest this fall, the company of Orlando takes the audience on a transcendent journey through movement. We sat down with cast member and Acting student Hannah Shealy to discuss her acting process and the upcoming production of Orlando.