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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 Associate Professor, Head of Fiction, and Writing alumna Rivka Galchen '06 about her journey into and out of medicine, kooky scientists, and raising the fictional stakes.
Several films from Columbia students and alumni will head to the 30th annual Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF).
Three films worked on by Columbia filmmakers have been selected to screen at the 60th New York Film Festival, which began on September 30 and will run through October 16, 2022.
Directing student Chaesong Kim will perform in Lazarus 1972-2022 with Ping Chong and Company at La MaMa from September 29–October 16. The production is a reimagining of Ping Chong’s 1972 Lazarus, which was the first work he created as an independent artist.
The Forever Prisoner, Executive Produced by Former Adjunct Professor Rich Perello and Associate Produced by Creative Producing alumna Mahak Jiwani ’18, was awarded the honor of Outstanding Investigative Documentary at the 2022 News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
Recent alumna Maria Teresa Fidalgo '21 was selected for the Berlin-based Takt residency, which will run from January to March 2023.
Film Student Erin Ramirez’s project Love, as an Illusion was awarded the Sundance Institute's first ever Latine Fellowship. Ramirez was one of 11 emerging Latinx artists chosen, each with projects in differing stages of development.
Alumna Aisha Porter-Christie '13 will adapt Margaret Peterson Haddix’s young adult novel, Running Out of Time, for NBCU streamer, Peacock.
Alumna Cherien Dabis '04 is stepping in front of the camera to star in Mo, the new comedy series from Netflix.
Cocoon (World Editions) by Zhang Yueran and Nine Color Deer (Levine Querido) by Kailin Duan, both translated from the Chinese by Associate Professor Jeremy Tiang, are out this fall.
Alumna J.D. Shields ‘18 has joined the team on a newly ordered ABC drama series, The Company You Keep starring and executive produced by Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us, Gilmore Girls).
Alumna Yardenne Greenspan '12 has three new translations out this fall.
Circa, recently published by Mariner Books, is the second novel from alumna Devi S. Laskar ’96.
Actor and producer Lamar Richardson (CC '15) has been named a 2022 Front Row Productions Fellow by Stephen Byrd & Alia Jones-Harvey's Front Row Productions, in association with Professor of Professional Practice Steven Chaikelson, Head of the Theatre Management & Producing Concentration.
Little Amal, a giant puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl who has thus far traveled over 9,000 kilometers through 12 countries, has made her way to NYC to explore the five boroughs.