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Concentration Head and Associate Professor of Playwriting David Henry Hwang will lead the screenplay for a new Anna May Wong biopic starring Gemma Chan, who is also a producer on the project. The project is an adaptation of Graham Russell Gao Hodges's biography of the early Hollywood star, Anna May Wong: From Laundrywoman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. Wong’s career in Hollywood was often plagued by industry prejudice and discrimination. In response to her limited opportunities in Hollywood, she went overseas to perform in Europe. There, she dedicated much of her career to…
Poetry alumna Antoinette Cooper '20 and Theatre alumna C. Quintana '13 were recently awarded 2022 Winter Literature Grants from The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC to support their current projects.
Film Chair and Associate Professor of Professional Practice Jack Lechner wrote a chapter of the anthology Fifty Key Stage Musicals, a book edited By Robert W. Schneider and Shannon Agnew. Lechner’s chapter is titled ‘Falsettos’ and is about the 1992 musical of the same name. The book was recently published by Routledge and can be purchased here.
Alumnus Adewale Olukayode '21 is among the four emerging filmmakers selected to participate in the Woodstock Film Festival's Filmmakers Residency/Incubator program.
Current Fiction student Jemimah Wei and Poetry student Madeleine Cravens have been awarded coveted Wallace Stegner Fellowships at Stanford University.
The Windfall (Crown, 2017) by Assistant Professor Diksha Basu '14 was recently chosen by comedian and actress Lilly Singh as her April book club read. The Windfall was Basu's debut novel and is available for purchase here.
Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Professional Practice Mynette Louie about crashing NYU student film sets, green-lighting projects as a film financier, and the future of the festival circuit.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Yasi Alipour '18 is featured in a solo exhibition at Twelve Gates Arts in Philadelphia. The Pleasure of Futile Cycles opened on March 29, 2022 and remain on view until April 23.
What You Are Now, a new play by alumna Sam Chanse ’12, has enjoyed a successful world premiere at Manhattan’s Ensemble Studio Theater.
Knopf Doubleday recently published The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka '94. The book is now available for purchase.
Associate Professor Ramin Bahrani (CC ’96) is the director and executive producer of Hulu’s upcoming and widely-anticipated new series, Immigrant. The show, which will dive into the surreal origin story of the famous stripper troupe, Chippendales, comes from Robert Siegel, the acclaimed creator of Pam & Tommy.
Directing alumnus Marc Atkinson Borrull ’16 will direct the Irish premiere of Nick Payne’s Constellations at Dublin’s historic Gate Theatre.
Columbia University School of the Arts celebrated the winners of the ninth annual Blue List screenwriting competition on March 16, 2022, in an online mixer that demonstrated the capacity of Columbia’s network to foster new screenwriting talent.
Two Columbia Film alumni have been selected to participate in the 51st iteration of the New Directors/New Films (ND/NF) festival from Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art. They are: Ricky D’Ambrose ’12 and Jasmin Freitas Tenucci ’20.
Professor Susanna Coffey’s work is featured in the group show What is Left Unspoken, Love at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta Georgia. This show will remain on view until August 14, 2022.