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Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Jeremy Tiang will publish their translation of Zhang Yueran’s Women, Seated, in August with Riverhead Books.

Film alum Grainne Godfree ’03 wrote and co-executive produced an episode of Daredevil: Born Again now streaming on Disney+.

Playwriting alum Amalia Oliva Rojas ’25 won The Leah Playwriting Prize for her play In The Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too (or The F*ck Is You Lookin’ At?).

Visual arts alum and adjunct assistant professor Esteban Cabeza de Baca ’14 opened his latest exhibition, Memories of the Future, at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.

From Mariam Rahmani '21, John McWhorter, and other Columbia authors. 

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the winners of the 2025 BAFTA Student Awards, and this year Film alums Alexander Molochnikov ’25 and Jean Chapiro ’25 won big, taking home the Live Action Award and the Special Jury Award for their film, Extremist

 

James Hoberman covers that decade of cultural ferment in the city in Everything Is Now.

This year, for its 25th anniversary, the free, annual St. Louis Shakespeare Festival in Forest Park will stage Hamlet, directed by and starring several Columbia theatre-makers.

Writing alum Carlie Hoffman ’16 published her third book of poetry, One More World Like This World, with Four Way Books in March.

The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing honored fourteen Columbia writers, directors and producers among the nominees for the 2025 Tony Awards.

Materialists, the highly-anticipated second film written and directed by Playwriting alum Celine Song ’14, will enjoy its theatrical release on June 13, 2025.

Writing alum Naomi Falk ’17 published her debut book, The Surrender of Man, in April 2025 with independent press Inside the Castle.

Visual Arts alum Calvin Kim ’23 opened his second solo exhibition, Departure Before Arrival, on April 30, 2025, at Harper’s Apartment in New York City.

Check out this list compiled by the School of Professional Studies of some of the best summer activities!

Writing alum Jemimah Weh ’22 has been named one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35.