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The playwriting professor and the composer discuss their collaboration at an online School of the Arts event.
Alumna Maggie Briggs '19 will participate in the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Writers’ Studio class of 2022.
Alumni Robbie Armstrong ’21 and Lynn Spector ’15 join the team behind the hotly anticipated new musical, Paradise Square, which opens this week at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre. Armstrong, who studied Stage Management at Columbia, is working behind the scenes as a Stage Management Production Assistant, while Spector, who graduated with an MFA in Dramaturgy, oversees writing as a script supervisor.
Alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor Judy Chung ‘18 is featured in a group show at NYC Culture Club. The show opened on March 10th and will remain on view until April 16th.
Alumnus Kareem Fahmy ’07 and Adjunct Assistant Professor Manoel Felciano were part of a four-member cohort for the 2022 Classical Directing Fellowship, a program of the Karen and Stuart Tanz Fellowships at The Old Globe in San Diego, California.
The National Book Critics Circle recently announced a list of 30 finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards.
Animation Conversations is an interview series with Film faculty, students, and alumni where we discuss working as screenwriters, directors, and producers in the animation industry.
Alumnus Steve Schwartz '73 is one of the producers of All the Old Knives, a new spy thriller starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton. Schwartz produced the film alongside his wife Paula Mae Schwartz, Nick Wechsler, Mark Gordon, and Matt Jackson.
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, a new mini series directed and executive produced by alumnus and Head of Directing Concentration Ramin Bahrani '96 (CC) and executive produced by Adjunct Professor Diane Houslin, premiered on Apple TV+ on March 11. The show, which was adapted for the screen by Walter Mosley from his own novel by the same name, will have a total of six episodes with new episodes being released weekly on Fridays.
Alumna E.J. Koh '13 recently won a 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for her memoir, The Magical Language of Others (Tin House, 2021). Koh placed first in the category of "Creative Writing: Prose."
2022 marks the 53rd annual NAACP Image Awards. Among the nominees are five projects from Columbia alumni. The NAACP is the home of grassroots activism for civil rights and social justice. The organization has more than 2,200 units across the nation, powered by well over 2 million activists.
The Brazilian Filmmakers Collective, co-founded by alumna Moara Passoni '21, launched formally at the Berlin Film Festival's European Film Market on February 16. The collective was created last year as a hub for Brazilian filmmakers working abroad to share resources, opportunities and promote creative enrichment.
This week we are featuring second-year dramaturgy student, Dezi Tibbs (he/she/they). Dezi is a dramaturg, writer, and performer based in New York City and Philadelphia, PA. She aims to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. His work likes to utilize stereotypes, magic, and television tropes in order to reveal humanity’s secrets. She finds herself drawn to pieces that center blackness, queerness, or spirituality. As a dramaturg, his work is very research-driven but grounded in tangible concepts.
The Neighborhood stars Cedric the Entertainer and is a comedy about “what happens when the friendliest guy in the Midwest moves his family to a neighborhood in Los Angeles where not everyone looks like him or appreciates his extreme neighborliness.”
Mengtai Zhang '19 is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Employing sculpture, sound, and simulation technology, his works create ambivalent allegories of power, where personal and sociopolitical factors encounter each other. He is a PhD candidate in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He holds an MFA in Sound Art at Columbia University, an MFA in Fine Arts at School of Visual Arts, and a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Mengtai's works have been presented internationally, including IDFA (Netherlands); Sundance Film Festival, New York Fashion Week,…