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The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
Acting alumna Rebecca Henderson ’06 will appear in Shonda Rhimes's Inventing Anna, which will premiere on Netflix in February 2022.
The short story “Annulment” by alumnus Francisco González ‘19 was recently named a Distinguished Mystery and Suspense Story in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021.
Nominations for the 79th Golden Globes have been announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and two films by Columbia filmmakers have made the list. The Lost Daughter, directed by alumna Maggie Gyllenhaal '99 (CC) received nominations in the Best Director, Motion Picture category and the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama category for Olivia Colman.
Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, Director of Graduate Studies, and alumna Adama Delphine Fawundu '18 about getting her start in the golden era of hip-hop, studying for an MFA at Columbia University and finding her voice as a visual artist.
Two feature projects from Columbia University filmmakers were chosen to participate in the Fiction Track for Film Independent’s 2021 Fast Track Program. They are: Alien Kulture, written by Iesh Thapar '17 and produced by Sarah Seulki Oh '15, and The Mesopotamian, written and directed by Esra Saydam '11 and produced by Gerry Kim '11 and Alvaro Valente '14.
Alumna Nadja Verena Marcin ‘10 is featured in the solo show #SOPHYGRAY at Kunstverein Ruhr in Essen, Germany. Curated by Peter Friese, this show will be available for viewing until February 13, 2022.
Recent Directing alumnus Colm Summers ’21 is the assistant director for Wednesday by Raja Feather Kelly and his company, the feath3r theory.
A production of Wintertime by Special Lecturer Charles L. Mee is in production at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California. The production is directed by Les Waters and runs until December 19, 2021.
The Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship recently announced ten Semifinalists for 2022. One of the semifinalists is Playwriting alum Melis Aker ’18. Aker was selected from more than 300 applicants.
Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge, translated from the Chinese by Assistant Professor Jeremy Tiang, was recently named runner-up of the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
Last year, The Office of the Provost issued a request for proposals to provide seed grant funding for faculty within the Columbia community that engage with issues of structural racism.
Stage Management alumna Krystle Henninger '15 collaborated with Indorican Multicultural Dance Project for the upcoming release of her instrumental EP, Gift of the Night Flurries.
Equestrian Monuments, a poetry collection by Luis Chaves and co-translated by two alumnae, Julia Guez ‘11 and Assistant Professor Samantha Zighelboim ‘11, will be published by After Hours Editions early 2022.