Writing Chair Deborah Paredez to Publish New Book on Divas
American Diva, a new work of literary nonfiction by Writing Chair and Associate Professor Deborah Paredez, will be published by W.W. Norton in May 2024.
The NBC TV Writers Program has announced its newest cohort of eight writers, which includes Film alum Neda Jebelli '21 and Theatre alum Bixby Elliot '05.
Leila Philip ’91, a writer, journalist, and poet, spent six years researching an underappreciated animal for her book Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America.
Theatre Professor and Head of the Directing Concentration Anne Bogart will receive the 2023 Gordon Davidson Award, presented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.
Theatre alum Ryan Bogner ’15 will co-produce the first Broadway production and newest iteration of satirical musical revue, Forbidden Broadway, opening at the Hayes Theater this summer.
Second-year writing student Ashley D. Escobar was selected by Eileen Myles as the 2024 Changes Book Prize winner for her poetry collection, Glib.
L’Air Du Temps (1985), a novella by Writing alumna Diane Josefowicz ’08, was published by Regal House Titles earlier this month.
Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 has been named the first-ever artist in residence of the Prospect Park Alliance, a non-profit organization that collaborates with the city to manage the borough's second-largest green space.
The results are in and two Columbia-affiliated projects were announced as winners at this year’s SXSW Film Festival.
Writing alumna Kao Kalia Yang ’05 has published Where Rivers Part (Simon and Schuster, 2024), a memoir that centers her family’s escape from the genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, resulting from the U.S. Army’s involvement in Laos.
Selman Nacar '21, Claire Brooks '21, and Kunao Yan '23 have been selected to participate in the 53rd edition of the New Directors/New Films Festival presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art.
First and foremost a sculptor, Fishman makes small- and large-scale sculptures from biomaterials as varied as wood cellulose and tanned fish skins. Often, she uses bioplastics, which are biodegradable, compostable materials fabricated from a bio-based source.
WATCHNIGHT, the Laughlin Award-winning collection by writing alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books this April.
Film student Aisha Amin was recently selected to participate in the The Black List and Women in Films (WIF) 2024 Episodic Lab, which prepares women writers and writers of underrepresented genders for a career in television writing.
Theatre professor David Henry Hwang’s opera, An American Soldier, will premiere in New York this spring at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Lower Manhattan.
To honor Rachel Chavkin '08’s prolific and versatile work, the city of New York officially renamed 48th Street “Chavkin Way” in a ceremony held on March 20 outside the Longacre Theatre.
On February 8, 2024, celebrated artist Arthur Jafa joined Kellie Jones, Chair of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, and Hans Hofmann, Professor of Modern Art, for a conversation in Columbia University School of the Arts’s Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Sarah Cole, Interim Dean of Faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts, has announced that preeminent playwright James Ijames will speak at the School’s convocation, hosted on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 7pm.
Acting Professionally, the renowned book of professional advice for actors by Associate Professor of Professional Practice James Calleri, has been re-released in a brand new edition published by Bloomsbury, with additional writing by Robert Cohen.
Film alumna SarahNerboso '12 wrote nine episodes for the second season of the hit animated series Monster High on Nickelodeon.
Alum Esteban Cabeza de Baca ’14 discusses their journey as an artist and creator.
Film alumnus and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Ron Nyswaner '81 is receiving this year’s Walter Bernstein Award from the Writers Guild of America East.
Amazon Prime recently announced that Film alumnus Jonathan Van Tulleken '10 will direct and executive produce the first two episodes of the new high-profile limited series, Blade Runner 2099.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Christine Smallwood has published La Captive (Fireflies Press, 2023), a close look at Chantal Akerman's 2000 film of the same name, loosely based on Marcel Proust's The Prisoner.
On the evening of March 25, 2024, under the spectacular dome of Low Library, 250 guests gathered for the Columbia University School of the Arts’s annual Spring Gala. Alumni, artists, and art lovers alike came together to celebrate the School and recognize the stellar accomplishments of the night’s three honorees.
The Child, a second novel by Writing alumnus Alistair Mackay '18 is forthcoming in April 2024 from Kwela Books, an imprint of the South African publishing house, NB Publishers.
Playwriting student Antonia Cruz-Kent has been announced as one of four playwrights chosen to participate in the selective Latinx Playwrights Circle 2024 Intensive Mentorship program.
The Metropolitan Opera recently announced their 2024-2025 season, a lineup which will include Theatre Professor David Henry Hwang’s opera Ainadamar.
Writing alumnus Steve Schwartz ’73 is producing Anniversary, an upcoming thriller joining Schwartz's lineup of memorable movies, including All the Old Knives, The Road, and The Counselor.
The Hearing Test, a debut novel by Writing alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor Eliza Barry Callahan ’22 (CC ’17) was published by Catapult Books, distributed by Penguin Random House, in March 2024.
Visual Arts alumnus and former Adjunct Assistant Professor Kevin Claiborne ’21 recently worked as the Artist in Residence for Free Film: NYC, a project aimed at connecting New York City neighborhoods through the medium of film photography and making this art form available to everyone.
Leroy Neiman Professor of Professional PracticeTomas Vu-Daniel has been commissioned by the Asia Society Texas and the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts to create a collaborative public art installation alongside Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech.
Materiality lies at the heart of Scab, the solo exhibition by Visual Arts alumna Xinyi Liu ’22 on view at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY until April 14, 2024.
Theatre Professor Lynn Nottage’s play Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine will be revived in a new production opening this month at Brooklyn's Billie Holiday Theatre.
Visual Arts student Youngmin Park recently presented fifteen works on paper, canvas, and wood at the prestigious Make Room Gallery in Los Angeles California.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Film alumnus Matt Fennell '18 is a co-producer and writer on the acclaimed new Apple+ series, Manhunt, which premiered to critical acclaim March 15, 2024.
Theatre professor Michael Korie’s Grapes of Wrath opera, co-written with musical theatre and opera composer Ricky Ian Gordon, will return to the stage in a new production performing this month at Carnegie Hall.
American Diva, a new work of literary nonfiction by Writing Chair and Associate Professor Deborah Paredez, will be published by W.W. Norton in May 2024.
The Guggenheim Fellowships for 2024 have been officially announced, and several School of the Arts alumni across various disciplines have joined the ranks of this prestigious program.