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Four Columbia theatre-makers were honored with 2025 Drama League Awards as producers for Oh! Mary and Sunset Boulevard.

Playwriting alum Clarence Coo ’10 was presented with the Horton Foote Award at the Dramatists Guild’s annual awards ceremony on April 29, 2025, at the Broadway restaurant Green Fig.

Writing alum and former adjunct faculty member Katrine Øgaard Jensen '17 has been appointed Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), a prestigious nonprofit that supports literary translators nationwide.

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Professor Jon Kessler about mechanical sculpture, the importance of technical mastery, and the value of analog skills in a digital world.

Former Film student Will Graham (CC '02) is set to direct the Vietnam War thriller Trust the Man, which he also wrote.

Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab (DSL), the School of the Arts’ hivemind for new media exploration, has announced the winners of its 10th Annual Breakthroughs in Storytelling Awards.

This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Professor Leslie Ayvazian about adversity in art, the fallacy of thoroughbreds, and the things we stand up for. 

Sound Art alum Avishag Cohen Rodrigues ’21 released her newest single, “Some Are,” off her upcoming EP All Happens at Night, with a music video directed by Adeline Thery.

Columbia University School of the Arts Film Program alum Chloe Sarbib ’20 has been selected as a fellow for the prestigious Sundance Directors Lab.

A certain veil of mystery surrounds Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab (or DSL), which first set up shop at the School of the Arts in 2013.

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.

Researching Metzger for my book Man of Taste, I found myself crossing somewhat different boundaries, from archives and finding aids to the clutter of an abandoned storage unit, from researching the past to inheriting it.

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.

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

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

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

Columbia directors, writers and producers dominate the live action lineup at the 2025 Palm Springs International Shortfest, one of the world’s premiere festivals dedicated to short films.

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 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.