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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 Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Film and Theatre Blair Singer about his transition from acting to writing, the necessity of preparing students for the industry, and the relationship between teaching and practice.
The Metropolitan Opera has honored Stage Management student Anica Acuña with the 2026 Met Opera Stage Manager Fellowship.
'Mexodus' and 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' are among this year’s Lucille Lortel Award winners.
Professor Emeritus David Henry Hwang revised the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic 25 years ago. Now he gets to remedy some of his own remake’s flaws. Read more from The New York Times.
Hunger, a new play by the collective Radical Evolution, a theatre ensemble co-founded and co-run by Dramaturgy alum Meropi Peponides '13, will be presented by Soho Rep as part of a three-play cycle, The Hunger Cycle, in their 2027–2028 Season.
Mention My Beauty, a solo-show written and performed by Associate Professor of Professional Practice Leslie Ayvazian, qill run at New York Theatre Workshop from May 5 through June 14, 2026.
Theater Management & Producing student Zach Hedner is serving as an associate producer on Beaches, a new musical produced by Broadway and Beyond Productions, a production company co-founded by Theater Management & Producing alum Ryan Bogner '15.
The Whiting Foundation announced the 2026 recipients of their prestigious Whiting Awards, which celebrate emerging writers with exceptional literary talent. The cohort of ten included two Columbia alums, Theatre graduate Celine Song '14 and Writing alum and Assistant Professor Hilary Leichter '12.
Dog Day Afternoon, a new play on Broadway written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and adapted from the 1975 film of the same name, includes multiple Columbia connections.
Wilderness Generation, a new play by playwright, Concentration Head, and Associate Professor James Ijames, will premiere with Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) this April.
My Joy is Heavy, a new show directed by Theatre alum Rachel Chavkin '08, extended at the New York Theatre Workshop due to popular demand.
Written by Jeena Yi '14 and directed by Mei Ann Teo '14, the Public Theater’s ‘JESA’ takes its audience beyond a simple familial ritual to the beginnings of healing. Read more from the Columbia Spectator.
