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Ghina Fawaz is an MFA student in the Theatre Program at School of the Arts. When she isn’t creating her own dramatic projects at Columbia, she is most likely in the audience at one of countless productions that take place all over the city.
Theatre Professor and Directing Concentration Head Anne Bogart has reunited with famed avant-garde La MaMa resident theatre group, Talking Band, to direct Existentialism, running through March 10, 2024.
Climate change has been in our cultural discourse for decades, with artists often wielding their work to bring people’s attention to the state of the environment. Director and playwright Adam Marple ’10 is taking this idea to the next level, along with longtime collaborator, playwright Steven Gaultney ’11.
Alumni Spotlights is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
Winners of the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards were announced last week, and several Columbia filmmakers brought home major awards.
Theatre alumna Cha Ramos '21, a fight directing specialist, brings her expertise to the Broadway stage in the highly anticipated musical adaptation of Sara Gruen's critically acclaimed bestseller, Water for Elephants, which premiered on February 24, 2024 at the Imperial Theatre.
Miami's Rubell Museum and Miami New Drama have partnered up to present The Museum Plays, a series of six new plays running from February through March at the Rubell Museum. The series is co-directed by Theatre alumni Michel Hausmann ’14 and Tatiana Pandiani ’16.
The winners of the 67th annual Obie Awards were recently announced, with several notable Columbia theatre artists on the list.
We talk with Professor Brian Kulick about theatre as a gamble, perseverance, and why the director should be the most patient person in the room.
In a unique collaboration between programs and disciplines, Theatre alum Alle Mims '23 and Film alum Wes Goodrich '23 came together to produce Mims thesis production, A Soviet Film on Negro Life in America as Told by Langston Hughes and Others—and their collaboration has continued beyond graduation.
First-year Theatre Management and Producing student Melissa d'Arabian is working as a co-lead producer of White Rose: The Musical, a new production currently running off-Broadway at Theatre Row.
Professor David Henry Hwang is leading the creation of Billion Dollar Whale, a new television series; and nearly all the members of the show's producing and writing teams are Columbia alumni.
