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Professor of Professional Practice and Dramaturgy Department Head Christian Parker ’98 has been named a 2023-24 Michael I. Sovern/Columbia University Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. 

Theatre alumni Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16 and Sam Grabiner ’21 are among the select thirteen playwrights chosen to receive this year’s prestigious Sloan Commission.

Theatre Management & Producing student David O'Brien is co-producer of the new musical Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages.

 

Mikhaela Mahony ’19 is the director of the New York premiere of Redwood, premiering in October at Off-Broadway’s Ensemble Studio Theatre.

New York City’s Prelude Festival is celebrating its 20th year—and Columbia-trained theatre artists are at the helm.

Rory McGregor ’17 is the director of No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh, a new play currently running at The A.R.T./New York Theatres. The production has been named a New York Times Critic's Pick

Salesman之死, a new play by playwright and  Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Jeremy Tiang, will premiere in October at Off-Broadway mainstay Connelly Theater, presented by ​​Yangtze Rep in association with Gung Ho Projects and directed by Obie-Award-winning director, Michael Leibenluft.

Playwriting alumnus Alaudin Ullah ’22 will bring his one-person, multi-character play Dishwasher Dreams to The Old Globe this fall for the play’s West Coast premiere.

Lamar Richardson (CC '15) is co-producing Broadway's Merrily We Roll Along. Richardson, who studied at the School of the Arts in 2022 through the Front Row Productions Fellowship, will be an essential part of this Sondheim revival.

These three Columbia alumni have brought to life critically-acclaimed shows from Hamilton to A Strange Loop to Kinky Boots.

Love (Among Dreamers) by Theatre alumnus Greg T. Nanni ’21 makes its debut as the first production from Broadway For All's newly launched initiative, The House.

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by Lillian Mottern

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A series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

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A series featuring Columbia theatre makers, discussing theatre's movement across stages, through time, and within communities.