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Columbia University alumni and faculty are making waves in the Brooklyn theater scene with a new project, Double Feature, a collective of theater artists reimagining classic plays through intimate staging and contemporary reinterpretation.
The Raven Theatre Company has named Theatre alumna Sarah Slight ’09 as its new Artistic Director.
Playwriting alumnus Harrison David Rivers ’09 has written a new play called The Salvagers. The play, scheduled to debut in November 2023 at Yale Repertory Theatre, is directed by filmmaker Mikael Burke.
From September 15 to 30, 2023, Theatre alumnae Annie Jin Wang ’20 and Nana Dakin ’18 will share in-process productions of their most recent work developed in the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab, part of Soho Rep, a civic theater that produces innovative plays.
The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival has announced the winners of its 2023 competition, and current playwriting student Darius M. Buckley is among the honorees.
Theatre alumnus Colm Summers ’22 is taking the helm as director of Every Brilliant Thing at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, California.
Theatre alumna Daaimah Mubashshir ’15 is set to co-host the exciting annual reading festival, (Writ)ual Mix Mixfest 2023, at the Atlantic Theater Company. This year, Mubashshir is not only co-hosting the festival but also sharing her work through a reading of The Immeasurable Want of Light, a play about a black, overweight artist coming of age in an alternate universe.
Theatre Alumna Danielle Feder ’21 has launched an exciting new podcast about theatre, called Partial View.
Associate Professor Lynn Nottage is set to adapt the 1933 novel Imitation of Life into a stage musical alongside John Legend, according to Playbill.
Theatre alumna Pirronne Yousefzadeh ’09 is the director of The Ants, a new play now on stage at Geffen Playhouse.
Dramaturgy Concentration Head and Professor of Professional Practice Christian Parker ’98 is currently the dramaturg on, Another Marriage, running at the renowned Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago through July 30, 2023.
Playwriting student Amalia Oliva Rojas has been awarded an inaugural Hansberry Lilly Playwright Fellowship.
