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Professor David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face will be adapted for the audio storytelling platform, Audible, as the first venture of a multi-project development deal with actor, director, and producer Daniel Dae Kim.
Tiffani Swalley presents Medea for The School of the Arts's fifth directing thesis production this year. The timeless play meditates on taking fate into one's own hands and asks how far one would go to take back one's life. In our interview, Tiffani describes her inspiration for the production, and why this version of a 2,000 year old story is relatable to a modern audience.
Directing alumnus Carl Cofield ’14, Associate Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH), directs CTH’s one-week-only production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Theatre Management & Producing student Talia Escobedo has been awarded a Cody Renard Richard Scholarship. The scholarship, founded by Adjunct Assistant Professor Cody Renard Richard, seeks to uplift and support the next generation of theatre leaders of color.
Following a successful seven performance run at New York City Center in November 2022, Parade is heading to Broadway with several Columbia affiliates aiding the production.
Playwriting alumnus and former Writing Program staff member Clarence Coo ’10 is the recipient of the 2023 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award for his play, Chapters of a Floating Life.
Baby Jessica’s Well-Made Play, written by Dramaturgy alumnus Philip Santos Schaffer ’18, is currently running at Pipeline Theatre Company. Dramaturgy alumna and Theatre staff member Anna Woodruff ’18 serves as the dramaturg for the production, and both Schaffer and Theatre Management & Producing alumna Natalie Gershtein ’15 are co-directors of Pipeline Theatre Company.
Playwriting alumnus Julián Mesri ’20 has co-conceived a new musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors alongside director Rebecca Martínez for The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit.
We talked about the communicative power of sound, image, and pantomime with Directing student Miguel Angel Bregante Garcia.
Acting alumnus Dave Klasko ’12 joins the cast of Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers alongside Katie Holmes, Sarah Cooper, Lucy Freyer, and Eddie Kaye Thomas.
Directing alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16 was awarded the 2022 Mark O’Donnell Prize in December.
Dramaturgy alumna Arminda Thomas ’96 joins the creative team for Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
