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Second year Dramaturgy student, Cami Rose Hancock, is working as a dramaturg for New York City Center’s upcoming Annual Gala Presentation of Parade. The production runs for seven performances only, from November 1–6, 2022.
Playwriting alumnus Harrison David Rivers ’09, alongside Ethan Pakchar and Douglas Lyons, workshopped the new musical, Five Points, at Discovering Broadway Inc.’s fifth Writer’s Retreat in Indiana.
Your Own Personal Exegesis, a new play by Playwriting alumna Julia May Jonas ’12, will have its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater. Performances for the production’s limited run begin November 19, 2022; the show officially opens December 5 and closes December 31.
Playwriting alumnus Sam Grabiner ’21 is the recipient of the Verity Bargate Award for 2022. Grabiner’s play, Boys on the Verge of Tears, was selected after an extensive consideration process that included nearly 1,500 submissions which were condensed into a longlist of 17 plays, followed by a shortlist of six.
We talked about dramaturgy, specifically how it moves in traditional text-based theatre and in the nonverbal dance world, with Professor of Professional Practice and Dramaturgy Concentration Head, Christian Parker ’98.
Steven Chaikelson, Professor of Professional Practice and Head of Theatre Management & Producing, produces the Broadway comeback of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, considered one of the greatest American plays of the twentieth century.
For the first of two thesis productions featuring Columbia MFA actors presented at Lenfest this fall, the company of Orlando takes the audience on a transcendent journey through movement. We sat down with cast member and Acting student Hannah Shealy to discuss her acting process and the upcoming production of Orlando.
Directing student Chaesong Kim will perform in Lazarus 1972-2022 with Ping Chong and Company at La MaMa from September 29–October 16. The production is a reimagining of Ping Chong’s 1972 Lazarus, which was the first work he created as an independent artist.
Actor and producer Lamar Richardson (CC '15) has been named a 2022 Front Row Productions Fellow by Stephen Byrd & Alia Jones-Harvey's Front Row Productions, in association with Professor of Professional Practice Steven Chaikelson, Head of the Theatre Management & Producing Concentration.
Little Amal, a giant puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl who has thus far traveled over 9,000 kilometers through 12 countries, has made her way to NYC to explore the five boroughs.
The nominees for the 2nd Annual Antonyo Awards, presented by Broadway Black, have been announced. Among the nominees are several projects worked on by Columbia faculty and alumni.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Justin Scribner will be the Production Stage Manager for Jane Wagner’s one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles this fall. Previews begin September 21, and the show runs September 28–October 23.
