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Theatre alumni Benita de Wit ’16, Alison R. Simone ’19, and Robbie Armstrong ’22 work on Straight Line Crazy, currently running at The Shed.
Playwriting alumna Rehana Lew Mirza ’07 will present Words We Believe at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 2022 New Works Festival in Saratoga, California. Audiences have two opportunities to see the new show: November 9 and 13, 2022.
For the first of two thesis productions featuring Columbia MFA actors presented at Lenfest this fall, the company of Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven shows the effects of displacement on a group of women seeking refuge at a shelter. We sat down with cast member and Acting student Katherine George to discuss her acting process and the upcoming production.
For the first of two thesis productions featuring Columbia MFA actors presented at Lenfest this fall, the company of Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven shows the effects of displacement on a group of women seeking refuge at a shelter. We sat down with cast member and Acting student Tenneh Sillah to discuss her acting process and the upcoming production.
In Theatre in Motion, we discuss theatre's movement across stages, through time, and within communities with its creators and practitioners. We talked about theatre’s history and how that history resonates on stages today with Adjunct Professor, Dr. Peter Campbell ’97 (GSAS ’03).
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.
