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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.
Theatre alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor Katherine Wilkinson ’19 is the director of the world premiere of Bloom Bloom Pow, a queer climate-doom comedy play.
Melis Aker ’18 has been named Signature Theatre’s inaugural LaunchPad Resident Playwright. Her appointment comes after an open selection process to which over 230 playwrights submitted more than 500 plays.
Theatre alumnae Nana Dakin ’18 and Annie Jin Wang ’20 have been named members of the newest cohort of theatre makers for the Writer Director Lab at Soho Rep. The cohort consists of four two-person teams of creators that will spend 18 months working on brand new theatre projects.
Most students at the School of the Arts are settling into their first weeks of classes, but Theatre Management and Producing student Jonathan Hogue is gearing up for the Off-Broadway return of his show Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical.
We’re delighted to welcome a number of new faculty members to the 2022/23 academic year.
Playwriting alumna Gethsemane Herron ’19 received a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting last month. The prestigious award, which includes a prize of $30,000 in unrestricted funding for each recipient, is one of the nation’s most significant awards for playwriting.
Alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury '16 and fifth-year Directing student Hazel McKibbin have been named honoraria recipients of the esteemed 2022 Princess Grace Awards.
