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The acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s award-winning musical has been extended for an additional eight weeks at the St. James Theatre. The buzzworthy production features work from two Columbia theatre artists: Adjunct Assistant Professor Justin Scribner and Adjunct Assistant Professor Cody Renard Richard.

This year, alumna Daria Polatin ’07 logs an accomplishment many writers only dream of: adapting her own novel for the screen as the creator and showrunner of Netflix’s newest thriller series, Devil In Ohio.

Update: June 13, 2022 Several projects worked on by Columbia Theatre artists took home prizes at last night's 75th annual Tony Awards Ceremony. 

The winners of the 66th annual Drama Desk Awards were announced on June 8, 2022, and several projects from Columbia artists are among the award winners.

Associate Professor of Theatre and Head of Playwriting David Henry Hwang and Visual Arts Professor Sarah Sze are among this year’s honorees for the Asia Arts Game Changer Awards.

Acting alumna Ito Aghayere ’12 plays Young Guinan in Star Trek: Picard. 

Eleven stories of life, learning, and personal reinvention. Film student, Kaelo Justin Iyizoba and Theatre student, Danica Selem among them. 

Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Korie’s opera Harvey Milk will return to the stage this summer at Opera Theater of Saint Louis.

Alumni Jocelyn Bioh ’08 and Saheem Ali ’07 wrote and will direct, respectively, the new musical Goddess, set to have its world premiere at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre on August 13, 2022.

The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on May 9, 2022, and three School of the Arts alumni are involved with winning projects in the arts.

Playwriting Concentration Head and Associate Professor David Henry Hwang has been named this year’s Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee as part of the Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. 

Adjunct Assistant Professor Manoel Felciano will join Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen at the Music Box Theatre.

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