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The playwriting professor and the composer discuss their collaboration at an online School of the Arts event.
Alumni Robbie Armstrong ’21 and Lynn Spector ’15 join the team behind the hotly anticipated new musical, Paradise Square, which opens this week at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre. Armstrong, who studied Stage Management at Columbia, is working behind the scenes as a Stage Management Production Assistant, while Spector, who graduated with an MFA in Dramaturgy, oversees writing as a script supervisor.
Alumnus Kareem Fahmy ’07 and Adjunct Assistant Professor Manoel Felciano were part of a four-member cohort for the 2022 Classical Directing Fellowship, a program of the Karen and Stuart Tanz Fellowships at The Old Globe in San Diego, California.
This week we are featuring second-year dramaturgy student, Dezi Tibbs (he/she/they). Dezi is a dramaturg, writer, and performer based in New York City and Philadelphia, PA. She aims to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. His work likes to utilize stereotypes, magic, and television tropes in order to reveal humanity’s secrets. She finds herself drawn to pieces that center blackness, queerness, or spirituality. As a dramaturg, his work is very research-driven but grounded in tangible concepts.
The Neighborhood stars Cedric the Entertainer and is a comedy about “what happens when the friendliest guy in the Midwest moves his family to a neighborhood in Los Angeles where not everyone looks like him or appreciates his extreme neighborliness.”
Adjunct Professor Robert O’Hara ’96 will direct Richard III for The Public Theatre’s free Shakespeare in the Park series this upcoming summer in New York City.
Columbia Directing alumnus Keenan Tyler Oliphant ’20 will direct Ebru Nihan Celkan’s play, Will You Come With Me?
Jacob Sexton directs Indian Summer by Gregory S. Moss. Below is an interview with Sexton about philosophies on directing, new work, and a glimpse at his own perspective on Indian Summer.
Second-year Playwriting student, Deandre C. Short ’23 has signed on as the assistant director for Dominique Morisseau’s new play, Confederates.
Alumna Rebecca Miller Kratzer ’22 will direct Rage by Playwriting student ’22 Greg T. Nanni as a part of Emerson College’s Newfest New Plays Workshop.
Playwriting student Ellis Stump ’23 has been named one of the Ascending Playwrights of 2021 at Yonder Window Theatre Company in Brooklyn, New York.
Alumnus Jonathan Seinen ’20 directs and produces Ho Ka Kei’s Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) at Theatre Passe Muraille, in Toronto, Ontario.
