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Associate Professor David Henry Hwang’s new opera, The Rift, will premiere as a part of the Washington National Opera’s Written in Stone program for the Kennedy Center’s 50th anniversary celebration.
Playwriting alumnus Julián Mesri ’20 is the music director and orchestrator for Brian Quijada’s new musical, Somewhere Over the Border.
Current student Phoebe Brooks finds joy and spectacle through good-natured comedy in her thesis production, Der Ring Gott Farblonjet.
Dramaturgy alumna Lauren Whitehead '14 has been named a finalist for the 2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Jubilee for a New Vision by Playwriting alumnus Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko's ’09 will play at The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space on February 21 at 7 pm.
Ghost Light, Meet the Dramaturgs is a Theatre series featuring Columbia Dramaturgy students, faculty, and alumni, learning about their work, aspirations, and pandemic passion projects.
the bandaged place, by playwriting alumnus Harrison David Rivers ’09, will have its world premiere at Roundabout Theatre Company.
Two Columbia Playwriting alumni, Gethsemane Herron-Coward ’19 and Johnny G. Lloyd ’20, were selected to participate in this year's Ars Nova Play Group Residency.
Simon & Schuster recently published a debut novel, Vladimir, by Playwriting alumna Julia May Jonas '12.
Made by God, a new play by Playwriting alumna and New York-based Irish writer Ciara Ní Chuirc ‘21, will have its world premiere at Irish Rep.
Broadway League recently announced that they have elected 13 new members to the Board of Governors. Among the newly elected members is Theatre Management and Producing alumna Christina Selby ’14.
You might not expect blood to be a recurring leitmotif in a show about a modern dance team of 13-year-olds, but Clare Barron’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-finalist Dance Nation is unflinchingly visceral in its themes and imagery. At the Lenfest Center this past December, the play was performed with ravenous intensity by the MFA Acting Class of 2022.
