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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.
Playwriting alum Sam Chanse ’12 is featured as one of five writers in The Public Theater’s new production, Out of Time. In this production, The Public in association with The National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) presents a collection of brand-new monologues by five Asian American playwrights.
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust recently announced the names of the 10 outstanding playwrights who will be celebrated with the 2021 Steinberg Playwright Award.
Theatre Management and Producing alumnus Ryan Bogner ’15 will produce the Broadway adaptation of The Kite Runner, premiering this summer at Hayes Theatre.
As we left the Lenfest Center theatre on November 20, 2021, my friend called the performance of Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow we had just seen a “Chekhov fever dream.”
Acting alumna Rebecca Henderson ’06 will appear in Shonda Rhimes's Inventing Anna, which will premiere on Netflix in February 2022.
Recent Directing alumnus Colm Summers ’21 is the assistant director for Wednesday by Raja Feather Kelly and his company, the feath3r theory.
A production of Wintertime by Special Lecturer Charles L. Mee is in production at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California. The production is directed by Les Waters and runs until December 19, 2021.
