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Directing alum Benita de Wit ’16 just joined the Broadway production of Six: The Musical as the Resident Director. 

This month, Professor David Henry Hwang, Playwriting alumna Paola Alexandra Soto ’20, and Playwriting student Goldie E. Patrick introduced a newly formatted festival that brings theatre to a digital audio environment.

Dramaturgy student Kate Foster was the assistant director of Pankrác '45 in Washington, D.C. at The Atlas Performing Arts Center.

Ghost Light, Meet the Dramaturgs is a Theatre series featuring Columbia Dramaturg students, faculty, and alumni, learning about their work, aspirations, and pandemic passion projects.

Theatre student Rebecca Miller Kratzer is directing Mae West’s The Drag at Fordham University. The show runs from November 10 through 20. 

Acting alumnus Javier Padilla ’19 starred in The Huntington’s production of Witch

Theatre Directing alumnus Adam Marple '10 is directing Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth at The American University in Cairo, Egypt where he is Assistant Professor of Directing.

For her thesis production, student Rebecca Miller Kratzer directs the thrilling new opera The Trojan Women.

Acting alumna Anya Banerjee ’20 and Playwriting alumnus Steven Gaultney ’11 both participated in The Will of the City, a public art piece going up alongside Theatre for a New Audience's upcoming season from September 27 through November 21.

“I wanted to go deeper than the intellectual mind,” Directing student Rakesh Palisetty said of his thesis production, Hedda Gabler.

Directing alumnus Adam Marple ’10 recently produced The Theatre of Others’ Audio New Play Festival with Playwriting alumnus Steven Gaultney ’10 who is the Resident Dramaturg for The Theatre of Others. 

Ghost Light, Meet the Dramaturgs is a Theatre series featuring Columbia Dramaturg students, faculty, and alumni, learning about their work, aspirations, and pandemic passion projects.

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