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Wilder Shorts! opens with a pair of people on stage, chatting. An actor, and a stagehand; they’re not in character, they’re simply talking.

Acting Alumnus Charles Browning ’06 and Co-Concentration Head of Acting, Assistant Professor Peter Jay Fernandez are featured in the MA-Yi Studio video conversation Decolonization: Living the Questions now through December 31, 2021.

Playwriting alumna Ayvaunn Penn ’18 is directing Associate Professor Lynn Nottage’s play Fabulation or, the Re-Education of Undine at Jubilee Theatre. The Jubilee Theatre is a historically Black theater located in Fort Worth, Texas.

Playwriting alumna Kristin Slaney '16 and Film alumnus Jabari McDonald '18 both participated in Outfest’s 2021 Screenwriting Lab as two of eleven writers earlier this month. 

Theater director Anne Bogart draws connections between visual art, performance theory, neuroscience, music, and architecture in her new book.

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.

The Walker Arts Center announced that Theatre Management and Producing alumna Seena Hodges ’13 has been elected as the president of their board of trustees.

Acting alumnus Blaze Mancillas ’12 is the creator and host of Let’s Get Lit Live, a night of music, comedy and short stories at Caveat in New York, NY on October 26, 2021 at 9:30 pm.

Last Sunday night was the 74th Annual Tony Awards. Many Columbia University students, alumni, and faculty worked on productions that won.

Directing alumna Marcina Zaccaria ’06 has been accepted to the 2021 Catwalk Artist Residency.

For his thesis production, student Logan Reed directs two short plays by Thornton Wilder.

Student Series

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Dramatic Influences

by Lillian Mottern

This series asks Columbia Theatre artists about their artistic obsessions—what drives these individuals, even as it drives them crazy?

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This is Who We Are

by Carlos Barragán

A series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

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Theatre in Motion

by Anastasia Ellis

A series featuring Columbia theatre makers, discussing theatre's movement across stages, through time, and within communities.