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Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.
Circus Days & Nights is a new opera by the legendary composer Philip Glass, Associate Professor and librettist David Henry Hwang, and circus director Tilde Björfors.
I’m so honored to have been asked to address you all on this special day, and to offer a few thoughts on the occasion of this culmination, of your work and dedication, this end of sorts that’s actually really just a beginning.
Associate Professor of Writing Hilton Als, Associate Professor of Theatre David Henry Hwang, and Visual Arts Mentor Ralph Lemon were among those elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2021.
Here, we talk with Associate Professor and Acting Co-Concentration Head, James Calleri about Calleri Studio, casting’s modified comeback, and the importance of staying true to one’s artistic path.
The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts’ CultureTalk collaborated with SITI Company’s Talking into the Future dialogues for a new series which “activates creative friction and bold questions, exploring the art of assembly in all its forms, and investigating the challenges of our time.”
Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF) selected Staff Member Sarah Congress, Executive Assistant to the Deans and Manager of Academic Administration, and her play Fresh Kills to appear in its 19th season program.
The National Asian American Theatre Company, (NAATCO) has commissioned five Asian American playwrights, including alumna Samantha Chanse ’12 to collaborate on Out Of Time.
The Playwrights’ Center announced nine recipients for the 2021-2022 Jerome Fellowship, including Playwriting alumna Gethsemane Herron-Coward ’19.
Roundabout Theatre Company hired four Archives Fellows through the Columbia@Roundabout program. They are: playwriting student Devon Kidd, directing student Liz Peterson, and dramaturgy students Danielle Feder and Austin Tooley.
Playwriting alumna Callan Stout ’17 was named a winner of The Film Fund's 2020 Narrative Contest for a short film adaption of a play with her collaborators, current Columbia undergrads Arielle Friedman and Lucy Blumenfield.
Theatre alumnus Mark H. ‘18 was the latest featured speaker to visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Africa at Noon lecture series.
