News
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.
'Disclaimer', written and performed by alumna Tara Ahmadinejad ’14 returned to the Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival in January.
Alumna Amber Chardae Robinson ’15 appears in the recent hit film Judas and the Black Messiah which is currently streaming on HBO Max and playing in select theaters.
Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Theatre and Playwriting Concentration Head David Henry Hwang about his most recent projects, the challenges of collaboration in the Zoom era, and the power of authenticity in art.
Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.
Playwriting alumnus Max Mondi ’18 writes and produces RIGHT NOW! as part of as digital programming.
An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor, written by Theatre alumna Jocelyn Bioh ’08 and directed by alumnus Saheem Ali ’07, will open the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park 2021 season on July 5, 2021.
Theatre alumnus Carl Cofield ’14 will serve as the Chair of Graduate Acting at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts beginning in September of 2021.
