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Directing Student Rebecca Miller Kratzer was recently named the Resident Stage Director & Chief Engagement Officer at Helios Opera. 

My Lord, What A Night, a new play by Adjunct Professor Deborah Brevoort will play Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. 

The Playwright’s Room is a series featuring the newest cohort of Columbia Playwriting students. These playwrights study under the tutelage of David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage. 

Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes. This week, we sat down with Alumna Annie Jin Wang ’20. 

Last year, Columbia Alumni established Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble AAE), a theatrical company dedicated to empowering young people to be creative and think outside the box.

The Playwright’s Room is a series featuring the newest cohort of Columbia Playwriting students.

Alumna Marike Splint ’07 creates and directs You Are Here - a homebound travelogue as a part of the Digital Without Walls (WOW) series at La Jolla Playhouse.

Stage Management student Kait Mahoney writes LEGO Harry Potter And The Transgender Witch, a queer fanfiction parody adventure series. LEGO Harry Potter And The Transgender Witch is produced by Theatre Battery, where Mahoney also serves as General Manager.

Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Film and Theatre David Klass about the recent Netflix adaptation of his thriller novel Out of Time, what inspires him to write, and how COVID-19 has affected his teaching. 

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research library of The New York Public Library in Harlem, compiled a Black Liberation Reading List "in response to the uprisings across the globe demanding justice for Black lives."

Season two of the dark comedy Dickinson features Acting alumni Joey Odom ’19 and Manuela Sosa ’19. Both Odom and Sosa appear in the first episode, Odom as Archibald and Sosa as Young Woman #2.

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.