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Theatre Alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, Writing Alumni Ricardo Alberto Maldonado ’08 and Ge Gao ’17, and Visual Arts Alumni Vivianne Chiu ’19, Alison Taylor ’05, Elif Uras ’03, and Writing Assistant Professor Shane McCrae were all named NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows for 2020.
WalkUpArts produces Baby Jessica’s Well-Made Play, penned by alumnus Philip Santos Schaffer ’18 with dramaturgy by alumna and staff member Anna Woodruff ’18, is a phone adventure to the bottom of the well and back again.
Adjunct Associate Professor Deborah Brevoort pened the libretto to Dinner 4 3, an opera inspired by Boccaccio’s The Decameron (Day 5, Story 10). Brevoort wrote the 10-minute opera with composer Michale Ching.
Dramaturgy student Yibin (Bill) Wang is the Associate Director of the Artistic Department for the inaugural B·O·N·D International Virtual Live Performance Festival.
Columbia Stage Managers are working on exciting artistic projects on Broadway, off Broadway, on tour, and internationally.
Theatre alumni Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, Celine Song ’14, and Mei Ann Teo ’14 will be guest speakers in The Path Forward Virtual Conference, which aims to teach artists new tools for success in the pandemic era.
Theatre Acting alumnus Neil D’Astolfo ’13 voices characters on CBS All Access’ Tooning out the News and on Showtime’s Our Cartoon President. Both shows are executively produced by Stephen Colbert.
Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.
“You’ve seen vaudeville acts. You’ve seen comedies where fat people fall. Now come and witness a daring vaudeville comedy act starring a Fat person. Enter, if you dare,” warns playwriting student Greg T. Nanni who stars in his one man show FAT.
Theatre alumnus and Miami New Drama Artistic Director Michel Hausmann ’14 will stage 7 Deadly Sins — Temptation in the Magic City in vacant Miami Beach storefronts this fall.
Theatre student Kanika Vaish directs Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj for SoHo Shakespeare Company.
Vichitra by Theatre alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, an episodic, audiovisual project, will be produced at The Bushwick Starr this winter. Chowdhury’s Vichitra is “the fourth installment of an experiment in queer South Asian imagination,” where “Carnatic classical music is the shapeshifting protagonist.”
