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Theatre alumnae Daaimah Mubashshir ’15, Gethsemane Herron-Coward ’19, Zizi Majiid ’20, and Katherine Wilkinson ’19 have been selected for the 2020-2021 Women’s Project Theater Lab.
The Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School has awarded theatre alumna Anna Rebek ’20 the 2020-2021 Opera Directing Fellowship, a nine-month program.
Alumna Ashley Tata ’12 directs Out of the Silence: A Celebration of Music, Program One as a part of the Bard Music Festival.
Alumnus Saheem Ali ’07 joins The Public Theater as one of its new Associate Artistic Directors, along with Shanta Thake.
Alumna Gethsemane Herron-Coward '19 was selected as one of the six winners at the 2020 Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival from Samuel French leading to her play Falling Man to be included in the 45th Festival Plays Series.
Alumna Felicia King ’18 joined the writers of Shakespeare Now, an anthology of adaptations of Shakespeare’s work for television.
Playwriting alumnus Johnny Lloyd ’20 has been named the Director of Artistic Development for the nonprofit, the Tank.
Theatre Alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Film Ming Peiffer '16 wrote Finish the Fight, a digital theatre performance that focuses on 100 years of women’s right to vote, commissioned by The New York Times.
Alumna Sophia Skiles ’01 has been named the new Head of Acting in the Brown/Trinity Program at Brown University.
The Black Theatre Coalition is a new collective co-founded by Adjunct Assistant Professor T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reggie Van Lee, with the objective of increasing representation of Black theatre professionals by five-fold over the next decade.
Two-time Pulitzer winner Associate Professor Lynn Nottage’s new and as of yet untitled play will join Second Stage Theater’s Broadway line-up for 2021.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) and Columbia University School of the Arts (Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty) are pleased to announce the winners of Columbia@Roundabout’s 2020 New Play Reading Series
