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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

Columbia University School of the Arts announced that the third annual International Play Reading Festival will be held October 2-25, 2020 and released as a podcast series. 

Dear Actors,

First and foremost, I hope this letter finds you all well.

Dear 2nd Year Playwrights, First and foremost, I hope this letter finds you all well. 

Dear Students, First and foremost, I hope this letter finds you all well.

Theatre Alumna Ayvaunn Penn '18 and Alumnus and Staff member Clarence Coo '10 have been named finalists for the 2020 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference for new play development.

The Chautauqua Theater Conservatory has announced its class of 2020 with five Columbia actors on the list.

The Public Theater has announced its 2020-2022 Emerging Writers Group with recent alum Julián Mesri '20 listed among the ten new playwrights to be part of the prestigious program.

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.