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Columbia University School of the Arts and Roundabout Theatre Company announced the winners of Columbia@Roundabout's 2019 New Play Reading Series.
Faculty member and Tony Award-winner David Henry Hwang and Barnard College alumna and Tony Award-winner Jeanine Tesori ’83 bring a new high concept musical-within-a-play to The Public Theatre for its New York premiere.
Acting alumnus Grayson Powell ’11 co-stars in the first episode of Amazon’s new romantic comedy television series Modern Love.
Current Playwriting student Julián Mesri has been invited to write for Milagro Theater’s INGENIO Milagro program.
Directing alumnus Kareem Fahmy ’07 is making a splash in theatre, directing two plays this fall.
Theatrical Outfit, a Theatre based in Atlanta, GA, has named Directing alumnus Matt Torney ’09 its new Artistic Director.
In June 2019, Columbia University School of Arts staged the second annual International Play Reading Festival, presenting plays in English translation from Spain, Chile and France alongside discussions on theatre translation and internationalization of Anglophone stages. Here, John Brunner reflects on the events of an eclectic three days of world theatre.
In recent theatre news, Columbia swept the 2019 Obie Awards. Adjunct faculty member Leigh Silverman won an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Directing and alumna Heather Alicia Simms ‘96 won an Obie for Performance in two plays by faculty member Lynn Nottage at Signature Theatre, Fabulation, or the Re-education of Undine, and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.
BLANKS by Gethsemane Herron-Coward ’19 and directed by Tyler Thomas is the sixth play to be presented as part of the New Plays Festival 2019 featuring seven new plays by the graduating MFA playwriting class.
Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty at Columbia University School of the Arts, has announced that Oskar Eustis will speak at this year’s School of the Arts Convocation, to be held Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 2 pm in Miller Theatre on the Morningside Campus. Eustis will salute the School’s MFA graduates in Film, Theatre, Visual Arts, and Writing, and MA graduates in Film and Media Studies.
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to announce that Peter Jay Fernandez has been appointed Assistant Professor of Theatre.
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
