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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.
New York Stage and Film, a non-profit dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development of new works for theater and film, announced that Christopher Burney ’94 will become its next Artistic Director.
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
Six Alumni received nominations: Jennifer Lee '04 (Frozen), Ayad Akhtar '02 (Junk), Lauren Nicole Cipoletti '13 and Dave Register '15 (Harry Potter), Thomas Kitt '96 (SpongeBob SquarePants), and Mia Yoo '98 (La MaMa E.T.C.).
Alumna Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play got three nominations.
Under the artistic direction of Alumnus Tony Speciale '08, Abingdon Theatre Company will produce two New York premieres this season
Fly written by Associate Professor Trey Ellis and co-writen by Ricardo Kahn received three awards at The NAACP Theatre Awards, including Best Production.
