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Playwriting alum Jay Stull '20, Directing alum Keenan Tyler Oliphant ’20 and Film alum Aurora Real de Asua ’24 will have work featured in Second Stage Theater's 2025 Next Stage Festival.
Founded by Tony Award-winning Adjunct Assistant Professor Cody Renard Richard, the scholarship champions artists of color working in non-performance roles to become the next generation of theatrical leaders.
Directing alum Kim Weild '07 serves as Co-Artistic Lead and Director of The Apothetae Residency at The Public Theater in New York, where she is developing innovative approaches to inclusive theatre-making.
Playwriting student D.A. Mindell is making his Off-Broadway debut with the play On the Evolutionary Function of Shame.
Acting alum Hannah Shealy ’23 joins the third season of HBO’s The Gilded Age as Charlotte Astor, a married heiress returned from an eventful trip abroad.
Drawing from nature, history, and emerging trends, four alumni interior designers share their decorating wisdom.
Stage Management faculty and students are in charge at New York Times Critic’s Pick and Richard Rodgers Award-winner, Maybe Happy Ending.
Director Jamie Lloyd’s minimalist rendition of Sunset Boulevard was one of the most anticipated Broadway openings this season.
Acting alum Rebecca Henderson ’06 has made her Broadway debut in Cult of Love.
Theatre alum Meropi Peponides ’13 sees dramaturgy everywhere: Netflix specials, budgets for stage productions, political campaigns, venues in Staten Island and the Bronx. “It’s just the way I think,” she said. “It’s not like I can turn off the dramaturgy brain.”
Theatre alum Matt Barbot ’17 is debuting his new play the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo) at The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in its world premiere.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Professor Christian Parker about dramaturgy and the enduring power of theatre.
