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The 2020 MFA Actors Showcase is available for online viewing, following a large pivot in production.
Acting alumnus Grayson Powell ’11 co-produces and appears in the short film Niles Dean Lives in a Parking Space Under the Bridge, which will screen at YoFiFest’s 2020 virtual festival.
The twelve-minute comedy follows Niles Dean, a man who resides in a parking space beneath a bridge. After an old friend makes a surprise visit, the man must reckon with himself and his past transgressions. The film’s other co-producers include Steven Gerhardt-King and Robbie Tann, who stars as the titular character. Powell and Nemuna Ceesay appear in supporting roles.
WalkUpArts produces Baby Jessica’s Well-Made Play, penned by alumnus Philip Santos Schaffer ’18 with dramaturgy by alumna and staff member Anna Woodruff ’18, is a phone adventure to the bottom of the well and back again.
Theatre Acting alumnus Neil D’Astolfo ’13 voices characters on CBS All Access’ Tooning out the News and on Showtime’s Our Cartoon President. Both shows are executively produced by Stephen Colbert.
Alumna Sophia Skiles ’01 has been named the new Head of Acting in the Brown/Trinity Program at Brown University.
The Chautauqua Theater Conservatory has announced its class of 2020 with five Columbia actors on the list.
The SXSW Film Festival returns to Austin from March 13 - March 22 with many Columbia filmmakers participating in the 23rd edition of the festival. Ten of Columbia’s writers, directors, actors and producers are heading to Texas to present their work on six different films at this year’s festival.
Caborca, an alumni based theatre company, celebrated 10 years with a bilingual performance of Javier Antonio González's Zoetrope at the 2nd International Pueblos-Escena Festival in Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila, Cuba.
Acting alumna Lori Laing ’17 performs in the new Classic Stage Company production of Dracula by Kate Hamill. This rendition confronts the sexism in Bram Stoker’s original work and subjugates it as a smart and disquieting feminist revenge fantasy.
Acting Alumnus Matt Hurley ’12 performed in two hit television shows in 2019: HBO’s Succession and Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.