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Steven Chaikelson, Professor of Professional Practice and Head of Theatre Management & Producing, produces the Broadway comeback of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, considered one of the greatest American plays of the twentieth century.
Directing student Chaesong Kim will perform in Lazarus 1972-2022 with Ping Chong and Company at La MaMa from September 29–October 16. The production is a reimagining of Ping Chong’s 1972 Lazarus, which was the first work he created as an independent artist.
Theatre alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor Katherine Wilkinson ’19 is the director of the world premiere of Bloom Bloom Pow, a queer climate-doom comedy play.
Alumni Jocelyn Bioh ’08 and Saheem Ali ’07 wrote and will direct, respectively, the new musical Goddess, set to have its world premiere at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre on August 13, 2022.
A new play co-written by alumna Inés Braun ’17 has been selected for the 2022 edition of the Global Forms Theater Festival at Manhattan’s Rattlestick Theater.
School of the Arts alumni Josh Koenigsburg '09 and Tyne Rafaeli ’14 will be contributing to The Geffen Playhouse's 2022/2023 season.
Directing alumnus Marc Atkinson Borrull ’16 will direct the Irish premiere of Nick Payne’s Constellations at Dublin’s historic Gate Theatre.
You might say that the show really begins with the ushers encouraging people to go to the bathroom and get water because the only intermission is around hour seven. Audiences are handed programs which indicate that the performance they’re about to see is Richard Wagner’s entire fifteen-hour, four-opera Ring Cycle.
Alumnus Kareem Fahmy ’07 and Adjunct Assistant Professor Manoel Felciano were part of a four-member cohort for the 2022 Classical Directing Fellowship, a program of the Karen and Stuart Tanz Fellowships at The Old Globe in San Diego, California.
Adjunct Professor Robert O’Hara ’96 will direct Richard III for The Public Theatre’s free Shakespeare in the Park series this upcoming summer in New York City.
Columbia Directing alumnus Keenan Tyler Oliphant ’20 will direct Ebru Nihan Celkan’s play, Will You Come With Me?
Jacob Sexton directs Indian Summer by Gregory S. Moss. Below is an interview with Sexton about philosophies on directing, new work, and a glimpse at his own perspective on Indian Summer.