Directing News & Events

Theatre alumnus Benita de Wit ’16 will direct a virtual production of the musical documentary One More Thing Not to Think About: A Sondheim Project for the Post Theatre Company (PTC) of LIU Post.

Alumnus Michael Scholar, Jr. ’16 directed Duncan Macmillan's Lungs for Mitch & Murray Productions at Studio 16 in Vancouver, Canada. 

Karen, I Said directed by alumna Tara Ahmadinejad '14, premiered last month in an encore livestream production. Karen, I Said is a three-part, 45-minute Zoom presentation. The production was written by and starred Eliza Bent who performs the entire play as a 45 minute monologue.

Directing alumnus Simón Adinia Hanukai ’12 presents SPACES: Saint-Denis, an immersive site-specific series of storytelling events at the Market Hall and the Basilica of Saint-Denis, France. Hanukai, who co-created the event with Jonathan Camuzeaux and Lauren Cox, serves as General Artistic Director. 

A Distinct Society, written by Theatre Directing alumnus Kareem Fahmy ’07, will have a virtual reading as part of the International Voices Project (IVP) Chicago in collaboration with the Consulate General of Canada in Chicago, Silk Road Rising, and the Citadel Theatre of Canada.

Theatre Directing alumni Mei Ann Teo ’14 and Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16 will present their work at Prelude Festival 2020. Teo will present her piece hold, and Chowdhury will present episodes from his series Vichitra. 

Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.

Theatre alumnus and Miami New Drama Artistic Director Michel Hausmann ’14 will stage 7 Deadly Sins — Temptation in the Magic City in vacant Miami Beach storefronts this fall.

Vichitra by Theatre alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, an episodic, audiovisual project, will be produced at The Bushwick Starr this winter. Chowdhury’s Vichitra is “the fourth installment of an experiment in queer South Asian imagination,” where “Carnatic classical music is the shapeshifting protagonist.”

Theatre alumnae Daaimah Mubashshir ’15, Gethsemane Herron-Coward ’19, Zizi Majiid ’20, and Katherine Wilkinson ’19 have been selected for the 2020-2021 Women’s Project Theater Lab. 

Alumnus Saheem Ali ’07 joins The Public Theater as one of its new Associate Artistic Directors, along with Shanta Thake.

Two films by Columbia alumni and current students showed at the Maryland Film Festival from June 12 until June 21.