Playwriting Events
Playwriting News
Playwriting Alumnus Jay Stull ’20 was recently named a finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition for his play, The Singularity Play.
The Playwright’s Room is a series featuring the newest cohort of Columbia Playwriting students. These playwrights study under the tutelage of Associate Professor David Henry Hwang and Associate Professor Lynn Nottage.
The Miami production of Seven Deadly Sins will transfer to New York this summer.
Circus Days & Nights is a new opera by the legendary composer Philip Glass, Associate Professor and librettist David Henry Hwang, and circus director Tilde Björfors.
The National Asian American Theatre Company, (NAATCO) has commissioned five Asian American playwrights, including alumna Samantha Chanse ’12 to collaborate on Out Of Time.
The Playwrights’ Center announced nine recipients for the 2021-2022 Jerome Fellowship, including Playwriting alumna Gethsemane Herron-Coward ’19.
Roundabout Theatre Company hired four Archives Fellows through the Columbia@Roundabout program. They are: playwriting student Devon Kidd, directing student Liz Peterson, and dramaturgy students Danielle Feder and Austin Tooley.
Playwriting alumna Callan Stout ’17 was named a winner of The Film Fund's 2020 Narrative Contest for a short film adaption of a play with her collaborators, current Columbia undergrads Arielle Friedman and Lucy Blumenfield.
Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Theatre and Playwriting Concentration Head David Henry Hwang about his most recent projects, the challenges of collaboration in the Zoom era, and the power of authenticity in art.
Playwriting alumnus Max Mondi ’18 writes and produces RIGHT NOW! as part of as digital programming.
An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor, written by Theatre alumna Jocelyn Bioh ’08 and directed by alumnus Saheem Ali ’07, will open the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park 2021 season on July 5, 2021.
The Playwright’s Room is a series featuring the newest cohort of Columbia Playwriting students.