Playwriting Events
Playwriting News
The Bandaged Place, a play by Theatre alumnus Harrison David Rivers ’09, will be featured in Roundabout Theatre Company’s ninth annual Roundabout Underground Reading Series.
Playwriting student A.A. Brenner has received the inaugural 2021 Jody Falco and Jeffrey Steinman Award, which comes with a $5,000 prize.
Playwriting alumni Johnny Lloyd ’20 and Max Mondi ’18 will participate in The Tank’s Rule of 7x7, an ongoing series that presents seven new short plays by seven writers.
“XXYX Queer Africa: More Invisible” by Playwriting alumnus Nick Hadikwa Mwaluk ’09 has been included in The Best American Essays 2020, edited by André Aciman.
Alumna Gina Stevenson ’18 was announced as a finalist for the 2020 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award. Stevenson was nominated alongside Ayad Andrews, Pravin Wilkins, Safaa Benson-Effiom and Zoe Ashford Cooper.
Playwriting student Ellis Stump’s one-act play series The People’s Toast has been published in print by Vaclav Havel Library Foundation as the winner of their 2019 Playwriting Competition. Copies are available at Vaclav Havel’s New York City library and in local bookstores.
Damascus. It’s in Syria, written by Playwriting alumna Kate Mulley ’16, directed by Sharone Halevy, performed and filmed by Marlowe Holden, with lighting design by Marika Kent and sound design by Alek Deva, is a multi-part, month-long durational performance airing on Instagram.
Columbia University School of the Arts’ International Play Reading Festival went digital this year.
Alumnae Nana Dakin ’18 and Ikumi Kuronaga ’20 were selected to join The Civilians’ R&D Group.
Adjunct Associate Professor Deborah Brevoort was invited to join Florida Studio Theatre’s (FST) Playwright Collective.
The Columbia University School of the Arts hosted the third listening party of its 2020 International Play Reading Festival series with May 35th, written by Candace Chong Mui Ngam.
The Tree - An American Rock Musical, co-written by Playwriting Student Alle Mims, will be staged by Dallas’ Imprint Theatreworks from October 29 to November 14, 2020.