Playwriting Events
Playwriting News
Alvarez Keko Salazar Productions and Poseidon Theatre Company are adapting short plays by Theatre Alumnus Jeffrey James Keyes ’10 into the new podcast series Drama: an aural experience.
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 student Kanika Vaish directs Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj for SoHo Shakespeare Company.
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.
Alumna Gethsemane Herron-Coward '19 was selected as one of the six winners at the 2020 Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival from Samuel French leading to her play Falling Man to be included in the 45th Festival Plays Series.
Playwriting alumnus Johnny Lloyd ’20 has been named the Director of Artistic Development for the nonprofit, the Tank.
Theatre Alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Film Ming Peiffer '16 wrote Finish the Fight, a digital theatre performance that focuses on 100 years of women’s right to vote, commissioned by The New York Times.
Two Columbia alumni received recognition at the Dramatists Guild and Lilly Awards unprecedented virtual joint ceremony last month. Dramaturgy alumna Jillian Walker '17 received The Stacey Mindich ‘Go Work in Theater' Award as part of the Lilly Awards, while alumna Kia Corthron '92 took home the Flora Roberts Award from the Dramatists Guild in recognition of her previous work and encouragement of future endeavors.
Two-time Pulitzer winner Associate Professor Lynn Nottage’s new and as of yet untitled play will join Second Stage Theater’s Broadway line-up for 2021.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) and Columbia University School of the Arts (Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty) are pleased to announce the winners of Columbia@Roundabout’s 2020 New Play Reading Series
Theatre Alumna Ayvaunn Penn '18 and Alumnus and Staff member Clarence Coo '10 have been named finalists for the 2020 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference for new play development.
The Public Theater has announced its 2020-2022 Emerging Writers Group with recent alum Julián Mesri '20 listed among the ten new playwrights to be part of the prestigious program.