Playwriting Events
Playwriting News
The New York Stage And Film Company 2020 Winter Season will feature the writing and composing talents of Columbia alumni Kareem Fahmy ’07 and Christina Quintana ’13 alongside adjunct associate professor Leslie Ayvazian.
Alumna Angelica Chéri ‘13 writes Gun & Powder a new musical which had its world premiere production at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA.
Professor Lynn Nottage won London’s Evening Standard Award for Best Play, for her play Sweat.
Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.
Endlings, by playwriting alumna Celine Song ’14 is set to play at New York Theatre Workshop in the 2019/2020 season. Song’s play received its world premiere at the American Repertory Theatre. The multiplot story directed by Sammi Cannold, was selected for the 2018 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Columbia University School of the Arts and Roundabout Theatre Company announced the winners of Columbia@Roundabout's 2019 New Play Reading Series.
Current Playwriting student Julián Mesri has been invited to write for Milagro Theater’s INGENIO Milagro program.
Peak Performances at Montclair State University will present the world premiere of Falling & Loving, a play written by Obie Award-winning Professor Charles L. Mee and directed by School of Arts Directing Concentration Head Professor Anne Bogart, on September 24, 2019.
Columbia School of the Arts faculty and alumni were recently named NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program Recipients and Finalists by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Playwriting alumnus Matt Barbot '17 was recently named a New York Theatre Workshop 2019-2020 2050 Artistic Fellow.
Playwriting alumni Melis Aker '18 and Kyoung Park '12 were recently named 2019-2020 DGF Fellows by the Dramatists Guild Foundation.
