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Playwriting alumnus Julián Mesri ’20 has been named the 2024 Judith Champion Musical Theater LaunchPad Resident by Signature Theatre.
After extending the hit play’s run twice, the Manhattan Theatre Club has announced that Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, by Playwriting alumna Jocelyn Bioh '08, will begin a national tour this September.
Signature Theatre’s 24/25 season has been announced and will include Fish, a developmental production from playwright Melis Aker ’18, directed by Tatiana Pandiani ’16.
Directing alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16 has received the Whiting Award in the category of drama. He joins a select group of ten emerging writers recognized in the fields of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
Theatre Professor Lynn Nottage’s play Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine will be revived in a new production opening this month at Brooklyn's Billie Holiday Theatre.
Playwriting student Antonia Cruz-Kent has been announced as one of four playwrights chosen to participate in the selective Latinx Playwrights Circle 2024 Intensive Mentorship program.
Theatre professor David Henry Hwang’s opera, An American Soldier, will premiere in New York this spring at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Lower Manhattan.
Alumni Spotlights is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
What is an artistic obsession? In Dramatic Influences: Theatre Makers and What Inspires Them, we catch up with Columbia Theatre artists and ask them about the things that keep them up at night. What drives these individuals, even as it drives them crazy? This week we speak with Playwriting student Sophie McIntosh about rabbits, JFK, and Gen Z’s environmental angst.
The Alumni Spotlight is a place to hear from the School of the Arts alumni community about their journeys as artists and creators.
Decentered Playwriting, a new book from Routledge Press, will be released this December and features the work of Playwriting alumna Luz Lorenzana Twigg ’23 as well as a foreword written by Associate Professor David Henry Hwang.
Playwriting alum C. Quintana ’13 has been named the inaugural recipient of Life Jacket Theatre Company’s $10,000 commission for Trans+ playwrights. Quintana is also the theatre company’s Resident Playwright.