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Playwriting News
The Columbia University School of the Arts graduate Film Program proudly announces the winners of the 2023 Columbia Blue List screenwriting competition, presented by MUBI.
We talked about balletic influences, ethnoautobiography, and decentering whiteness in theatre with Playwriting student Luz Lorenzana Twigg, who is now preparing to graduate.
School Girls: Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Playwriting alumna Jocelyn Bioh ’08 will make its U.K. premiere at London's Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in summer 2023.
Playwriting alumnus Matt Barbot ’17 has been awarded a $10,000 commission by Miami New Drama and the Black List to develop a new play alongside the artistic team at Miami New Drama.
Directing alumnus Carl Cofield ’14 directs The XIXth at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California.
Playwriting alumnus and former Writing Program staff member Clarence Coo ’10 is the recipient of the 2023 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award for his play, Chapters of a Floating Life.
Playwriting alumnus Julián Mesri ’20 has co-conceived a new musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors alongside director Rebecca Martínez for The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit.
Directing alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16 was awarded the 2022 Mark O’Donnell Prize in December.
Public Obscenities, a new play written and directed by Directing alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, will begin performances on February 15, 2023 at Soho Rep.
After a marathon year in which she put up three new pieces of work, Nottage's contributions to the world of theatre—especially in the midst of challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic—are being recognized as not only an incredible feat, but also a labor of love.
Fall 2022 Adjunct Assistant Professor Lloyd Suh has been awarded a 2022 Steinberg Playwright Award.