Playwriting Events
Playwriting News
School of the Arts alumni Josh Koenigsburg '09 and Tyne Rafaeli ’14 will be contributing to The Geffen Playhouse's 2022/2023 season.
Playwriting alumnus Julián Mesri ’20 and Dramaturg alumna Meropi Peponides ’13 join the team behind Radical Evolution’s world premiere of Songs About Trains. A co-production between Working Theater and New Ohio Theater, Songs About Trains runs through April 23, 2022.
Concentration Head and Associate Professor of Playwriting David Henry Hwang will lead the screenplay for a new Anna May Wong biopic starring Gemma Chan, who is also a producer on the project. The project is an adaptation of Graham Russell Gao Hodges's biography of the early Hollywood star, Anna May Wong: From Laundrywoman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. Wong’s career in Hollywood was often plagued by industry prejudice and discrimination. In response to her limited opportunities in Hollywood, she went overseas to perform in Europe. There, she dedicated much of her career to…
What You Are Now, a new play by alumna Sam Chanse ’12, has enjoyed a successful world premiere at Manhattan’s Ensemble Studio Theater.
Several Columbia University alumni have teamed up to create a new original series of digital shorts, entitled Marta Nesspek Presents. They are: Logan Reed ’21 (director), Kate Pressman ’20 (writer, illustrator, and hands performer), Elizagrace Madrone ’20 (producer and dramaturg), and Josh Brown ’20 (soundtrack composer).
New work by alumnae Zizi Majid ’20, Daaimah Mubashshir ’15, Katherine Wilkinson ’19, and Gethsemane Herron-Coward ’19 join the billing for the 2022 Pipeline Festival.
The playwriting professor and the composer discuss their collaboration at an online School of the Arts event.
Second-year Playwriting student, Deandre C. Short ’23 has signed on as the assistant director for Dominique Morisseau’s new play, Confederates.
The Columbia University School of the Arts graduate Film Program proudly announces the winners of the 2022 Columbia Blue List screenwriting competition, presented by MUBI.
Playwriting student Ellis Stump ’23 has been named one of the Ascending Playwrights of 2021 at Yonder Window Theatre Company in Brooklyn, New York.
Associate Professor David Henry Hwang’s new opera, The Rift, will premiere as a part of the Washington National Opera’s Written in Stone program for the Kennedy Center’s 50th anniversary celebration.
the bandaged place, by playwriting alumnus Harrison David Rivers ’09, will have its world premiere at Roundabout Theatre Company.