Columbia College
Theater Department
72 E. 11th Street
Chicago, IL 60605
Office: (312) 344-6100
Box Office: (312) 344-6126
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Special Events

Dance Marathon 2008

COLUMBIA COLLEGE THEATER DEPARTMENT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CCAP AND CRITICAL ENCOUNTERS PRESENTS A FUND RAISING PROJECT TO BENEFIT MUSIC THEATRE WORKSHOP OF CHICAGO

FRIDAY MAY 9, 2008; 12NOON-10PM
THE CONAWAY CENTER
1104 S. WABASH AVENUE
$10 SUGGESTED DONATION AT THE DOOR

BRING A DANCE PARTNER, JOIN IN THE FUN AND DANCE THROUGH THE DECADES!

LOTS OF PRIZES, SONGS, SKETCHES, DANCE AND SURPRISE PERFORMANCES !!!

Senior Showcase

Senior Showcase is an annual event for graduating seniors to present their work to a large variety of local theaters, talent agencies, and casting directors. Each spring more than sixty directors, producers, and agents attend to see students perform the two and three person scenes that they have rehearsed for months, and to view portfolios from the design, directing and stage management students. Columbia faculty members are highly involved in coaching the students and helping them present their best material to the professional world. Each year, Senior Showcase results in graduates being cast in or designing for theater all over Chicago, and many are signed to agencies that represent talent in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and beyond.

Theater Scholarships

Betty Garrett Musical Theater Scholarship Fund

Theater Majors with a concentration in Musical Theater Performance
Full-time student; junior or senior level
Cumulative grade point average 3.0 or higher
Amount of the award: $1000 towards tuition and fees
Deadline: March 15, 2008
Applications are available in the Theater Department Office, Room 300, 72 E. 11th Street, Chicago, IL 60605

David Talbot Cox Scholarship Fund

Theater Majors with a concentration in Directing
Demonstration of artistic talent, academic
accomplishment and financial need
Full-time student; junior and senior status
Cumulative grade point average 3.0 or higher
Amount of the award: $3000 stipend
Deadline: March 15, 2008
Applications are available in the Theater Department Office, Room 300, 72 E. 11th Street, Chicago, IL 60605

Freshman Achievement Award

Open to full-time Theater majors actively involved as a designer, performer, or production staff on Theater Department Mainstage or Workshop productions
Have to have completed 32 or fewer hours of credit at Columbia College
Cumulative grade point average 3.0 or higher
Amount of the award: $1500 awarded; Fall 2005
semester
Deadline: March 15, 2008
Applications are available in the Theater Department Office, Room 300, 72 E. 11th Street, Chicago, IL 60605

John Murbach Scholarship of the Michael Merritt Awards

Open to full-time Theater majors seeking experience in the area of stage design
Have to have completed 60 hours of credit or more at Columbia College.
Cumulative grade point average 3.0 or higher
Amount of the award: $1000 stipend
Deadline: (pending)
Recipient of award chosen by faculty

The Saints Scholarship for Performing Arts Students

Open to full-time Theater, Dance, or Music majors who
have a desire to pursue a career in the
performing arts including technical careers such as
sound, lighting, set or costume design
Applicant must be entering their senior year at
Columbia College in the fall of 2005
Amount of the award: $2500 awarded for the 2008-2009 academic year
Deadline: March 29, 2008
Applications are avalable in the Theater Department Office, Room 300, 72 E. 11th Street, Chicago, IL 60605

Steven M. Hoenig Memorial Actors Fund

Open to Theater majors
Junior status
Amount of the award: $3000 stipend awarded; Fall
semester of the Senior year
Deadline: April 26, 2008
Applications are available in the Theater Department Office, Room 300, 72 E. 11th Street, Chicago, IL 60605
Award is to be used for "travel costs, head shots, scripts, materials for auditions, classes for further professional development and related expenditures"; website where you can download application is: http://www.HoenigActorsFund.org

Liberace Scholarship

Open to Theater majors
Junior or Senior status
Amount of the award: $1000 grant each semester of the 2005-2006 academic year
Deadline: Early spring
Further information regarding the audition/interview process and applications are available in the Theater Department Office, Room 300, 72 E. 11th Steet, Chicago, IL 60605
Contact person: Caroline Latta, (312) 344-6138

Contest

The Annual Theodore Ward Prize for African-American Playwriting:

An annual playwriting contest sponsored by Columbia College Chicago Theater Center, the Theodore Ward Prize for African-American Playwriting is nationally acclaimed for recognizing the outstanding individual accomplishments of African-American playwrights; along with their growing importance to the shape and direction of American drama in our time. Former contest winners have held a mirror up to a myriad of subject matters; the post-American Civil War Reconstruction experience, Negro League baseball in the 1940's, the 1930's Tuskegee syphilis experiments, along with the most recent winner, Ma Noah, by Mark Clayton Southers, exploring present day life on and off the streets of Philadelphia.

The goals of the contest are as follows:

To uncover and identify new African-American plays addressing the African-American experience that are promising and producible.
To encourage and aid playwrights in the development of promising scripts.
To offer an opportunity for emerging and
established playwrights of African-American descent to be exposed to Chicago's professional theater community through staged readings and/or fully mounted productions.

For more information on the submission process, prizes, and deadlines please contact contest facilitator, Chuck Smith at (312)344-6136.