Alumni

Programs in Performance
Programs in Design and Production

Programs in Performance

• Hugo Armstrong (BFA 98), Ovation Award-winning stage actor (The Land of the Tigers, Bleed Rail)
• Matt August (MFA 97), director (Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Liberty Smith)
• Elaine Avila (MFA 04), Robert Hartung Endowed Chair of Dramatic Writing, University of New Mexico
• Cameron Bancroft (BFA 90), screen actor (24)
• Jesse Borrego (84), stage and screen actor (Dexter, 24)
• Alison Brie (BFA 05), screen actor (Community, Mad Men)
• Don Cheadle (BFA 86), Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor (Hotel Rwanda, Crash, Iron Man 2)
• Jennifer Elise Cox (BFA 91), screen actor (10 Items or Less, Lovespring International, Six Feet Under)
• Michael Cudlitz (BFA 90), screen actor (Band of Brothers, Southland)
• Mandy Freund (BFA 00), stage and screen actor (The Glass Menagerie, Proof, She Stoops to Comedy)
• Nataki Garrett (MFA 02), co-artistic director of Blank-the-Dog Productions (Los Angeles)
• Leila Ghaznavi (MFA 10), actor, playwright, puppet theater artist
• Virginia Grise (MFA 09), Yale Drama Series-winning playwright (blu)
• Ed Harris (BFA 75), Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor (The Truman Show, The Hours), director (Pollock)
• David Hasselhoff (73), “The Hoff,” actor (Baywatch),
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• Bill Irwin (72), vaudeville artist, actor, director, playwright, MacArthur Fellow
• Lars Jan (Theater–Integrated Media MFA 08) director, media artist, founder of Early Morning Opera (Los Angeles), winner of the Richard E. Sherwood Award
• Jessica Kubzansky (MFA 94), co-artistic director of The Theatre @ Boston Court (Pasadena)
• Alan Loayza (BFA 00), stage and screen actor (Peach Blossom Fan, Gilmore Girls, web series Gold)
• Debi Manwiller (BFA 83), casting
• Terence McFarland (MFA 03), executive director of L.A. Stage Alliance
• Emily Mendelsohn (MFA 09), director, Fulbright Fellow
• Katherine Noon (MFA 90), artistic director of the Ghost Road Company (Los Angeles)
• Beata Pilch (MFA 93), artistic director of Trap Door Theatre (Chicago)
• Condola Rashad (BFA 09), stage actor (Lynn Nottage’s Ruined)
• Paul Reubens (73), actor, creator of Pee-wee’s Playhouse
• Poor Dog Group, theater collective (Los Angeles)
• Amy Keating Rogers (MFA 94), television writer (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, The Powerpuff Girls)
• Katey Sagal (72), actor (Sons of Anarchy, Married with Children)
• Catherine Sullivan (BFA 92), Alpert Award-winning artist, director and filmmaker
• Amy Tofte(MFA 11), playwright, two-time participant in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• Derek Webster (BFA 93), screen actor (Mental)
• Michole Briana White (91), OBIE Award-winning actor (Jitney, Stick Fly)
• Simbi Khali Williams (BFA 93), stage and screen actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Mississippi Damned)
• Chi-wang Yang (Theater–Integrated Media MFA 07), director (Vineland Stelae), digital artist, and co-founder of Cloud Eye Control

Programs in Design and Production

• Kevin Adams (MFA 86), Tony and OBIE Award-winning lighting and scene designer (The 39 Steps, Spring Awakening)
• Garth Belcon (BFA 94), producer (Whiteboyz), technical director, York College, CUNY
• D. Martyn Bookwalter (MFA 77), stage and television lighting designer, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award winner
• Fontella Boone (MFA 91), costume designer (Snipes)
• Kevin Dunayer (MFA 90), sound designer and engineer
• Brian Garber (MFA 04), technical director of New York Theatre Workshop, production manager (Elevator Repair Service’s The Sound and the Fury)
• Ian Garrett (MFA 08), Richard A. Sherwood Award-winning producer and lighting designer
• Barbara Inglehart (MFA 86), costume designer, co-author of Shopping L.A.: The Insider’s Sourcebook for Film & Fashion
• Jeff Kleeman (BFA 87), technical director of Los Angeles Opera
• Peter Ksander (MFA 01), OBIE Award-winning scene designer (Untitled Mars [This Title May Change])
• Etta Lilienthal (MFA 99, BFA 97), scene designer
• Brian Lilienthal (MFA 03), resident lighting designer of Trinity Rep, Ovation Award winner
• Christine Marie (Theater–Integrated Media MFA 09), shadow theater artist (Ground to Cloud)
• Jamie McElhinney (MFA 03), sound designer (The Success of Failure), technical director (The Builders Association’s Supervision)
• David Mickelsen (MFA 83), costume designer (Denver Center Theatre Company, the Cincinnati Playhouse)
• Don Miller (MFA 72), film producer (White Men Can’t Jump)
• Laura Mroczkowski (MFA 02), lighting designer (Spy Garbo), lighting associate of The Builders Association
• Cricket S. Myers (MFA 03), Drama Desk Award-winning sound designer (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo)
• Darcy Scanlin (MFA 00), award-winning production designer for stage and screen
• Qadriyyah Shamsid-Deen (Theater MFA 09–Film/Video MFA 10), documentary filmmaker, Fulbright Fellow
• Leon Rothenberg (MFA 02), Tony Award-winning sound designer (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone)
• Justin Townsend (MFA 03), lighting and scene designer, USITT Rising Star Award winner