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Broadway Actors who went to your school.

Dallas Theatre Fan
#1Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 4:27pm

They didn't have to be there the same time you were and, it could be from your high school or college.

 

Jennifer Smith recently seen in Tuck Everlasting and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder went to the same college as I did, Texas Tech University.

Any your school's alumni graced the Broadway stage?

 

P.S. to brighten up your Monday y'all should look up Texas Tech's current football coach, y'all won't be disappointed.

 

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quizking101
#2Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 4:36pm

None from my college (The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ - a suburb of Trenton), however, Judith Light, Michael Cristofer, Roxanne Hart, and Richard Kind are all residents or former residents of the surrounding area.


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kdogg36
#3Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 5:34pm

I graduated from Fordham University - I can only imagine that a bunch of Broadway folks have gone there over the years. Off the top of my head, the list would include Alan Alda, Denzel Washington, John Benjamin Hickey, and Alison Fraser.

I doubt any Broadway actors graduated from my high school, Mount St. Joseph in Baltimore. It was more of a jock school, and has produced a number of professional athletes, perhaps most notably Mark Teixeira.

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BrodyFosse123
#4Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 5:35pm

I went to Boston University.  I'm sure there are dozens who also attended Boston University.  

 


Whateverjsays
#5Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 5:41pm

Sean Hayes was the music director and produced a few shows at Pheasant Run theatre in St Charles Illinois. I did community theatre there. 

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Call_me_jorge
#6Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 5:45pm

I've attended two high schools and no broadway stars, though my first high school has David Hasselhoff as an alum and my second high school Has Matt Walsh as an alum


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#7Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 5:46pm

Ethan Hawke went to my high school (and in interviews I've heard him talk about what a crazy building our school was).

Dover
#8Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 5:54pm

Call_me_jorge said: "I've attended two high schools and no broadway stars, though my first high school has David Hasselhoff as an alum and my second high school Has Matt Walsh as an alum"

As much as I'd like to forget it, David Hasselhoff is, technically, a Broadway star.

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Mister Matt
#10Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 5:56pm

High School - Jim Parsons

College - Jim Parsons, Brent Spiner, Larry Hovis, and Larry Blyden are alumni I know of at the moment.  Some faculty I've known connected to Broadway included Jose Quintero, Sir Peter Hall, Edward Albee, Stuart Ostrow, Kevin Rigdon, and K. Todd Freeman.


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#11Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 6:21pm

Harry Connick Jr. and Wilson Jermaine Heredia both went to Hunter College... other non-Broadway actors have gone to Hunter too like Rhea Perlman, Edward Burns, and Vin Diesel.


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Blockhead24
#12Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 6:30pm

Laura Linney went to my high school-- Northfield Mount Hermon and Michael C. Hall went to my college--Earlham.

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GavestonPS
#13Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 6:38pm

As I've said elsewhere, I went to high school with
Paige O'Hara (SHOW BOAT, LES MIZ, DROOD
on Broadway and the voice of Belle in the animated
BATB). Michael Scott Gregory (SOPHISTICATED
LADIES, JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY,
STARLIGHT EXPRESS, CATS) went to the same 
school later and became a friend when he
moved to New York.

I went to college at Columbia and UCLA, so
the list is endless. I also taught at the latter;
I see former students on TV and film all the
time. The best known is probably Milo
Ventimiglia of HEROES and, currently, THIS
IS US. (Barack Obama and I were at
Columbia at the same time, but I don't
recall meeting him.)

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#14Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 6:47pm

High school: Mary Birdsong

Undergrad: Annaleigh Ashford, Andrew Rannells (didn't graduate), Adam Chanler-Berat (didn't graduate), Jenna Ushkowitz, Adrienne Warren, Jason Gotay

Grad school: Chuck Cooper, Jonathan Freeman, Dave Malloy, Piper Perabo

More that I'm probably forgetting, but this is who I can recall off the top of my head.


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asmith0307
#15Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 6:54pm

Mister Matt said: "High School - Jim Parsons

College - Jim Parsons, Brent Spiner, Larry Hovis, and Larry Blyden are alumni I know of at the moment.  Some faculty I've known connected to Broadway included Jose Quintero, Sir Peter Hall, Edward Albee, Stuart Ostrow, Kevin Rigdon, and K. Todd Freeman.
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Oh, hey Klein Oak! No broadway stars from my high school, but we do have Todd Lowe from Gilmore Girls. 

University - Stephen McKinley Henderson.

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oncemorewithfeeling2
#16Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 7:22pm

High School: Andrew Fitch (Best known for his ensemble work in Pippin and Spamalot)

Undregrad degree 1: Marin Mazzie, David Wayne (didn't graduate), Hannah Elless, Stephen Lynch, Brooke Elliot, Lauren Zakrin

Master's Degree 1: Dann Florek

Undergraduate degree 2/Master's Degree 2: Celia Keenan-Bolger, Andrew Keenan- Bolger, Andrew Lippa, Brynn O'Malley, Pasek and Paul, Jenni Barber, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Alexander Gemignani, Etai Benson, Nick Blaermire, David Burtka, Gavin Creel, Erin Dilly, Hunter Foster, Andy Mientus (didn't graduate), Lauren Molina, Helene Yorke, Douglas Sills, Darren Criss, AJ Holmes, Selma Blair, Barrett Foa, David Alan Grier, Gregory Jbara, Miriam Shor, James Earl Jones, Ashley Park, Taylor Louderman (didn't graduate)...and tons, tons more. Go Blue!

mpkie
#17Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 9:28pm

Ooh, apparently Telly Leung (In Transit, Allegiance, Glee) and I went to the same high school. Apparently, we also grew up in the same neighborhood, but he is several years my senior so we wouldn't have been in school at the same time. Seriously, I am surprised at his age, thought he was much younger -- hah!

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#18Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 9:48pm

In high school Daniel Reichard was a year ahead of me and Rory O'Malley was in the class a year behind me, and one of the founders of the Araca Group is also an alum, but from a good number of years before me.

 

Undergrad there have been quite a few, so I'll just go with in my class year: Jill Paice, Trista Moldovan, and Kevin David Thomas.

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#19Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 9:51pm

I graduated from LaGuardia High School of Music & Arts and Performing Arts. 

Quite a few.

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adamgreer
#20Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 9:59pm

Jeff Keller and David Garrison both went to my high school, as did Mark Hoebee (artistic director at Papermill).  

Regis Philbin, among numerous others, went to my college. 

willep
#21Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 10:51pm

Lucas Steele went to my high school.

 

Don't think there are any from my college (although Sheryl Lee Ralph did come see a show I was in because her son was attending/also in the show).

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PatrickDC
#22Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 11:44pm

My high school, not a soul in its 140+ year history, at least recently. I know because about 15 years ago a disgruntled teenager burned the old school building down. It shared the campus with the new school built in the early 1970s, and housed non school offices. The school district took the opportunity to build on the site the school's first theater and performing arts center. It's small, about 500 seats, but is very nice, and is used by a lot of local groups as well as the school that has a fairly thriving theater department now, which I find really exciting. So maybe someday a Broadway star will graduate from there. 

Why I know no recent actors have is when the theater was to be built the school ran a capital campaign to help fund it. As I work in fundraising I was asked to help a bit on the campaign. One idea was to name it for a prominent actor who went to the high school. Folks researched back decades and there was no one. 

The closest I can get is a former classmate who I learned via Facebook does continuity for TV shows. 

Alex Kulak2
#23Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 11:48pm

Jane Lynch went to Illinois State, and I'm currently attending as an acting major.

Not a Broadway actor, but so did Tommy Nolan (of Musical Theatre Mash and Jim and Tomic's Musical Theatre Happy Hour)

Emmaloucbway
#24Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/13/17 at 11:53pm

I'm currently a student at Sarah Lawrence College, and Tovah Feldshuh is an alum. 

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theNYCpro
#25Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/14/17 at 12:23am

Jarrod Spector graduated my High School a few years before I did. 

 

And though I didn't realize it until I saw this thread and checked, both Jeremy Jordan and Aaron Tveit went to my Alma mater, Ithaca College.

theaterkidsteacher
#26Broadway Actors who went to your school.
Posted: 2/14/17 at 12:31am

Brian Stokes Mitchell- he was a few years ahead of me and by the time I was in the theater dept he was doing a lot at the Old Globe- he used to come in every year and talk to us about the "business". (this was 35 years ago lol.)  Also Annette Benning, but I'm not sure she's done much on Broadway.


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