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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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.)
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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-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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."
Oh, hey Klein Oak! No broadway stars from my high school, but we do have Todd Lowe from Gilmore Girls.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.