Broadway Actors who went to your school.

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.

 

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Updated On: 2/13/17 at 06:47 PM

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!

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.

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. 

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. 

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

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.