Famous Alumni

#1

Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 7:39pm

What Broadway, Off-Broadway, Screen (or related) actors are alumni of your college?

More specifically, unknown schools. If you're from Tisch or Julliard, go ahead and comment but I'm more curious in the not-so-obvious locales.

I'll start:
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI
B.D. Wong (Actor)
Annette Bening (Actress)
Dana Carvey (Comedian)
Margaret Cho (Comedienne)
Greg Proops (Comedian)
Anne Rice (Novelist)
Jeffrey Tambor (Actor)

#2

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 8:12pm

I don't know what college she went to (and I'm not in college) but Judy Kuhn went to my high school.

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#3

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 8:14pm

Actors/singers Mariah Carey, Natalie Portman, LisaGay Hamilton, Jane Monheit, and Jordan Leeds went to the Usdan Center. Broadway musical director Larry Yurman also went there. Broadway hoofer Jamie Chandler-Torns (Carrie, Sweet Smell of Success) choreographs the productions in the theater department.

#4

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 8:16pm

Paige Price went to my high school.

Randy Graff, Janine LaManna, and Kathry Brier went to Wagner College, and Jay Rodriguez went there for a week or two.

#5

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 8:18pm

Well, if we're counting high schools, Carolee Carmello. A few years ahead of me, but my old drama teacher remembers her.

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#6

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 8:19pm

Of course they do, it's hard to forget Carolee.

#7

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 8:49pm

Christopher Sieber went to my high school. And as for college... I graduated from NYU, so there are many... to mention just a few: Idina Menzel, Kristin Bell, Alison Hannigan... list goes on an on though.

#8

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 9:57pm

University of Iowa

Tenessee Williams
Gene Wilder
Lee Blessing
Rebecca Gilman
Mary Beth Hurt
Jamyl Dobson (of NYTW's "The Seven" - watch out for this guy - he will be the next Denzel Washington. He is amazing.)

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#9

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 10:21pm

From my high school: Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne) and Michael Aaron Linder (Jeff Award winner for Sweeney Todd)

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#10

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 10:26pm

i donn't know if he counts, but Buster Poindexer (the guy who wrote "hot, Hot, Hot") went to my high school.

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#11

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 10:27pm

High School: Calista Flockhart
College: I'm not sure off the top of my head, although we were the first college to have an African-American graduate in 1825.

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#12

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 11:08pm

Eric McCormick (Will of Will and grace fame, as well as the Music Man) and David James Elliott (lead in the show JAG) are both alumani of my theatre school, as well as many prominent Canadian actors that most of you probably haven't heard of in the states.

Akiva

#13

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 11:14pm

Sara Gettelfinger and Paige Davis went to my high school. As did the lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls.

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#14

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/16/06 at 11:29pm

Famous alums from my high school include Richard Rodgers, Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, and Yip Harburg.

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#15

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/17/06 at 12:59am

People who went to my college:
Mary Faber
Tyne Daly
Deborah Messing
Marta Kaufman and David Krane (Friends)
Annette Miller
Theresa Rebeck (Playwright)
Maurie Schwartz (as in Tuesday's with Morrie)
Mitch Albom (author of Tuesdays with Morrie)

and Alan Menkin went to my high school, so did a bunch of other people who I can't recall right now.

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#16

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/17/06 at 1:07am

Boston University: Jason Alexander, Kenneth Kantor, Brad Oscar, a few others who escape me.

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#17

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/17/06 at 1:16am

People who graduated from my high school:

Jennifer Aniston
Adrien Brody
Priscilla Lopez
Omar Epps
Al Pacino
Tony Roberts
Ben Vereen
Liza Minelli (I don't think she graduated)
Freddie Prinz
Brenda Braxton

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#18

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/17/06 at 1:20am

CMU

Sutton Foster (For a semester or two)
Ethan Hawke (For a semester)
Cherry Jones (Grad)
Burke Moses
Megan Hilty
Laura San Giocomo (Just Shoot Me, Sex/Lies/Videotape)
Peggy Eisenhaur (Spelling?)
Blair Underwood
Christian Borle
Renee Elise Goldsberry (Just left Color Purple as Nettie)
Billy Porter
Natalie Belcon (Avenue Q)
Tamara Tunie
Holly Hunter
Ty Taylor (Man #2 - Songs for a New World)

And that's all I can think of off the top of my head..

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#19

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/17/06 at 1:20am

North Carolina School of The Arts:
( We have a ton of famous alumni, but here are the most famous, i think.... here is the link to the alumni page with bios, etc.... and apparently , NCSA is like one of the top schools with working alumni on Broadway...


Gary Beach
Terrance Mann
Joe Mantello
Joshua Park
Mary Louise Parker
Ashley Robinson


NCSA Famous Alumni

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#20

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/17/06 at 1:29am

My Alma Mater, Ithaca College: Kerry Butler & Matt Cavenaugh.

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#21

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:02am

Hampshire College

Liev Schreiber
Ken Burns
Elliott Smith

also not as famous, but I can't neglect to mention:

Danny Tamberelli of Pete & Pete(But he was famous long before he went here)

We have some more but those are the bigger names.

Hey my school only opened in 1969.

My high school didn't have famous alumni so much as famous parents of alumni.

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#22

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:06am

Boston U (not all theater related):

Brad Oscar
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Howard Stern
Bill O'Reilly

Jason Alexander left senior year.

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#23

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/17/06 at 7:32am

Oklahoma City University:

1)Kristin Chenoweth
2)Kelli O'Hara
3)Julie Hanson
4)Stacey Logan
5)Lara Teeter
6)Sarah Coburn
7)Leona Mitchell

most of these studied with they doyenne of vocal teachers, Florence Birdwell.

#24

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/17/06 at 11:47am

I know I'm not going to remember them all, but from UCLA:
Carol Burnett
Sara Uriarte Berry
Susan Egan
Minglie Chen (Understudy at Ave. Q)
Anne Warren (Millie tour, Ensemble in Hairspray, and my sorority sister!)
Those last two gals may not be "famous" yet, but they are on Broadway!
And I know lots of screen actors came out of the Theater, Film, and Television School as well.

#25

re: Famous Alumni

Posted: 3/17/06 at 12:18pm

University of Montevallo

Rebecca Luker
Greta Lambert

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