List Of Alumni Of The University Of North Carolina School Of The Arts

This list of alumni of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts includes high school, undergraduate, and graduate, former students of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. UNCSA offers high school, undergraduate and graduate degrees from 5 arts schools of Dance, Design and Production, Drama, Film, and Music.

Dance

Current Professional Dancers:

• Gillian Murphy â€" principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
• Megan LeCrone - soloist, New York City Ballet
• Claire Kretzschmar - corps de ballet, New York City Ballet

Former Professional Dancers:

• Trey McIntyre â€" choreographer and artistic director, Trey McIntyre Project
• Jonah Bokaer - former dancer, Merce Cunningham Dance Company and now a choreographer and media artist
• Victor Barbee - former dancer and current Associate Artistic Director, American Ballet Theatre
• Maria Riccetto - former soloist, American Ballet Theatre
• Patrick Bissell â€" former principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
• Keith Roberts â€" former principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
• Jack Arnold - former dancer, Pilobolus Dance Theatre

Drama

• Michael Abbott Jr. - actor
• Matthew Ashford â€" actor, soap operas Days of Our Lives and others
• Diedrich Bader â€" actor, attended but did not graduate
• Gary Beach â€" Tony Award winning actor The Producers
• Neal Bledsoe â€" actor
• Anna Camp â€" actress, True Blood
• Gab Cody â€" playwright and filmmaker
• Dane DeHaan â€" actor, In Treatment , Kill Your Darlings and The Amazing Spider-Man 2
• Anna Wood â€" actress, Deception and Reckless
• Trieste Kelly Dunn â€" actress
• Jennifer Ehle â€" Tony Award winning actress
• Jennifer Ferrin â€" actress
• Brett Gelman â€" actor/comedian The Other Guys, Eagleheart, named one of 10 comics to watch by Variety
• Josh Grisetti â€" Broadway, television and film actor (Broadway Bound, The Knights of Prosperity)
• Tim Guinee â€" actor, Tai-Pan, stage, film, television
• Peter Hedges â€" writer and director
• Tom Hulce â€" actor, Amadeus, National Lampoon's Animal House, Tony Award winning producer "Spring Awakening"
• Will Janowitz â€" actor, writer, director
• Jake Lacy - actor, The Office
• Elizabeth Lail - actress, Once Upon a Time
• Matt Lauria â€" actor, Friday Night Lights, The Chicago Code
• Natalia Livingston â€" Emmy Award winning actress, General Hospital
• Kelly-Anne Lyons â€" actress
• Anthony Mackie â€" actor, Half Nelson and The Hurt Locker
• Billy Magnussen â€" actor
• Terrence Mann â€" actor
• Joe Mantello â€" Tony Award winning theatre director
• Angus MacLachlan â€" writer, Junebug
• Mary-Louise Parker â€" Tony Award winning actress
• Chris Parnell â€" Saturday Night Live actor/comedian
• Will Patton â€" actor, best known as Coach Yoast from Remember the Titans
• Jada Pinkett Smith â€" actress, attended but did not graduate
• Missi Pyle â€" actress
• Taylor Roberts â€" actress
• J. T. Rogers â€" playwright
• Judge Reinhold â€" actor
• Bridget Regan â€" actress, stage, film, television, best known as Kahlan Amnell in the television series Legend of the Seeker.
• Wesley Taylor â€" actor
• Celia Weston â€" actress
• Ira David Wood III â€" actor

Design and production

• Brian Sidney Bembridge â€" multiple award winning scenic and lighting designer
• Kevin Dreyer â€" lighting designer/reconstructor for dance, theatre, opera and film
• Elizabeth Power â€" graduate of NCSA's writing program in D&P, award winning writer/educator
• Paul Tazewell â€" Costume designer

Film

• Zene Baker â€" Film editor
• Travis Beacham â€" screenwriter
• Ben Best â€" screenwriter and actor, The Foot Fist Way and Eastbound & Down
• Ryan Butler â€" Filmmaker
• Mark Freiburger â€" screenwriter, director and producer
• David Gordon Green â€" Screenwriter and director
• Jody Hill â€" writer and director The Foot Fist Way, Eastbound & Down, and Observe and Report
• Aaron Katz â€" director, screenwriter, and editor, Quiet City, Dance Party USA, Cold Weather, and Land Ho!
• Danny R. McBride â€" actor and writer, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, and Eastbound & Down
• Jeff Nichols â€" writer and director Shotgun Stories
• Tim Orr â€" cinematographer
• Paul Schneider â€" actor and filmmaker
• Sage Stallone - actor, filmmaker
• Martha Stephens - writer and director of Passenger Pigeons, Pilgrim Song, and Land Ho!
• Craig Zobel â€" writer and director of Great World of Sound and co-creator of Homestar Runner

Music

• Ida Bieler â€" violinist, professor; Founder and Artistic Director of the International String Festival Baden Wuerttemberg
• Gwendolyn Bradley â€" soprano
• Cameron Carpenter â€" organist/pianist
• Ricardo Cobo - guitarist
• Richard Cray â€" singer, actor
• Carlo Curley â€" organist
• Kenneth Frazelle â€" composer
• Stefan de Leval Jezierski - hornist, Berlin Philharmonic
• Randy Jones â€" original Village People cowboy
• Jim Lauderdale â€" singer/ songwriter
• Mary-Jean O'Doherty â€" opera singer
• Sharon Robinson â€" cellist
• Blair Tindall â€" oboist and author
• Ransom Wilson â€" flutist and conductor
• Sean Yseult â€" musician

Visual arts

• Alexander Isley â€" graphic designer
• David LaChapelle â€" photographer and music video director
• Rusty Mills (1980), Emmy-winning animator and director

References

http://www.uncsa.edu/dance/alumni.htm