List of University of North Carolina School of the Arts alumni
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
- Victor Barbee - principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre 1975-2003
- Elizabeth Benjamin - writer
- Patrick Bissell – principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
- Camille A. Brown – dancer and choreographer
- Kennedy Davenport - drag queen, best known for RuPaul's Drag Race (season 7) and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 3)
- Paul Frame – corps de ballet, New York City Ballet
- Alicia Holloway – corps de ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem
- Megan LeCrone – soloist, New York City Ballet
- Gillian Murphy – principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
- Katy Pyle - artistic director of Ballez
- Margaret Qualley – actress
- Maria Riccetto – soloist, American Ballet Theatre
- Keith Roberts – former principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
- Celia Rowlson-Hall – choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker
- Mel Tomlinson - soloist with New York City Ballet, principal with Boston Ballet
- Claire Kretzchmar - New York City Ballet
- Katita Waldo - former principal dancer and ballet master, San Francisco Ballet
Drama
- Jeannetta Arnette – actress
- Dylan Arnold - actor
- Matthew Ashford – actor, Days of Our Lives and other soap operas
- Ryan Ashton – actor, known as Zack Sinnett on The Young and the Restless, director, and screenwriter
- Diedrich Bader – actor
- Susan Batten – actress
- Gary Beach – Tony Award-winning actor, The Producers
- Neal Bledsoe – actor
- Jacob Brent – actor
- Anna Camp – actress, True Blood, Pitch Perfect, "Equus" on Broadway
- Josh Clark – stage and screen actor
- Gab Cody – filmmaker and theatre artist
- Natalia Cordova-Buckley - actress, best known as Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Dane DeHaan – actor, Chronicle, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Life After Beth, The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- Dennis Delaney – writer and actor, first National Director of Greenpeace USA
- Catherine Dent – actress
- Trieste Kelly Dunn – actress
- Jennifer Ehle – Tony Award-winning actress
- Jennifer Ferrin – actress
- Ashley Gardner – voice, stage, screen actress
- Brett Gelman – actor and comedian, The Other Guys, Eagleheart, "Stranger Things", named one of 10 comics to watch by Variety
- Chris Grace - actor, Superstore, PEN15, Broad City, This Is Us
- Rhoda Griffis – actress
- Josh Grisetti – Broadway, television and film actor (Broadway Bound, The Knights of Prosperity)
- Tim Guinee – actor, Tai-Pan, stage, film, television
- Lucas Hedges – Oscar-nominated actor, Manchester by the Sea
- Peter Hedges – writer and director
- Stephen Henderson – actor
- Tom Hulce – actor, Amadeus, National Lampoon's Animal House, Tony Award-winning producer of Spring Awakening
- Jana Marie Hupp – actress
- Will Janowitz – actor, writer, director
- Jake Lacy – actor
- Elizabeth Lail – actress, Once Upon a Time
- Matt Lauria – actor, Friday Night Lights, The Chicago Code
- Natalia Livingston – Emmy Award-winning actress, General Hospital
- Jenn Lyon – actress
- Kelly-Anne Lyons – actress
- Anthony Mackie – actor, Half Nelson, The Hurt Locker, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Angus MacLachlan – writer, Junebug
- Billy Magnussen – Tony Award-nominated actor
- Jonathan Majors – actor, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Lovecraft Country, Creed III
- Terrence Mann – actor, director, singer, dancer, songwriter
- Joe Mantello – Tony Award-winning theatre director
- Krys Marshall - actress[1]
- Marilyn McIntyre – television and film actress
- Cee Cee Michaela - actress
- Julianne Morris – actress
- Glyn O'Malley – playwright, actor, director, professor
- Mary-Louise Parker – Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress
- Chris Parnell – actor and comedian
- Will Patton – actor, best known as Coach Yoast from Remember the Titans
- Patsy Pease – actress, best known as Kimberly Brady from Days Of Our Lives
- Jada Pinkett Smith – actress
- Isaac Cole Powell – actor, Once on This Island on Broadway
- Missi Pyle – actress, Gone Girl
- Bridget Regan – actress, stage, film, television, best known as Kahlan Amnell in the television series Legend of the Seeker
- Judge Reinhold – actor
- J. T. Rogers – playwright
- Paul Schneider – actor, Parks and Recreation
- Klea Scott – actress, Millennium
- Ainsley Seiger - actress, Law & Order: Organized Crime
- Samantha Shelton – actress, singer
- Monti Sharp – Daytime Emmy Award-winning actor Guiding Light
- Wesley Taylor – actor, Plankton in SpongeBob SquarePants on Broadway
- Berlinda Tolbert - actress, best known for her role as Jenny Willis Jefferson, the daughter of Tom and Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons
- Christopher J. Waild – screenwriter Dog Days of Summer, staff writer on the television series NCIS.
- Lauren Ward – actress
- Celia Weston – actress
- Anna Wood – actress
- Ira David Wood III – actor
- Kurt Yaghjian - actor, Starred in Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" in the 1963 NBC Television production. Acted in other major productions in the 1970s.
Design and production
- Brian Sidney Bembridge – multiple award-winning scenic and lighting designer
- Kevin Dreyer – lighting designer/reconstructor for dance, theatre, opera and film
- Elizabeth Power – award-winning writer and educator
- Paul Tazewell – costume designer, winner of a Tony Award for “Hamilton” and an Emmy for NBC's “The Wiz! Live
- Kerry Joyce – Emmy award-winning set decorator, interior designer, and fabric designer
Film
- Zene Baker – film editor
- Travis Beacham – screenwriter
- Ryan Butler – documentary filmmaker and attorney
- Mark Freiburger – screenwriter, director and producer
- David Gordon Green – director of Pineapple Express
- Brett Haley – writer and director of The Hero, I'll See You in My Dreams, and The New Year
- Chad Hartigan – director of This is Martin Bonner, Morris From America and Little Fish
- Jody Hill – writer and director The Foot Fist Way, Eastbound & Down, and Observe and Report
- Aaron Katz – director, screenwriter, and editor, Quiet City,Dance Party USA, Cold Weather
- Danny R. McBride – actor and writer, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, and Eastbound & Down
- Caitlin McHugh - actress, writer, model
- Jeff Nichols – writer and director, Shotgun Stories
- Tim Orr – cinematographer
- Paul Schneider – actor and filmmaker
- Sage Stallone – actor, film director, film producer, and film distributor
- Martha Stephens – writer, director, filmmaker
- Craig Zobel – writer and director of Great World of Sound; co-creator of Homestar Runner
Music
- Eddie Barbash – saxophonist for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- Ida Bieler – violinist, professor; founder and Artistic Director of the International String Festival Baden Wuerttemberg
- Gwendolyn Bradley – soprano
- Javier Calderon - musician, classical guitarist. Soloist with St. Louis, Atlanta, and Minnesota Orchestras; recitalist; instructor; performances with Yo Yo Ma, CD recordings.
- Cameron Carpenter – organist/pianist
- Judith Cloud – composer, alto vocalist, and educator
- Ricardo Cobo – classical guitarist, professor
- Richard Cray – singer, actor
- Carlo Curley – organist, organ design and construction
- Nia Imani Franklin - composer, Miss America 2019
- Stefan Jezierski - musician, french horn. High horn with the Berlin Philharmonic for many years; principal horn of the Kassel Staatstheater; played with the Cleveland Orchestra.
- Randy Jones – original Village People cowboy
- John P. Kee – award-winning gospel musician
- Becca Stevens – singer/songwriter
- Jim Lauderdale – singer/songwriter
- Kendra Preston Leonard – cellist, musicologist
- Atli Örvarsson – composer, conductor, musician, songwriter
- Sharon Robinson – cellist
- Blair Tindall – oboist and author
- Ransom Wilson – flutist and conductor
- Sean Yseult – musician
Visual arts
- Alexander Isley – graphic designer
- David LaChapelle – photographer and music video director
- Hunter Schafer - visual artist, actress and trans activist
- Matt Fraction - writer, director and producer
References
- Upton-Julio, Melissa (June 14, 2023). "Drama alumna Krys Marshall is out of this world in "For All Mankind"". UNCSA. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
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