The School of Drama's excellence in training is best exemplified by the accomplishments of its alumni. The vast majority of the School's former students have appeared in numerous Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theatre productions, in films, and in television series and shows.

Michael Abbott, Jr.
Michael has appeared Off Broadway in productions of; "Othello", "Taming of the Shrew", and "Pudd'nhead Wilson"(Lucille Lortel). His regional theatre credits include; "Bat Boy:The Musical"(Portland Center Stage), "Dearly Departed"(Tennessee Repertory Theatre), and the World Premiere production of "BROTHER WOLF"(Traid Stage), among others. He has appeared in numerous workshop productions (including "The Duke & The Duchess" starring two-time Academy Award Nominee, Sylvia Miles), is a member of John Houseman's acclaimed 'Acting Company', and has appeared nationally as Elvis Presley (including The Kennedy Center and the HBO & BRAVO Networks). Michael will appear as Cleaman Hayes in the independent feature film, "SHOTGUN STORIES", written and directed by Jeff Nichols and produced by David Gordon Green. The film stars Michael Shannon and will premiere in early 2007.

Mando Alvarado
Writer and actor from Pharr, Texas. His one man show, “We’re ‘Mericans,” an adaptation of Sandra Cisneros’ book “Woman Hollering Creek,” has been performed at the Kennedy Center, District of Columbia Arts Center, and Theater Alliance. His 10-minute play, “The Lion and the Mouse: a Radio Show,” is being performed by LEAP throughout schools in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn as part of its Aesop Fables for Youth series. His play “Throat” was selected to be developed at The Field ArtWard Bound Residency Program; also received a staged workshop production by The Roundhouse Theatre at the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival in Washington, D.C.. A member of the KITCHEN at the Roundhouse Theatre. Recently performed his new one-man show “Los Mojados” at the Nuyorican Poet’s Café. Currently in development on a screenplay, “7 Tales of Desperation,” which is scheduled for production in fall 2007. Actor: “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law and Order: SVU,” AMW, the short film NOBLE CHROME PIRATES and the feature film THE CHOKING MAN. On stage: "Our Lady of 121st" at Woolly Mammoth, "Jesus Hopped the A Train" at the RoundHouse Theater, and "Painted Alice" at Theater Alliance, as well as numerous regional theaters in Texas, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C.

Matthew Ashford
Member of L.A.'s Interact Theatre Company, where he received the Artistic Director Achievement Award for Lead Actor for portrayal of Wolf/Prince in the musical "Into the Woods." Other work at Interact includes lead roles in "Counsellor-at-Law," "110 in the Shade," "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "The Nerd." Also performed in Ensemble Studio Theatre West's "Cherry Orchard" and "Member of the Wedding" with Esther Rolle. Off-Broadway, appeared in the musical "Surrender," "Hazard County Wonder" and "Nice People." Contract roles on daytime dramas "General Hospital," "Days of Our Lives" (as Jack Deveraux), "Search for Tomorrow" and "One Life to Live." Primetime television work includes guest star roles in "Friends," "Dharma & Greg," "Providence," "Tom Clancy's Net Force," "Charmed," "Pacific Blue," "Burke's Law," and "Quantum Leap." Film roles include BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES, SPECIES and BILLY'S HOLLYWOOD SCREEN KISS, which was viewed at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Appeared in Stephen Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's "A Little Night Music."

Lynn Baber
Lynn has worked professionally as Director, Costume Designer, Teacher, Administrator, Sketch Writer, Improv Comedienne, Producer, and Actress in Chicago. She is the Artistic Administrator at Northlight Theatre in the Chicago area where her duties include Casting, Internships, and assisting the Artistic Director. For the past eight years she has served as the Theatre Arts Director of the National High School Institute (the Cherub program) at Northwestern University; and as Director of the Musical Theatre extension program. In her 25 years on the faculty of the Cherub program, she has taught Acting, Voice & Movement, Improvisation, Tap, Children’s Theatre, Text Analysis and Performance Theory; and has directed ten productions (including Execution of Justice, The Investigation, Baby with the Bathwater, Marat/Sade, Too Much Light…, and The Beggar’s Opera). She was the Co-Founder/Artistic Director of the Econo-Art Theatre Company (1983-90) , along with UNCSA alum Marc Silvia (Drama, ’82). At Econo-Art she was seen in an array of world-premieres and obscure plays, including The Underpants, Durang’s Titanic, The Radio Play, Beautiful Dreamer and the highly acclaimed The Age of Pie, by Peter Hedges (Drama, ‘85).  She played Starveling in the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s wildly successful Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Joe Dowling. Elsewhere around Chicago, Lynn has performed at the Goodman Theatre, Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Pegasus, National Jewish Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Body Politic, Practical (years of improvisational and sketch comedy), Cloud 42, and Stormfield. She is cited on page 257 of Richard Christiansen’s book A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago. She can also be seen in a variety of regional television commercials—most recently in Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner.

Diedrich Bader
Best known for role as Oswald on the hit television series, "The Drew Carey Show." Film credits include MISS CONGENIALITY 2: ARMED AND FABULOUS, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, EUROTRIP, Gamma in KIM POSSIBLE, Officer Cheets in THE COUNTRY BEARS, Saber Tooth Tiger in ICE AGE, My-ik in EVIL ALIEN CONQUERORS, dual role as Jethro and Jethrine in THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, DINOTOPIA, and THE ASSASSINATION FILE. Television credits include guest appearances on "Still Standing," "Grim and Evil," "Cheers," "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," "Quantum Leap," "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and the voice of Adonis in Disney's animated TV series "Hercules." He recently starred in National Lampoon's CATTLE CALL and is currently filming COOK-OFF!

Gary Beach
Thenardier in the Broadway revival of “Les Miserables.” Received the 2001 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for his role as Roger DeBris in Broadway's "The Producers." Other Broadway appearances include "Beauty and the Beast" (Tony and Ovation award nominations), "La Cage Aux Folles," "Sweet Adeline (Encores!)," "Doonesbury," "The Moony Shapiro Songbook," "Annie," "Something's Afoot," and "1776." National tours include "Les Miserables," "Legends!" "Lend Me a Tenor," "Closer Than Ever," and "Of Thee I Sing" (Helen Hayes nomination). On TV, appeared on "Will and Grace," "Queer as Folk," "Kate and Allie," "Cheers," "Sisters," "Murder, She Wrote," "Letterman," "Jamie Foxx," "The Wayans Brothers," "Dolly Parton," "Saved By the Bell," and "Arliss." Film credits include THE PRODUCERS, DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, SPACE WORKS, and MAN OF THE CENTURY. Recordings include "Beauty and the Beast," "Doonesbury," "Symphonic Les Miserables," and "Sondheim at the Movies." Gary Beach is King Arthur in the national tour of “Spamalot.”

Corey Behnke
Appeared off-Broadway as Joshua in "Corpus Christi" (world premiere) by Terrence McNally at Manhattan Theatre Club, directed by Joe Mantello; Ensemble member in “Othello” at The Public Theatre/NYSF directed by Doug Hughes; Antipholus of Syracuse in "Comedy of Errors" and Priest in "O Pioneers!" with The Acting Company; Regional theatre includes Tig in "Balm in Gilead" at The Magic Theatre directed by Ashley Gates; Ariel in “The Tempest” & Speed in the “Two Gentlemen of Verona” at the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival; Biondello in "Taming of the Shrew" at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Bartley in "The Cripple of Inishmaan" & Sahwn Keough in “Playboy of the Western World” at The Pioneer Theatre; Verges in "Much Ado About Nothing" at The Long Wharf Theatre, directed by the late Derek Anson Jones; and Andrija in "Family Stories" by Biljana Srbljanovic at the Market Theater. Live Director & Webcast Producer for New Year’s Eve in Times Square and live events around the world. Co-Founder of Cheesehead TV with fellow alumnus Aaron Nagler- #1 Green Bay Packer site & fan show on the web.

Neal Bledsoe
Mr. Bledsoe graduated with a BFA in 2005.  His film work includes REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, SEX AND THE CITY 2, as well as THE RIDGE AND BIG TIME with fellow UNCSA graduates Brett Haley, Ryan Hunter and Jesse Patch (School of Filmmaking, 2005). Television credits include recurring roles on Ugly Betty, The Beautiful Life, Guiding Light, All My Children, As The World Turns and One Life to Live, with guest spots on Gossip Girl, Law and Order CI, CSI: NY, Six Degrees and Lipstick Jungle.

Mr. Bledsoe has been a series regular in pilots for ABC, the CW and Lifetime. New York theater credits include Impressionism on Broadway with Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen (u/s), Babette’s Feast off-Broadway with Quin Gordon (UNCSA class of 2007), and Ready by Mando Alvarado (UNCSA class of 2001) with Will Rogers (UNCSA class of 2004). Regionally, he has played Mitchell in The Little Dog Laughed at the Intiman Theater in Seattle. He is a regular improviser at the People’s Improv Theatre in New York City.

Erica Bradshaw
Associate director of the Apprentice & Intern Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville for three seasons, 2002-05. Played Phebe in the mainstage show, “As You Like It.” World premiere of Arthur Miller’s “Mr. Peter’s Connections” at Signature Theatre, off-Broadway. Played the nurse in the Seattle Shakespeare Company production of “Romeo and Juliet” which featured UNCSA alumna Dana Powers Acheson as Juliet and UNCSA alumnus Ian Merrigan as Benvolio, and was directed by UNCSA alumnus John Langs. Member of the original cast of “The Exonerated,” written by Jessica Blank/Erik Jensen, at The Actor's Gang. Directed “Buses” by Denise Nicholas at University of Kentucky. Co-starred on CBS's “The District” season finale, titled “Payback.” Recently appeared in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” with UNCSA alumnus Paul David Story. Can be seen in “Syringa Tree” at Delaware Theatre Company.

Tiffany Little Canfield
Tiffany Little Canfield is a casting director with Telsey + Company, one of the largest casting offices in New York City.  She is also the co-Artistic Director of Sonnet Repertory Theatre, a non-profit classic theater company in New York City.  On Broadway: Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini's La Boheme, Rock of Ages, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Title of Show, and Enron. Regional/Tours: Midsummer Night's Dream (La Jolla), Rock of Ages (National Tour), and La Boheme (Ahmanson). Film: SEX AND THE CITY 2, JONAH HEX, MAIN STREET, SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, DAN IN REAL LIFE, and RENT. Tiffany is a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Anna Camp
Broadway: “Equus” and “The Country Girl.” Off-Broadway: Received a Lucille Lortel nomination for her role in Second Stage’s production of “The Scene.” Also off-Broadway, "columbinus" at  New York Theatre Workshop, "Flesh and the Desert" at Playwrights Horizons (Summer Play Festival), and "God Hates the Irish” at Rattlestick Theatre. Regional: "The Scene," ATL (Humana Festival); "Hay Fever," Baltimore Center Stage; "The Importance of Being Earnest,” Dallas Theatre Center. Film: PRETTY BIRD at Sundance 2008, AND THEN CAME LOVE, BOTTLEWORLD. TV: “The Cashmere Mafia,” “Reinventing the Wheelers.” BFA graduate of UNCSA.

Richard Corley
Richard Corley is a Chicago-based director, playwright, producer and educator whose work has been seen across America and internationally.  Most recently Mr. Corley served for six years as the artistic director of Madison Repertory Theatre in Wisconsin, where he created the city’s first new play development program and commissioned, produced and directed numerous world premieres and classics, including the world premieres of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice and Eric Simonson’s Lombardi/The Only Thing, the Midwest premieres of Jeffrey Hatcher’s Mercy of a Storm and Tina Howe’s Rembrandt’s Gift, and Our Town with Andre De Shields.  Prior to that, he was associate producing director of The Acting Company, founded by John Houseman, where he directed and produced many plays, including O Pioneers!, Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and several world premieres.  Mr. Corley is an associate artist of the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, where he has directed for eight seasons. He  has worked at numerous theatres nationally, including Hartford Stage Company, Dallas Theatre Center, Arena Stage, Magic Theatre (San Francisco), American Conservatory Theatre, City Theatre (Pittsburgh), Philadelphia Theatre Company (five seasons), Delaware Theatre Company, The Mint Theatre (New York), Jean Cocteau Repertory (New York), Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Southwest Shakespeare Company, and many others.  His New York premiere of Tom Dulack’s play Incommunicado, with Tom Aldredge, received a Drama Desk nomination, and he directed the Russian premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Small Craft Warnings at Moscow’s Sovremennik Theatre.  Mr. Corley is the author of the play Tierra Del Fuego, based on the life of Charles Darwin, and original translations of Marivaux’s The Game of Love and Chance, Chekhov’s Seagull (with Nina Familliant) and Three Sisters (with Nadia Vinogradova).  He has taught and directed at many universities, including NYU Graduate Acting Program, Brandeis Graduate Acting, UCSD/Old Globe, ACT, Bard College, DePaul, University of Illinois/Chicago, and Lake Forest College.  Mr. Corley is the recipient of numerous awards, including the TCG/NEA Director Fellowship, and he has served on the panel for the National Endowment Career Development Program.  He is a member of SDC. 

Matt Cowart
In March of 2010, Matt Cowart produced Sondheim: The Birthday Concert, a celebration of the works of Stephen Sondheim at Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic, which will air on PBS’ Great Performances in the fall. Currently, he is working on Annie Get Your Gun at Ravinia in Chicago, starring Patti LuPone (Associate Director). Other credits include: CAMP WANATACHI: A New Musical inconcert (3LD Art and Technology Center in New York City); Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Rock Musical (UNCSA); On The Razzle (UNCSA); Broadway: Three Generations (Kennedy Center, co-directed with Lonny Price); Camelot with the New York Philharmonic starring Gabriel Byrne, which was broadcast on PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center (Associate Director); My Favorite Things, a Rodgers and Hammerstein revue starring Shirley Jones (Associate Director); Beautiful Girls, starring Zoe Caldwell, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Donna McKechnie, and Jenn Colella (Associate Director); the Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade starring Audra McDonald (Assistant Director); and Kiki Baby (Eugene O'Neill Music Theater Conference).

This past summer, Mr. Cowart co-wrote and co-directed the original children’s musical, Dream Machines, with collaborator Isaac Klein and composers Joshua Morgan and James Stewart. Mr. Cowart is the co-Artistic Director of MUDasMAN productions, which he founded with Mr. Klein. He has served as Associate Artistic Director of the 78th Street Theatre Lab, and as an Associate Producer for PREMIERES. He was a 2004/2005 Kenan Directing Fellow at the Lincoln Center Institute, is an alumnus of the 2005 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and is a member of the Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers. Mr. Cowart graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with a degree in directing. He is currently working on two new musicals, CAMP WANATACHI, which will open Off-Broadway at La Mama ETC in early 2011, and Legend of the Word, a new hip-hop musicalwritten by Isaac Klein and James Stewart.

Matthew Coyle
Made his feature film debut in Twentieth Century Fox’s SOMEONE LIKE YOU, starring Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei and Ellen Barkin. Theatre credits include a world premiere translation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope, playing Acaste, at Portland Stage; the New York premiere of Tennessee Williams' Green Eyes with Target Margin; and an extended run of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at Caldwell Theatre. Has appeared in dozens of national commercials, most notably as the fumbling skateboarder in the award-winning “Don’t Be That Guy” campaign for Fox Sports. Has recorded numerous voice-overs (Wendy's, Dorney Park, America Online ) and created several voices for MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch. Featured in international print campaigns shot by acclaimed photographers Robert Whitman and Howard Berman. Mr. Coyle can be heard singing the songs of Ellington, Gershwin and Sondheim with jazz bands in the New York and Philadelphia areas. Member of Actor's Equity, AFTRA, and Screen Actors Guild.

T. Scott Cunningham
Performed in Tony Award-winning "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Design for Living" on Broadway. Off-Broadway credits include "As Bees in Honey Drown" with the Drama Dept. Theater Company, where he is a founding member. Has appeared at theatres such as Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons and the Vineyard Theatre in plays such as Nicky Silver's "Fit to be Tied" and "Pterodactyls." Regional theatre credits include lead in "Hamlet" at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, "Angels in America" at the Alliance Theatre, "A Fair Country" with Seattle Repertory Theatre and "An Enemy of the People," directed by Gerald Freedman, at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Primetime television credits include "Frasier," "Cybill," "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and "Central Park West." Recurring role in daytime's "As the World Turns." Film appearances include OUR VERY OWN, Crispin in PEOPLE I KNOW and Ryan in SERENDIPITY.

Wes Day
Currently a member of the off Broadway “Blue Man Group.”

Aubrey Deeker
Television: HBO’s True Blood and The Wire, CBS’s NCIS.  Film: Leave No Marine Behind, The Seer (short).  Theatre: International: Love’s Labor’s Lost at The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.  Regional: Thirteen productions as an affiliated artist at the Tony Award winning Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, including Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Octavius Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra, Stacey Keach’s King Lear directed by Bob Falls, the world premiere of The Liar by David Ives, and As You Like It directed by Maria Aitken.  Other favorite credits include Prior Walter in Angels in America Parts 1 & 2 at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia directed by Blanka Zizka, Ken Ludwig’s A Fox on the Fairway (world premiere) at the Tony Award winning Signature Theatre directed by John Rando, Boom at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Helen Hayes nomination), The Walworth Farce (Helen Hayes nomination) and The Cripple of Inishmaan at Studio Theatre, The Grapes of Wrath at Ford’s Theatre directed by David Cromer, Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment at Round House Theatre, and productions at The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Folger Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Theater Alliance, and Theater J, among others.  When not doing theatre or auditioning for junkies, killers, crazy people, and vampires in Los Angeles, Aubrey is a professional audio-book narrator for the National Library Service.  

Dane DeHaan
Broadway: American Buffalo, directed by Robert Falls (u/s). Off-Broadway: End Days (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Sixty Miles to Silver Lake (Soho Rep).  TV/Film: AT RISK and THE FRONT(Lifetime Network),  Law & Order: SVU (guest lead), Forest Grove (short).  Readings/Workshops: Ars Nova, Alliance Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, The Lark, Manhattan Theatre Club, New Georges, The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop, Page 73, and Soho Rep. BFA: UNCSA class of 2008.

Catherine Dent
Dani on the FX series "The Shield." Notable television guest appearances include “The Lone Gunmen,” “The Sopranos,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Chicago Hope,” “Frasier” and “One Life to Live.” Film credits include 21 GRAMS, Steven Spielberg’s TV miniseries TAKEN, THE REPLICANT, THE MAJESTIC, SOMEONE LIKE YOU, DANGEROUS PROPOSITION, JADED and NOBODY’S FOOL. Recent theatre credits include “The Country” at La Jolla Playhouse.

Trieste Kelly Dunn
Trieste Kelly Dunn was born and raised in Provo, Utah. In 2004, she graduated from UNCSA under Drama Dean Gerald Freedman. She appeared in Paul Greengrass' UNITED 93 and has had series regular roles in pilots for Showtime, CBS, and FOX.  Recent guest appearances include Bored to Death, Fringe, and Cupid. She can currently be seen on the big screen in film fest favorites COLD WEATHER and THE NEW YEAR.

Quincy Dunn-Baker
Appeared off-Broadway in "Mr. Marmalade" (New York premiere) opposite Michael C. Hall (“Six Feet Under”) and Pablo Schreiber (“The Wire”), directed by Michael Greif, at the Roundabout Theater Company. Regional credits include Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire," directed by Preston Lane, at Triad Stage, and "The Faithful," directed by the New Group's Ian Morgan, at the Cherry Orchard Theater. TV credits include "As The World Turns."

Ruth A. Eglsaer
Ruth A. Eglsaer Regional credits include Isabella in “Measure for Measure,” Julie in “After Ashley,” Belle in “A Christmas Carol,” and Celimene in “The Misanthrope,” all at the Denver Center Theatre Company. Other roles include Ann Whitefield in “Man and Superman” at Kansas City Rep, as well as Rosalind in “As You Like It,” Ann in “All My Sons,” and Debbie in “The Real Thing” at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. In New York she understudied the part of Abby in “Fiction” at the Roundabout Theatre Company, and played Emilia /Mopsa in “The Winter’s Tale” with New York Classical Theatre.

Jennifer Ehle
Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Play in Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing.” Appeared in Noel Coward's "Design for Living" at The Roundabout Theatre. Film credits include POSSESSION, SUNSHINE, ADVENTURES OF YOUNG INDIANA JONES: ADVENTURES IN THE SECRET SERVICE and PARADISE ROAD. Won BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a TV Series for role as Elizabeth Bennet in BBC adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice.” In London theatre, role as Varya in “Summerfolk” at The National Theatre.

Richard ”Dikki” Ellis
Richard ”Dikki” Ellis has been associated with the North Carolina School of the Arts since 1973, when he attended summer school as a scholarship student. He graduated in 1978 with a B.F.A. in drama. He went on to study at the Circus Dimitri School in Switzerland and has been clowning ever since. Ellis moved to New York in 1980 and began his professional career with the New York City Ballet and George Balanchine in "The Spellbound Child" for PBS. Soon after he went on tour with the "Slim Goodbody Show" as a health crusader. He has been associated with such groups as the "No Elephant Circus," "If Every Fool Inc." under the direction of John Towsen, and Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade as clown consultant for more than 10 years. Ellis was featured in the 1988 "East Meets West" and 1998 "Happy On" shows of The Big Apple Circus under the direction of Paul Binder and Michael Christensen in New York City. He was first called in as a horseback rider and soon found his way to "Dikki" the flying clown, as seen on CBS' "Great Circuses of the World." Ellis participated in a pilot program, called the "Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit," in which clowns dress as doctors and visit children in hospitals on a regular basis. Life Magazine did a well-known story on the program in its August 1990 issue. Ellis has been performing as "Dr. Trikki" for 20 year, making bedside rounds in the New York City area. As co-creator of his own theatre company, "The Hanlon-Lees Action Theater," Ellis developed and performed on horseback with its "First American Joust Troupe" show. The company has been featured in movies, commercials, television and live at Renaissance Fairs throughout the country for the past 21 years. Ellis continues to return to UNCSA as a clown/movement instructor and serves as artistic director and co-creator, in conjunction with Brenner's Children's Hospital, of a program called A.R.C.H., “Artists Reaching Children in the Hospital,” which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2006. Other of his artist-in-residencies include New York University, University of Texas in Austin, Wake Forest University, and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.

Bill English
Bill English joins the cast of the Tony-winning revival of “Anything Goes,” starring Sutton Foster and Joel Grey, in 2012. He replaces Colin Donnell in the lead role of Billy Crocker Jan. 26 through Feb. 19. Bill had the lead role in the ABC television pilot THE CAVEMEN, based on the popular Geico TV commercials. Variety reported in March that: "CAVEMEN will revolve around three pre-historic men who must battle prejudice as they attempt to live as normal thirtysomethings in modern Atlanta." Broadway debut last season in "Twentieth Century" starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche and directed by Tony Award-winner Walter Bobbie. Recent credits: "The Shaggs" at NYMF, directed by UNCSA alumnus John Langs; "Many 'Cides," Prospect Theatre Company; "The Full Monty"; and "A Christmas Carol," North Shore Music Theatre; "The Times," Sonnet Rep; and readings of "Eugene's Home," "Middle of the Night" and "Streamers," all at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Feature film: THE BEACH PARTY AT THE THESHOLD OF HELL, written by UNCSA classmate Kevin Wheatley. TV: “Johnson" the cruncher in a series of commercial spots for Raisin Bran Crunch.

Jonathan Frappier
Drama ’97, Director of Development for the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, GA overseeing development efforts for the college, recently ranked #20 of all universities in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. He was Associate Director of Development, Individual Giving, for American Conservatory Theatre (A.C.T.) in San Francisco, CA.

Jennifer Ferrin
In Fall 2010, Ms. Ferrin will begin production on NBC’s new action adventure drama series, The Cape. She is known for her work on such series as The Kill Point alongside John Leguizamo, Life on Mars with Harvey Keitel, 3 lbs with Stanley Tucci, as well as guest appearances on Fringe, Law & Order: SVU, Rescue Me, White Collar and Nurse Jackie.  Jennifer is also known for her work on As The World Turns, for which she garnered two Daytime Emmy nominations.  In 2008, she made her Broadway debut as a member of the original four-person cast of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. Film credits include NONAMES starring James Badge-Dale and SEX AND THE CITY 2.  Ms. Ferrin is a 2003 graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. 

Benim Foster
Benim's credits include Broadway’s BAREFOOT IN THE PARK (with Patrick Wilson, Amanda Peet. Directed by Scott Elliot.) and The Roundabout Theatre Company's National Tour of TWELVE ANGRY MEN (with Richard Thomas and George Wendt. Directed by Scott Ellis.) Off-Broadway credits include BECKY SHAW at Second Stage, LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC (Drama League Nomination for Best Play) and The Public Theatre’s HENRY V (Directed by Doug Hughes). Chicago: DISGRACED (world premier, American Theatre Company) Some other regional credits include MERCHANT OF VENICE, THE VENETIAN TWINS, SLEUTH (with Keir Dullea), MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, MODERN ORTHODOX, and the world premiers of A HIGHER PLACE IN HEAVEN, and DUPLEX for which Benim received an award for Best Actor from NYC's Midtown International Theatre Festival.  Benim starred in the indie film favorite STAGS in which he received a best actor nomination from NYC's Visionfest Film Festival.  Other film credits include THE FLYING SCISSORS (with Matthew Arkin), ANALYZE THIS, BROADWAY DAMAGE, the award winning short IMPERFECTION and the IFC's THE UNDESERVED. TV credits include FRINGE, UGLY BETTY, LAW & ORDER, LAW & ORDER: SVU, GUIDING LIGHT, AS THE WORLD TURNS, ANOTHER WORLD, and ALL MY CHILDREN.

K. Todd Freeman
Tony nominee for Best Actor, Outer Critics Circle nominee for title role in Broadway production of "The Song of Jacob Zulu"; also received a Jefferson Award nomination at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre. Appeared on Broadway in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" opposite Gary Sinise. Won a Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award as Belize in "Angels in America." Appeared off-Broadway in "Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly," "Spunk," "Ubu" and "West Memphis Mojo." Film credits include THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, GROSSE POINTE BLANK, A GENTLEMEN'S GAME, LIFE IN THE FAST LANE, HOUSE ARREST, JEFFREY, ENDOVIOLENCE, GRAND CANYON, RICOCHET, STREET HUNTER, SPLIT and KWANZA. TV credits include a recurring guest role on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "There's No Fish Food In Heaven," "Touched by an Angel," "Tracey Takes on New York," "Brooklyn Bridge," and guest roles on "NYPD Blue," "A Different World" and "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill." Resident company member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago and the Alley Theatre in Houston.

Tre Garrett
Tre Garrett, an award-winning stage/screen director and writer, is the artistic director for Jubilee Theatre, which creates and presents theatrical works that reflect the African-American experience. Garrett has been a show director for Walt Disney Entertainment. He is a two-time recipient of the NAACP ACT- SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) Gold Medal and has received two National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts awards. Trained by legendary director Gerald Freedman, Garrett earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Directing from the University North  Carolina School of the Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the Academy of Art University.  Garrett has been the 2003 Eugene O’Neill Playwright's Conference Directing Fellow, a Society of Stage  Directors and Choreographer’s John Gielgud Directing Fellow and a Kenan Institute for the Arts Directing Fellow at Kennedy Center. In 2009, he won the Culley Guest Artist Award.

Garrett has served as assistant director with such directors as Tony Award winner Daniel  Sullivan (Julius Caesar on Broadway starring Denzel Washington) Tony Award winner Leonard Foglia (On Golden Pond, starring James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams), director/choreographer Debbie Allen (Dancing In the Wings), Ricardo Kahn (Color Me Dark, a Kennedy Center national tour), Jennifer Nelson  (Two Trains Running ), Je'carius Johnson (Friends and Lovers,  the national tour) and Charles Randolph Wright  (Cuttin' Up).

Garret has recently directed Blues for an Alabama Sky (Los Angeles), Emmett Till: The Opera for the Trilogy Opera Company, Art Tatum: Piano Starts Here at the legendary Apollo Theatre, Draft Day for the African Continuum Theatre Company, Hambone for the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre  (which received three African American Council of Arts Onyx awards) Breathe and About Lady at the Kennedy Center, King Christina at the 13th Street Theatre (winner of the New Works Merit Award), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom for the August in February series, the second leg of Men Cry in the Dark national tour, the Young Playwrights Tour and An Evening of Short Plays for the New York Working Theatre.

Garrett's play Rain and Rivers produced for New Horizons Theatre Company's 2003-04 season earned two AACTA Onyx awards. His plays Color and Light and That’s Got His Own earned him two NAACP ACT-SO awards and an NFAA Arts award. His play Creole Fire was chosen for the New South Youth Playwrights Festival in Atlanta where he developed two new plays, Loving Langston and A Month of Sundays, both produced for Horizons Theatre's Young Playwrights festival.

Garrett also heads up Son Up Productions, a San Francisco-based short film production company where he has recently produced and directed the short films ENOUGH, THE LOVE YOU SAVE, WAKE UP and SCROLLERS.

Avery Glymph
Avery Glymph recently appeared in the West Coast premiere of The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez and The Overwhelming and Stick Fly at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. Broadway credits include The Tempest. His Off-Broadway credits include McReele (Roundabout Theatre Company), Antony and Cleopatra and Troilus and Cressida (New York Shakespeare Festival), Maid (Lincoln Center Theater) and ‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers (Drama Department). His regional appearances include Angels in America (Studio Arena and Syracuse Stage), Spunk and The Tempest (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Lost Creek Township (Crossroads Theatre, Regional Tony Award Season) and Fences (Cape Fear Regional Theatre). His film and television credits include “Ugly Betty,” “Oz,” “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” “One Life to Live,” “The Electric Company,” “The X-Files,” “Becker,” “Cosby,” “Spin City,” “Titus,” “The Beat,” LAST BALL, HE GOT GAME, 13 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING, SHIFT, and I’M WITH LUCY. Glymph is also a playwright; his first play had its reading at Louisville and is in plans to mount this fall. He received his BFA from the (University of) North Carolina School of the Arts.

Igor Goldin
Director in New York City and regionally. Spends much of his time developing and directing original musicals for the New York stage. Currently directing the new Joseph and David Zellnik WWII musical "YANK!" starring Bobby Steggert, Jeffry Denman and Nancy Anderson. He first directed "YANK!" in Philadelphia as a developmental workshop and then again for the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival with Music Director Rob Berman and Doug Kreeger in the lead role. "YANK!" went on to win the Outstanding New Musical of 2005 by Talkin’ Broadway and was first runner-up for the NYMF Audience Award. At the National Alliance of Musical Theatre (NAMT), Goldin directed Marshall Pailet and A.D. Penedo’s "The Chocolate Tree" with Music Director Ben Cohn that starred Tony Award-winner Cady Huffman and Tony nominee Christopher Sieber. Prior to this production he directed a developmental workshop of "The Chocolate Tree" at the New Jersey Rep. He then went on to direct Derek Gregor and Sam Carner’s new musical "Unlock'd," based on the Alexander Pope poem "The Rape of the Lock,"  first for the York Theatre Developmental Reading Series and then for the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival, where it went on to win the NYMF BEST IN FEST Award as well as the Outstanding New Musical of 2007 by Talkin’ Broadway. At New World Stages he directed the all-star concert "My First Time" starring Matthew Cavenaugh, Hunter Foster, Ann Harada, John Tartaglia and Mary Testa, to name a few. In 2006 he developed and directed the dance musical "Common Grounds" for which he received the NYMF 2006 Award for Excellence in Direction. Other off-Broadway credits include "A Ritual of Faith" and "The Snow Queen" with Music Director Barbara Anselmi. Regional credits include productions of Dan Acquisto and Sammy Buck’s "Like You Like It" (Theatre Under The Stars/SHSU joint production), "Violet," "The Spitfire Grill," "The Full Monty," and "The Complete History of America (abridged)." A three-time recipient of the OOBR Award for his work off-off Broadway, Goldin is also an ongoing director of musical theatre industry showcases at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy where he has conceived and directed dozens of original musical revues. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Rhoda Griffis
Played Rikki Coleman (Juror #1) in RUNAWAY JURY with Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman and John Cusack. Other films include: ROAD TRIP, A STROKE OF GENIUS, SONGCATCHER, MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT, COBB, CARRIE II, NEW BEST FRIEND, A GOOD BABY, THE CHESTER STORY, ON PROMISED LAND and LOVE FIELD. Television credits include “One Tree Hill,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “Matlock,” “In the Heat of the Night” and more than 30 television movies, including the award-winning miniseries FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. More than 50 productions with regional theatres including Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Alliance Theatre (“Angels in America Parts I & II,” “Proof,” “Dinner with Friends,” “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” “Dark at the Top of the Stairs”), North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (seven seasons), Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Charlotte Repertory Theatre (“Eleemosynary,” “Tartuffe,” “Steel Magnolias”), Theatre-by-the-Sea, Theatrical Outfit. A founding member – with fellow UNCSA alumni Jay Freer, Kim Shipley and Steve Bickley – of Actors Theatre of Atlanta (www.ata-theatre.org), where she has appeared in "Talley's Folly," "Collected Stories," "The Good Doctor," and "Two Rooms."

Tim Guinee
Mr. Guinee’s feature film credits include BLADE, CYRUS, IRON MAN, IRON MAN 2, THE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE, SWEET LAND, JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES, BLADE, COURAGE UNDER FIRE, SUDDEN MANHATTAN, HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT, THE NIGHT WE NEVER MET, HEAVEN & EARTH, ONCE AROUND, THE DOORS, TAI-PAN, THE DUKE OF GROOVE (Academy Award-nominated Short Film), A HOLE IN ONE, LADDER 49, PERSONAL VELOCITY, IMPOSTER, THE ROAD FROM COORAIN, and THE YOUNG GIRL AND THE MONSOON.

Television credits include movies-of-the-week ELVIS, BRAVE NEW WORLD and MISSION OF THE SHARK; BBC's MOBY DICK; Showtime's LILY DALE; CBS/Hallmark Hall of Fame's BREATHING LESSONS; BBC miniseries COMICS; the role of Wesley in the CBS miniseries Queen; HBO's Vietnam War Stories; plus guest roles in CSI: New York, CSI: Miami, In Justice, The West Wing, Stargate SG-1, Vinegar Hill, Karen Sisco, The Guardian, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Practice, The Outer Limits, Tarzan, L.A. Law and Wiseguy. Mr. Guinee starred in Strange World for ABC. His theatre appearances include suburbia at Lincoln Center, Displaced Persons at Seattle Rep and New York's Workhouse Theatre, Chelsea Walls at Naked Angels, Richard II at New York Shakespeare Festival, and Death of a Buick at Manhattan Theatre Club. 

Mr. Guinee has just directed a music video starring UNCSA classmate Mary Louise Parker.

Jonathan Hadley
Presently appearing as Bob Crewe in the Broadway company of “Jersey Boys” and will open the Vegas company in the spring of 2008. Last seen on Broadway channeling Marvin Hamlisch and Michael Bennet in “A Class Act”and Off-Broadway in “Finian’s Rainbow” at New York’s acclaimed Irish Rep. Tours include “Into The Woods” (with Cleo Laine), “Joseph.. (with Donny Osmond), “Fiddler on the Roof” (with Theo Bikel) and “Forbidden Broadway.” Favorite regional credits include leading roles in “Dirty Blonde,” “Born Yesterday,” “Yiddle with a Fiddle” (Boston Herald Award), “Amadeus,” “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” “Call Me Madam” (starring Leslie Uggams),“The Secret Garden”and “Captains Courageous.”  TV: “Another World,” “Kidsworld” & “Sex and the City.” Hadley is a director and teaching artist with Camp Broadway, TADA!, the Yip Harburg Foundation’s “Rainbow Troupe” and BRAVO’s “On With the Show.” He directed “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Tartuffe” for New York’s Sonnet Rep Theatre. Hadley recently graduated from Brooklyn College with an MFA in directing.

Lucas Hall
Off Broadway: “Edward the Second” (Red Bull Theater), “All's Well That Ends Well” (Theater For a New Audience), “The Hasty Heart” (Keen Company). Regional: “Hamlet,” “Measure for Measure,” “The Violet Hour” (The Old Globe); “Two Noble Kinsmen” (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); “Romeo and Juliet” (New Repertory Theater); “The Tempest” (Pittsburgh Public Theater); “Cyrano,” “Henry IV parts 1 and 2” (The Shakespeare Theater, D.C.); “Henry V” (American Repertory Theatre). Film: THE LOVE LETTER, THE LATE SUMMER. TV: “As The World Turns,” “Guiding Light.” Hamlet in special production of “Hamlet” by the North Carolina Symphony, conducted by John Mauceri and directed by Gerald Freedman.

Peter Hedges
Author of numerous plays including “Baby Anger” (Playwrights Horizons), “Good As New” (Manhattan Class Company) and “Imagining Brad” (Circle Repertory Theatre), all of which have been published by Dramatists Play Service. Commissions include the Roundabout Theater/Nederlander Organization. His newest novel, “An Ocean in Iowa,” was published in April 1998 by Hyperion Press. His first novel, “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” has been translated into 10 languages; also wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed 1993 film of the same name which starred Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio, who was nominated for an Academy Award. Writer and director of PIECES OF APRIL starring Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt and Derek Luke. Screen adaptations include Jane Hamilton’s A MAP OF THE WORLD for the Kennedy-Marshall Company and Nick Hornby’s ABOUT A BOY for New Line Cinema, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Directed DIARY OF A LOST BOY, filmed in New York, and is working on his third novel. Most recently, Hedges directed and co-wrote DAN IN REAL LIFE, which starred Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche.  Peter’s third novel, “The Heights,” will be published by Dutton in 2009.  He will also direct his adaptation of Jonathan Tropper’s EVERYTHING CHANGES for actor Tobey Maguire and Sony Pictures.

Stephen Henderson
Cast member of August Wilson's "Jitney," which received a special Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance and Obie Award for Excellence of Ensemble Performance. Played Stool Pigeon in August Wilson's "King Hedley II," nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Film credits include HE GOT GAME (Spike Lee, director), EVERYDAY PEOPLE and MARIE (with Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels).

Tom Hulce
Tony Award nominee for “A Few Good Men”; made Broadway debut in “Equus.” Other theatre roles include “The Normal Heart” at London’s Royal Court Theatre, “Nothing Sacred” at the Mark Taper Forum, “Eastern Standard” at Seattle Repertory Theatre and “Hamlet” at Shakespeare Theatre. Academy Award nominee for title role in AMADEUS; Golden Globe nominee for role as Dominick in DOMINICK AND EUGENE. Other feature film roles include Disney’s THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, WINGS OF COURAGE, FRANKENSTEIN, FEARLESS, INNER CIRCLE, SLAMDANCE, PARENTHOOD and ANIMAL HOUSE. Emmy Award winner for THE HEIDI CHRONICLES on TNT; Emmy nominee for MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI. Also appeared in title role in THE RISE AND RISE OF DANIEL ROCKET for American Playhouse on PBS. Nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director (Play) with Jane Jones for "The Cider House Rules: Part One, Here in St. Cloud." Tom Hulce is a producer of Broadway’s “Spring Awakening,” nominated for eleven 2007 Tony Awards, winning eight, including Best Musical.

Marc Damon Johnson
Mr. Johnson was the recipient of the 2010 Obie Award and was nominated for a Drama League award for his performances in The Brother Sister Plays at The Public Theater in New York City. He was also nominated for a Drama League award for his performance in Mr. Fox: A Rumination at the Signature Theater. Other theatre credits include The Brothers Size at The Abbey Theater in Dublin, Ireland, and numerous productions at The New York Shakespeare Festival, The Kennedy Center, The McCarter Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Crossroads Theater Company and the Great Lakes Theater Festival.

Mr. Johnson’s television appearances include featured roles on Army Wives, Rescue Me, Law & Order, HBO's The Sopranos, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Deadline, Third Watch, 100 Centre Street, and Time of Your Life. Film credits include Woody Allen's SWEET AND LOWDOWN, PREACHING TO THE CHOIR, IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY and GRACE AND GLORIE.

Rebecca Naomi Jones
Rebecca Naomi Jones is returning to the Public Theater this fall for a pre-Broadway workshop of PASSING STRANGE. She recently participated in the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, acting in a play called "Wig Out" by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Off-Broadway: PASSING STRANGE (Public Theater). Regional/Tours: PASSING STRANGE (Berkeley Repertory Theater. Bay Area Theater Critics Award: Best Ensemble in a Musical), CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (OBC Tour directed by George C. Wolfe, Ahmanson Theater and Curran Theater), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1st National tour directed by Jerry Zaks), RENT (10th Anniversary World Tour Directed by Evan Ensign and US/Japan tour directed by Michael Greif). NYC Theatre: FALLEN ANGEL (NYC International Fringe Festival, The Village Theater. Award: Best Musical), HOW LOVE IS SPELT (Summer Play Festival, The Lion Theater at Theater Row). Recording: vocalist for music production company Deetown with songs in major motion pictures. Rebecca is also currently working on her own music. Rebecca Naomi Jones is in the Broadway production of “Passing Strange.” Training: BFA in Drama, North Carolina School of the Arts.

Jake Lacy
Jake Lacy grew up in Vermont. Since graduating from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2008, he has been seen on stage in Hartford Stage’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as Demetrius and in Oberon Theater’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” as Conrad.  He had a lead role in the 2010 Columbia Thesis film “C’est Moi.”  In the fall of 2010, Lacy will be seen as a series regular on ABC’s new comedy “Better Together” airing Wednesday nights before “Modern Family.

Preston Lane
Preston Lane is artistic director and co-founder of Triad Stage in Greensboro, N.C. At Triad Stage he has directed more than 20 productions ranging from the theatre's 2002 grand opening production of "Suddenly Last Summer" to the current (fifth) season's "The Turn of the Screw," "A Streetcar Named Desire," and David Sedaris' "SantaLand Diaries." Other productions include "A Tuff Shuffle" (National Black Theatre Festival), "Overruled" (off-Broadway), "Love! Valour! Compassion!" (Stage One), and the world premieres of "If Only" and "Get It While You Can" (Summer Cabaret). Lane was formerly artistic associate at the Dallas Theater Center, where his productions included the U.S. premiere of "Inexpressible Island" (Dallas Observer's Best of Dallas Awards: Best Director, Best Production) and "The Night of the Iguana" (Dallas Morning News: 2002 Top Ten Theatre List). As a playwright, he is the recipient of a grant from the Fox Foundation to develop "Wondrous Love." Other of his adaptations include "Hedda Gabler," "Dracula," "Mirandolina," "Julie's Dance" and this season's "Brother Wolf" (Triad Stage), "A Christmas Carol" (Dallas Theater Center, Sonoma County Rep), and "Three Weeks After Marriage" and "Helen!" (Summer Cabaret). He has taught at the North Carolina School of the Arts, N.C. A&T State University, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Southern Methodist University and the Professional Actors Workshop at the Dallas Theater Center. He is an alumnus of the Drama League of New York's Director's Project. A native of Boone, N.C., Lane received his B.F.A. from the North Carolina School of the Arts and his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama.

John Langs
John Langs is a graduate of The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and holds a B.F.A in directing from the North Carolina School of the Arts.  For the past eight years he has worked as a professional director throughout the United States and internationally.  Mr. Langs served as artistic director for the Full Contact Shakespeare Company (Sacramento), Dimensions Theatre Project (Stockton), Golden Mean Theater Company (Los Angeles) and Maui Onstage (Hawaii).

From 1999-2002, Mr. Langs made his artistic home in Los Angeles with the Neurotic Young Urbanities, where he collaborated on many original works, including the award winning musical "Up the Week Without a Paddle".  For his direction of The Shaggs Philosophy of the World." Mr. Langs received the Backstage West Garland Award.  "The Shaggs" moved on to a Jeff-nominated production with the Lookingglass Theatre Company of Chicago, a workshop at the Manhattan Theatre Club and the NY Music Theater Festival.

Mr. Langs is currently associate artist at the Seattle Shakespeare Company where he recently directed "King Lear" and "Romeo & Juliet".  Recent productions also include: "A Man of No Importance" & "The Dead" for UNCSA, "Brother Karamazou" for the Circle X Theater in Los Angeles, and Lusis Slotins "Sonata" for the Empty Space Theater in Seattle. 

Mr. Langs lives in Santa Monica with his wife and fellow UNCSA graduate Klea Scott .

Matt Lauria
Matt Lauria is perhaps best known to his fans as the charismatic Texas high
school football phenom, "Luke Cafferty," in critically acclaimed & Emmy
Award nominated NBC/DirecTV drama, Friday Night Lights. Lauria and his
cast mates were nominated for Best Drama , at the 2011 Emmy Awards.
Immediately following his time in Texas, he traded his cowboy boots for a
police badge, to play ambitious young homicide detective, "Caleb Evers," in
FOX Network's crime drama, The Chicago Code, from Emmy-winning
writer/producer Shawn Ryan (The Shield). Lauria starred opposite notable
actors Jason Clarke, Jennifer Beals, and Delroy Lindo.

Lauria first won the hearts of television audiences, as Lindsay Price's savvy
fashion assistant, "Roy Merritt," on the NBC drama, Lipstick Jungle, starring
Brooke Shields.

Matt recently had the great privilege of acting with Blythe Danner, in the
ABC-produced period pilot, Gilded Lilys, set in 1895, New York City.
Through some of his favorite guest appearances, he's also enjoyed working
alongside such notable actors as Ted Danson & Marg Helgenberger ( CSI),
Jim Caviezel ( Person Of Interest), Christian Slater ( The Forgotten ), Alec
Baldwin & Will Arnette (30 Rock), Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice).

Lauria is very proud to have received his training at the prestigious
University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Since graduating from
UNCSA, Matt has continued to pursue his passion for theatre, originating the
lead role of the critically acclaimed New York production of An Upset, by
Tony-Award winning playwright, David Auburn ( Proof). He feels honored to
have worked closely with prolific playwright Terrence McNally, in a staged
reading of his play Some Men, featuring Justin Kirk ( Angels in America;
Weeds), and Tony-Award-winning actors, John Benjamin Hickey (The
Normal Heart) & John Glover (Love! Valour! Compassion!).
Most significantly, to Lauria, he is married to Michelle Armstrong, pop-rock
recording artist, signed to the Austin, TX record label, Playing In Traffic.

Matt, himself, is an avid blues-rock guitarist, and feverishly loves pecan pie.

Michael Lluberes
Recently adapted and directed off-Broadway: "The Geranium on the Window Sill Just Died," Urban Stages. Off-Broadway/national tours also include "Studs Terkel's American Dreams: Lost and Found" (world premiere); "Pudd'nhead Wilson" (world premiere); "As You Like It" and "The Taming of the Shrew," The Acting Company; and "Lettice and Lovage" (with Marian Seldes and Dana Ivey), Salon Series, The Culture Project. New York theatre includes "For the Love of Tiffany," 2003 New York International Fringe Festival; "Girl Crazy," Musicals Tonight; Manhattan Theatre Club; Upright Citizens Brigade. Regional theatre includes "The Food Chain," The Old Globe; "Twelfth Night," Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; and "Twelfth Night," Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. TV includes "Chappelle's Show" and "Tough Crowd" with Colin Quinn (Comedy Central).

Anthony Mackie
Anthony has a multitude of movie credits including MAN ON A LEDGE (2012), TEN YEAR (2011), WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? (2011), THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (2011), THE HURT LOCKER (2008), and MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004). He appeared as Narrator in the TV Series "30 for 30: The Best That Never Was (#1.29)" (2010) by ESPN Films. Anthony has over 30 appearances as an actor including more than 20 TV Appearances. Other works include "A Behanding in Spokane," (2010) at the Gerald Schoendfelt Theatre on Broadway in New York City with Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, and Zoe Kazan in the cast. John Crowley was director; the Charles Fuller play “A Soldier's Story” (2005) at the Second Stage Theatre, off-Broadway, New York, New York. "McReele" (2005) play by Stephen Belber (The Laura Pels Theatre, New York City, New York, USA).

Angus MacLachlan
A graduate of the UNCSA Visual Arts Program and School of Drama, Angus MacLachlan has acted with Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Manbites Dog Theatre and others. He has written and performed three one-man shows, including “Marginal Living,” which was filmed and shown on North Carolina Public Television. Among the plays he has written are “Divertimento,” which was produced at The Wonderhorse Theatre off-off Broadway; and “Bridge,” which won the 2000 New Works prize presented by Actor’s Theatre of Santa Rosa. “The Dead Eye Boy,” which was selected as the 2000 Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize Award Winner, premiered by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and was a finalist for the Steinberg New Play Prize. It later played at the Manhattan Class Company in New York, where it was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, and was produced in London at the Hampstead Theatre. His play “The Radiant Abyss,” commissioned by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., premiered at the Kennedy Center and was produced by Profiles Theatre Company in Chicago. His honors and awards include a nomination by the Williamstown Theatre Festival for the Kesselring Prize and an N.C. Humanities Council Award. A short film he wrote, TATER TOMATER, directed by Phil Morrison, aired on “American Playhouse” and screened at the Sundance Film Festival. MacLachlan wrote the screenplay for the feature film JUNEBUG, from Sony Pictures Classics, directed by Phil Morrison and produced by Epoch Films, which was selected for the Dramatic Competition for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and won a Special Jury Citation for Acting for Amy Adams. It was also selected to be in the New Director/New Films Festival sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art, International Critics Week at 2005 Cannes, the LA Film Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival. MacLachlan was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and Best Screenplay by the Washington Area Film Critics. The film was listed on more than 50 Top Ten lists for 2005 including Roger Ebert, The New York Times, LA Times, NPR, and was given a Special Mention for Excellence in Filmmaking by the National Board of Review.

Corey Madden
Corey Madden‘s wide-ranging career in theatre encompasses work as a director, playwright, dramaturg, producer and teacher at the nation’s most prestigious arts institutions. Madden has been instrumental in leading the theatre to create one of the nation’s most ambitious and diverse new play development programs. At the Taper, Madden has worked closely with major artists of her generation including George C. Wolfe, Tony Kushner, David Gordon, Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Loomer. She is the producing director of the theatre’s innovative program for young and intergenerational audiences. World premieres in that program include Charlayne Woodard’s “Flight” and new musical based on the award-winning book, “The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip,” premiered at the Kennedy Center’s New Voices New Visions Festival in May 2004. Madden consults for J. Paul Getty Museum and the Riverside School of the Arts and serves on the board of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts. She has directed at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and has taught at and guest directed in the graduate programs of Cal Arts, UCLA and the University of Washington. She has recently completed her first full-length play, “Worth,” and is at work on a second, “Convention.” Currently she is directing "The Stones" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

Billy Magnussen
Billy Magnussen made his Broadway debut last year in “The Ritz” with Rosie Perez, directed by Joe Mantello.  After closing on Broadway, Magnussen went on to shoot one of the lead roles in the feature film BLOOD NIGHT and starred opposite Demi Moore, Parker Posey and Rip Torn in the feature film HAPPY TEARS, both to be released in 2009. In the summer of 2008, he made his off-Broadway debut in the play “Paper Dolls.” Magnussen recently filmed a guest starring role on “Law & Order” and will soon shoot the feature film CHOOSE. He can be seen as the lovable but unpredictable Casey Hughes in the daytime drama “As the World Turns.” 

Terrence Mann
Tony Award nominee for roles as the Beast in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” and Javert in “Les Miserables.” Other Broadway roles include Rocky in “The Rocky Horror Show,” Chavelin in “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” Greg in “Getting Away With Murder,” Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol,” the original Rum Tum Tugger in “Cats,” Saul in “Rags,” Ringmaster in “Barnum” and Narrator in “Jerome Robbins’ ‘Broadway.’” Film credits include A CHORUS LINE, CRITTERS, BIG TOP PEE-WEE, Mel Brooks’ SOLARBABIES and MRS. SANTA CLAUS. Emmy Award nominee for guest role in daytime drama “As the World Turns.” Appeared as British Gen. John Burgoyne in “Liberty! The American Revolution” on PBS. Artistic director of The North Carolina Theatre in Raleigh and director of The Lost Colony in Manteo. Directed workshop performances of “Romeo & Juliet: The Musical” at The Norman Terris Theatre in Chester, Conn., and at the Ordway Music Theatre in St. Paul, Minn. Plays recurring role of Daniel Faulkner on daytime TV’s “One Life to Live.”

Joe Mantello
Directing credits include “November,” “The Receptionist,” “The Ritz,” “Three Days of Rain,” “The Odd Couple,” “Glengarry Glen Ross” (Tony nomination), “Laugh Whore,” “Assassins” (Tony Award), “Wicked,” “Take Me Out” (Tony Award), “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,” “A Man of No Importance,” “Design for Living,” Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie's “Dead Man Walking” for the San Francisco Opera, “The Vagina Monologues,” “bash,” “Another American: Asking and Telling,” “Love! Valour! Compassion!” (Tony nomination), “Proposals,” “The Mineola Twins,” “Corpus Christi,” “Mizlansky/Zilinsky (or Schmucks),” “Blue Window,” “God's Heart,” “The Santaland Diaries,” “Snakebit,” “Three Hotels” and “Imagining Brad.” Mr. Mantello also directed the film Love! Valour! Compassion! As an actor he appeared in “Angels in America” (Tony nomination) and “The Baltimore Waltz.” Mr. Mantello is the recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout.

Krystal Marshall
In just a few years into her professional career, Krystal Marshall has wasted no time establishing herself as a promising young actress by gaining respect and accolades for her hard work on stage and screen. Classically trained with a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, she relocated from NYC to LA to focus her energies on Film & Television. Theatrically, she played the role of "Katie" in the comedy "Playdates" by Sam Wolfson, playwright of "Jewtopia". Krystal received rave reviews and The Metro's award for "Best in Fringe" for her portrayal of 10 different characters during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in a production of "The Laramie Project". Her other theatre credits include: "Sooze", the punk performance artist in "Suburbia", "Alice", the troubled exotic dancer in "Closer" and "Pope Joan", history's only female Pope in "Top Girls" as well as numerous plays and staged readings at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey, the Bank Street Theatre in Manhattan and The Adelaide Fringe Festival in South Australia. In addition, Krystal has been seen in national commercials for Nintendo, Nikon, Verizon, and Comcast and modeled in print campaigns for Toms Shoes, Levi's and Microsoft.

Davenia McFadden
Played Sister Delise in "Revelations," a six-part limited series for NBC, and Carmen Jones in "The American Embassy" for Jersey Television and Fox. Television credits include recurring roles on "Seventh Heaven," "Monk," "Kingpin," and "Becker"; supporting leads in Lifetime movie-of-the-week TAKING BACK OUR TOWN and the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame's ELLEN FOSTER; and guest starring roles in "CSI," "Malcolm in the Middle," "The Bernie Mac Show," "Judging Amy," "The Shield," "Ally McBeal," "The Division," "Strong Medicine," "ER," "Seinfeld," and "Touched by an Angel." Her challenge to talk show host Rosie O'Donnell resulted in numerous appearances on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and McFadden being crowned the "official" queen of trivia. Her film roles include AMERICAN GUN opposite Forrest Whitaker, DOUBLE JEOPARDY with Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd, RANDOM HEARTS starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas, GLORIA, MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING, EDDIE and FRESH. Her portrayal of Brownie, the prison matriarch, in the HBO feature STRANGER INSIDE, which debuted at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Marilyn McIntyre
Marilyn McIntyre has been a professional actress for over thirty years playing leading roles on and Off-Broadway and with several major regional theatre companies, as well as on television and film. She has garnered a number of awards for her theatre work in Los Angeles including two LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, a Theatre LA Ovation Award and two more nominations, three Back Stage West Garlands Awards and two Drama-Logue Awards, an LA Weekly Award and two more nominations and a VTL Artistic Director Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her performance of ‘Linda Loman’.

Marilyn works extensively in television and film, guest starring on series such as “Cold Case,” “LA Dragnet”, "Judging Amy", "Diagnosis Murder", "Profiler", "X-Files", "Chicago Hope" (Emmy Nomination), "Dark Skies" (playing ‘Dorothy Kilgallen’), "Matlock", "LA Law" (recurring role), et al; Movies-of-the-Week and mini-series; as well as a series regular on the primetime serial drama, “Watch Over Me”, on the new FOX network, MyNetworkTV and also on four daytime dramas including "Days Of Our Lives". Her film credits include Statistics, The Ring II, First Daughter directed by Forest Whitaker, What’s Bugging Seth, Façade, Breaking Dawn, Seven Girlfriends starring Tim Daly, Very Bad Things, written and directed by Peter Berg, and the live action short, George Lucas In Love among others. Most recently, Marilyn was a recurring guest star on “GH: Night Shift”, a weekly spin-off of “General Hospital”, and played a supporting role in an indie film, Divided We Stand.

On Broadway, Ms. McIntyre had leading roles in Scenes and Revelations directed by Sheldon Epps and Gemini by Albert Innaurato; Off Broadway with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Primary Stages and the Roundabout; and regionally with Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., Houston's Alley Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Missouri Rep, Utah Shakespearean Festival, and California's own South Coast Repertory and Mark Taper Forum. As a member of LA's Matrix Theatre Company she has appeared in the award winning productions of Wendy MacLeod's The Water Children; Dangerous Corner, directed by Andrew J. Robinson (Garlands Award, Ensemble); and Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest (LADCC Award, Ensemble). As a Founding Member of LA's Interact Theatre Company she acted in several productions including Death of a Salesman, playing ‘Linda Loman’ opposite Eddie Jones (ADA Award and LA Weekly nomination), A Little Night Music, playing ‘Desiree’ opposite John Rubinstein, The Cherry Orchard (LADCC Award for Outstanding Production & LA Weekly nomination), Richard Dresser’s Bait & Switch and Bed & Breakfast, Terri Wagener’s Marathons (Drama-Logue Award) and Elmer Rice's classic, Counsellor-At-Law, for which she received the LADCC, Ovation, and Drama-Logue Awards for her performance opposite John Rubinstein.

Ms. McIntyre received her BFA from the North Carolina School of the Arts and her MFA from Penn State University. In New York she studied with Michael Shurtleff and at the HB Studio, and was also a member of the NATAS (National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) Actors Workshop. She has studied the disciplines of Suzuki physical training and Viewpoints in Los Angeles with Burning Wheel and with renowned director, Anne Bogart and members of the SITI Company. Marilyn has also studied with Uta Hagen (Master Class in LA) and is proud to be featured in the documentary/teaching video, “Uta Hagen’s Acting Class” (Part 2).

Currently, Ms. McIntyre teaches at The Howard Fine Acting Studio in Hollywood and with the SAG Conservatory at AFI. In the fall of 2007 she will be a guest instructor with the Old Globe / University of San Diego MFA Professional Actor Training Program. She is also a regular guest instructor in the graduate acting program at the University of Texas-Austin and the South Carolina Governors School for the Arts.

Ashley Austin Morris
Ashley Austin Morris is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She has been cast in a new play called IN The Daylight at Second Stage Theatre in New York. She made her off-Broadway debut as Edith in Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die. Other off-Broadway credits include: Paper Dolls (Isabel), and Bees. TV credits include Harmony on Ugly Betty, pilots Community Property (written and directed by Mary Stuart Masterson) and Who You Know (Lyn).  Morris can currently be seen playing Francine on the PBS show The Electric Company. She will be teaming up again in August with Charles Busch for the Fire Island production of All About Eve, playing Eve.  She will also appear in Busch’s newest play, The Divine Sister, playing Agnes. Morris is a member of Actors Equity, SAG, and Aftra. For more information on Ashley Austin Morris , see ashleyaustinmorris.com.

Mary-Louise Parker
Tony Award winner for best actress as Catherine in “Proof” (also received the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk awards) and Tony nominee for role as Rita in “Prelude to a Kiss.” Winner of Obie Award and nominated for Outer Critics Circle Award for “How I Learned to Drive;” other off-Broadway roles include “Four Dogs and a Bone” and “The Art of Success” at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Regional theatre credits include “The Importance of Being Earnest” at Hartford Stage and “Up in Saratoga” at the Old Globe. Feature film credits include THE RED DRAGON, THE QUALITY OF MERCY, PIPE DREAM, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE CLIENT, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, BOYS ON THE SIDE, MR. WONDERFUL, NAKED IN NEW YORK, GRAND CANYON, FRIED GREEN TOMATOES and LONGTIME COMPANION. Also appeared in Hallmark Hall of Fame telefilm A PLACE FOR ANNIE. Emmy Award nominee for her role as Amy Gardner in NBC’s “The West Wing.” Co-stars with Al Pacino and Meryl Streep in the HBO movie of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, two-part play, “Angels in America.” Mary-Louise Parker can currently be seen in the off-Broadway production of “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theatre.

Chris Parnell
Featured player with "Saturday Night Live"; sketches and parodies include Tom Brokaw, Newt Gingrich, Eminem and Sen. John McCain. Has performed at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Mass., Alley Theatre in Houston and with the Los Angeles comedy group The Groundlings. Film credits include ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY, DOWN WITH LOVE and EVIL ALIEN CONQUERORS. Television credits include "Friends," "Ed," "The Jamie Foxx Show," and "Seinfeld." Upcoming film: TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY. Upcoming television series: "Thick and Thin." Chris Parnell plays Vice Principal Bruce Terry on FOX TV’s “Miss/Guided.”

Christy Pusz
Broadway: “The Odd Couple” (Pigeon Sisters understudy); “Dinner at Eight” (Paula, Dora understudy); Baz Luhrmann’s “La Boheme” (acting chorus). Regional: “La Boheme” (the Ahmanson Theater); “The Salacious Uncle Baldrick” (2005 NTC Fringe Festival); “Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Roanoke Island Summer Festival); “An Ideal Husband” (SRT). TV: commercials and a spec pilot, “Zip Code,” for Morgold Productions.

Missi Pyle
Theatre credits include Elizabeth in “The Libertine” with John Malkovich at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre; “900 Oneata” with Jon Cryer at New York’s Circle Repertory Theatre; “Wang Dang” at the Paradise Theatre in New York; Armandine in “There’s One in Every Marriage” at the Phoenix Theatre; and “Big River,” “Young Abe Lincoln” and “The Taming of the Shrew,” all at the Lincoln Amphitheatre. Film appearances include Mildred in Tim Burton’s BIG FISH, Ashley in BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, Vera in HOME ALONE 4, Alexandra in JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS, Thermian Laliari in GALAXY QUEST, Waitress in AS GOOD AS IT GETS and Kelsey in THE COTTONWOOD. Also appeared in the “Barry Manilow” episode of “Ally McBeal” and the final episode of “Mad About You.”

Joyce Reehling
Feature film credits include A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES, which was nominated for a Special Grand Prize at the Deauville Film Festival; ROOMMATES, with Peter Falk; the award-winning LORENZO’S OIL; LONGTIME COMPANION; and THE RESCUE. Made-for-television films include GREGORY K and GENTLEMAN BANDIT. Notable TV guest roles include the hit NBC series “Ed,” “Law & Order,” “NYPD Blue,” “Kate and Allie” and “The Equalizer,” as well as several pilots and soap operas. As member of the prestigious Circle Repertory Company, was acclaimed for her role in RECKLESS and originated the role of June Talley in Lanford Wilson’s FIFTH OF JULY. Appearances on- and off-Broadway include “Prelude to a Kiss,” “Extremities” with Farrah Fawcett and “The Runner Stumbles” with William Hurt. Numerous commercials, including television voice-overs and radio spots. Active on the national board of the American Federation of Television and Radio Arts and the Screen Actors Guild.

Bridget Regan
Film, television and stage actress Bridget Regan co-stars as Annabelle Granger in the TNT Mystery Movie HIDE, with Carla Gugino, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Kevin Alejandro. The telepic is based on Lisa Gardner's book of the same name.

Regan starred as the beautiful and mysterious Kahlan in "Legend of the Seeker," the live-action epic fantasy series that ran from 2008-10 and was produced by ABC Studios and was distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television.

Before "Seeker," she appeared in the SEX AND THE CITY movie; her other film credits include THE BABYSITTERS and BINDERS. She has had recurring roles on the television series "Six Degrees," "The Black Donnellys" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and made guest appearances on "New Amsterdam" and "Love Monkey." From December 2007 through March 2009, Regan starred on Broadway as Cecile in the comedy "Is He Dead?"

A native of Carlsbad, Calif., Regan relocated to New York City to pursue her acting career upon graduating from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. In her spare time, Regan enjoys cooking and horseback riding and she plans to take up surfing while shooting the series in New Zealand.

Ashley Robinson
Ashley Robinson, Class of 2004, is in the Ensemble of and understudy for Fiyero in "Wicked" in Chicago. He was most recently featured in David Bell's "The Good War" at the Maltz-Jupiter Theatre and a pilot for Showtime called "Hate."

J. T. Rogers
J.T. Rogers’ made his Broadway debut as a playwright to much critical acclaim this fall with his searing drama “The Overwhelming” at the Roundabout (Laura Pels Theatre). The play had its world premiere at the National Theatre of Great Britain last spring and toured the United Kingdom. His “Madagascar” received the 2005 Pinter Review Prize for Drama for best play in the English language and has just been published in hardback through the University of Tampa Press. The play also won the American Theatre Critics Association’s 2005 M. Elizabeth Osborne Award and was a finalist for the ATCA’s Steinberg New Play Award. It was seen last season off-Broadway as part of the Summer Play Festival. Rogers is the author of “White People” (nominated for best play of the year by the L.A. Drama Critics Circle, Barrymore Award of Philadelphia, and the Carbonell Award of South Florida), “Seeing the Elephant” (Kesselring Prize nominee for best new American play), and “Murmuring in a Dead Tongue,” which was presented last season in New York City by Epic Rep, where he is a company member. Regionally, his works have been given full productions at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, New Actors Union Theatre (Moscow), the Road Theatre (Los Angeles), New Theatre (Miami), the Adirondack Theatre Festival (New York), and many times at the Salt Lake Acting Company, where he was a 2004-2005 NEA/TCG playwright-in-residence. Rogers has been an artist-in-residence at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and the Edward Albee Foundation, and was the recipient of a 2004 Playwriting Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn.

Will Rogers
Off Broadway: When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center), Creature (Page 73), Chair (TFANA), From Up Here (MTC), 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons), columbinus (NYTW), Green Girl (SPF). Regional: Our Town (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Not Waving (Williamstown), The Vertical Hour (Pioneer), dark play or stories for boys (Humana Festival), Mary's Wedding (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville), This Is Our Youth (Repertory Theatre of St.Louis), The Salacious Uncle Baldrick (NY Fringe), and Nicky Goes Goth (NY Fringe). Film: upcoming HAPPY NEW YEARand CERTAINTY. Television: Mr. Rogers has appeared as the guest lead on Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Law & Order: SVU, as well as Gossip Girl. He is a charter member of At Play Productions and a graduate of NCSA (now UNCSA).

Reynaldo Rosales
Reynaldo Rosales, a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts, can be seen in NBC’s new medical drama “Inconceivable” as a fertility clinic technician. Rosales stars opposite Ming-Na, Jonathan Cake, Angie Harmon, Joelle Carter, Mary Catherine Garrison and David Noroña. Most recently, Rosales appeared in the title role of the much-acclaimed Steppenwolf Theater production, “One Arm,” based on a screenplay by Tennessee Williams and directed by Moises Kaufman. Rosales’ feature film credits include SHE HATE ME (from director Spike Lee) and FIDEL on Showtime, directed by David Atwood. On television, he has guest-starred in “The Closer,” “Numb3rs,” “Law & Order,” “Smallville,” “Charmed” and “CSI.” He also appeared in the pilots “Homeland Security” and “Sucker Free City.” Guest appearances in "The 4400", "Close to Home", "Medium", and the 20th Century Film "House" it will come out October 2007. He just finished a pilot called "Company Man" from the creators of "24".

Ted Schneider
Ted joins the world premiere production of "Escape" by Susan Mosakowskias part of  LaMama's  50th Anniversary Season. Other theater includes: "The Merchant of Venice" National Tour, with F Murray Abraham, Theater for a New Audience, "Ghosts" with Amy Irving, Classic Stage Company, "Birdy", Women’s Project and Productions, "Now That’s What I Call a Storm", Edge Theater Company, "Three Sisters", Chautauqua Theater Company, "Men Without Shadows", The Flea, "The Baby Makes Three", EST, "Twelfth Night". Sonnet Repertory Theater, "Balm In Gilead", a three day rehearsed, one performance happening at Industry City, "The Lover/Bacchanalia", Bay Street Theater, "Hamlet", Aspen Music Festival "The Geranium on the Window Sill", Urban Stages, "Hitting for the Cycle, Famous Door, "Scavengers", Interborough Repertory Theater, "One Little Duck", Crosstown Theater Festival,"Ivanov", "Platanov", "The Cherry Orchard" and "The Seagull", Chekhov at Lake Lucille. Film and TV include “National Lampoon's The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell”, “Clear Out”, “Company K”, “Never Seen”, “A Gifted Man” and a Web Series for BMW.

Klea Scott
Klea Scott continues to impress audiences with a diverse range of characters in features, television and theatre. She currently stars in the highly critically acclaimed series on the CBC: "Intelligence," created Chris Haddock. Scott portrays Inspector Mary Spalding, the off-center director of intelligence for the Vancouver Organized Crime Unit. Born in Ancon, Panama, Klea Scott was raised in Ottawa, Canada. She moved to the United States to study acting after years of dance training and an early career on the children's sketch comedy show, "You Cant Do That on Television” (Nickelodeon). After numerous New York City productions, from Williamstown to Shakespeare in the Park, to a guest spot on "The Cosby Show," she returned to conservatory training at the North Carolina School of the Arts. There she received her BFA and landed a series regular role on Steven Bochco's "Brooklyn South" in her senior year. Scott's move to Los Angeles has led to roles as a series regular in the critically acclaimed Chris Carter series “Millennium” and Michael Mann's series, "Robbery Homicide Division.” Other of her television appearances range from comedy ("Just Shoot Me") to drama ("ER," "Century City,” "Medical Investigation") to historical drama ("Sally Hemmings : An American Scandal." In feature films, she debuted in Steven Spielberg's MINORITY REPORT and most recently was seen in Michael Mann's COLLATERAL for Dreamworks/Sony. Her independent films include MANFAST and LULLABYE. Scott lives and works with theatre director John Langs, and returns to theatre at every opportunity. In 2003, she played in Des McAnuff's production of "Tartuffe" at the La Jolla Playhouse, and more recently in the West Coast premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's "Ten Unknowns" at the Mark Taper Forum. Scott had the time of her life playing Charity in Maui Onstage's 2004 production of "Sweet Charity."

Ben Sheaffer
On Broadway in “1776” and “The Sound of Music”; off -Broadway in “Corpus Christi.” Co-starred opposite Sally Ann Howes in Jerry Herman's musical “Dear World” at the Goodspeed Opera House in Chester, Conn., and in the Miranda Theatre Company's world premiere of “The Book of Wren.” Profiled as an “Up and Comer” in InTheatre magazine.

Daniel Sherman
Recent productions include “Henry IV” with Kevin Kline and Ethan Hawke at Lincoln Center and the role of Thaddeus in Terrence McNally’s “Corpus Christi” at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Played Horatio in “Hamlet” at Shakespeare at the Beach in California. Starred in the Broadway and international touring companies of “The Full Monty.” Performed off-Broadway in role of Man No.1 in “The Mineola Twins” and “I’m a Seagull” from Chekhov's “The Seagull” at the Creative Acting Company in New York. Recurring role as a police officer on “All My Children.”

Lorca Simons
Appeared off-Broadway in "Collected Stories" opposite Uta Hagen at the Lucille Lortel Theatre; in "The Pain and Misery of The Third Reich" at CSC, and "Careless Love" at Soho Rep. Appeared in regional productions of "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid" (Dallas Theatre Center); "Three Tall Women" (The Intiman, Seattle); "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Great Lakes Theater Festival); and "On The Verge" (Virginia Stage). Also appeared at the George Street Playhouse and at ACT in Seattle (as Nina in both "The Notebook of Trigorin" and "The Nina," and in "Variations.") Toured with the first national tour of "Three Tall Women." Film credits include 5UP, 2DOWN and THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH with Eddie Murphy and Randy Quaid. Has appeared on NBC's "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "100 Centre Street" and "As the World Turns."

Jeremy Skidmore
Jeremy Skidmore has been based in Washington, D.C. for the past nine years. In that time, he has served for two years as Producer of the Source Festival, Washington's original city-wide festival for the arts, and prior to that, served for six years as the Artistic Director of Theater Alliance where, over the course of five years, he produced 22 productions that garnered 22 Helen Hayes nominations. He has directed throughout the D.C. area, including for Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Theater J, Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, Everyman Theatre, Catalyst Theater Company, African Continuum Theatre, Rorschach Theatre, Forum Theatre, Keegan Theater, The Hub Theatre, Adventure Theatre, University of Maryland, Catholic University, St. Mary’s College and The National Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. Outside of Washington, Jeremy has directed, produced or taught all over North Carolina and in New York, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London, Oslo, Galway, Kilimanjaro, Tokyo, Macau and Tai Pei. Jeremy is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

Jada Pinkett Smith
Star of film and television, has more than 20 feature films in her credits. Most notable film appearances include Niobe in THE MATRIX RELOADED and THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS, Spike Lee’s BAMBOOZLED, RETURN TO PARADISE, SET IT OFF and the award-winning MENACE II SOCIETY. She was nominated for Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for BAMBOOZLED, Outstanding Lead Actress for SET IT OFF and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Television Movie for IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK (segment 1996). Her television work includes guest appearances on “A Different World,” “21 Jump Street” and “Ellen.” She is executive producer of UPN’s “All of Us.”

Rick Stear
Feature film credits include WENT TO CONEY ISLAND ON A MISSION FROM GOD...BE BACK BY FIVE (with Jon Cryer), ZEROPHILIA, THE WARRIOR CLASS, ASTORIA (named Best Actor for lead role of Alex at the RiverRun Film Festival). Played Sebastian opposite Helen Hunt in "Twelfth Night" at Lincoln Center Theatre Company, also for PBS' TV movie. At Hartford Stage, played Edward in "Long Day's Journey Into Night," opposite Ellen Burstyn, and Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet." Other of his stage credits include "A Madhouse in Goa" off-Broadway; Great Lakes Theater Festival; Alley Theatre in Houston; the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego; and "Indiscretions" at the Coconut Grove Playhouse. Guest television appearance on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

Scott Sowers
Currently appearing on Broadway in the Tony Nominated production of “Inherit the Wind” with Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy. He was recently seen in Mallory Catlett’s (NCSA ‘87), “Oh What War” at the HERE Arts Center of NY. He played Stanley in, "A Streetcar Named Desire", directed by John Woodson (NCSA ‘74) at the Porthouse Theatre in Ohio (the day of Mr. Brando’s passing), and played Steve Hubbell in "Streetcar" on Broadway with John C. Reilly. Playwrights worked with include: Romulus Linney (over two dozen productions), Donald Margulies, Edward Albee, Aaron Sorkin, Ellen MacLaughlin, Mark Finley (NCSA ‘87), Jason Craig and T. Cat Ford. Other Broadway: BUS STOP with Mary Louise Parker (NCSA ‘86), A FEW GOOD MEN (Nat'l Tour, LA Dramalogue Award) Regional and Internat’l Theaters: The National Theatre of Oslo, The WILMA Theatre, The Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Longwharf, Willaimstown Theatre Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Theatre for a New City, Ensemble Studio Theatre (member), TOSOS II, The Signature Theatre in N.Y.(Founded with James Houghton and Romulus Linney)
Film Directors:David Wain “The Ten”, M. Night Shyamalan “The Village”, Steven Soderbergh ”Erin Brockovich”, Tim Robbins ”Dead Man Walking”, “The Cradle Will Rock”, Barbara Schock(2000 Acadamy Award-Short Feature, “My Mother Dreams...”), Paul Thomas Anderson ”Magnolia”, Phil Johnston ”1,000 Words”, and Susan Batten”Night School”(NCSA‘87)
Television: 11 guest roles on the 'Law & Order' franchise,'Cracker' (series regular), ‘The Jury’, ‘6 degrees’, ‘The Black Donnelly’s’, 'A Season for Miracles', 'The Yearling' for Hallmark.

WesleyTaylor
Currently "Bobby" in Steven Spielberg's NBC Drama, SMASH. Broadway: Original "Franz" in Rock of Ages (Theatre World Award/Outer Critics Circle nom); Original "Lucas" in The Addams Family(opposite Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth). Out of town tryout/Off-Broadway: Michael "Mouse" Tolliver in Tales of the City (Best Ensemble Cast-San Francisco Theatre Critics Circle nom); The Addams Family; Rock of Ages; See Rock City. Develpment: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Little Miss Sunshine, Carrie, A Minister's Wife, Women on the Verge..., Myth, Fun Home, Susquehanna, A Dog's Tale.Commercials, Soaps, and many live television performances. Countless voiceover and industrials. Training: Univ. of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA, Drama). Writer, Star, and Co-Creator of "Billy Green," a popular industry webseries, which can be found on youtube or www.BillyGreen.tv

Lisa Tharps
Titania and Hippolyta in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Shakespeare Theatre. Appeared on Broadway in August Wilson’s “King Hedley II” and in the off-Broadway and national touring productions of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Wit.” TV appearances include NBC's “Third Watch” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and CBS’s “Presidio Med.” Other theatre credits include John Houseman’s The Acting Company.

Jeffries Thaiss
Regional: “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,” “Ten Little Indians,” “A Flea in her Ear,” “The Gamester” (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis/Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); “Macbeth,” “Richard II” (Shakespeare Theatre); “A Midsummer Night's Dream” (Seattle Repertory Theatre); “Holiday,” “She Loves Me,” “Candida,” “Monster,” “Anna Karenina,” “Piaf” (Olney Theatre Center); “A Life in the Theatre” (Syracuse Stage); “Deathtrap” (Cape Playhouse/Ogunquit Playhouse); “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” “A Christmas Carol” (Great Lakes Theater Festival); “Two by Two” (Riverside Theatre); “The Witch of Edmonton” (Brick Playhouse/Festival of Art and Ideas). New York: “A Midsummer Night's Dream” (Expanded Arts); numerous off-off-Broadway and comedy club credits with the JokeFun Boys.

Rachel Wallace
Rachel is eagerly anticipating her arrival in Auckland, NZ, where she will reprise her role as Mary Poppins. She is honored to be performing with this fantastic cast in such an incredible country. Previously she played the role of Mary in the 1st and 2nd US national tours. A 2009 graduate of UNCSA, Rachel's favorite school credits includeDot in Sunday in the Park with George and Anita in the 50th Anniversary production of West Side Story, directed by Gerald Freedman, conducted by John Maucerri. Rachel has sung at the US Embassy in Vienna, conducted by John Maucerri. NYC and regional credits include "Solver Girl" in Micheal Friedman and Itamar Moses' Fortress of Solitude (CTG w/s). "Jenny Diver" in Threepenny Opera ( Arden Theater). “Phillipa” in Babette's Feast (Threads Theater). Beautiful Girls and SONDHEIM: A Birthday Celebration with Lonny Price, Paul Gemignani (Lincoln Center). A Christmas Carol (Geva Theatre Centre). Rachel is a Rochester, New York native.

Lauren Ward
Baroness Schrader in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s London revival of “The Sound of Music,” directed by Jeremy Sams. Broadway roles include Young Sally in “Follies” and Martha Jefferson in revival of “1776.” Appeared as Maria/Marian in “The Heiress” and Heavenly Friend/Julie Jordan in “Carousel,” both at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway roles include the lead in “Violet” (Drama Desk nomination for Best Actress in a Musical) and Jennie/Bridget in premiere of “Jack’s Holiday,” both directed by Susan Schulman at Playwrights Horizons; and Sondheim’s musical “Saturday Night” at the Second Stage Theater. Regional theatre credits include Laura in “The Glass Menagerie” and Celia in “As You Like It” at the Great Lakes Theater Festival; “The Royal Family” and “Tartuffe” with the Utah Shakespearean Festival; and Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet” at Rhode Island Shakespeare.

Kevin Wheatley
After starring in three network TV pilots, several films and many commercials, Kevin Wheatley set his sights on creating his own production company.  Under the new company name, "The International Danger Alliance", Kevin wrote a screenplay for a high concept post-apocalyptic political comedy entitled "The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell".  As well as writing the script, Kevin also acted in the film alongside many other UNCSA alumni and directed the film alongside UNCSA alum Jonny Gillette.  The now completed film has been given a coveted distribution deal and will be opening theatrically in 30 cities on October 19th 2007.  As for the future, Kevin is developing a television series that will continue the film's story, tentatively titled "Life and Times in the Threshold of Hell".  Also, Kevin is developing another screenplay, "The Henchmen", with plans to begin production in New Orleans in 2008.

Jeremy Webb
Appeared off-Broadway in: the staged reading and radio recording of Geoffrey Nauffts’ “Next Fall” with the cast of LA Theatre Works, he was also in the musical adaptation of Terrance McNally’s “The Visit” a benefit concert for The Actors Fund, Paula Vogel's "The Baltimore Waltz" directed by Mark Brokaw at the Signature Theatre, "Tabletop" (Drama Desk Award), "Summer '69" and "Three O'Clock in Brooklyn." Workshops include: "Tom Jones," "Monica! The Musical" (MTC), "Dance of the Vampires" (John Caird, director), and "Royal Family of Broadway" (Jerry Zaks, director). Also appeared at The Old Globe, McCarter, Long Wharf, Milwaukee, Indiana, St. Louis Repertory, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Westport Country Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse, Maine State Music Theatre, Actors Co. of Pennsylvania, New York Stage and Film, Hartford Theatreworks, and North Shore Music Theatre. Did "Antony and Cleopatra" and "The Bakkhai" for Gerald Freedman at Great Lakes Theater Festival. Television appearances include: "Law and Order," guest star, co-star of “Boy Gone Astray” episode; "Law and Order: Criminal Intent"; "Law and Order: SVU"; "Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion"; "Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111"; "Lex"; "Pit Pony"; and three seasons of "Guiding Light." Film includes: LOVE WALKED IN. Played Francesco Andreini in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's "The Glorious Ones," directed by Graciela Daniele, October 11, 2007 - January 6, 2008 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Plays George Hastings in “She Stoops To Conquer” at the McCarter Theatre (fall 2009), directed by Nicholas Martin (artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival). Was nominated for a 2009 Helen Hayes Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for Kander and Ebb’s “The Visit.”

Celia Weston
Tony and Drama Desk nominee and Outer Critics Circle Award for “The Last Night of Ballyhoo”; other Broadway credits include “True West,” “Summer and Smoke,” “Suddenly Last Summer,” “The Lady From Dubuque” with Irene Worth and “Loose Ends” with Kevin Kline. Off-Broadway credits include “Bargains,” “Far Off Sweet Forever” and “Please Hang Up and Dial Again.” Regional theatre credits include “Ghost on Fire,” “The Rose Tattoo,” “Angel Street” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress for DEAD MAN WALKING (Tim Robbins, director); other film appearances include RUNAWAY JURY, HULK, HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS, FLIRTING WITH DISASTER (David Russell), UNSTRUNG HEROES (Diane Keaton), HARD PROMISES (Lee Grant), LITTLE MAN TATE (Jodie Foster), A NEW LIFE (Alan Alda), THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (Anthony Minghella) and SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS (Diane Keaton). Well-known for role as Jolene in CBS series “Alice”; other TV credits include pilots for NBC and FOX and “The Stronger” for NET.

Ira David Wood III
Founder of Raleigh's Theatre In The Park, Ira David Wood III continues to serve as executive and artistic director. He was raised in Enfield, N.C., and became his hometown’s first Eagle Scout. A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, he served as president of the Student Government for two years, directed the school’s first public opera, taught Acting for Dancers, toured with The Nutcracker ballet, and won the lead in the School of Drama’s very first production. Summers during his college years were spent as a leading actor in The Lost Colony, the oldest outdoor drama in the country. Upon graduation, he became the first theatre arts consultant for the Department of Public Instruction. A year later, he became director of The Children’s Theatre of Raleigh. He immediately set about the task of broadening the organization’s scope. During this process, the organization established a home in the Pullen Park Armory, changing its name to Theatre In The Park and quickly becoming the largest community theatre in North Carolina.

Mr. Wood has often been credited with raising the bar of theatrical excellence in the Triangle area, as well as initiating dynamic outreach programming now adopted by many other theatre organizations. He is the recipient of The Builder of Bridges Award from The Babcock Center Foundation, The Morrison Award presented by The Roanoke Island Historical Association, and The Order of The Long Leaf Pine (one of the highest honors the state of North Carolina can award one of its citizens.)  Triangle Business magazine awarded him The Legacy Leader Award. He has also been awarded three keys to The City of Raleigh.  He has been made an honorary citizen of Columbia, S.C., and Compiegne, France.  He wrote and directed the opening ceremonies for the 1987 Summer Olympic Festival, still the largest single event in North Carolina history.  He is the only two-time recipient of The Medal of Arts Award, presented by The Raleigh Art Commission.  He is also an inductee in The Raleigh Hall of Fame.  In honor of his many achievements, Raleigh’s City Council voted unanimously to rename his theatre’s facility “The Ira David Wood III Pullen Park Theatre.”

Consistently voted Best Local Actor in decades of public opinion polls, Mr. Wood has managed to accumulate impressive film and television credits, having appeared on screen with such stars as Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Cliff Robertson, Burt Reynolds and Louise Fletcher.

Though his list of acclaimed theatre roles is unrivaled in the Triangle area, Mr. Wood is probably best known and loved for annually portraying the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in his own musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which has been performed annually since 1974. With three international tours to its credit, and having played to more than 2 million people, the production is now cited as “... one of the most successful shows in North Carolina theatre history.”

Mr. Wood is an award-winning playwright, and his additional works have been produced throughout the United States. He is a contributing writer for the book “Murder in Dealey Plaza,” and the author of a Christmas book entitled “Confessions of An Elf.” Though he went through open heart surgery in 2010, he has happily made a complete recovery. The proud father of two talented young people, Evan Rachel Wood and Ira David Wood IV, David and his wife, Ashley, remain extremely happy to call North Carolina ... home.

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