"While you're at school, make meaningful relationships with your classmates," says alumnus Peter Hedges. "Then, then once you're outside of school, make work together that is meaningful to you and, hopefully, to the world."

As the owner of Eclectic/Encore Props, D&P alumna Suri Bieler provides set decorators, set dressers, production designers and props directors the pieces to create the world in which our favorite characters live and work.

Since graduation, Elizabeth Lail has been a princess, faced evil forces at a Midwestern summer camp and become the object of Penn Badgley's obsession in the Lifetime series "You."