Where are our alumni?

Working at the forefront of the entertainment industry.

  • Portrait of Danny Strong

    Danny Strong

    Not only an actor, Strong is the creator and showrunner of the Hulu series Dopesick, starring Michael Keaton. He is also an award-winning screenwriter for Game Change, Recount and Lee Daniels’ The Butler, and wrote The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 & 2. (BA ’96)

  • Forest Whitaker

    Forest Whitaker

    An Academy Award-winning actor, Whitaker is also an accomplished director and producer. (’82)

  • Portrait of Patrick Adams

    Patrick J. Adams

    Adams is best known for playing the leading role of Mike Ross on USA Network’s Suits, which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for outstanding actor in a drama series. (BFA ’04)

  • Portrait of Deborah Ann Woll

    Deborah Ann Woll

    Best known for her role on HBO’s True Blood, Woll can be seen in Netflix’s Daredevil. (BFA ’07)

  • J. August Richards

    J. August Richards

    Best known for his work on Joss Whedon’s Angel and in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Richards can also be seen on Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. (BFA ’95)

  • Grant Heslov

    Grant Heslov

    Grant Heslov is an Academy Award winner, noted for his work as a director, producer, writer and actor. In 2006 he co-founded Smokehouse Pictures with longtime partner and collaborator George Clooney.

  • Tate Donovan

    Tate Donovan

    Donovan is an actor whose credits include the Oscar-winning film Argo, and shows The O.C., 24: Live Another Day, Hostages, Deception, Damages, Friends and The Man in the High Castle. (BFA ’85)

  • LeVar Burton

    LeVar Burton

    LeVar Burton is an actor, director and beloved television host, best known for his work on Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Reading Rainbow.