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Tonatiuh
Tonatiuh starred in the 2025 film Kiss of the Spiderwoman alongside Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna.
Sharon Marie Carnicke
Carnicke is globally respected for her groundbreaking work on Russian acting techniques and innovative examination of film acting.
Danny Strong
Not only an actor, Strong is the award-winning creator and showrunner of the Hulu series Dopesick. He is also an award-winning screenwriter and book writer for Broadway’s 2025 revival of the musical Chess, Game Change, Recount and Lee Daniels’ The Butler. (BA ’96)
Forest Whitaker
An Academy Award-winning actor, Whitaker is also an accomplished director and producer. (’82)
Karan Soni
As an actor he is best known for blockbuster movies like Deadpool, Ghostbusters, Detective Pikachu, Office Christmas Party and Across the Spider-Verse .
Briga Heelan
Briga Heelan starred in the NBC series Great News, the CBS series B Positive and more. She recently starred in the world premiere of “Once Upon a One More Time.”
Troian Bellisario
Currently starring in the Dick Wolf’s On Call, Bellisario formed The Casitas Group theatre company with some of her fellow alumni. (BFA ’09)
Luis Alfaro
A renowned playwright, performance artist, producer and director, Alfaro is the director of the MFA in Dramatic Writing Program and a MacArthur “genius” fellow.
Meiling Cheng
Noted performance art critic and poet, Cheng has been published widely in both English and Chinese.