Elsbeth M. Collins
A veteran stage manager, Collins also leads the BFA Stage Management program and also serves as the School’s Director of Production,
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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 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
An Academy Award-winning actor, Whitaker is also an accomplished director and producer. (’82)
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.”
Luis Alfaro
A renowned playwright, performance artist, producer and director, Alfaro is the Associate Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group and a MacArthur “genius” fellow.
Meiling Cheng
Noted performance art critic and poet, Cheng has been published widely in both English and Chinese.
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)
Deborah Ann Woll
Best known for her role on HBO’s True Blood, Woll can be seen in Netflix’s Daredevil. (BFA ’07)