List of University of North Carolina School of the Arts alumni

This list of alumni of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts includes high school, undergraduate, and graduate, former students of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. UNCSA offers high school, undergraduate and graduate degrees from 5 arts schools of Dance, Design and Production, Drama, Film, and Music.

Dance

• Patrick Bissell – principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
• Camille A. Brown – dancer and choreographer
• Johnny Byrne – dancer and choreographer
• Paul Frame – corps de ballet, New York City Ballet
• Megan LeCrone – soloist, New York City Ballet
• Gillian Murphy – principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
• Maria Riccetto – soloist, American Ballet Theatre
• Keith Roberts – former principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
• Mel Tomlinson - soloist with New York City Ballet, principal with Boston Ballet
• [[Claire Kretzchmar]] - New York City Ballet
• [[Leslie Williams]] - Martha Graham Company

Drama

• Michael Abbott Jr. – actor
• Jeannetta Arnette - actress
• Matthew Ashford – actor, Days of Our Lives and other soap operas
• Ryan Ashton – actor, best known as Zack Sinnett on The Young and the Restless, director, and screenwriter
• Diedrich Bader – actor, attended but did not graduate
• Susan Batten - actress
• Gary Beach – Tony Award-winning actor, The Producers
• Neal Bledsoe – actor
• Jacob Brent – actor
• Anna Camp – actress, True Blood, Pitch Perfect, Equus on Broadway
• Josh Clark – stage and screen actor
• Gab Cody – filmmaker and theatre artist
• Dane DeHaan – actor, In Treatment, Chronicle, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Kill Your Darlings, Life After Beth
• Catherine Dent – actress
• Trieste Kelly Dunn – actress
• Jennifer Ehle – Tony Award-winning actress
• Jennifer Ferrin – actress
• Benim Foster – Broadway and film actor
• Ashley Gardner – voice, stage, screen actress
• Brett Gelman – actor and comedian, The Other Guys, Eagleheart, named one of 10 comics to watch by Variety
• Chris Grace – original Christian Grey in off-Broadway Fifty Shades! the Musical
• Rhoda Griffis – actress
• Josh Grisetti – Broadway, television and film actor (Broadway Bound, The Knights of Prosperity)
• Tim Guinee – actor, Tai-Pan, stage, film, television
• Lucas Hedges – current student, Manchester by the Sea Oscar Nominated
• Peter Hedges – writer and director
• Stephen Henderson – actor
• Tom Hulce – actor, Amadeus, National Lampoon's Animal House, Tony Award-winning producer of Spring Awakening
• Jana Marie Hupp – actress
• Will Janowitz – actor, writer, director
• Jake Lacy – actor
• Elizabeth Lail – actress, Once Upon a Time
• Matt Lauria – actor, Friday Night Lights, The Chicago Code
• Natalia Livingston – Emmy Award-winning actress, General Hospital
• Jenn Lyon – actress
• Kelly-Anne Lyons – actress
• Anthony Mackie – actor, Half Nelson, The Hurt Locker, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Angus MacLachlan – writer, Junebug
• Billy Magnussen – Tony nominated actor
• Jonathan Majors – actor, When We Rise
• Terrence Mann – actor, director, singer, dancer, songwriter
• Joe Mantello – Tony Award-winning theatre director
• Marilyn McIntyre – television and film actress
• Julianne Morris – actress
• Glyn O'Malley – playwright, actor, director, professor
• Mary-Louise Parker – Tony Award-winning actress
• Chris Parnell – actor and comedian
• Will Patton – actor, best known as Coach Yoast from Remember the Titans
• Jada Pinkett Smith – actress, attended but did not graduate
• Missi Pyle – actress, Gone Girl
• Judge Reinhold – actor
• Bridget Regan – actress, stage, film, television, best known as Kahlan Amnell in the television series Legend of the Seeker
• J. T. Rogers – playwright
• Paul Schneider – actor, Parks and Recreation
• Klea Scott – actress, Millennium
• Samantha Shelton – actress, singer
• Monti Sharp - Daytime Emmy Award-winning actor Guiding Light
• Wesley Taylor – actor, Plankton in Spongebob Squarepants on Broadway
• Eric Todd - actor, The Sinner
• Christopher J. Waild – screenwriter Dog Days of Summer, staff writer on the TV series NCIS.
• Celia Weston – actress
• Anna Wood – actress
• Ira David Wood III – actor
• Natalia Cordova-Buckley - actress, best known as Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Isaac Cole Powell - actor, Once on this Island on Broadway
• Dave Thomas Brown - actor, Broadway: American Psyho, Book of Mormon (Elder Price), Clueless

Design and production

• Brian Sidney Bembridge – multiple award-winning scenic and lighting designer
• David Blankenship – art director and set designer for film and television
• Kevin Dreyer – lighting designer/reconstructor for dance, theatre, opera and film
• Elizabeth Power – award-winning writer and educator
• Paul Tazewell – costume designer, winner of a Tony Award for “Hamilton” and an Emmy for NBC’s “The Wiz! Live
• Carly Todd - Scenic Charge at Sesame Workshop, graduate of D&P Scenic Painting MFA
• Amelia Bay - Lead Wig and Makeup for the Book of Mormon on Broadway

Film

• Zene Baker – film editor
• Travis Beacham – screenwriter
• Ben Best – screenwriter and actor, The Foot Fist Way and Eastbound & Down
• Dennis Delaney – writer and actor, first National Director of Greenpeace USA
• Josh Dove – literary manager
• Mark Freiburger – screenwriter, director and producer
• David Gordon Green – director of Pineapple Express
• Brett Haley – writer and director of The Hero, I'll See You in My Dreams, and The New Year
• Chad Hartigan – screenwriter and director of This is Martin Bonner and Morris From America
• Jody Hill – writer and director The Foot Fist Way, Eastbound & Down, and Observe and Report
• Aaron Katz – director, screenwriter, and editor, Quiet City,Dance Party USA, Cold Weather
• Danny R. McBride – actor and writer, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, and Eastbound & Down
• Jeff Nichols – writer and director, Shotgun Stories
• Tim Orr – cinematographer
• Paul Schneider – actor and filmmaker
• Sage Stallone – actor, film director, film producer, and film distributor
• Martha Stephens – writer, director, filmmaker
• Craig Zobel – writer and director of Great World of Sound; co-creator of Homestar Runner

Music

• Eddie Barbash – saxophonist for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
• Ida Bieler – violinist, professor; founder and Artistic Director of the International String Festival Baden Wuerttemberg
• Gwendolyn Bradley – soprano
• Cameron Carpenter – organist/pianist
• Judith Cloud – composer, alto vocalist, and educator
• Ricardo Cobo – classical guitarist, professor
• Richard Cray – singer, actor
• Carlo Curley – organist, organ design and construction
• Philipp Elssner - violinist
• Randy Jones – original Village People cowboy
• John P. Kee – award-winning gospel musician
• Becca Stevens – singer/songwriter
• Jim Lauderdale – singer/songwriter
• Kendra Preston Leonard – cellist, musicologist
• Atli Örvarsson – composer, conductor, musician, songwriter
• Sharon Robinson – cellist
• Blair Tindall – oboist and author
• Rion Wentworth – musician, New York Philharmonic
• Ransom Wilson – flutist and conductor
• Tatsuya Nagashima - pianist/conductor
• Sean Yseult – musician
• Phillip R. Lamb - organist

Visual arts

• Alexander Isley – graphic designer
• David LaChapelle – photographer and music video director

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