UMass Theater Alumni

Below is a partial listing of graduate and undergraduate alumni who are working in theater and related fields.

(Names link to personal websites where available.)

audience interacting with the Golden Scholarship actors after the show
  • Paul Jens Adolphson — Literary Manager and Dramaturg for Seattle Repertory Company. 
  • Melanie Armer — Director, production manager, metal sculptor, Co-founder of Nerve Tank devised theater company
  • Ifa Bayeza — Playwright, Till Trilogy,  O’Neill Fellow, Edgar Award Winner
  • Christina Beam — Costume designer, BroadwayWorld Berkshires Award Nominee for Best Costume Design of a Play or Musical for A Walk in the Woods, 2022
  • Toby Vera Bercovici — Director, Professor of Theatre Practice at Cleveland State University
  • Denis Berfield — Production Manager and Technical Director, Raleigh Little Theater
  • Ethan Berube — First Hand at Tricorne Costume Shop in NYC
  • Jeannie-Marie Brown — Faculty at Keene State College Dept. of Theater, director
  • Nefertiti Burton — Professor and chairperson of Howard’s Department of Theatre Arts
  • James Busker — Assistant Audio/Video Manager at Hartford Stage.
  • Robin Carus — Casting director. 
  • Lisa Channer — Co-founder of Sleeveless Theater and Theater Novi Most; Professor, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis
  • Constance Congdon — Playwright (Tales of the Lost Formicans, Casanova, Lips, Losing Father's Body, The Misanthrope, A Mother, No Mercy, The Servant of Two Masters, Tartuffe and Paradise Street) 
  • Rob Corddry — Actor/writer/producer: The Daily Show, Childrens Hospital, Medical Police
  • Jane Cox — Tony-nominated lighing designer (Machinal, The Color Purple) and Director of Princeton University theater program
  • Heather Crocker Aulenback — Associate Professor of Costume and Scenic Design in the Theatre Arts Program at Westfield State University
  • John Dias — Artistic Director, Two River Theater; Broadway producer, Well
  • Jeffrey Donovan — Actor: Burn Notice, Fargo, Sicario
  • Matt Dunphy — Trade Area Vice President, New York / Boston at Bloomingdale's
  • Morgan Fryer-McCulloch — Lead audio QA tester at Sony Interactive Entertainment
  • Katy Geraghty — Actor/singer: Groundhog Day (Broadway), Hairspray (OSF)
  • Richard Gere — Film actor, Pretty Woman, Chicago; Golden Globe winner
  • Jessica Greenberg — Lighting designer; Professor, Weber State University (Utah)
  • Michael Haley — Film & TV producer, Angels in America, A League of Their Own
  • Sabrina Hamilton — Lighting Designer, Artistic Director of the Ko Festival 
  • David Hanbury — Guitarist, performance and drag artist, “Mrs. Smith”
  • Michelle Hendrick — Opera and theater director, professional actor, professor at Trinity College
  • Troy Hourie — Installation artist/scenographer Freaks: A Performative Installation, work with Glimmerglass Festival, Classical Theatre of Harlem
  • Jujubee — Nationally-renowned drag performer, Ru Paul’s Drag Race
  • Tanya Kane-Parry — Director; Professor at Cal State Los Angeles
  • Lucinda Kidder — Director; co-founder of Silverthorne Theater Company 
  • Talya Kingston — Associate Artistic Director at WAM Theatre, work with Hartford Stage, New Conservatory Theatre Center
  • David Korins — Set designer for Broadway: Hamilton (Tony nom), Dear Evan Hansen, Beetlejuice, Mrs. Doubtfire
  • Shawn LaCount — Artistic Director and director, Company One Theater
  • Amy Levinson — Dramaturg; Associate Artistic Director, Geffen Playhouse (LA)
  • Erin MacDevitt — Lighting designer
  • Bethany Marx — Associate Professor of Theatrical Design, SUNY Oneonta
  • John McDermott — Adelphi University faculty member and new York-based scenic designer at Rattlestick Theatre, Colt Coeur
  • Megan McClain — R&D Program Director for the Civilians, staff member at The Lark, Resident Dramaturg for Superhero Clubhouse
  • James McNamara — Associate Professor of Design and Technical Theatre, Lighting and Sound Design in Theatre Arts at Westfield State University; Co-Vice Chair of Design, Technology and Management for Region 1 of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
  • Alissa Mesibov — Donor Services Associate, ACLU
  • Calypso Michelet — Scenic and costume designer at WAM Theatre, Trinity College, Blessed Unrest at Mabou Mines
  • Melissa Mizell — Lighting designer for fashion, corporate, private events
  • Athena Parella — Journey Scenic Artist with Local USA 829 in New York
  • Kyle Pasciutti — Owner of Decimated Designs FX make-up and haunted house company
  • Celine Perron — Chair of Keene State College Dept. of Theater
  • Bill Pullman — Actor/director: Independence Day, Spaceballs, The Sinner
  • Caitlin Rappoport — Lighting designer for REDCAT, Yale Reperoty Theatre, Soho Rep, Ars Nova
  • Matt Richards — Lighting designer for companies including Soho Rep, Hartford Stage Company
  • Lauryn Sasso — Marketing Sales Associate for The Gamm Theater, past dramaturg and literary manager at Asolo Rep
  • Joe Salvatore — Creator and director of Verbatim Performance Lab, clinical associate professor of educational theatre at NYU
  • Afrikah Selah — Cultural worker specializing in dramaturgy, new play development, and arts journalism, currently National New Play Network Producer-in-Residence at Company One
  • Dan Smith — Scholar and translator; Professor, Michigan State University
  • Ben Stanton — Lighting designer: Angels in America, Fun Home (Tony nom.), The Rose Tattoo
  • Justin Townsend — Lighting designer for Broadway and Off-Broadway (Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge, The Humans (Tony nom.)) and Tony winner for Moulin Rouge   
  • Keisha Tucker — Actor and stunt performer for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Black Panther, Captain Marvel), Birds of Prey, television
  • Gwendolyn Tunnicliffe - Membership Coordinator at Arena Stage in Washington DC, past development work with WAM Theatre
  • Roberta Uno — Professor/program director, of Arts in a Changing America at CalArts; Former Ford Foundation program director
  • Jenni Werner — Literary Director and Resident Dramaturg for GeVa Theatre Center
  • Lawrence Wilker — Tony Award-winning, Emmy-winning producer-entertainment executive: Urinetown, Kennedy Center, TheatreDreams
  • Dawn Monique Williams — Director Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Associate Artistic Director at Aurora Theatre Company, recipient of the Princess Grace Award
  • Kate Wilson — Dialect coach (The Glass Menagerie, Sweat, Violet, A Raisin in the Sun, Machinal, many others) and faculty member at Juilliard School
  • Andrew Wittkamper — Costume designer and faculty at Suffolk County Community College: Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Glass Menagerie, Spring Awakening
  • Xiyuan Li — Visiting Assistant Professor, Theater and Performance Studies at Occidental College