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 — Director of Literary Development for Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
  • Melanie Armer — Director, production manager, metal sculptor, Co-founder of Nerve Tank devised theater company
  • Ifa Bayeza — Playwright, Till Trilogy, 2022 MacDowell fellow, finalist for the 2020 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre and for the 2020 Francesca Primus Prize, and in 2018, was the inaugural Humanist-in-Residence at the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • 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 — Learning specialist at Mitchell College, director at Stay Awake Theatre.
  • Nefertiti Burton — Department Chair, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies at University of Louisville
  • James Busker — Assistant Audio/Video Manager at Hartford Stage.
  • Robin Carus — Casting director, Casting Confidential podcast.
  • 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-winning lighting designer (Machinal) 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 — Broadway producer, Well
  • Jeffrey Donovan — Actor: Burn Notice, Fargo, Sicario, Law and Order
  • Matt Dunphy — Regional Director of Stores at Bloomingdale's Boston
  • Morgan Fryer-McCulloch — Guerilla Games music designer
  • Katy Geraghty — Actor/singer: Groundhog Day (Broadway), Hairspray (OSF)
  • Richard Gere — Film actor, Pretty Woman, Chicago; Golden Globe winner
  • Jessica Greenberg — Lighting designer; Professor and Department Chair, Weber State University (Utah)
  • Duncan Grossman — Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Program Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine
  • Michael Haley — Film & TV producer, Angels in America, A League of Their Own
  • Sabrina Hamilton — Lighting Designer, Artistic Director of the Ko Festival
  • Mrs. Smith — Guitarist, performance and drag artist
  • 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
  • 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 — New York-based scenic designer at Rattlestick Theatre, Colt Coeur, ART
  • Megan McClain — Founder of Peacedale Global Arts
  • 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 — Leadership Gifts Coordinator & Prospect Research Associate at 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 — Fine artist, NG Creative Art Residency, Maussane-les-Alpilles, France
  • Kyle Pasciutti — Owner of Decimated Designs FX make-up and haunted house company
  • Celine Perron — Professor Theatre and Dance at Keene State College Dept. of Theater
  • Bill Pullman — Actor/director: Independence Day, Spaceballs, The Sinner
  • Caitlin Smith Rapoport — Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University, lighting designer for REDCAT, Yale Repertory Theatre, Soho Rep, Ars Nova
  • Matt Richards — Lighting designer for companies including Soho Rep, Hartford Stage Company
  • Joe Salvatore — Creator and founding director of Verbatim Performance Lab, clinical associate professor of educational theatre at NYU
  • Sean Sanford — Associate Scenic Designer for Jason Ardizzone-West (Broadway: Redwood)
  • Lauryn Sasso — Marketing Sales Associate for The Gamm Theater, past dramaturg and literary manager at Asolo Rep
  • 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
  • Roberta Uno — Former Ford Foundation program director
  • Jenni Werner — Executive Artistic Director of New Harmony Project, former 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 at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, Oregon), Hartford Stage (Hartford, Connecticut), Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Massachusetts), TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, California), and California Shakespeare Theater (Berkeley, California), 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