- 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
- Meg Bashwiner — Performer/tour manager with Welcome to Nightvale podcast and live performances (Deb, Emcee), co-author of The First Ten Years
- 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 — Professor Emerita of University of Louisville Department of Theatre Arts
- James Busker — Assistant Audio/Video Manager at Hartford Stage.
- Robin Carus — Casting director, Robin Carus Casting, and Adjunct Lecturer at City College of New York
- Lisa Channer — Co-founder of Sleeveless Theater and Theater Novi Most; Professor, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis
- Constance Congdon — Playwright-in-Residence Emerita at Amherst College (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 and Be More Chill
- Jeffrey Donovan — Actor: Burn Notice, Fargo, Sicario, Law and Order
- Matt Dunphy — SVP, Store Growth and Experience, Saks Fifth Avenue & Neiman Marcus for Saks Global
- Morgan Fryer-McCulloch — Music designer for video game companies including Guerilla, Bioware
- 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 — Co-artistic Director of Chester Theater Company, opera and theater director, professional actor
- Troy Hourie — Canada-based 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 and actor, Stop That Train
- George Kalivas — Theater instructor at Burncoat High School, METG Award-winning theater department
- Tanya Kane-Parry — Director; Professor at Cal State Los Angeles, co-founder of Opera del Espacio (O.D.E.)
- Aimee Kewley — Department Head of Theater at Burncoat High School, METG Award-winning theater department
- Talya Kingston — Co-Producer and playwright for Plays in Place, past Associate Artistic Director at WAM Theatre, dramaturg 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 design, Unwell Tour, Lighting Director, Mel Robbins Let Them Tour
- 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; Associate Artist/Designer at The Chester Theatre Company
- Alissa (Mesibov) Krummen — 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 week, corporate, private events in New York City
- Athena Parella — Fine artist with group shows in New York, Oregon; past NG Creative Art Residency, Maussane-les-Alpilles, France
- Kyle Pasciutti — CEO and founder of Decimated Designs FX make-up and haunted house company
- Celine Perron — Professor of 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 Atlantic Theatre, Soho Rep, Hartford Stage Company
- Joe Salvatore — Creator and founding director of Verbatim Performance Lab, Clinical Professor and Director, Educational Theatre; Vice Chair for Academic Affairs at NYU
- Sean Sanford — Associate Scenic Designer for Jason Ardizzone-West (Broadway: Redwood)
- Lauryn Sasso — Institutional Giving & Stewardship Manager 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, past National New Play Network Producer-in-Residence at Company One
- Dan Smith — Scholar and translator; Associate Professor of Theatre, Michigan State University
- Ben Stanton — Multiple-Tony-nominated lighting designer for Broadway, Off-Broadway and concerts: Angels in America, Fun Home (Tony nom.), The Rose Tattoo
- Justin Townsend — Tony-winning lighting designer for Broadway and Off-Broadway (Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge (Tony win), The Humans)
- Keisha Tucker — Actor and stunt performer for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Black Panther, Captain Marvel), Birds of Prey, Jordan Peele's Us, television series
- Roberta Uno — Currently: Partner/Founder of Arts In A Changing America, 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, President of 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, currently Instructor of Acting and Directing at Weber State University
- Kate Wilson — Dialect coach (The Glass Menagerie, Sweat, Violet, A Raisin in the Sun, Machinal, many others) and Head of Voice and Speech at Juilliard School
- Andrew Wittkamper — Costume designer and Professor of Theatre at Suffolk County Community College: Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Glass Menagerie, Spring Awakening
- Xiyuan Li — Lighting and scenic designer, recipient of LA Theatre Bites Awards for Just Like Us and Dido of Idaho
UMass Theater Alumni
Below is a partial listing of graduate and undergraduate alumni who are using their education in theater and related fields, or in creative ways outside the field.
