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. NCSA offers high school, undergraduate and graduate degrees from 5 arts schools of Dance, Design and Production, Drama, Film, and Music.

Dance

• Victor Barbee — soloist and principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
• Patrick Bissell — principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
• Mary Cochran — principal dancer, Paul Taylor Dance Company
• Mark Dendy — director, Mark Dendy Dance Company
• Rael Lamb - choregorapher, Nyt Danish Dance Theatre, Alvin Ailey, SFOpera and others
• Jaime Martinez — founding member Mark Dendy Dance Company and Parsons Dance Company
• Trey McIntyre — dancer and choreographer
• Gillian Murphy — principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
• Bruce Padgett — principal dancer, New York City Ballet
• Janie Parker — soloist and principal dancer, Houston Ballet
• Peter Pucci — director, Peter Pucci Plus Dancers
• Keith Roberts — soloist and principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
• Jeanne Ruddy — principal dancer, Martha Graham Dance Company
• Edward Stierle — principal dancer, Joffrey Ballet
• Michael Thomas — dancer and choreographer, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• Mel Tomlinson — principal dancer, Dance Theater of Harlem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City Ballet
• Katita Waldo — principal dancer, San Francisco Ballet

Alumni from the UNCSA Dance Program are currently featured in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Alwin Nikolais Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Du Nord, Ballet Florida, Ballet Frankfurt, Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneva, Ballet Oklahoma, Ballet Met, Ballet West, Basel Ballet, Bella Lewitzky, Bill T. Jones/Arne Zane Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Cleveland Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Eliot Feld Company, Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Fort Worth Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Hartford Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Jennifer Muller Dance Company, Joffrey Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Limon Dance Company, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Mark Dendy Dance and Theater, Mark Morris Dance Group, Martha Graham Dance Company, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Miami City Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Minnesota Ballet, Nashville Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Netherlands Dance Theatre, New Moscow City Ballet (Russia), New York City Ballet, Nikolais/Louis Dance Company, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Parsons Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Pauline Koner Dance Consort, Pennsylvania Ballet, Pilobolus Dance Theater, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Peter Pucci Plus Dancers, Richmond Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Susan Marshall Dance Company, Twyla Tharp Dance Company, Tulsa Ballet, Utah Repertory Dance Theater, and the Washington Ballet Company.

Drama

• Matthew Ashford - actor, soap operas Days of Our Lives and others
• Diedrich Bader - actor, attended but did not graduate
• Gary Beach - Tony Award winning actor The Producers
• Anna Camp - actress True Blood
• Trieste Kelly Dunn - actress
• Jennifer Ehle - Tony Award winning actress
• Jennifer Ferrin - actress
• Josh Grisetti - Broadway, television and film actor (Neil Simon's BROADWAY BOUND, ABC's THE KNIGHTS OF PROSPERITY)
• Tim Guinee - actor, Tai-Pan, stage, film, television
• Peter Hedges - writer and director
• Hilary Howard - actor, screenwriter and journalist
• Tom Hulce - actor, Amadeus, National Lampoon's Animal House, Tony Award winning producer "Spring Awakening"
• Rebecca Jones - actress, Passing Strange
• Matt Lauria - actor, Friday Night Lights
• Anthony Mackie - actor, Half Nelson and Notorious
• Billy Magnussen - Actor
• Terrence Mann - actor
• Joe Mantello - Tony Award winning theatre director
• Angus MacLachlan - writer, Junebug
• Mary Louise Parker - Tony Award winning actress
• Chris Parnell - actor/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
• Gus Reyes - Director
• J. T. Rogers - playwright
• Judge Reinhold - actor
• Bridget Regan - actress, stage, film, television, best known as Kahlan Amnell in the television series Legend of the Seeker.
• Natalia Livingston - Emmy Award winning actress, General Hospital

Design and Production

• Tony Fanning - Production Designer
• Elizabeth Power graduate of NCSA's writing program in D&P, award winning writer/educator
• Brian Sidney Bembridge multiple award winning scenic and lighting designer
• Paul Tazwell - Tony Nominated Costume Designer

Film

• Travis Beacham - screenwriter
• Randolph Benson - Student Academy Award winning director, documentary filmmaker
• Ben Best (actor) - screenwriter and actor, "The Foot Fist Way" and "Eastbound and Down"
• Will Files - sound designer and editor, "Cloverfield"
• David Gordon Green - Screenwriter and director
• Jody Hill - writer and director "The Foot Fist Way", "Eastbound and Down", and "Observe and Report"
• Aaron Katz (filmmaker) - director, screenwriter, and editor, "Quiet City (film)" and "Dance Party USA (film)"
• Danny R. McBride - actor and writer, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, and "Eastbound and Down"
• Jeff Nichols - writer and director "Shotgun Stories"
• Tim Orr - cinematographer
• Paul Schneider - actor and filmmaker
• Craig Zobel - writer and director of Great World of Sound and co-creator of Homestar Runner

Music

• Ida Bieler - Founder and Artistic Director of the International String Festival Baden Wuerttemberg
• Gwendolyn Bradley - soprano
• Matthew Brown, organist
• Cameron Carpenter - organist/pianist
• Richard Cray - singer, actor
• Carlo Curley - organist
• Cary Ebli - oboe / English horn, Toronto Symphony
• Garret Fischbach - violinist / violist, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Robert Franz - oboe / conductor Boise Philharmonic
• Randy Jones - original Village People cowboy
• Lisa Kim - Violin, New York Philharmonic
• Kraft Quartet - Lex Samu, Madison Rast, Wesley Rast, Morgan Kraft
• Derrick Lawrence - Bass-Baritone, National winner, Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions
• Kendra Preston Leonard - musicologist
• Bryan Lipps - trumpet
• Daniel McKelway - clarinet, Cleveland Orchestra
• John (Jack) Mitchener - organist
• Thom Moore - oboe, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, recording engineer for Telarc
• Tatsuya Nagashima - Internationally renowned concert pianist, winner, Ibla Grand Prize International Piano Competition
• Sharon Robinson - cellist
• Blair Tindall - oboist and author
• Tichina Vaughn - Soprano, National Winner, Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions
• Domitri Vorobiev - pianist, University of Iowa
• Jennifer Welch-Babidge - Soprano, Metropolitan Opera
• Ransom Wilson - Internationally renowned flutist and conductor
• Sandy Yamamoto - Miro String Quartet, University of Texas at Austin
• Sean Yseult - musician

Visual Arts

• Alexander Isley - graphic designer
• David LaChapelle - photographer and music video director
• Louis St.Lewis - visual artist, attended but did not graduate