List of University of North Carolina School of the Arts alumni
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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
- Katy Pyle - artistic director of Ballez
- Maria Riccetto – soloist, American Ballet Theatre
- Jared Redick - soloist - Boston Ballet, teacher, Interim Dean of the School of Dance University of North Carolina School of the Arts
- Keith Roberts – former principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
- Celia Rowlson-Hall – choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker
- Mel Tomlinson - soloist with New York City Ballet, principal with Boston Ballet
- Claire Kretzchmar - New York City Ballet
- Leslie Williams - Martha Graham Company
- Kennedy Davenport - drag queen, best known for RuPaul's Drag Race (season 7) and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 3)
Drama
- Jeannetta Arnette – actress
- Dylan Arnold - actor
- Matthew Ashford – actor, Days of Our Lives and other soap operas
- Ryan Ashton – actor, known as Zack Sinnett on The Young and the Restless, director, and screenwriter
- Diedrich Bader – actor
- Susan Batten – actress
- Gary Beach – Tony Award-winning actor, The Producers
- Neal Bledsoe – actor
- Jacob Brent – actor
- Dave Thomas Brown – actor, Broadway: American Psycho, Book of Mormon (Elder Price), Clueless
- Anna Camp – actress, True Blood, Pitch Perfect, "Equus" on Broadway
- Josh Clark – stage and screen actor
- Gab Cody – filmmaker and theatre artist
- Natalia Cordova-Buckley - actress, best known as Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Dane DeHaan – actor, In Treatment, Chronicle, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Kill Your Darlings, Life After Beth
- Dennis Delaney – writer and actor, first National Director of Greenpeace USA
- 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, "Stranger Things", named one of 10 comics to watch by Variety
- 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 – Oscar-nominated actor, Manchester by the Sea
- 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 Award-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 – Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress
- Chris Parnell – actor and comedian
- Will Patton – actor, best known as Coach Yoast from Remember the Titans
- Patsy Pease – actress, best known as Kimberly Brady from Days Of Our Lives
- Jada Pinkett Smith – actress
- Isaac Cole Powell – actor, Once on This Island on Broadway
- Missi Pyle – actress, Gone Girl
- Margaret Qualley – actress
- Bridget Regan – actress, stage, film, television, best known as Kahlan Amnell in the television series Legend of the Seeker
- Judge Reinhold – actor
- 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
- Berlinda Tolbert - actress, best known for her role as Jenny Willis Jefferson, the daughter of Tom and Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons
- Christopher J. Waild – screenwriter Dog Days of Summer, staff writer on the television series NCIS.
- Lauren Ward – actress
- Celia Weston – actress
- Anna Wood – actress
- Ira David Wood III – actor
Design and production
- Brian Sidney Bembridge – multiple award-winning scenic and lighting designer
- 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
Film
- Zene Baker – film editor
- Travis Beacham – screenwriter
- Ryan Butler – documentary filmmaker and attorney
- 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
- 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
- Ransom Wilson – flutist and conductor
- Sean Yseult – musician
Visual arts
- Alexander Isley – graphic designer
- David LaChapelle – photographer and music video director
- Hunter Schafer - visual artist, actress and trans activist