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 the five arts schools of Dance, Design and Production, Drama, Film, and Music.
Victor Barbee – principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre 1975–2003
Elizabeth Benjamin – writer[citation needed ]
Patrick Bissell – principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
Camille A. Brown – dancer and choreographer
Kennedy Davenport – drag queen, best known for RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
Paul Frame – corps de ballet, New York City Ballet
Alicia Holloway – corps de ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem
Megan LeCrone – soloist, New York City Ballet
Gillian Murphy – principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre
Katy Pyle – artistic director of Ballez
Margaret Qualley – actress
Maria Riccetto – soloist, American Ballet Theatre
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
Katita Waldo – former principal dancer and ballet master, San Francisco Ballet
Hunter Schafer - actress
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
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, Chronicle , Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Life After Beth , The Amazing Spider-Man 2
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
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 [ 1]
Chris Grace – actor, Superstore , PEN15 , Broad City , This Is Us
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, Marvel Cinematic Universe , Lovecraft Country , Creed III
Terrence Mann – actor, director, singer, dancer, songwriter
Joe Mantello – Tony Award-winning theatre director
Krys Marshall – actress[ 2]
Marilyn McIntyre – television and film actress
Cee Cee Michaela – 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
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
Ainsley Seiger – actress, Law & Order: Organized Crime
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 on The Jeffersons
Christopher J. Waild – screenwriter, Dog Days of Summer ; staff writer on NCIS
Lauren Ward – actress
Celia Weston – actress
Anna Wood – actress
Ira David Wood III – actor
Kurt Yaghjian – actor
Design and production [ edit ]
Brian Sidney Bembridge – multiple award-winning scenic and lighting designer
Kevin Dreyer – lighting designer/reconstructor for dance, theatre, opera and film
Kerry Joyce – Emmy award-winning set decorator, interior designer, and fabric designer
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
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 – director of This is Martin Bonner , Morris From America and Little Fish
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
Caitlin McHugh – actress, writer, model
Jeff Nichols – writer and director, Shotgun Stories
Tim Orr – cinematographer
Chris Parnell — actor
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
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
Javier Calderon – musician, classical guitarist; instructor
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
Stefan Jezierski – musician, french horn; high horn with the Berlin Philharmonic for many years; principal horn of the Kassel Staatstheater; played with the Cleveland Orchestra
Randy Jones – original Village People cowboy
John P. Kee – gospel musician
Jim Lauderdale – singer/songwriter
Kendra Preston Leonard – cellist, musicologist
Atli Örvarsson – composer, conductor, musician, songwriter
Sharon Robinson – cellist
Becca Stevens – singer/songwriter
Blair Tindall – oboist and author
Ransom Wilson – flutist and conductor
Sean Yseult – musician