Notable Alumni
The College of Fine Arts have produced many students who have become notable in their fields:
- Jason Alexander (Tony Award-winning actor; cast member of Seinfeld)
- Ted Atkatz (Chicago Symphony Orchestra Principal Percussionist)
- Velvet Brown (tuba soloist, music educator)
- Michael Chiklis (Emmy Award-winning actor, The Shield)
- Geena Davis (Oscar and Golden Globe winning actress)
- Emily Deschanel (actress, Bones)
- Grant Drumheller (painter)
- Dan Fogler (Tony Award-winning actor; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)
- Ginnifer Goodwin (actress, Big Love)
- Israel Hicks (1943–2010), stage director who presented August Wilson's entire 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle.
- Eugene Izotov (Chicago Symphony Orchestra Principal Oboist)
- Yunjin Kim (actress, Lost)
- Erica Leerhsen (actress)
- Jerry Levine (actor/director, Teen Wolf)
- Craig Lucas (Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright and actor)
- Yan Luo, (actress and screenwriter)
- Brice Marden (painter)
- Christina McPhee (New Media artist)
- Julianne Moore (Oscar-nominated actress)
- Michael Murray, co-founder and Artistic Director of the Charles Playhouse (Boston), Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Chair of Theatre Arts Department, Brandeis University
- Rosie O'Donnell (actress and talk show host)
- Konstantinos Papadakis (concert pianist)
- Jenn Proske (actress)
- Ola Rotimi (Award winning playwright and theatre director)
- Lee Sheldon (videogame designer, author, TV writer/producer)
- Marisa Tomei (Academy Award winning actress)
- Anthony Tommasini (New York Times music critic)
- Krista Vernoff (Emmy-nominated writer)
- Cynthia Watros (actress, Lost)
- Alfre Woodard (Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress
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