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
- Neal Bledsoe – actor
- Anna Camp – actress, True Blood
- Dane DeHaan – actor, In Treatment and Chronicle
- Trieste Kelly Dunn – actress
- Jennifer Ehle – Tony Award winning actress
- Jennifer Ferrin – actress
- Brett Gelman – actor/comedian The Other Guys, Eagleheart, named one of 10 comics to watch by Variety
- Josh Grisetti – Broadway, television and film actor (Broadway Bound, The Knights of Prosperity)
- Tim Guinee – actor, Tai-Pan, stage, film, television
- Peter Hedges – writer and director
- Tom Hulce – actor, Amadeus, National Lampoon's Animal House, Tony Award winning producer "Spring Awakening"
- Will Janowitz – actor, writer, director
- Jake Lacy - actor, The Office
- Matt Lauria – actor, Friday Night Lights, The Chicago Code
- Natalia Livingston – Emmy Award winning actress, General Hospital
- Kelly-Anne Lyons – actress
- Anthony Mackie – actor, Half Nelson and The Hurt Locker
- 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 – Saturday Night Live 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
- 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.
- Wesley Taylor – actor
- Celia Weston – actress
- Ira David Wood III – actor
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Famous quotes containing the word drama:
“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
—Eleonora Duse (1858–1924)