We are proud of 精东影业's Sargent Conservatory alums who have forged exciting careers, built strong networks of friends and families, and pursued their passions with determination. No list can capture all of their successes. From Broadway stages to government offices, from television studios to university classrooms, Conservatory alums prove time and time again that creativity, ensemble and resilience are embedded in our department鈥檚 ethos. We celebrate here some of the excellent work our alums have been doing recently.

Webster Alumni - Actors and married couple Kevin Earley and Julie Ann Emery, who met while both attending Webster, were among the guests at the Conservatory's 50th Anniversary Alumni Barbeque.

Notable Alumni - International television star Jenifer Lewis stays engaged with our Webster community, appearing at various events at her hometown campus in St. Louis.

Notable Alumni - Golden Globe Award winner and four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason stays connected to Webster through the arts.

Notable Alumni - Actor and singer Nathan Lee Graham was also among the notable guests at the Conservatory's 50th Anniversary Alumni Barbeque.

Cher 脕lvarez (BFA 鈥16)

The Winter鈥檚 Tale (Goodman Theatre), La Ruta (Steppenwolf Theatre), NCIS: Hawai鈥檌, Chicago Med, Station 19, 鈥淎ctors You Should Know鈥 by the Chicago Tribune

Caroline Amos (BFA 鈥15)

Midsummer: A Banquet (Off-Broadway, Drama Desk nominee), Great River Shakespeare Festival company member, 鈥淔atigued鈥 podcast

Yvonne Anguiano (BFA 鈥14)

Resident Teaching Artist for Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, board member and Executive Creative Council with Solid Lines Productions

Annie Noel Applegarth (BFA)

Production Manager for Live Music, Director for Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, locations manager for Runaway Bride, Tuck Everlasting, Head of State, Replacements

Natali Arco (BFA 鈥17)

Lighting Designer for Big St. Germaine (Signature Theatre), Winter Opera St. Louis, St. Louis HS Musical Theatre Awards (Fabulous Fox); ALD for Sweeney Todd and Associate Designer for The Piano Lesson (Broadway); Lighting Director for Samsung 837

Tyler Arnold (BFA 鈥17)

Wardrobe assistant for A Strange Loop (Broadway and Playwrights Horizon); costume production assistant for Slave Play (Broadway); assistant costume designer for Shadow/Land (Public Theater) and The Last of the Love Letters (Atlantic Theater); costume production assistant for Law & Order SVU

Ari Axelrod (BFA 鈥16)

A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway (BroadwayWorld Award, Best Zoom Show Performed in Real-Time; MAC Award nomination for Best Male Vocalist), Ari鈥檚 Arias cabaret (2022 Bistro Award for Theatrical Artistry in Song)

Krystal Balleza (BFA 鈥19)

Hair and Makeup Designer for The Tempest (Public Theater), Assistant Hair Supervisor for Phantom of the Opera, Hair Supervisor for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Hair/Makeup Supervisor for Slave Play (Broadway), co-founder, The Wig Associates

Tim Barker (BFA 鈥90)

Television: Master, RISE, Blue Bloods, Quantico, The Blacklist, Royal Pains; I鈥檓 Sorry/Series A (Off-Broadway)

Alegra Batara (BFA 鈥21)

Great River Shakespeare Festival company member, Sense and Sensibility (Village Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Pete the Cat (TheaterWorks)

Michael Baxter (BFA 鈥09)

Associate Artistic Director of The Muny

Jeff Behm (BFA 鈥16)

Lighting Director for the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes Awards, and the Academy of Country Music Awards; Lighting Director for Cabaret and The Tempest (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); 3D Render Artist for the Grammy Awards

Hunter Bell (BFA 鈥93)

Book writer for [title of show] (Broadway, Playwright, Tony Nomination), Now. Here. This. (Off-Broadway), and Other World

Larry Bennett (BFA 鈥07)

Director of Production, Alliance Theatre

Noah Benjamin (BFA 鈥20)

Voice artist, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

London Bicknell (BFA 鈥22)

Stitcher for Jeff Wunrow Designs, Assistant Costume Shop Manager for Stages St. Louis

Kate Blauvelt (BA 鈥18)

Programming Coordinator at the Kennedy Center

Patrick Blindauer (BFA 鈥98)

Pete the Cat (TheaterWorks), various roles at The Muny, professional crossword puzzle maker for The New York Times

Jennifer Boehm (BFA 鈥12)

Costume Department, Saturday Night Live

Austen Danielle Bohmer (BFA 鈥17)

Diana (Broadway), Fiddler on the Roof (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Gypsy (Sacramento Music Circus); television: FBI: Most Wanted

Ron Bohmer (BFA 鈥83)

Les Mis猫rables, Fiddler on the Roof, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ragtime, A Little Night Music (Broadway); Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Book of Mormon (national tour)

 

1993 Alumnus Hunter Bell on 精东影业's Conservatory

Michelle Bossy (BA 鈥02)

Associate artistic director of Primary Stages (Off-Broadway), Santa Fe Film Festival, Burbank Int'l Film Festival, Golden State Film Festival, LA Cinefest, Austin Film Festival, St. Louis Film Festival, NY Short Film Festival

Landon Tate Boyle (BFA 鈥17)

Utah Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Redhouse Arts Center

Steve H. Broadnax III (BFA 鈥97)

Director, Thoughts of a Colored Man (Broadway)

Nikolas George Brown (BFA 鈥18)

Stage manager of Once Upon a One More Time and MJ (Broadway); Bring it On (National Tour); production coordinator for Manifest (NBC), New Amsterdam (NBC), The Other Two (Comedy Central)

Courtney Burkett (BFA 鈥98)

Founder and producing artistic director, Detroit Public Theatre

Molly Burris (BFA 鈥20)

Dear Jack, Dear Louise (New Jewish), Resident Acting Company, Charleston Stage Company

Norbert Leo Butz (BFA 鈥90)

Wicked, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me if You Can, Big Fish, My Fair Lady (Broadway, Tony Award Winner); Last Five Years (Off-Broadway); Fosse/Verdon (FX); Debris; Debris (NBC); The Girl from Plainville (Hulu)

Chontol Calvin (BFA 鈥19)

Sound engineer for Manhattan Theatre Club, crew member for the Public Theater

Rocky Carroll (BFA 鈥85)

The Piano Lesson (Broadway, Tony Award Nominee), NCIS (CBS)

Arrianna Chai (BFA 鈥20)

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company

Roger Chapman (BFA 鈥15)

Consultant for the Shalleck Collaborative, technical director for West Edge Opera, assistant technical director for the Houston Grand Opera

Maya Christian (BFA 鈥20)

Six the Musical (Norwegian Cruise Line)

Maggie Jean Clark (BFA 鈥21)

Wig and makeup supervisor for Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Arizona Theatre Company)

Sarah Cline (BFA 鈥17)

Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Legally Blonde (Norwegian Cruise Line)

Brian Coats (BA 鈥16)

Learning programs associate, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis

Greg Combs (BFA 鈥90)

Executive creative producer, Tokyo Portfolio at Walt Disney Imagineering

Mason Conrad (BFA 鈥15)

Old Globe, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Shakespeare Festival

Sarah Thea Craig (BFA 鈥11)

Costume coordinator for Law & Order SVU (NBC)

Galen Crawley (BFA 鈥10)

Encore (Disney+)

 

1985 Alumnus Rocky Carroll at the Conservatory's 50th Celebration

W. Tre Davis (BFA 鈥07)

Seared and Tambo & Bones (Off-Broadway), Sweet (National Black Theatre); Valor (CW), Shades of Blue (NBC), With Love (Amazon)

Rob Denton (BFA 鈥06)

Lighting design for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre St. Louis, The Muny, Goodspeed Musicals, TheaterWorks, Opera San Antonio; associate lighting design for Blackbird, Irving Berlin鈥檚 Holiday Inn, and A Delicate Balance (Broadway)

Michael Dewar (BFA 鈥15)

Elf The Musical (National Tour)

Molly Dill (BFA 鈥89)

Producing director at The Houston Grand Opera

Colleen Dougherty (BFA 鈥20)

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company

Jameson Eaton (BFA 鈥06)

Hair stylist for Saturday Night Live, Spielberg鈥檚 West Side Story, Pose (Emmy Award Nominee)

Julie Ann Emery (BFA 鈥94)

Preacher (AMC), Better Call Saul (AMC), Fargo (FX), Catch 22 (Hulu), Bosch (Amazon)

Michael Ferguson (BFA 鈥94)

Co-founder and founding principal, TheatreDNA

Rebecca Flinn-White (BFA 鈥06)

Writer/director of Hutterite

Josh Franklin (BFA 鈥03)

Legally Blonde, Grease, Anything Goes, Ghost, The Prom (Broadway); All Shook Up, Jersey Boys, Anything Goes (National Tour)

Maxwell Friedman (BA 鈥17)

Associate to the Production Executive, Public Theater

Nathan Fryer (BFA 鈥21)

Pete the Cat (TheaterWorks)

Lucy Garlich (BFA 鈥22)

Wig technician/dresser for The Karate Kid: The Musical (Stages)

Nate Garner (BFA 鈥21)

Top 5, Broadway鈥檚 Next On Stage 2021; Sound of Music (The Muny)

Nick Ginsberg (BA 鈥07)

Associate general manager at Foresight Theatrical and Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Nathan Lee Graham (BFA 鈥91)

Wild Party, Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Broadway); Zoolander, Zoolander 2; LA to Vegas (FOX), Katy Keene (CW)

Nathan Lee Graham on how the Conservatory prepares working actors

Bonny Green (BFA 鈥18)

Costume construction for Prodigal Son (FOX)

Quin Gresham (BFA 鈥99)

Producing artistic director at Arrow Rock

Sarah Gonzales-Thomas (BFA 鈥13)

Wicked (National Tour)

Christopher Gurr (BFA 鈥89) 

Kinky Boots, Amazing Grace, Tuck Everlasting, Cats (Broadway); Monty Python鈥檚 Spamalot, Memphis (National Tour); The Good Fight (Paramount)

Rob Hahn (BFA 鈥00)

Founder, Hollywood Dialect Coach; teacher at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood

Elizabeth Harper (BFA)

Lighting designer for Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Arizona Theatre Company); assistant professor of lighting design at University of Southern California

Adam J. Hart (BFA 鈥00)

SAG Award鈥搘inning stunt man who has doubled for Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Jim Carrey

Mollie Heil (BFA 鈥20)

Assistant stage manager for Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Arizona Theatre Company)

Jay Heiserman (BFA 鈥01)

Emmy Award鈥搘inning production designer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show, brand integration for the NFL, American Ninja Warrior, Extra, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Kurt Hellerich (BFA 鈥13)

Theory of Relativity (Goodspeed Musicals)

Brooke Henderson (BFA 鈥16)

Assistant costume designer for Hadestown and The Prom (Broadway)

Chad Hershey (BFA 鈥02)

Head carpenter on Hamilton (Puerto Rico)

Maddy Herwig (BFA 鈥21)

A2 for Pretty Woman: The Musical (North American Tour)

Carrie Houk (BFA)

Founder and artistic director of Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis

Raina Houston (BFA 鈥16)

Women of the Movement (ABC)

Liam Johnson (BFA 鈥17)

Memphis (Theatre Under the Stars), The Music Man (Asolo Rep), La Cage Aux Folles (Riverside Theatre)

Julia P. Jones (BFA 鈥89)

Production stage manager for MJ, Spongebob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical, The Illusionists 鈥 Magic of the Holidays, Morrissey, Pure Yanni, Mel Brooks on Broadway, Regina Spektor: Live on Broadway, Dave Chappelle Live on Broadway

John Katz (BFA 鈥21)

An American in Paris and South Pacific (national tours)

Jacob Lacopo (BFA 鈥13)

Kinky Boots (The Muny); Jesus Christ Superstar (50th Anniversary National Tour)

Jesse Lawder (BFA)

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Public Affairs, Biden Administration

Kendrick Lawson-Knight (BFA 鈥20)

Assistant scenic designer for The Muny; Visual Designer for events including Brittney Spears鈥檚 wedding, Neon Carnival at Coachella, and Madonna鈥檚 Oscars after-party

Jenifer Lewis (BFA 鈥79)

鈥淢other of Black Hollywood鈥; Cars, Princess and the Frog (Disney); Black-ish (ABC); I Love That for You (Showtime)

Benjamin Love (BFA 鈥19)

1776 (The Muny), Paw Patrol Live (Beijing)

Alumnus Jerry Mitchell on meeting fellow Gorlok Jenifer Lewis at 精东影业

Awele Makeba (BFA 鈥82)

Producer, The MLK, Jr. Oratorical Fest

Blake Manns (BFA 鈥16)

Assistant projection designer for 2016 Cats Revival, See Wall/A Life (Broadway); 70th Tony Awards assistant video content creator, video designer for Broadway Bares

Marsha Mason (BFA 鈥64)

Fraiser (NBC); Goodbye Girl, Cinderella Liberty, Promises in the Dark (Academy Award Nominee, Golden Globe Winner)

Danny McCarthy (BFA 鈥92)

The Iceman Cometh, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Minutes (Broadway); Prison Break (FOX)

Tina McCartney (BFA 鈥10)

Associate costume designer for Bandstand, Lobby Hero, The Inheritance; Assistant Costume Designer for Cabaret, On Your Feet, A Bronx Tale, Beetlejuice (Broadway)

Kiah McKirnan (BFA 鈥19)

Mare of Easttown (HBO), Lightyears (Amazon)

Nina Mead (BFA 鈥21)

Event manager, SLAY Events

Becky Merold (BFA 鈥03)

Production manager for Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Arizona Theatre Company), production manager for Utah Shakespeare Festival

Kevin Miles (BFA 鈥11)

S.W.A.T, Criminal Minds, Innocent, State Farm commercials.

Jerry Mitchell (BFA 鈥77)

Director and choreographer of Legally Blonde, Kinky Boots, On Your Feet!, Pretty Woman: The Musical; choreographer of La Cage aux Folles, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me if You Can (Broadway, Tony Award winner)

Ryan Moore (BFA 鈥14)

Costume design/construction for Andr茅 De Shields (Draw Down the Moon music video) and for Pandora Boxx (RuPaul鈥檚 All Stars 6)

Paula Newsome (BFA 鈥83)

Barry (HBO), Chicago Med (NBC), Transparent (Amazon)

Andie Murphy (BA 鈥17)

Marketing manager, Arts and Education Council 鈥 St. Louis

Paula Newsome (BFA 鈥83)

Barry (HBO), Chicago Med (NBC), Transparent (Amazon), CSI: Vegas (CBS), Spider-Man: No Way Home (Marvel)

Jordan Parente (BFA 鈥13)

Agent at Stewart Talent

Jose Joaquin Perez (BFA 鈥07)

Perfect Teeth (Theaterlab), My Ma帽ana Comes (Playwrights Realm, 2015 Drama Desk Nomination), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), We Need to Talk About Kevin, Person of Interest

Delaney Piggins (BFA 鈥18)

Confluence Writers Project, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival

Hillary Pfeffer (BFA 鈥16)

The Black List (NBC), Dead of Winter, Evil Lives Here, Shattered (Discovery ID)

Emma Prange (BFA 鈥21)

Stage manager for Pete the Cat (TheaterWorks)

JR Pruski (BFA 鈥21)

Choreographer for Pete the Cat (TheaterWorks)

Emielia Put (BFA 鈥15)

Becoming (Netflix); production assistant for The Originals (CW), The Gifted (FOX), Haunting of Hill House (Netflix)

Christina Ramirez (BFA 鈥13)

Managing director/lead teaching artist at Actors Training Center

Gail Rastorfer (BFA)

American Horror Stories (FX), Chicago Fire (NBC), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Drury Lane Theatre), Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Indiana Rep), Romeo & Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre)

Cody Renard Richard (BFA 鈥10)

Co-producer for Thoughts of a Colored Man and A Strange Loop (Broadway); Stage Manager for Pass Over and Freestyle Love Supreme (Broadway); assistant stage manager for Motown, Kinky Boots, Cirque du Soleil: Paramore, and Hamilton (Broadway); stage manager, 2020 Video Music Awards; Stage Manager for Ratatouille: The Tik Tok Musical

Catherine Riley (BFA 鈥01)

Costume designer for Prodigal Son (FOX)

David J. Roberts (BFA 鈥97)

Executive director of 651 Arts in Brooklyn

Ben Roseberry (BFA 鈥03)

The Lion King (Broadway); A Gentleman鈥檚 Guide to Love & Murder (National Tour)

Maram Samaha (BFA 鈥19)

Production manager for Florentine Opera Company, assistant production manager for Milwaukee Repertory Theater

Alumna Cassia Thompson on the Conservatory faculty's investment and engagement in students

Michael James Scott (BFA 鈥03)

Mamma Mia!, All Shook Up, Tarzan, The Pirate Queen, Hair, Elf the Musical, Book of Mormon, Something Rotten!, Aladdin (Broadway)

Paige Seber (BFA 鈥15)

Assistant lighting designer for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Chita Rivera Awards (Skirball Center), American Buffalo (Broadway), My Fair Lady (First National Tour), Chasing Rainbows (Paper Mill Playhouse)

Tim Seib (BFA 鈥05)

Director of Million Dollar Quartet (National Tour)

Valentina Silva (BFA 鈥21)

Rose Tattoo (Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis), Last Stop on Market Street (Metro Theatre Company), Bigfork Summer Playhouse

Dana Snyder (BFA 鈥96)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies, Ballmastrz: 9009 (Adult Swim)

Alisha Soper (BFA 鈥06)

American Horror Story: Double Feature (FX)

Amera Spagnoli (BFA 鈥19)

Wardrobe assistant for The Tragedy of Macbeth (Almeida Theatre, London)

Jason Spelbring (BFA 鈥97)

Associate artistic director of Lyric Repertory Company

Jacob Stahl (BFA 鈥19)

Associate producer, TheaterWorksUSA

Erica Stephan (BFA 鈥14)

Holiday Inn and Beauty and the Beast (Drury Lane Theatre), Emma (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Mary Poppins (Variety Children鈥檚 Theatre), Nice Work if You Can Get It (Theatre at the Center)

Katherine Stepanek (BFA 鈥12)

Arts Department for Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame

David Stewart (BFA 鈥90)

Producer, creative development, content, and inclusive strategy at Walt Disney World; USITT Fellow; Chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee at USITT

Vanessa Claire Stewart (BFA 鈥98)

An Octoroon (Fountain Theatre), A Clockwork Orange (ARK Theatre Company), Louis and Keely: Live at the Sahara (Sacred Fools, co-writer), writer of Stoneface and Deadly

Stephan Stubbins (BFA 鈥00)

Mary Poppins (Broadway); Memphis (Pre-Broadway World Premiere); Co-Executive Director, CMO, Co-Founder of Transcendence Theatre Company's Broadway Under the Stars in Jack London State Park

Katy Sullivan (BFA 鈥02)

The Long Red Road (Goodman Theatre), Cost of Living (Manhattan Theatre Club), Dexter; US Paralympic Team

Ryan Tang (BFA 鈥16)

Show Control and Network Systems Design, Disney Live Entertainment

Chase Thomaston (BFA 鈥17)

Casting for The Bronx Tale (National Tour)

Cassia Thompson (BFA 鈥16)

Our Town (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), The Wolves (Syracuse Stage), Smart People (American Players Theatre)

Michael Thanh Tran (BFA 鈥21)

King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival)

Taylor Tveten (BFA 鈥21)

Sound of Music (The Muny)

Conservatory Alumni talk about their fellow Gorloks

Conner VandeVenter (BFA 鈥16)

Head electrician for Come From Away (National Tour); production electrician for A Night with Janis Joplin (National Tour); assistant master electrician at The Public Theatre

Geordy van Es (BFA 鈥18)

Projections for the Tony Awards, King Kong (Broadway)

Will Vicari (BFA 鈥17)

Phantom of the Opera (Broadway), King Kong (Broadway), Plaza Suite (Boston/Broadway), Soft Power (The Public), studio assistant for Tom Watson

Brooke Viegut (BFA 鈥18)

Casting assistant for Xanadu (National Tour)

Matt Vogel (BFA 鈥93)

Puppeteer for Kermit the Frog

Amara Webb (BFA 鈥22)

Utah Shakespeare Festival

Mel Weyn (BFA 鈥14)

Fiddler on the Roof, Sound of Music (National Tour)

Brandi White (BFA 鈥20)

Star dresser, Ain鈥檛 Too Proud (National Tour)

Michael Williams (BFA 鈥15)

Bullets Over Broadway (National Tour), Cruel Intentions (Off-Broadway)

Christopher Windom (BFA 鈥95)

Choreographer for Respect starring Jennifer Hudson

Natalie Wisdom (BFA 鈥07)

Groundhog Day, Billy Elliot (Broadway); Matilda, Frozen (National Tour)

Kevin Worley (BFA 鈥02)

42nd Street, A Chorus Line, Irving Berlin鈥檚 White Christmas, Cinderella, Bullets Over Broadway, On the Town, Dames at Sea, Something Rotten!, Holiday Inn, Bandstand (Broadway)

Borris York (BFA 鈥11)

Holiday Inn (Broadway); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Love Never Dies, Pippin (National Tour); Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Muny), Dreamgirls (Theatre Under the Stars); The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), SMASH (NBC)

Ally Young-Price (BFA 鈥13)

2019 ABC Discovers LA Talent Showcase

1995 Alumnus Christopher Windom on 精东影业 faculty

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