Theatre Alumns – BFA Performance

Bryce Russell Alexander
Graduated in 2011
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Assistant Director for The Three Musketeers at the Denver Center Theatre Company (2012). Production Manager and Associate Artistic Director of the PHAMALY Theatre Company.

Zachary Andrews
Graduated in 2006
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Graduate of the  University of Missouri, Kansas City’s MFA program in Acting.  A Christmas Carol (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet (Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival), Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Germinal Stage Theatre, The Three Musketeers (Denver Center Theatre).

Aba Arthur
Graduated in 2005
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Actor in Los Angeles. Appeared in TV series Southland, 8, and Sideliners. Worked as a Casting Assistant on the films For Colored Girls, My Name is Khan and My Black Is Beautiful.

Jenn Zuko Boughn
Graduated in 1995

A stage combat instructor and fight director living in Boulder,  she teaches Stage Combat at Metro State College, among other places. Jenn wrote the textbook for the stage combat courses she (and others) teach at Metro and elsewhere and is quite proud of it. Click here to see the book.

Nathan Cooper
Graduated in 2006
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A founding member and Artistic Director of Baltimore’s Single Carrot Theatre. In addition to his work at Single Carrot Theatre, he is a residency coordinator with Young Audiences of Maryland, where he schedules artist in residence programs across the state of Maryland.  He will make any excuse to enjoy the beauty of nature.

Lydia Cornell
Graduated in 1976
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Trent Dawson
Graduated in 1994
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Broadway: The Herbal Bed. Played Henry Coleman in the soap opera As the World Turns from 1998 to 2010. Recently appeared on the television series Homeland and The Good Wife.

Brian Dietzen
Graduated in 2000

Brian has played the supporting role of Jimmy Palmer on NCIS since 2004. In 2012, he was promoted to season regular at the beginning of the show’s tenth season: Click here for more info

Patricia Elliott
Graduated in 1960

Patricia won a Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Theatre World Award for her performance in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, and was nominated for a Tony for A Shadow Box. Other Broadway credits include The Elephant Man, A Doll’s House, King Lear and Tartuffe. From 1990 to 2011 she starred at Renee Divine Buchanan on the long-running daytime drama, One Life to Live. Other film and television credits include Kojak, Hill Street Blues, Spenser: For Hire, Tartuffe, and Somebody Killed Her Husband.

Kelly Gibson
Graduated in 2009
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Kelly Graduated in May 2012 from the University of Missouri, Kansas City’s MFA program in Acting. In summer 2012, she appeared at the Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival. Based in New York, Kelly is now playing Gloria in the London production of ShootHorses at the Arcola Theatre.

Gene Gillette
Graduated in 2003
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Gene recently played Thurio in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C). Film and television work includes Person of Interest, Ringer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and The Vessel.

Joshua Greenwood
Graduated in 2010
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In February 2012, Joshua worked as Madonna’s slacklining coach for her “MDNA Tour”: Click here for more info

Chelsea Hackett
Graduated in 2010

Chelsea is in the MA in Applied Theatre program at City University of New York.
She is also an actress, teacher, and producer at Story Pirates, and actress/educator at Making Books Sing and a Social Justice educator in the Bronx.

Ashley Hamilton
Graduated in 2010
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Ashley is receiving her Master’s degree in Theatre in Communities at New York University, and is a teaching artist with Global Empowerment Theatre, Story Pirates and Voices UnBroken in the NYC prison system, foster care system and NYC Public School system. In Summer 2013 she will be traveling to Zanzibar, Africa with Global Empowerment Theatre to devise theatre in an underprivileged community. Ashley recently joined Tectonic Theatre (creators of The Laramie Project) as their research and education intern.

Barrett Harper
Graduated in 2011

Barrett is represented by Maximum Talent Agency and has appeared in Big River as Tom Sawyer (Candlelight Dinner Theatre), Altar Boyz (Littleton Town Hall), and with the Colorado Light Opera and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

Erinn Hayes
Graduated in 2000
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Known for her role as Melanie Clayton on the CBS comedy series Worst Week, Erinn has also played the roles of Alison McKellar in the 2007 Fox sitcom The Winner and Lola Spratt on the comedy series Childrens Hospital.

Misha Johnson
Graduated in 2003
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Misha is an actress, singer and songwriter performing regularly throughout Denver. Theatre credits include acting with Curious Theatre, the Arvada Center, the Aurora Fox Theatre, Miners Alley Playhouse, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the LIDA Project, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and the Colorado Symphonic Orchestra.

Chaney Kley
Graduated in 1998
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Appeared on the television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, NCIS, Cold Case, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, as well as Las Vegas. Chaney made his film debut portraying Brandon in Legally Blonde and portrayed Kyle Walsh in the horror-thriller movie Darkness Falls.

Laura Kruegel
Graduated in 2009

In July 2012 Laura began the MFA in Acting program at Harvard University/The American Repertory Theatre. Beginning in March 2013, Laura will study at the Moscow Art Theater School in Russia.

Jen Nails
Graduated in 1996
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Actor, Improv Artist, Children’s Book Author (Next to Mexico), Jen has been featured in commercials for MTV, Snickers Crunch and Maybelline. She also created a one-woman show called Lylice, about an irrepressible 12-year old, which she has toured extensively. Jen has taught acting and writing at New York Film Academy and the Peoples Improv Theatre, and is now on the faculty at Eastern International College in Jersey City, NJ.

Maya Osterman
Graduated in 2009

Maya Osterman, was accepted to the Conference on Religion, Human Trafficking, and Modern Slavery at the University of Denver. Using theatre as a powerful tool, Maya is striving to bring attention to the perils of the modern day sex-trade industry as ACTivism Coordinator at the SAVA Center in Fort Collins.

Aldo Pantoja
Graduated in 2006
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As Audience Development Director at Single Carrot Theatre, he has enjoyed bringing lovers and supporters of theatre to their productions.

Brendan Ragan
Graduated in 2006

MFA Acting student at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory in Sarasota, FL.   Understudy for 12 Angry Men (Asolo Repertory), directed by Tony Award-Winner Frank Galati; world premiere of Mat Smart’s The Steadfast (Asolo Unplugged); Sir Walter Raleigh in the The Lost Colony (Waterside Theater) –directed by Robert Richmond.

Elliot Rauh
Graduated in 2005
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Elliott is a founding member and Managing Producer of Single Carrot Theatre, and graduated with a BFA in Theater and a BA in English. Elliott won an Edinburgh Fringe First Award and performed in the London Premiere of Kaufman’s The Laramie Project. Elliott is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Law School.

Angela Reed
Graduated in 1991
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Recently, Reed’s work in the production of the comedy Alphabetical Order was reviewed in The New York Times.  Reed, fresh from her national tour in Spring Awakening continues to succeed as a professional actor. Angela returned to Denver for the Denver Center Theatre Company’s The Whale.

Philip C. Sneed
Graduated in 1980

Currently the Producing Artistic Director of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF), Philip served for 12 years as Artistic Director of the Foothills Theatre Company/Sierra Shakespeare Festival in Nevada City, CA. Directing credits include work with CSF, the Arvada Center, and the Sacramento Theatre Company. Acting credits include San Diego’a Old Globe Theatre, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre Company, the Indiana Repertory Theatre, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Matt Zambrano
Graduated in 2004

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