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In 35+ years, many Atlantic students have gone on to establish robust and prolific careers in theater, TV, and film. Below are some alums with particularly familiar faces.

Gina Rodriguez

Credits Include: "Jane the Virgin", "Carmen Sandiego", Someone Great, "Big Mouth"

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Jason Ritter

Credits Include: "Drunk History", "Another Period" & "Quest"

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John Early

Credits Include: "Search Party" & "An Emmy for Megan"

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Anna Chlumsky

Credits Include: "Veep", "Hala" & My Girl

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Clark Gregg

Credits Include: "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", Captain Marvel & "SMILF"

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Dewanda Wise

Credits Include: "She's Gotta Have It" & Someone Great

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Zach Woods

Credits Include: The Angry Birds Movie 2, "Silicon Valley" & "The Office"

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Vishaal Reddy

Credits Include: “Insomnia” & “The Punisher”

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Zoe Lister-Jones

Credits Include: "New Girl", "Life in Pieces", "Confirmation", "Band Aid"

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Simon Helberg

Credits Include: "The Big Bang Theory" & End of the Line

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Rose Byrne

Credits Include: "Mrs. America", "I Am Mother" & Bridesmaids

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Jarrod Spector

Credits Include: "The Cher Show", "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" & "Jersey Boys"

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Jessica Alba

Credits Include: Sin City & Fantasic Four

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Emory Cohen

Credits Include: "The Loudest Voice", Brooklyn & The Dougherty Gang

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Elizabeth Olsen

Credits Include: Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War &"Sorry for Your Loss"

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William H. Macy

Credits Include: "Shameless"

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Juan Gabriel Pareja

Credits Include: "The Walking Dead" & "Proven Innocent", "Goliath", "Machete"

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Peter Facinelli

Credits Include: "S.W.A.T" & The Twilight Saga

Jack Haven

Credits Include: Bill & Ted Face the Music & "Atypical"

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Skeet Ulrich

Credits Include: "Riverdale" & "Stay"

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Marianna Palka

Credits Include: "Glow" & A Rose for Emily

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Christopher Nicholas Smith

Credits Include: "Young & Hungry", "Friends From College" & Paranormal 3

Rebecca Rittenhouse

Credits Include: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Mindy Project, Maggie

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Brian Sacca

Credits Include: "Wrecked"

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Tessa Albertson

Credits Include: "Younger"

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Philip Martin

Credits Include: Phil Spector

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Cloie Wyatt Taylor

Credits Include: Michael and Michael are Gay

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Nick Stevenson

Credits Include: "Orange is the New Black"

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Kristen Johnston

Credits Include: "Mom" & "3rd Rock from the Sun"

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Jordan Lage

Credits Inlcude: The Sound of Music Live!

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Rebecca Delgado Smith

Credits Include: "The Good Place"

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Brian Greenberg

Credits Include: "The Mindy Project"

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Isabel Durant

Credits Include: Swiperight, Life Itself & “This is Us”

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Cynthia Silver

Credits Include: Adult, Sibs, & Sleep Training

Cynthia Silver has been on faculty at Atlantic since 1998, teaching Performance Technique, Moment Lab, and the Business of Acting. Her directing credits include The Rules, by Dipika Guha, with Joust Theatre Company; Cookie, by Chad Beckim at FringeNYC; Uncommon Women and Others, and Melancholy Play with Atlantic’s NYU 3rd year on Atlantic Stage 2; Shel Shocked: An Evening of Grown-Up One-Acts by Shel Silverstein, and Almost, Maine w/ Atlantic’s NYU 2nd year. Cynthia also directed the short film, Sleep Training, which screened at New Filmmakers NY, and was named a finalist for the 2015 National Directors Fellowship by the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the National New Play Network, The Kennedy Center, and the SDC. Cynthia’s solo show, BRIDEZILLA STRIKES BACK!, co-written with Kenny Finkle, garnered her much critical acclaim and the Outstanding Solo Show award at the NY International Fringe Festival. She is an ensemble member of Partial Comfort Productions and has appeared in their productions of Ten, KIDSTUFF and Open House (Outstanding Ensemble, FringeNYC). She is also a founding member of the NYC theater company, Mobius Group. Cynthia earned a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is an alumna of Atlantic. Full credits, press & reviews may be found at www.cynsilver.com. has been on faculty at Atlantic since 1998, teaching Performance Technique, Moment Lab, and the Business of Acting. Her directing credits include The Rules, by Dipika Guha, with Joust Theatre Company; Cookie, by Chad Beckim at FringeNYC; Uncommon Women and Others, and Melancholy Play with Atlantic’s NYU 3rd year on Atlantic Stage 2; Shel Shocked: An Evening of Grown-Up One-Acts by Shel Silverstein, and Almost, Maine w/ Atlantic’s NYU 2nd year. Cynthia also directed the short film, Sleep Training, which screened at New Filmmakers NY, and was named a finalist for the 2015 National Directors Fellowship by the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the National New Play Network, The Kennedy Center, and the SDC. Cynthia’s solo show, BRIDEZILLA STRIKES BACK!, co-written with Kenny Finkle, garnered her much critical acclaim and the Outstanding Solo Show award at the NY International Fringe Festival. She is an ensemble member of Partial Comfort Productions and has appeared in their productions of Ten, KIDSTUFF and Open House (Outstanding Ensemble, FringeNYC). She is also a founding member of the NYC theater company, Mobius Group. Cynthia earned a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is an alumna of Atlantic. Full credits, press & reviews may be found at www.cynsilver.com.

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David Valcin

Credits Include: Person of Interest

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Heather Burns

Credits Include: "Sneaky Pete" & Miss Congeniality

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David Pittu

Credits Include: Men in Black 3

Ella Rae Peck

Credits Include: Gossip Girl, Deception, The Looming Tower

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Joey Kern

Credits Include: "Good Behavior", Big Bear

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Winter Ave Zoli

Credits Include: "Bosch"

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Brian Charles Johnson

Credits Include: Spring Awakening & American Idiot

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Eric Lockley

Credits include: “The Jump,” "Luke Cage," & Choir Boy

Cameron Gellman

Credits include: "Stargirl" & "The Good Doctor"

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Edwina Findley

Credits Include: "The Wire," Freegard, and "The Power"

Reggie D. White

Associate Artistic Director at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis / Credits Include: The Williams Project, The Inheritance, Goddess

Mahima Saigal

Credits Include: As You Are, Evening Commute, She, Elyria

Sinclair Daniel

Credits Include: "The Other Black Girl", "Insidious: Fear the Dark"

Josh Stamberg

Credits Include: "Wandavision", "The Affair"

Titus Welliver

Credits Include: "Bosch", "Transformers: Age of Extinction"

Brandon Kyle Goodman

Credits Include: "Big Mouth", "Feel the Beat"

Fernando Contreras

Credits Include: Ghost: The Musical, Pipeline Theatre Company

Starnubia

Credits Include: "Salima", "The Cook", School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play

Ura Yoana Sánchez

Credits Include: "Smile", "Human Resources", "New Amsterdam", "Ramy", "Billions"

Michaela Conlin

Credits Include: "Bones", "Yellowstone"

Stephanie Hsu

Credits Include: "Everything Everywhere All at Once", Be More Chill, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

Ronald Peet

Credits Include: "The I-Land", "The Land of Owls"

Naomi Livingstone

Credits Include: Tales from the Rabbit Hole, Watch With Mother

Lauren Hines

Credits Include: "Ash", "A Dolphin Up a Tree"

Anya Saffir

Credits Include: Much Ado About Nothing, The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Tom Costello

Credits Include: Director - Smoke, The Wundelsteipen, Sleepless City

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Anthony Holiday

Credits Include: Ain’t No Dead Thing, Mr. Burns, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Alana Barrett-Adkins

Credits Include: "Asunder", "One Flesh Divided"

Meaghan Oppenheimer

Credits Include: "Tell Me Lies", "Queen America"

Sky Smith

Credits Include: The Chinese Lady, The Lucky Star

Carl Howell

Credits Include: Peter and the Starcatcher, Twelfth Night

Jessica Frey

Credits Include: "The Characters", "New Timers", "Sense & Sensibility, Bedlam"

Andy Schneeflock

Credits Include: "Bridge of Spies", "Orange is the New Black", "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

Suzen Baraka

Credits Include: "Vote", "Blue Bloods", "12 Ophelias"

George Bennett Watson

Credits Include: "Luke Cage", "The Wire"

Kelley Nicole Dugan

Credits Include: Dear Evan Hansen (Pre-pro workshop), "Dick Clark’s New Year's Rockin’ Eve"

Mina Walker

Credits Include: "Silence & Darkness", "The Velveteen Rabbit"

Madeline Sayet

Credits Include: "Where We Belong", White House Champion of Change Award Recipient

Marcus Ho

Credits Include: "Two Days in New York", "BrainDead", "Iron Fist", "Bull"

Daryl Wein

Credits Include: "Something from Tiffany’s", "How It Ends"

Todd Weeks

Credits Include: The Full Monty (Broadway), All the Way, When We Rise

Eloise Mumford

Credits Include: "Fifty Shades" Trilogy, "The Right Stuff", "Chicago Fire"

Amelia Rose

Credits Include: "True Blood", "Scream: The TV Series"

Marja Lewis-Ryan

Credits Include: "The L Word: Generation Q", "6 Balloons", "College"

Nicole Spiezio

Credits Include: "Ray Donovan", "Friends from College", "The Characters"

Déa Julien

Credits Include: The Kite Runner (Broadway), West Side Story

Adalgiza Chemount

Credits Include: "Criminal Minds", "House of Lies", "I Love That For You"

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Chivonne Michelle

Credits Include: "Shaft", "Downtown Girls", "Jett"

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Alice Kremelberg

Credits Include: "Orange is the New Black", "The Trial of Chicago 7", "The Sinner"

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Xavier Galva

Credits Include: Founding Member of The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater: The Middle Voice

Ren Dara Santiago

Playwright Credits Include: Ain’t It Though, See You in Your Nightmares, The Siblings Play

Charmaine Bingwa

Credits Include: "Emancipation", "The Good Fight", "Trees of Peace"

Chloe Wepper

Credits Include: "Office Christmas Party", "Manhattan Love Story", "Star Trek: Picard"

Emory Cohen

Credits Include: "The O.A.", "Lords of Chaos", "Smash"

A. Rey Pamatmat

Playwright Credits Include: after all the terrible things I do, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, House Rules

Kimberly Huie

Credits Include: "Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker", "The Blacklist", "The Kings of Napa"

Adam Lustick

Credits Include: "Battle of the Sexes", "Corporate", "Adam Ruins Everything"

Kieron Anthony

Credits Include: One Night in Miami…, Field, Awakening, "Inventing Anna"

Shabana Azeez

Credits Include: "Metro-Sexual", "The Hunting", "Limbo"

Julia Schlaepfer

Credits Include: "Madame Secretary", "American Horror Stories", "1923"

Ximena Lamadrid

"Who Killed Sara?", "On the Rocks", "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths"

Aamer Husain

Credits Include: "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes", "Hudson & Rex"

Alumni Formed Theater Companies

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Pipeline Theatre Company

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The Joust Theatre Company

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Harvard Sailing Team

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Crashbox Theater Company

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3rd Kulture Kids

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Lesser America

LESSER AMERICA IS POP THEATER. An ensemble of renegade artists dedicated to smart, quality entertainment that puts the audience first, fulfilling the promise of affordable, accessible theater for the 21st century.

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Foolish Gentlemn Films

From three corners of America three gentlemen came to gather under the house of Atlantic and shipped off on a boat of bad metaphors and film making. We shot our debut series and its named the same thing as the company. How confusing, right?

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The Plinth

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Acorn Pictures

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Cake Productions

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Aggrocrag

Aggrocrag makes original theater that is forged collaboratively in the rehearsal room by merging written material with improvisation. Working from an ever-expanding array of entry points – from our collaborators to the playing space to our relationship to the audience – we make work that is at once surprising and familiar. Oh, and good. It’s also real good. AGGROCRAG makes work that brings collaborators (performers, designers, producers, writers, dramaturgs) into the creation process from the outset. These collaborators, along with company members, take full ownership over the creation of new works that start in a fluid and exploratory workshop setting and eventually settle into a traditional rehearsal process.