List of alumni of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts

This list of alumni of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts includes high school, undergraduate, and graduate, former students of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. NCSA offers high school, undergraduate and graduate degrees from 5 arts schools of Dance, Design and Production, Drama, Film, and Music.

Dance

* Gillian Murphy - dancer, American Ballet Theater
* Patrick Bissell - dancer, American Ballet Theater

Drama

* Diedrich Bader - actor, attended but did not graduate
* Gary Beach - Tony Award winning actor "The Producers"
* Jennifer Ehle - Tony Award winning actress
* Trieste Kelly Dunn - actress
* Jennifer Ferrin - actress
* Tim Guinee - actor, "Tai-Pan", stage, film, television
* Gina Hecht - actress
* Peter Hedges - writer and director
* Hilary Howard - actor, screenwriter and journalist
* Tom Hulce - actor, "Amadeus", "National Lampoon's Animal House", Tony Award winning producer "Spring Awakening"
* Rebecca Jones - actress, Passing Strange
* Terrence Mann - actor
* Joe Mantello - Tony Award winning theatre director
* Mary Louise Parker - Tony Award winning actress
* Chris Parnell - 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
* Jacob Brent - actor

Design and Production

* Tony Fanning - Production Designer
* Brian Sidney Bembridge multiple award winning scenic and lighting designer
* Paul Tazwell - Tony Nominated Costume Designer

Film

* Travis Beacham - screenwriter
* Randolph Benson - Student Academy Award winning director, documentary filmmaker
* Ben Best (filmmaker) - screenwriter and actor, "The Foot Fist Way"
* Erin Fisher - screenwriter and actor, "Quiet City (film)"
* Mark Freiburger - writer and director, "Dog Days of Summer"
* David Gordon Green - Screenwriter and director
* Jody Hill - writer and director "The Foot Fist Way" and "Observe & Report"
* Aaron Katz (filmmaker) - director, screenwriter, and editor, "Quiet City (film)" and "Dance Party USA (film)"
* Danny R. McBride - actor and screenwriter
* Jeff Nichols - writer and director "Shotgun Stories"
* Tim Orr - cinematographer
* Paul Schneider - actor and filmmaker
* Christopher J. Waild - screenwriter
* Craig Zobel - writer and director "Great World of Sound"

Music

* Ida Bieler - Founder and Artistic Director of the International String Festival Baden Wuerttemberg
* Gwendolyn Bradley - soprano
* Cameron Carpenter - organist/pianist
* Richard Cray - singer, actor
* Carlo Curley - organist
* Randy Jones - original Village People cowboy
* Lisa Kim - Violin, New York Philharmonic
* Kraft Quartet - Lex Samu, Madison Rast, Wesley Rast, Morgan Kraft
* Derrick Lawrence - Bass-Baritone, National winner, Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions
* Kendra Preston Leonard - musicologist
* Bryan Lipps - trumpet
* Jack Mitchener- organist
* Sharon Robinson - cellist
* Blair Tindall - oboist and author
* Jennifer Welch-Babidge - Soprano, Metropolitan Opera
* Ransom Wilson - Internationally renowned flutist and conductor
* Sandy Yamamoto - Miro String Quartet, University of Texas at Austin
* Sean Yseult - musician

Visual Arts

* David LaChapelle - photographer and music video director
* Louis St.Lewis - visual artist, attended but did not graduate