Drama at Hofstra

Some of our Recent Grads …

Adam Cohen (Class of ’03)
Has appeared with Oracle Theatre Co. and played Bob Dylan in the off-Broadway production of Andy and Edie.

Jim Brigman (Class of ’01)
Has appeared with Access Theatre, Henry Street Settlement, Samuel French Short Play Festival, American Studio Theatre, Arclight Theater, and performed in regional theatre.

Amy Border (Class of ’02)
Has appeared at the Sanford Meisner Theatre, 3 Graces Theatre, White Rabbit Theatre, Chelsea Playhouse, People’s Improv Theatre, in Tony and Tina’s Wedding, on TV and independent films.

Dorian Brown (Class of ’02)
Has been a guest star on Charmed, Burke’s Law, Living with Fran, and One on One.

Deborah Engle (Class of ’01)
Performed at NJ Repertory Company, Algonquin Theater Company, HERE, Chernuchin Theatre, Synchronicity Space, Dramatist's Guild New Play Series, and in regional theatre and independent films.

Chris Keveny (Class of ’04)
Performed with the Duplex Theatre, Boomerang Productions, Rabbit Hole Productions, Strawberry One-Act Play Festival and in independent films.

Julie Miller (Class of ’02)
Assistant stage manager for Lincoln Center Theater, Theatre for a New Audience, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons; Company Manager for New York Stage and Film; board member of Oracle Theatre, Inc., with fellow grads Ike Rathbone, Jen Collins Rathbone, and Joe Hoffman (all Class of ‘00).

Marci Skolnick (Class of ’03)
Stage manager for Folksbiene, Artificial Intelligence, Acting Company Salon Series, Valley Shakespeare Festival, Gotham Stage, INTAR, HERE, Clubbed Thumb, the 50th Anniversary Production of Waiting for Godot at Tangent.

Some of our Alumni …

James Barbour
Leon Czolgosz in Assassins, Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, Officer Lovestock in Urinetown, on Broadway. Toured with National Company of The Secret Garden. Played The Beast in Beauty and the Beast (Los Angeles and Broadway). TV: Sex and the City, Just Shoot Me and The District.

Johnathan Brownlee
Host of international cable TV show Johnathan Brownlee’s at Home, TV: Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show. Films: Father’s Day and Mad City.

Nancy Cassaro
Appeared on TV series Nothing Personal and Civil Wars. Conceived and performed in off-Broadway production of Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding

Margaret Colin
Played Jacqueline Kennedy on Broadway in Jackie. Appeared on TV in Edge of Night and As the World Turns. Starred in Now and Again, Foley Square and Legwork. Films include The Devil’s Own, Independence Day, Three Men and a Baby, True Believer and Pretty in Pink.

Francis Ford Coppola
Academy Award-winning writer and director. Best known for The Godfather saga, Apocalypse Now and John Grisham’s The Rainmaker.

Robert Davi
Film actor. Major roles in the James Bond film License to Kill, Die Hard, Goonies. Featured roles in Wiseguy and made-for-TV movie Contract on Cherry Street. Starring role in The Profiler.

Elizabeth Dennehy
Numerous TV commercials. Appeared in segments of Judging Amy, Gideon’s Crossing, Seinfeld and ER. Played Blake Fitzgerald on The Guiding Light and Shelby in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Peter Friedman
Appeared on Broadway in Twelve Angry Men, Heidi Chronicles and Common Pursuit. Starring role in the Broadway musical Ragtime. (Tony nomination); off-Broadway in The Loman Family Picnic. Recurring role in TV series Brooklyn Bridge.

Rick Gray
Senior production development manager for Cirque du Soleil; Former associate professor, Department of Theatre, Penn State University. Director of entertainment production for Disneyland Resort, Las Vegas. Technical director, Xerox Pavilion, 1992 Expo, Seville, Spain.

Charles Grieco
Assistant sound engineer for Nine on Broadway; Assistant sound designer, Playwrights Horizons, NYC; production engineer, Spoleto Art Festival, SC.

Dan Ingram
A prominent disk jockey for MTV, WCBS-FM, New York.

Madeline Kahn
Tony Award-winner for Best Actress for The Sisters Rosensweig. Twice nominated for an Academy Award. Films include: Paper Moon, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety. Regular on The Cosby Show.

Lainie Kazan
Featured in film and TV versions of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, film and Broadway musical versions of My Favorite Year (Tony nomination). Appeared in films The Crew, The Cemetery Club and One From the Heart. Popular singer appearing extensively on TV and at major supper clubs in the U.S.

John Leone
Played Marius in Les Miserables on Broadway. Starred off-Broadway in Avenue X, TV: Law and Order.

Irene Lewis
Artistic director, Baltimore’s Center Stage. Directed The Skin of Our Teeth with John Goodman, NY Shakespeare Festival.

Charles Ludlam
Playwright, star and director of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, one of off-Broadway’s most acclaimed organizations.

Linda Marcello
Assistant stage manager for national tours of The Producers, The Lion King and The Sound of Music. Production assistant on Broadway: The Weir, Time and Again. Assistant company manager, Richard Frankel Productions.

Tom McGowan
Featured roles on TV sitcoms Everybody Loves Raymond, Judging Amy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, ER, King of the Hill and Frasier. Films: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Sleepless in Seattle and As Good As It Gets. Off-Broadway in The Food Chain, and on Broadway in La Bête, Ivanov and Chicago.

Joe Morton
Featured in films Bounce, Forever Young, Speed and City of Hope. Starred in NBC-TV movie Y2K. TV series: Tribeca and Equal Justice. Narrated PBS series The Great Depression and Africa. Starred in Broadway’s Art.

Brett Oberman
With Keith Sherman and Associates, an entertainment PR company whose notable accounts include the Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards.

Joel Oliansky
TV/film writer and director. Wrote/directed The Competition. Emmy Award for The Senator. Writers Guild Awards: The Law and Masada.

Jennifer Pearse
Vice president, management supervisor, Saatchi and Saatchi, New York.

Arturo Porazzi
Broadway production stage manager. Shows include: The Triumph of Love, Victor/Victoria, 42nd Street, Me and My Girl, Jelly’s Last Jam, and Singing in the Rain.

Charles Repole
Broadway and regional theater actor, director, choreographer. Professor of drama, Queens College. Directed Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on Broadway, Animal Crackers at Goodspeed Opera House and Paper Mill Playhouse. Tony Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner for Very Good Eddie on Broadway.

Phil Rosenthal
Creator/writer/executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond. Writer for Coach and Down the Shore.

Susan Schulman
Broadway director of Little Women, The Sound of Music, The Secret Garden and Sweeney Todd. Off-Broadway credits include Time and Again, Merrily We Roll Along and Allegro. Man of La Mancha at Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare Festival

Joan See
Major New York film, theater, TV commercial casting director and teacher.

Leslie Segrete
Designer and carpenter on the Learning Channel’s TV show While You Were Out.

Kevin Shinick
Writer, Spider-Man special, Radio City, NYC, Boston and London. Head writer for Nickelodeon’s On Air Promo division. Actor in one-man show I Love Paris, off-Broadway. Host on PBS’s Where in Time Is Carmen San Diego?

Susan Sullivan
Starring role on TV sitcom Dharma and Greg. Appeared on TV series Falconcrest and Another World. Films include My Best Friend’s Wedding. The Fourth Wall, off-Broadway.