PGSA Notable Alumni*
Kevin Bacon
1974
Actor, Musician
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Golden Globe Winner
Screen Actor Guild Award Winner
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Star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Alice Sebold
1979
Best Selling Author
Bram Stoker Award Winner
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Don Marrazzo
1991
International Opera Baritone
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Professor of Voice at
THE MUSICAL HORIZONS CONSERVATORY,
Athens, Greece.
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George Burton
1995
Musician
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NAACP Image Award
Winner/Finalist: International Songwriting Competition
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Jenny Dalzell Ouellette
2003
Writer, Public Relations Manager Spoleto Festival USA
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Erin E Adams
2004
Playwright, Author, Actress, Storyteller
2022 Roots. Wounds. Words. Speculative Fiction Fellow
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2022 Kimbilo Fellow
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Amy Taylor Rosenblum
2007
Director, Writer, Dramaturg, Producer
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Richard O'Donnell
1974
Songwriter, Playwright, Producer, Actor
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Founder & Artistic Director: New Age Vaudeville Theatre Co. New Variety Cabaret Black Pearl Cabaret St. John's Conservatory Theatre
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3x ASCAP Award-winning Songwriter
Marianne Cornetti 1980
International Opera Mezzo
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Joe Fria
1992
Stage, TV, Film Actor, Director, Writer, & Producer
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LA Weekly Award for Best Comedic Performance in a musical.
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Gillian Jacobs
1999
Award Winning Actress, Director
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2018 National Film and TV Nominee for Best Actress in a TV Series
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Recipient: 2012 TV guide Winner - Favorite Ensemble, 2010 & 2012 Golden Derby Tv Award Ensemble of the Year
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Elody Gyekis
2003
Artist
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Recipient:
2019/2020 The Patricia and Scott Moger Research Grant
2018 Terra Art Foundation and New York Academy of Art Giverny Residency, Giverny, France
2014 Dacia Gallery of NYC Summer Artists Residency in Sibiu, Romania
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Zac Zinger
2005
Composer, Arranger, Multi-Instrumentalist
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Alumni Page will be a constant work in progress as we continue to research.
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Aaron Jay Kernis 1975
Pulitzer Prize & Grammy Winning Composer
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Julia Spicher Kasdorf
1980​
Writer, Poet, Liberal Arts Professor at Penn State University.
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Recipient: Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
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Jaime Beth Cohen
1992
Author, Podcaster
2021 Best Storyteller Lancaster (PA)
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Lauren Morelli
1999
American Television Writer & Producer
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Recognized as a Nominee:
2015 Golden Derby Awards - Drama Episode of the Year
2015 & 2014 Writers Guild of America Comedy Series
2014 - Online Film and Television Association
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Alex Hawthorn
2003
Artist, Composer, Technologist
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Recipient:
2021 LA Ovation Award Best Sound Design Frankenstein Intimate Theatre, Best Sound Design for Key Largo Large Theatre.
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2020 Obie Awards Special Citation for Creative Team and Ensemble, Sound Designer A Strange Loop.
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Aaron J
2006
Photographer, Visual Artist
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Tony Norman 1977
Award-Winning Columnist
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Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow
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The International Free Expression Project Chair
Manu Narayan
1990
Actor, Film Producer, Singer, Songwriter, Composer
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2012 Craig Noel Nominee
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Board of Trustees
Carnegie Mellon University
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Kate Plows
1993
Multi Media Artist, Teacher
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2018 Dow Jones News Fund Special Recognition Advisor
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2017 PSPA Pennsylvania Journalism Teacher of the Year
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Anisha Nagarajan
2000
Stage, TV, Film Actress, Musician
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Timothy McDevitt
2003
American Baritone, Actor
Vocal Arts Faculty Manhattan School of Music
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New York District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Competition
Finalist in the Competizione dell’Opera at the Bolshoi in Moscow
Lys Symonette Prize winner of the Lotte Lenya Competition,
2x finalist for the Atelier Lyrique at the Paris Opera (Opéra Bastille).
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Wynn Harrison
2007
Producer at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Ian Gallanar
1978
Founder & Director
Chesapeake Shakespeare Co.
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President of The Shakespeare Theater Association
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Steve Burns
1991
Actor, TV Host, Musician
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2x Daytime Emmy Nominee
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Zachary Quinto
1994
Award Winning Actor,
Producer
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Recipient: 2020 Audie Award, 2013 Critics Choice TV Award Best Supporting Actor, 2012 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award​,
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Christina Wren
2001
TV & Film Actress, Writer, Producer
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2015 Best Thriller Supporting Actress
Rome Web Award
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Frances Quinlan
2003
Singer Songwriter, Guitarist, Visual Artist
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Front of Philadelphia Indie Rock Band
Hop Along
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Tayarisha Poe
2007
Director, Writer, Story Teller
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Recipient:
2017 Pew Fellow
2016 Sundance Institute's Knight Foundation Fellowship
2015 - 25 New Faces by Filmmaker Magazine
2017 - Selected for January Sundance Screenwriter's Lab, as well as the June Sundance Director's Lab.
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