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