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Penn State School of Theatre Alumni are Familiar Faces in Famous Places

Penn State School of Theatre Alumni show up in some pretty famous places. From movies to television to Broadway, you may recognize these faces...

TY BURRELL
(’97 M.F.A.) performed Off-Broadway in Burn This with Edward Norton and on Broadway in Macbeth with Kelsey Grammer. He starred in the recent film, Dawn of the Dead. Other film credits include Black Hawk Down and Evolution.

STEVE WILSON
(’97 M.F.A.) was proud to work with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the Broadway production of By Jeeves and in the Lincoln Center revival of Stephen Sondheim’s The Frogs, starring Nathan Lane.

AMY WYNN PASTOR
(’99 B.A.) is the on-camera carpenter for Trading Spaces.

FRANKLYN WARFIELD
(’02 B.F.A.) roller skates his way into the hearts of thousands in the national tour of Starlight Express.

GREASE & OLIVER!
P.J. Baccari (’02 B.F.A.), Matthew Hydzik (’03 B.F.A.), and Jason Shuffler (’02 B.F.A.) are all appearing in the national tour of Grease. Marc Ginsburg (’03 B.F.A.) tours with Oliver.

KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY
(’96 M.F.A.) can be seen on Fox’s “Mad-TV,” and is now appearing in The Second City’s Romeo and Juliet Musical at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

URSULA ABBOTT
(’98 B.F.A.) co-hosts Noggin/Nickelodeon’s new “Survivor”-style TV series, “Girls vs. Boys.”

CARLA J. HARGROVE
(M.F.A.) made her Broadway debut as Ronnette in Little Shop of Horrors currently running at the Virginia Theatre.