“Honestly, it’s the genuine sense of safe space during the classes that allowed me to explore all the complicated and difficult parts of myself and how I express my identity through performance—that sense of being able to fully try something out even if there’s great risk involved is something that I miss and yearn for, and strive to create in my own life and with my own communities nowadays.”
Swedian Lie (C’13)
Students from the Performing Arts Department have gone on to study at leading graduate programs such as Bard College Conservatory of Music, Berklee College of Music, Brown, Cal Arts, Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, Columbia, Northwestern, NYU, Oxford, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London), Stanford, and USC.
Theater and Performance Studies Alumni
Recent Theater & Performance Studies Program Alumni have established careers in the profession with Arena Stage, National New Play Network, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Center Stage, the O’Neill Theater Center, Teach for America, and Americans for the Arts. Pictured above, Theater & Performance Studies Program alumnus Michael Benz (COL ’04) has attained critical acclaim with the Shakespeare’s Globe of London as well as on the West End. Other notable Georgetown alumni in the field of theater and film include Bradley Cooper (COL ’97), Clayton Lord (CAS ’03), Jamie Gahlon (SFS ’07), Isaiah Wooden (COL ’04) and many others.
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Music Program Alumni
Music Program Alumni have established careers as performers/songwriters and in the recording and entertainment industry including CBS, CMT, NBC, NPR, People Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, Sirius XM Radio, and the William Morris Agency.
“What mattered to me the most were the relationships I built with musicians, artists, industry stakeholders, and other music professionals, aka the feeling of being a part of a music community.”
Hans Larson (AMMC and COSA ’23), Founder and President, Campfire Music Foundation