Alumni News

Alum Alex Purcell (Class of 2014) will be making his Broadway debut this summer in the new stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner opening July 21 at the Hayes Theater. Alex will be understudying the roles of Amir and Rahim Khan while also serving as fight captain for the production.

Ade Otukoya (Class of 2011) joins the hit Hulu Series ‘Only Murders in the Building’ for Season 2 as the Brazzos Director. The series stars Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez as three strangers who share an obsession with true crime that suddenly find themselves caught up in one.

Coral Peña (Class of 2015) returns for Season 3 in Apple TV’s hit series For All Mankind. Coral plays NASA Flight Director Aleida Rosales in a riveting performance!

Annie Chang (Class of 2010) joins the new HBO Max super hero series Peacemaker as Detective Sophie Song. Peacemaker explores the continuing story of the character that John Cena reprises in the aftermath of executive producer James Gunn’s 2021 film The Suicide Squad – a compellingly vainglorious man who believes in peace at any cost, no matter how many people he has to kill to get it!

Casey Wilson (Class of 2002) joins Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, and Kathryn Hahn in Apple TV’s new dark comedy series ‘The Shrink Next Door’ premiering on November 12, 2021. Inspired by true events documented in the Wondery and Bloomberg Media podcast of the same name, ‘The Shrink Next Door’ is described as an eight-episode dark comedy following the bizarre relationship between psychiatrist to the stars Dr. Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf (Rudd) and his longtime patient Martin “Marty” Markowitz (Ferrell). Wilson will star as Bonnie, the wife of Dr. Herschkopf.

Be sure to catch alum Sebastian Silveti (Class of 2018) as Romeo in the final season of ‘Narcos: Mexico’ on Netflix!

After starring as Mouser in the summer blockbuster film Free Guy, alum Utkarsh Ambudkar (Class of 2004) now heads up the the new CBS comedy ‘Ghosts’ as Jay premiering nationally on October 7th, 2021.

After winning the Audience Award at the Lower East Side Film Festival this past summer, the alum produced film ‘American Insurrection’ was picked up for distribution by Saban Films to be released in theaters on October 8th and available nationally with on-demand streaming services. The film is written and directed by alum Will Sullivan (Class of 2010) and stars fellow classmates Sarah Wharton and Jarret Kerr.

A big congratulations to alum Lauren Patten on winning the 2020 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for her turn as Jo in Jagged Little Pill!

Board Member Sonia Sanchez’s gripping poem “Catch the Fire” was featured in this past week’s episode of the HBO series Lovecraft Country. Sanchez’s poem was also set to music beautifully composed as a requiem by the show’s soundtrack composer Laura Karpman.