Theatre/Drama Colleges Part 8

fishbowlfreshman
Tue, 16 May 2006 17:39:57 +0000

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Ralph Fiennes – Faith Healer – Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (UK)
Richard Griffiths – The History Boys - Stockton & Billingham College (UK)
Željko Ivanek – The Caine Mutiny Court Martial – London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (UK)
Oliver Platt – Shining City - BA Tufts University w/ pro training at Shakespeare & Co.
David Wilmot - The Lieutenant of Inishmore - ??? (Irish Actor)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Kate Burton – The Constant Wife – BA in Russian Studies and European History from Brown University and MFA Yale School of Drama
Judy Kaye – Souvenir – UCLA
Lisa Kron – Well – BA Theatre Arts Kalamazoo College
Cynthia Nixon – Rabbit Hole – BA English, Barnard College (Began professional career at 13)
Lynn Redgrave – The Constant Wife – None (From family of famous actors)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Michael Cerveris – Sweeney Todd – BA Music, Yale University
Harry Connick, Jr. – The Pajama Game – Hunter College and Manhattan School of Music (No Degree)
Stephen Lynch – The Wedding Singer – BA Theatre, Western Michigan University
Bob Martin – The Drowsy Chaperone - ???
John Lloyd Young – Jersey Boys – BA Theatre, Brown University

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Sutton Foster – The Drowsy Chaperone – Carnegie Mellon University (Dropped out after a year.)
LaChanze – The Color Purple – University of the Arts (Didn’t graduate)
Patti LuPone – Sweeney Todd – The Juilliard School
Kelli O’Hara – The Pajama Game – Oklahoma City University
Chita Rivera – Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life - George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Samuel Barnett – The History Boys – London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (UK)
Domhnall Gleeson - The Lieutenant of Inishmore - ??? (UK)
Ian McDiarmid – Faith Healer – The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Mark Ruffalo – Awake and Sing! – No College. Trained at the Stella Adler Conservatory in LA.
Pablo Schreiber – Awake and Sing! – Carnegie Mellon University

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Tyne Daly – Rabbit Hole - American Musical and Dramatic Academy
Frances de la Tour – The History Boys - ??? (UK)
Jayne Houdyshell – Detroit’s Academy of Dramatic Art (???)
Alison Pill – The Lieutenant of Inishmore - None
Zoë Wanamaker – Awake and Sing! – Central School of Speech and Drama (UK)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
Danny Burstein – The Drowsy Chaperone – BA Queens College, MFA UC San Diego
Brandon Victor Dixon – The Color Purple – BA Music, Columbia University
Manoel Felciano – Sweeney Todd – BA Yale University, MFA NYU/Tisch
Christian Huff – Jersey Boys – None (Started at the School of Creative And Performing Arts in San Diego in 5th grade)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Carolee Carmello – Lestat – BA Business Administration and French, SUNY Albany
Felicia P. Fields – The Color Purple - ???
Megan Lawrence – The Pajama Game - Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (Dropped out after a year.) Also dropped out of Towson State.
Beth Leavel – The Drowsy Chaperone - ???
Elizabeth Withers-Mendes – BS Berklee School of Music, Masters (?) NYU