You don’t have to attend a renown school to make it in theater! As you can see in any Playbill, cast members and the creative team hail from all sorts of colleges, degree programs, and no college at all. You may see many listed (among others) from so called “top programs,” but keep in mind that such programs may have a high concentration of talented graduates because of the selection process to be admitted in the first place. They may be having success in their professional careers, not so much because of the name of their college but because they are very talented and have other qualities that have gotten them where they are now.