DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
and MUSIC STUDIES
Alumni
Paul Pape and Jesse Goins Class of 1974
Returned to talk with current students on April 8, 2011
Career and education options are
numerous for theatre students. Graduates have successfully pursued graduate
degree programs while others have gone on to rewarding careers as educators
and theatre artists.
Extraordinary Results
"SUNY Brockport's Department
of Theatre provides a healthy balance between the practical and the
theoretical; between the study and the implementation of your art in
a supportive and creative environment."
Markus Lukus, '94 member of
the Japan-based bilingual comedy duo Black Cheese
Markus
Lukas as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet
What do Brockport
Theatre Graduates do?
Alumni who graduated after 2000:
Enrolled in Graduate
Schools including: Carnegie Mellon University, University of Georgia,
The University of Ohio, SUNY Albany, University of Connecticut
Performer in Star
Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas, NV
Operations Manager, Orlando Shakespeare Festival
Member of SAG,
doing part time acting and modeling in Los Angeles, CA
Co-Founder of TYKES Theatre Company, Rochester, NY
Free Lance Stage Manager, Los Angeles, CA
Founder and Member
of Nuts and Bolts an Improv troop in Rochester, NY
Now on tour doing
Sound with Barry Manilow
Toured doing Sound
for Prince
Assitant Stage
Manager at the Eastman Opera, Rochester, NY
Acting TYKE'S
production of Rapunzel
Summer Internship
at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival as Stage Electrician, Lighting
and Sound
As an Extra in Ocean's 12, with George Clooney filmed in Las Vegas, NV
Written Secret
Lives and Peas which is being performed as part of a Festival of
One Acts for ETC, Everybody's Theatre Company Lecturer in Theatre at
SUNY Albany
Stage Manager
for TYKEs Children's Theatre in Rochester, NY
Acting in The
Diary of Anne Frank at Pendragon Theatre is in Saranac Lake, NY
"At SUNY Brockport, students
learn how to learn - a key element in creating a solid career in theatre.
The program consistently graduates unique individuals by balancing the
development of solid technique with that of natural characteristics
and talents inherent in each distinct student. It is what every undergraduate
program should be."
Michelle Malavet, '95, New York
set designer
Antigone Scene
Design by Michelle Malavet
Alumni who Graduated before 2000:
Attended the Actors
Studio, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin, Roosevelt
University and many others
Broadcast/Live Audio Engineer at ABC Television
Actors in Television,
Stage and Film
Production
Manager, Ford Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA
Costume
Designer at New World School of The Arts Miami, FL
Stage Electrician
working on Mamma Mia at the Manually Bay Hotel in Las Vegas
Special Effects
Costumer for Cirque Du Soleil, Las Vegas
Former Secretary
for the Theatre Department at SUNY Albany
Freelance Equity
Stage Manager
Chair, Department
of Speech and Theatre Arts and Artistic Director of the Viking Theatre
Grand View College, Iowa
Theatre Faculty
at Union College, NY and Point Park College, PA
"The foundation I was able
to build at Brockport has sustained me through my 30 years as a professional
actor. My credits include Soldier and Robo Cop, and prime time television
work in The Greatest American Hero, Hill Street Blues, Dhrama and Greg
and Mad About You."
Jesse Goins, '74 professional
actor
Alumni
we want to hear from you. Let us know where you are and what you have
been doing since you left SUNY Brockport.
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