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SUCCESS STORIES
The following is a partial list of former Young Americans. All show credits are Broadway Shows, National Touring Shows, Television, or Motion Pictures:
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• Marc Cherry, Executive Producer & Writer, Golden Girls, Creator & Writer, Desperate Housewives
• Laura Leighton, Star, Melrose Place
• Patrick Hilsabeck, Lead Role "Phantom", Phantom of the Opera
• Cheri Eichen, Executive Producer, Writer, Cheers
• Vicki Lawrence, Star, Mama’s Family, The Carol Burnett Show
• Steve Isaacs, Lead Role of "Tommy"- Tommy
• Diana Kavilis, Lead Roles - Broadway’s Evita, Cats, A Chorus Line
• Kevyn Brackett, Lead, Five Guys Named Moe, Rent
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Marc Cherry with Desperate Housewives cast |

Carol Dennis-Dylan in Oprah’s The Color Purple |
• Jeffrey Polk, Lead, The Lion King, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Five Guys Named Moe
• Kevin Morrow, Lead, Five Guys Named Moe
• Peter Kevoian, Lead, Cats
• Ken Prymus, Lead Role of "Machibel" - Cats, featured actor, sang theme song “Suicide Is Painless” as Private Seidman in the film M.A.S.H.
• Carol Dennis-Dylan, Lead Part of "Glenda" - The Wiz, Big River, The Color Purple
• Gary Moss, Lead, Broadway’s Les Misérables
• Leslie Beauvais, Lead, Les Misérables - Touring Company
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• Steve Brethaupt, Lead, Les Misérables - Los Angeles Company
• Mary Davis, Lead, Jelly’s Last Jam
• Ray Rodriguez, Lead Dancer, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Choreographer
• Kelly Severson, Lead Narrator, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Sandra Allen, Star, Role of "Linda Low", The Golden Girls, Broadway’s Flower Drum Song
• Jerry Mitchell, director and choreographer, Broadway’s Legally Blonde: The Musical, Bravo’s reality competition Step It Up and Dance, Line Captain, The Will Rogers Follies
• Marie Matiko, Lead Role of "Mimi", Miss Saigon, Motion Picture Star, The Art of War & The Corruptor
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Marie Matiko and Wesley Snipes in The Art of War |

Stephanie J. Block as Elphaba in Wicked |
• Susie Johnson, Production Coordinator, Paramount Pictures
• Jon Bernstein, Screenwriter, Beautiful
• Stephanie J. Block, Lead, 9 to 5 The Musical, The Pirate Queen, James Joyce’s The Dad, The Kennedy Center, Broadway’s The Boy from Oz: The Peter Allen Story, Wicked – Touring Company
• Vanessa Brown, Percussionist & Arranger, Emmy Awards, Barry Manilow Tours, Christmas in Washington, Marilyn McCoo
• Chris Campbell, Exec. Director, Video Post Productions, Paramount Pictures
• Allison Court, featured dancer, Rockettes, Radio City Music Hall
• Stewart Daylida, Lead, EFX Alive, MGM Grand, Las Vegas
• David DeLeon, Make-up Artist (Emmy Nominee), Angel
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• Eden Espinosa, Lead, Wicked - L.A. Company, Brooklyn - Original Broadway Cast
• Skip Ewing, MCA Recording Artist, Top Ten Country Singer/Songwriter
• Kelli Fish, Lead Role of “Val”, A Chorus Line, Nat’l Tour
• Annie Gibbons, Featured Dancer, The Rockettes, Radio City Music Hall
• Patrick Gandy, Arranger/Orchestrator/Conductor, Diana Ross, Gregory Hines, Emmy Awards, Dreamgirls (U.S. Tour)
• Kathi Gillmore, Lead, ShowBoat (Broadway), Ragtime, A Chorus Line, and Meet Me in St. Louis (U.S. Tours)
• Jinger Leigh, Magician/Headliner of Mark & Jinger (1998 Magicians of the year), Carnival of Wonders - Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno
• Paul May, Lead, EFX Alive, MGM Grand, Las Vegas
• Michael Jones, Headliner, major cruise ship showrooms
• Dominic Lucero, featured dancer, Michael Jackson concerts
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Eden Espinosa with cast of Brooklyn |

Tim Bagley on Will & Grace |
• Tim Bagley, Actor/Comedian, the famed Groundlings Comedy Troupe, regularly featured supporting actor in NBC’s Will & Grace
• Ray Garcia, Lead Role of “Angel”, Rent - Broadway & U.S. Tour
• Annie (Carr) McQuitty, Founder, Producer, Dance Excellence – an International Dance Festival
• Joey Murphy, Producer/Writer, Cybill -CBS TV, sold a feature film script to Universal Pictures, to be produced by Playton (Tom Hanks’ Production Company)
• Jason Oltoff, Event Choreographer, Super Bowl(s), 1996, 2000 Summer Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics
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• Nia Peeples, Star, TV Shows- Fame and Walker Texas Ranger, Blues Brothers 2000 movie
• Melissa Hayden, Star (Daytime Emmy winner), Guiding Light
• Jack Jackson, Founder, Director, Amigos (‘the YAs of Mexico’)
• Enrique Segura, Lead, Cats, Beauty and the Beast, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Lion King (European tours)
• Greg Smith, Exec. Director, Planning & Construction, Paramount Pictures
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• Craig Rathbun, Special Events Manager Walt Disney Productions
• Carlos Thomas, Lead, Stomp - Broadway, U.S. Tours
• David Green, V.P. and Artistic Director, California Conservatory of the Arts
• Steve Scott, Emmy winner for The X-Files, visual Effects, former Governor of Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Film post-production Digital Colorist
• Kathy Fishburne Erickson, Writer/Producer, Erickson Creative
• Cinda Ramsuer, Lead, Dreamgirls, Headliner, "Sporting Club"
• Corkey Lee, Executive Director, Video Operations, Paramount Pictures
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• Steve Palmer, Lead, Stomp - Broadway, U.S. Tours
• John Pardee, Producer/Writer for Cybill- CBS TV, "The Jeff Foxworthy Show", sold a feature film script to Universal Pictures, to be produced by Playton (Tom Hanks’ Production Company)
• Mark L. Walberg, Host, The Mark Walberg Show, Temptation Island, Moment of Truth
• Khalid Freeman, Featured Dancer, Stomp Out Loud, Las Vegas, Motion Picture, Stomp the Yard
• Jennifer Colby Talton, Lead Role of "Mimi", Rent, U.S. Tours
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If you are an alumni and reading this, please take the time to give us an update. We would love to hear from you. If the group influenced or helped shape your life in anyway to the good let us know. Funny exciting happenings are good too.
Those We Remember
In honor of those whose time with us was too short.....
Laura Benson * Mark Boes * Drew Bradford * Dale Brahs * Darryl Brown * Myra Bullock * Ruben Cano * Paul Carillo * Jack Challender * Rick Conyers * Theo De Hoog * Ward Ellis * Beth Friedberg * Paul Gerbasi R. Steven Kibbons * Royce Gibson * Joanie Hart * Harvey Hasen * Sandi Hauch * Terry Heath * Keith Henden * Sandi Hornyak Herbert * Glenn Jordan * Rick Lovan * Lee Lucas * Dominic Lucero * Brent "Gweedo" Matthews * Steve Metz * Jack Moran * Donald Moss * Mary Rose Munoz * Dr. Gwyn Bleier Ormsby * Melissa Pearson * Tracy Schutt * Andy Smithey * Sparky Sparks * Marc Street * Ken Stump * Roy VanNoy * Jack Valov * Lonnie Vic * Jamie Wiant * Bill Woolverton * Mike Woolworth
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