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Our Alumni

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The Young Americans® ultimate success may be measured in part by alumni who have attained notoriety in their chosen professions.  Most have assumed leadership roles in business, education, politics, clergy and many have made their mark in the entertainment fields of television, radio, recording and Broadway. 

 

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: 

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

Marc Cherry with Desperate Housewives cast
Marc Cherry with Desperate Housewives cast

Carol Dennis in The Color Purple
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


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

Marie Matiko in The Art of War
Marie Matiko and Wesley Snipes in The Art of War 

Stephanie J. Block in Wicked
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


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

Eden Espinosa in Brooklyn
Eden Espinosa with cast of Brooklyn

Tim Bagley in Will & Grace
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


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

 

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

 

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

 
 

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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