Alumni

Amanda Clark: received her MFA from NYU' Tisch School of the Arts in Costume design. She Assistant designed Fiddler on the Roof and the Tony Costume design Award winning Wicked on Broadway.

Jessica Gaffney(Costume Designer): Jessica received her MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in Costume and Set Design. For Push Productions Jessica has designed costumes for both Marat Sade and Shannon in Ambient Light and Kraken at Walkerspace. Off Broadway: No Child directed by Hal Brooks (Epic Theatre / Barrow Street) Other NY credits: Marisol, Aloha Say the Pretty Girls, Comrades and Worms, and 12 Ophelias all directed by Debbie Saivetz (BPAC), Boococks House of Baseball directed by Mary Katherine Burke (The Flea), The Internationalist directed by Ken Russ Schmoll (13 P), The Gold Standard directed by Alex Lippard (Audax), Servant of Two Masters directed by Holly Golden (PS 122), The Furies and Falling Petals both directed by Mark Armstrong, Patty Red Pants and Chicks with Dicks both written by Trista Baldwin. Regional: Farifield Theatre Company, Triarts Sharon Playhouse, Desalles University, and University of Rochester. Jessica Also designs costumes and scenery for film.

Christopher Peifer: Christopher, foremost a rock musician and songwriter, has recorded and toured the world with The Kowalskis, sir, Frances Farmer My Hero, and is currently creating a buzz on the indie scene with Heavy Creatures. He owns and operates Garageland Recording Studio in Brooklyn, NY. Recent Sound Design credits include: Manhattan Theatre Club, Westport Country Playhouse, Juilliard at Lincoln Center, Red Bull Theatre at Playwrights Horizons. Costume Design includes: American Ballet Theatre, Abingdon Theatre Company, Gallery Players and Village Light Opera. Christopher takes regular classes at Art Students League of New York and is a Guest Lecturer/Visiting Artist at Borough of Manhattan Community College. His website is: http://www.chrispei.com

D. B. Woodside: David Bryan "D.B." Woodside (born July 25, 1969 in Jamaica, Queens, New York) is an American actor, best known for his varied television roles.

After injuring his knee while playing American football in his high school's (Roy C. Ketcham High School) team, Woodside heard the drama club performing a scene from a play and was interested. Since then, Woodside has fallen in love with acting.

Woodside got his start in the second season of Murder One in 1996, playing Aaron Mosley. After that series' cancellation, he guest starred on The Practice, Snoops, The Division and Once and Again. He also appeared in the 2000 film Romeo Must Die as Aaliyah's on-screen brother. In 1998, D.B. played Melvin Franklin, Motown's solid bass singer in The Temptations. He made a guest appearance on JAG in its final season as FBI Agent Rod Benton.

From 2002 to 2003, Woodside guest starred in 14 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's final season, as Principal Robin Wood, Buffy's boss and son of a Slayer. He followed this up in the following television season, playing the pragmatic Wayne Palmer, the Chief of Staff and brother to President David Palmer during the third season of 24. In the fifth season of the series, he returned to reprise the role as a guest star in episodes 1–2 and 14–18. Woodside returned as a series regular for the sixth season as the President of the United States.

He had a guest role as Marlon Waylord in the episode of CSI 'Harvest' in 2004. In 2007, he was a guest star on the hit TV show Grey's Anatomy in that show's 4th season episode, "Forever Young," wherein he played the character of Marcus.

Woodside is a graduate of the University at Albany and the Yale School of Drama. Woodside also taught courses (Black Action Theatre) and acted in several plays including Shakespeare's Hamlet at the University of Iowa in the early 1990s.