Recent News
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Precious Omigie ’23 Joins Shakespeare in the Park
The recent grad joins award-winning cast members Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Lupita Nyong’o (Black Panther), and Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) in Twelfth Night, a comic romp about romance, gender roles, and mistaken identity.
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In the Emmy Spotlight: Parker Posey and Stanley Tucci
And the shows featuring our alumni that rose to the top.
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Spotlight’s on Purchase for Tony and Drama Desk Nominations
Alumni Marjan Nashat and Jay O. Sanders receive nods for performances, and faculty members Andrea Thome and Matt Otto for creative work.
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Sydney Cole Alexander ’15 Stars in AppleTV+ Hit Series
The highly anticipated second season of Severance is now streaming.
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New Season of “The White Lotus” Features Two From Purchase
Parker Posey and Sarah Catherine Hook play mother and daughter.
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Two Alumni Make Broadway Debuts in Romeo + Juliet
Directed by Sam Gold at the Circle in the Square, previews begin September 26.
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Tony® Award Nominee Micah Stock ’11 Returns to Broadway in ‘Little Bear Ridge Road’
Costarring Laurie Metcalf, the play debuted last summer at the renowned Steppenwolf Theater Company where Stock was hailed by The Chicago Sun Times as “shockingly terrific” and “a revelation.”
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Three Generations of Purchase Actors in Blockbuster Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Ving Rhames ’78–’80 and Shea Whigham ’93 reprise previous roles, while Sydney Cole Alexander ’15 makes franchise debut.
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Zoë Winters ’07 and Carolyn Kettig ’17 Are Cast in FX’s ‘Seven Sisters’
Acting BFA alums Zoë Winters ’07 and Carolyn Kettig ’17 will share the spotlight in the pilot of the FX drama, Seven Sisters.
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Carter Hudson ’09 Cast in Broadway’s “Good Night and Good Luck”
Hudson joins the cast of the stage adaptation opposite George Clooney.
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Lifetime Achievement Awards for Faculty
A. Dean Irby and Trazana Beverley were honored by the Audelco Recongnition Awards.
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Andrea Patterson ’05 Stars in Greek Classic
The Classical Theater of Harlem co-produced Memnon at the Getty Villa.