Eclipsed recently opened on Broadway after a run at the Public.
Here’s where the cast and production team went to college/trained:
Cast:
Pascale Armand: Howard University/Georgetown; NYU Tisch MFA
Akosua Busia: BA Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Zainab Jah: Leeds University
Lupita Nyong’o: BA Hampshire College; MFA Yale School of Drama
Saycon Sengbloh: GA Shakespeare Festival Summer Conservatory
Joniece Abbot-Pratt: Clark Atlanta University; MFA U of Iowa
Ayesha Jordan (couldn’t find info)
Adeola Role: BA UC Berkeley; MFA MXAT/ART at Harvard
Production:
Danai Gurira (Writer): Macalester College; NYU Tisch MFA
Liesl Tommy (Director): Trinity Repertory Conservatory
Clint Ramos (Scenic Design/Costume Design): MFA Tisch
Jen Schriever (Lighting Design): SUNY Purchase
The Crucible recently opened on Broadway. Many of the cast members do not list where they studied in the Playbill or in any interviews that I googled. Many were not born/raised in the US, so their colleges may not be ones we’d be aware of anyway. Some are young (college age and younger) and some have not attended (if you know where any studied, leave a comment). Here’s what I found about the rest:
These cast/production team members do not list a college:
Ivo Van Hove–Director
Jan Versweyveld–Scenic/Lighting Design
Wojciech Dziedzic–Costume Design
Tal Yarden–Video Design
Cast:
Saoirse Ronan
Bill Camp
Tavi Gevinson
Jim Norton
Jenny Jules
Elizabeth Teeter (young)
Ray Anthony Thomas
The following cast members attended RADA:
Ben Whishaw
Sophie Okenedo
Ciaran Hinds
Here are the rest:
Jason Butler–BFA VCU; MFA NYU/Tisch
Tina Benko–CMU
Thomas Jay Ryan–CMU
Brenda Wehle–MA Catholic University
Teagle F. Bougere–MFA NYU
Michael Braun–MFA YSD
Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut–BFA UNC-G
Erin Wilhelmi–BFA University of Evansville
Tom Gibbons (Sound Design)–Central School of Speech and Drama
The Father opened on Broadway last night. Here’s where the cast/creative were trained:
Cast:
Frank Langella–Syracuse (BA in Drama)
Kathryn Erbe–NYU Tisch
Brian Avers–MFA NYU
Charles Borland–BFA Juilliard, Diploma-LAMDA (and MBA Candidate at NYU’s Stern School of Business!)
Hannah Cabell–BA Oberlin, MFA NYU
Kathleen McNenny–Juilliard
Creative
Dough Hughes (Director)–Harvard
Scott Pask (Scenic Design)–University of Arizona
Catherine Zuber (Costume Design)–Yale School of Drama
Donald Holder (Lighting Design)–University of Maine, Yale School of Drama
I just took in Bright Star on Broadway. It’s a new musical by Steve Martin & Edie Brickel (and a terrific show). Here is the training for the cast including the dance captain/swing. It’s worth noting that there are plenty of non-MT majors in this musical.
Carmen Cusack – University of North Texas degree in Opera
Paul Alexander Nolan – Randolph Academy in Toronto
Michael Mulheren –
A.J. Shively – University of Michigan BFA
Hannah Elless – Western Michigan BFA musical theatre
Stephen Bogardus – Princeton
Dee Hoty – Otterbein College
Stephen Lee Anderson –
Emily Padgett – AMDA 2-year program
Jeff Blumenkrantz – Northwestern University (School of Communication)
Maddie Shea Baldwin – Indiana University MT
Allison Briner-Dardenne –
Max Chernin – CCM
Patrick Cummings – Carnegie Mellon BFA Acting
Sandra Denise – NYU Stella Adler and CAP21
Richard Gatta – University of Buffalo BFA MT
Lizzie Klemperer – University of Michigan BFA MT
Michael X. Martin –
William Michals – Boston University (International Relations, part time in the opera program)
Tony Roach – BA Columbia, MFA Harvard ART/MXAT
Sarah Jane Shanks – CCM
William Youmans –
(it wasn’t that easy tracking down some of these, so apologies if I got anything wrong in my searches)
Aww, @Delegator ! I’m sorry you went to all that trouble–that list is on the ‘Musical Theater Major’ discussion but thank you–and feel free to add any others! It’s also good to see tours, regional, and off-broadway shows if you want to hit those too 
Ah, I see it down on page 5 in that forum. I guess everything can’t be a sticky… Thanks!
Long Day’s Journey Into Night opened this week. Here’s where the cast and creative team studied (if this isn’t a testament to getting a job without the holy grail of college programs, I don’t know what is!):
Cast:
Jessica Lange–University of Minnesota (studied Art & Photography, did not graduate)
Gabriel Byrne–University of Dublin (studied archaeology and worked as an archaeologist. Started acting at 29, studying in theater schools in Dublin)
Michael Shannon–did not go to college (after high school went to Chicago to act
John Gallagher Jr.–did not go to college (after high school, he was in Spring Awakening)
Colby Minifie–Macauley Honors College of CUNY
Peter Bradbury–Vassar College, A.C.T. San Francisco
Sarah Killough–The Hartt School
Alex Mickiewicz–Boston University
Lee Roy Rogers (unsure)
Creative Team:
Jonathan Kent (Director)–Central School of Speech and Drama
Tom Pye (Set/Scenic Design)–(unsure)
Jane Greenwood (Costume Design)–Liverpool Art School, Central School of Arts and Crafts
Natasha Katz (Lighting Design)–Oberlin College
Clive Goodwin (Sound Design)–Northumbria University, UK. Concentration in Psychology.
Tom Watson (Hair//Wig Design)–Theatrical Hair Goods Company
J. David Brimmer (Fight Director)–NYU Tisch
Stephen Gabis (Dialect Coach)–(unsure)
J David Brimmer is a professor at NYU (he teaches combat) idk if he is also a graduate of the university
@toowonderful thanks–he lists himself as a graduate from NYU Tisch class of 1981 in a couple of places. I think as people get more and more experience under their belts, they stop listing their colleges, but in an older bio he lists his education.
@lovetoact- thanks for checking into that. I only knew what he was doing at NYU now