Guest artists/workshops
_Each year drama students have the opportunity to participate in workshops or discussions with visiting artists who are brought to the department specifically to work with students or who are here performing at Syracuse Stage or in other Syracuse cultural venues.
These opportunities for workshops and discussions with seasoned professionals are an invaluable addition to the classes and experiential learning in our programs.
Recent guest artists and workshops have included:
- Alvin Ailey
- Ballet Hispanico
- Ballet NY
- Jason Robert Brown, composer
- Betty Buckley, actor/singer
- Dawn Chiang, designer
- Ping Chong, director/choreographer/video and installation artist
- Cast of Contact
- Chuck Cooper, actor/singer
- Anne DeSalvo, artist, actor, writer, director, and producer
- Taye Diggs ’93, actor, and Andrew Palermo, choreographer; artistic directors, dre.dance
- Elizabeth Franz, actor
- Judith Fugate, dancer
- Rita Gardner, actor/singer
- David Greenham, producing director, Monmouth Theatre (Maine)
- Patdro Harris, director/choreographer/writer
- Marjorie Bradley Kellogg, designer
- Michael Krass, designer
- Frank Langella ’59, actor
- Martha Graham Dance Company
- Julia Murney '90, actor
- Paul Taylor Dance Company
- Mike Rego ’90 and Hank Unger ’90, producers (Urinetown, Wicked)
- Doris Roberts, actor
- Peter Sellars, director
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Jeff Shade, choreographer
- Shakespeare & Co
- Aaron Sorkin ’83, writer/producer
- Wole Soyenka, playwright
- Tony Walton, designer
- Lillias White, actor/singer
- Cast of The Will Rogers Follies
- Vanessa Williams ’85, actor/singer