Theatre Alumni

Featured Theatre Alumni

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Selena Gonzalez-Lopez (MFA ’21, Design & Tech)

Selena is a lighting, scenic and projection designer. She is currently the Lighting Supervisor and Assistant Lighting Designer for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and the Santa Fe Opera's 2023 season. Selena was selected as the 2022-2023 Hemsley Lighting Intern, where she worked with the San Francisco Opera, New York City Ballet and Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre.

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Allison Dillard (MFA, Design & Tech, ‘12)

Allison is a Los Angeles-based costume designer. In 2019, Allison won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her costume designs in both Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Emily Post is Dead. That same year, she also won an Ovation Award for Best Costume Design for Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

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Frank Oakley, III (B.A., Theatre, acting ’14) 

Frank has worked in television, film and theatre since graduation. Most notably as Coach Harlan Bixby in Netflix's “Sweet Magnolias,” Pastor Reliford in ABC’s “The Wonder Years,” as well as appearances in Paramount +'s "The Game," and the limited Amazon Prime Video series, “The Underground Railroad.” He also appeared in films, including “Levitation,” “Rewind“ and “Room Tone.”

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Kelly McAndrew, (MFA ’98)

Kelly is a professional actress whose credits include Maggie the Cat in Cat on a Hot Tim Roof on Broadway, and countless off-Broadway and regional credits, including Men on Boats (Playwright's Horizons) and Perfect Arrangement (Primary Stages). TV and film viewers might have seen her in episodes of Law & Order: SVU, Gossip Girl, Orange is the New Black and Everybody’s Fine with Robert DeNiro. Kelly also teaches auditioning at The New School in NYC and is a private acting coach.

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Whitney Locher, (MFA '05)

With over a hundred design credits and a host of new shows in production, Whitney Locher has become the costume designer of choice for many of the theater world's most innovative productions. Ms. Locher is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Oakland University’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance. Visit her professional website to learn more.

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Douglas Enderle, (MFA '81)

Douglas Enderle is a retired Emmy Award-winning principal costume designer at Walt Disney Entertainment. Enderle’s designs appear on television, on the Disney Cruise Line and at Disney theme parks near Orlando, Fla., Anaheim, Ca., Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong. During his career, he received two Emmy award nominations, and won an Emmy for Innovative Costume Design for the 1993 ABC telecast of the “Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade.