KEVIN ALEJANDRO (BA, Attended) stars as “Detective Christian Arroyo” in the CBS series Golden Boy. He is developing The Keepers, a new web series about two special agents who team up with a retired super hero to battle the ever-increasing population of villains. DAVID BAKER (BFA 1986) is a professional actor in New York City. Recent work includes roles on the television series The Following, Boardwalk Empire, Made in Jersey, The Big C, Deception, and Orange is the New Black. Last fall, he was in Richmond, Virginia, shooting an independent film titled Blood and Circumstance.
David Baker (BFA 1986)
MARLANE BARNES (MFA 2010) stars as “Maggie” in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. Jaime Castañeda (MFA 2006) returned to Texas last fall to direct Kristoffer Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Dallas Theater Center. Fellow alumnus Corey Jones (MFA 2007) starred as boxer “Chad Deity.” KATIE DEBUYS (MFA 2010) recently starred at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in The Conference of the Birds and Henry V. This spring, she will play the role of “Nina” in Stupid F***ing Bird, Aaron Posner’s world premiere adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
Katie DeBuys (MFA 2010)
MICHAEL DRAGOO (BFA 1983) is the owner of Dragaud Custom Sojourns, a travel consultancy that designs exclusive tours for students and private groups for national and international destinations. YALINIDREAM (formerly Yalini Thambynayagam) (BA 2000) is a 2013 artist in residence at University of Michigan’s Center for World Performance Studies. One of the South Asian diaspora’s most prominent performance poets, she has toured nationally at hundreds of venues throughout the U.S. as well as Europe and South Asia. Her work has been performed at theater venues such as NYC’s Lincoln Center and New York Live Arts (formerly Dance Theater Workshop), Manchester’s Contact Theatre, Houston’s Diverse Works, Chicago’s Vittum Theater; poetry venues such as NYC’s Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Minneapolis’s The Loft, London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern, and universities such as Yale (USA), University of Manchester (UK), Loyola College (India), and University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka).
YaliniDream was a 2006 Mid-Atlantic Artists in Community Fellow at the Asian Arts Initiative, a panelist for the Leeway Foundation’s 2007 Transformation Awards, a 2008 Urban Arts Initiative Fellow and a 2010 recipient of the Jerome Foundation’s Travel and Study Award in Literature. She has facilitated workshops for waraffected communities in Sri Lankan refugee camps in Tamil Nadu, India as well as war-affected communities in Mannar, Vavuniya and Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. In addition, she has worked with survivors of violence from multiple communities including CambodianAmerican and communities of African descent in the United States.
ALLISON EBLING (BA 2011) is making her mark at ZACH Theatre. She is the audio board operator for many of the Austin-based theatre’s productions and most recently was associate designer for Ragtime and White Christmas at ZACH.
CATE EBY (BA 2012) is an administrative intern at Houston’s Alley Theatre.
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