Alumni Placement
“I was hoping that one day it would happen, but you really have no idea if things will line up that way. Before the show, I went to her dressing room to run through lines together. The first line Aaron Samuels says is ‘Hi, I’m Aaron’ and Cady Heron says ‘Me Cady.’ After Becca said the line, I burst into tears. To be performing with one of my best friends and oldest friends from college was such a special and surreal moment.”
Jake Swain, a graduate of the BYU BFA Acting program, reflects on the first night he and BYU alum, Becca Petersen, a graduate of the BFA MDT program, performed opposite each other in Mean Girls on Broadway.
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Jamie Kalama Wood is a Master Teaching Artist at Roundabout Theatre Company and a BYU alumni. She serves as the Partnership Coordinator for FDR High School where she works with school leadership and educators to ensure that the school’s partnership with Roundabout best serves their goals. She coordinates and often leads classroom and after-school residencies. In addition to her work at FDR, Jamie facilitates multiple residencies and workshops throughout the city and at Roundabout’s theatres. Read more about Jamie here.
In addition to her work at Roundabout, Jamie also has a hand in developing the program Disney Musicals in Schools. Since its creation, it has expanded across the USA and has a newly founded international hub in London. Click here to see more.
Past MDT students living in New York gather together to provide support and community for one another.
Former MDT Students have Appeared in the Following Productions and Venues:
Hamilton Frozen Mean Girls The Play that Goes Wrong Bandstand Margaritaville Waitress Aladdin A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder The King and I (Lincoln Center) Beautiful Wicked Kinky Boots The Lion King Book of Mormon, the Musical Newsies Cinderella Jersey Boys Bullets Over Broadway Les Miserables (Original/all revivals) Sideshow (Revival) Big Fish Scandalous Sister Act How to Succeed in Business Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert Bonnie And Clyde South Pacific Wonderland Promises, Promises The Addams Family Legally Blonde Hair Mamma Mia Finian’s Rainbow How the Grinch Stole Christmas White Christmas Most Happy Fella 110 In the Shade (revival) Grease Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Brooklyn La Cage Aux Folles Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Good Vibrations Jane Eyre Cats Miss Saigon West Side Story Rock of Ages Altar Boyz – Off Broadway An Error of the Moon – Off Broadway Me, Myself, & I – Off Broadway Songs for a New World – Off Broadway
The Lion King Jersey Boys Phantom of the Opera Spamalot The Producers Mamma Mia We Will Rock You Anastasia |
Napoleon Dynamite World War Z Beautiful, the Carole King musical Something Rotten Peter and the Starcatcher War Horse Billy Elliott Next To Normal Shrek Once Mary Poppins Lion King Bring It On White Christmas Hairspray The Color Purple My Fair Lady Aida Flashdance Phantom of the Opera Bombay Dreams Les Miserables Oklahoma 42nd Street High School Musical The King And I Footloose Titanic Annie Get Your Gun Sunset Boulevard Thoroughly Modern Millie Beauty and the Beast The Scarlet Pimpernel Cinderella Peter Pan South Pacific Man of LaMancha Producers
Disney, California, Orlando, Hong Kong, Tokyo Disney Cruise Line Stiletto Entertainment Universal Studios, Tokyo Starlight Theatre, Branson Legends Theatre, Branson Busch Gardens, Virginia, Florida Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, Macao China |
NCIS New Orleans Outpost Altered Carbon Mosaic The Good Wife Castle NCIS Law and Order CSI Bones Medium Days of Our Lives Without A Trace Everwood Ghost Whisperer Cold Case Desperate Housewives Stargate Atlantis Touched By an Angel Judging Amy Young and the Restless
New York Shakespeare Festival Radio City Music Hall Paper Mill Playhouse Old Globe Theatre, San Diego Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC Sacramento Music Circus La Jolla Playhouse Music Theatre Witchita Denver Center Theatre North Shore Music Theatre The MUNY, St. Louis Drury Lane, Oakbrook Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theatre Pioneer Theatre Company Sundance Summer Theatre Utah Shakespearean Festival Tuacahn Amphitheatre Fulton Opera House The 5th Avenue Theatre Fullerton Civic Light Opera Theatre Under The Stars Chicago Shakespeare
Yale University University Of Texas at Austin Boston Conservatory National Theatre Conservatory San Diego State University The University Of Washington The Old Globe Southern Methodist University |