Theater and Dance Research Guide 

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This page offers information on actors, playwrights and directors associated with Yale:

• Well-Known Actors from Yale
• Playwrights Associated with Yale
• Plays Directed by Robert Brustein and Lloyd Richards

For an overview of the Yale School of Drama, including a list of well-known graduates, see also the Wikipedia article.

Well-Known Actors from Yale

Yale Film Actors Database

This database covers actors (and some directors and playwrights) who received a degree from the Yale School of Drama or went to Yale as an undergraduate.  We cannot vouch for the accuracy and completeness of information in this database, which is produced independently.

Roles Performed by Selected Actors While at the Yale School of Drama

YSD graduates only -- actors who went to Yale as undergrads are not listed (but see the database above).

Playwrights Associated with Yale

Here are some well-known playwrights who either: 

• studied at the Yale School of Drama (marked A for alum)
• taught or teach playwriting at either YSD or Yale College (marked YSDF or YF, respectively), or
• had several plays premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre (marked * for world premieres or + for US premieres)

The playwrights' biographies are from Wikipedia, since Library biographical resources aren't available to the general public.

Plays Directed by Richard Brustein, Dean of the Yale School of Drama 1966-1979

Plays Directed by Lloyd Richards, Dean of the Yale School of Drama 1979-1991