ACAPA — American College of Arts and Performing Arts

Artistic Director and founder of Calloway Dance Works (est. 1991), one of the country's most respected contemporary dance companies. Former principal dancer with Boston Ballet (1981–1988). Choreographer for five Broadway productions, including two Tony-nominated shows. 2019 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship. Donor of the $4.2M Calloway Endowment for Dance Excellence.

One of ACAPA's earliest prominent alumni. After two decades in regional theater (Steppenwolf, Arena Stage, American Repertory Theater), Ostrowski transitioned to film and television, accumulating over 80 screen credits including a recurring role in a long-running network drama. He returned to Eastbridge in 1998 to deliver the commencement address and endowed the Ostrowski Prize for Student Playwriting. Retired from performing in 2014; currently a trustee of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.

Soprano. Staff artist with the Minnesota Opera for seventeen seasons (1977–1994), performing over forty principal roles. Solberg was the first ACAPA alumna to appear at Carnegie Hall (1981). Since retiring from performance, she has served as Chair of the Voice Department at the MacPhail Center for Music and co-authored a widely adopted pedagogy text, The Responsive Voice (2005, 3rd ed. 2019). Named ACAPA's Distinguished Alumni of the Year in 2007.

Printmaker and installation artist. DeFalco's large-scale relief prints have been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum, and galleries in Berlin and Tokyo. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a MacArthur "Genius Grant" nomination in 2011. His studio practice focuses on issues of memory, industrial landscape, and working-class identity. Associate Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2001.

Artistic Director of the Meridian Stage Company in Washington, D.C. (since 2010). Nazari has directed over 90 productions across the country and been recognized with the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction three times (2012, 2016, 2022). She is a frequent panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and serves on the board of Theatre Communications Group. Her work has premiered at the Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, and the Goodman Theatre.

Composer and musicologist. Kwarteng's orchestral and chamber works have been performed by the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, and ensembles in London and Accra. He is a professor of music theory at Yale University and the author of four books on contemporary African diaspora composition. Recipient of the Rome Prize (1988) and the ASCAP Foundation Award (2004, 2013).

Broadway performer and choreographer. Falconer's Broadway credits include originating roles in three productions since 2009. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (2017) and returned to ACAPA as the 2022 Alumni Artist-in-Residence. She also leads workshops through her nonprofit Stage Door Forward, which provides theater training to underserved youth in New York City public schools.

Documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. Reinholt's documentary work has screened at Sundance, Tribeca, and the International Documentary Association. His 2014 feature The Granite Season, filmed in Vermont, won the IDA Award for Best Documentary Feature. He has also served as director of photography on narrative features and limited television series, earning two Emmy nominations for cinematography. A regular guest lecturer at ACAPA's Film & Media Arts program.