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  • About
    • Land Acknowledgement
    • Mission
    • Core Values
    • Code of Conduct
    • National Board of Directors
    • Canadian Chapter Directors
    • Program Directors
    • Distinguished Thespians
    • Press Releases & Published Articles
    • EdTA International Annual Report
    • Marketing Opportunities
    • Contact Us
  • CNTF 2022
    • Event Schedule
    • Adjudicators
    • Professional Festival Production
    • Registration Site
    • Event Access Portal
    • Scholarship Auditions
  • Other Events
    • National Teachers' Conference >
      • Schedule
      • Registration Cost
    • Remembrance Day Student Monologue Writing Challenge
    • National Unified Post-Secondary Auditions
    • Regional Thespy Fests Across Canada
    • Thespian Playworks
    • International Thespian Festival
    • ITS Student Leadership Program
    • Awards, Grants, and Scholarships
  • Publications
    • Dramatics Canada E-Newsletter
    • Remembrance Day Student Monologues
    • Canadian Play List
    • Theatre Educator Pro Learning
    • Teaching Theatre
    • Dramatics
    • EdTA International Play Survey
    • Marketing Opportunities
  • Advocacy
    • National K-12 Theatre Arts Standards Development Project
    • Theatre in our Schools (TIOS)
    • DEMOCRACYWORKS CANADA
    • CNAL & EDTA Canada
  • Sponsors

Distinguished Thespians

The International Thespian Society, the honor society of middle and high school theatre students, has inducted more than 2.4 million students since it was founded in 1929. To qualify for induction into ITS, a student needs 100 hours of work in theatre arts.

If they all gathered in a single place, Thespian alums would make up the fourth largest city in the United States—bigger than Houston, nearly the size of Chicago, and with the highest concentration of residents who speak with confidence, present themselves with poise and measure a two-by-four with accuracy. #ThespianForever.
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Many of those 2.4 million Thespian alums have gone on to distinguish themselves in their professional lives. Here’s a sampling of well-known Thespians in the entertainment industry and beyond.
PERFORMANCE
​Ashley Burr
Amy Acker
Matthew Ashford
Kathy Bates
Meredith Baxter
Gary Beach
Lorraine Bracco
Wayne Brady
Aidy Bryant
Meg Bussert
Kelly Clarkson
Kevin Covert
Gavin Creel
Stephanie D’Abruzzo
Fran Drescher
Adam Driver
Faye Dunaway
Trevor Einhorn
Annabeth Gish
John Goodman
Dion Graham
Tom Hanks
Goldie Hawn
Christina Hendricks
Barbara Hershey
Kelly Hu
Don Johnson
Anthony Kiedis
Val Kilmer
Zoë Kravitz
Cloris Leachman
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Marcus Lovett
Madonna
Will Makar
James Marsters
A Martinez
Kevin McCollum
Laurie Metcalf
Matthew Modine
Jason Moore
Janelle Monáe
Jill Paice
Paula Prentiss
Tony Randall
Jai Rodriguez
Stephen Schwartz
Tommy Sands
Andrew Seeley
Jaclyn Smith
Danny Strong
Sally Struthers
Miles Teller
Charlene Tilton
Tommy Tune
Dick Van Dyke
Jerry Van Dyke
Dee Wallace Stone
Mare Winningham
BUSINESS/NONPROFIT/GOVERNMENT
​Laurie Baskin, Director of Research and Policy, Theatre Communications Group;
Kathleen Belcher, Stage Director, Metropolitan Opera;
Doug Booher, Director of Events Indiana University;
Matt Conover, VP Disneyland Entertainment;
Michael Durnil, President and CEO of Simon Youth Foundation;
Kevin Fortson, Sr. VP Warner Horizon Television;
Carolina Garcia, Director Original Series, Netflix;
Merrick Garland, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit;
Alvin Katz, Partner, Katten, Muchin, Rosenman LLP;
Sharon Kneebone, Executive Director for the National Society for Histotechnology;
Don Loftus, President, Parlux, Ltd.;
Megan Tulac Phillips, Head of Marketing, Enterprise Agility, McKinsey & Company;
Mark Weinstein, Sr VP and Global Head of Customer Engagement, Hilton
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