Performing arts

Our most beloved characters are defined by the actors who bring them to life.

On stage, screen, or streaming, SCAD students have unprecedented Creative careers. their unforgettable performances help us laugh, learn, and love. SCAD opportunities for scene-stealing interactions with top professionals through Actor Artistic director

performing artists fourish in acclaimed on-site auditions and invitation-only projects soon after beginning their showcases with top agents, managstudies. In SCAD production studios ers, and casting directors. SCAD is

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and theaters, student actors seize roles the only university with an on-site, in multicamera comedy series, stage professionally run casting office, Director productions, flms, plays, musicals, which has connected more than Fight choreographer TV shows, and immersive themed 500 SCAD performing artists to flm Improv/sketch performer experiences. They receive instruction from professors with impressive and TV productions in Georgia, Los Angeles, and New York. SCAD actors Producer credentials — accomplished actors, have booked roles on flms such as

Stunt performer

directors, and casting directors at The Glorias and Lady and the Tramp, major studios and networks. and with networks like Amazon Video,

Talent agent Voice-over talent

At the only university selected in all fve of The Hollywood Reporter’s academic program rankings, performing arts students give voice to anima-

BET, CBS, Netfix, and USA.

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tions, portray original characters in Kayli Carter The Honeybees, the university’s singing television pilots, and use virtual reality Godless and Mrs. America

ensemble, regularly perform at SCAD signature events and around SCAD locations at concerts, parades, benefts, and more. to create transcendent immersive experiences on stage and in themed DeRon Horton American Horror Story and Dear attractions. Award-winning projects White People like student flms Kalos and Odyssey: Kiandra Richardson A Star Wars Story as well as student- Empire produced sitcoms G.R.I.T.S., Nailed It!, Burke Swanson and The Buzz ofer budding actors the The Rose Tattoo platform to shape their on-camera presence. During virtual Guests and Caroline and Rebecca Huey Gusto talks or annual SCAD Savan- Truth Be Told nah Film Festival and SCAD aTVfest signature events, students are front Gabrielle Hespe Mrs. Fletcher row for learning and networking opportunities with Hollywood icons and emergent stars.

More than 100 SCAD students from fve disciplines collaborated on the university’s musical adaptation of Little Women.

Q&A

Kayli

Actor Chuluota, Florida Carter As a student, Kayli was enraptured by the words of SCAD Savannah Film Festival guest Diane Lane. Now, she stars alongside the iconic actor in the flm Let Him Go. After notching her frst awards nomination in 2019—a Best Supporting Female nod in the Independent Spirit Awards for acclaimed indie Private Life—Carter booked big roles in the FX miniseries Mrs. America and the HBO film Bad Education.

What opportunities did you take advantage of at SCAD?

I was able to be onstage my freshman year at SCAD and utilize the SCAD Casting Ofce right away. That coupled with the magic of the Savannah Film Festival, shaped my education.

How did SCAD prepare you for your career?

I had the opportunity to explore and create a process for myself as an actor but also had a wealth of information about how to be a business person.

What do you value most from your time at SCAD?

The professors had such confdence in me, and that type of belief translated into my comfort level on a set or on a stage. Their trust led me to trust in myself.

Photography by SCAD alumna Alexandra Arnold (New Orleans, Louisiana)

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