Profiles by Karen Beaty Eldridge '94
Director of News and Public Information

Some came to Maryville College knowing that their names would be in lights. Others dared to dream big only after faculty, staff and students encouraged their talents.

Maryville College is approximately 725 miles from New York City and 2,200 miles from Hollywood, but scores of its graduates have found their way to those meccas of celebrity - and to theatres, galleries and performance halls in between and beyond.

Fifteen alumni - representing professions in music, theatre and film, photography and graphic design - are featured in these webpages. Their stories and experiences are as varied as what they do every day, whether that involves writing a country song or photographing the cathedrals of Scotland, organizing a band’s worldwide tour or teaching a group to sing in the African-American tradition.

They’re not all thespians or vocalists, but they’ve all taken - or are taking - their art center stage.