Graduate Actors

For the next three years, 10 faces will be a common sight on the Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater and Forum Theater stages. The Division of Theater’s Professional Actor Training Program cycles in one class of students every three years and is welcoming a new crop of graduate students this fall.

Some have traveled to all 50 states. One just finished her undergraduate education. One really loves dinosaurs while another enjoys trying his hand at 3-D animation. One is even married to a first-year production design and technology graduate student. Most say their reasoning for coming to Ohio University is due to Shelley Delaney, the head of the program.

To introduce them to the OU and Athens audiences, The Post sat down with all 10 graduate actors to see why they enjoy acting and why they wanted to come to OU.