University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)

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www.uncsa.edu

An arts conservatory of international renown, the North Carolina School of the Arts as the first state-supported, residential school of its kind in the nation. Established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1963, the School of the Arts opened in 1965 after nearly a million dollars was raised to win the new school for Winston-Salem. In 1972, the School became part of the prestigious University of North Carolina system.

The School’s mission is unique: to train students from middle school through graduate school for professional careers in the performing, visual, and film and television arts. Performance is an integral part of the training program, and students, faculty and guest artists present more than 400 public performances and screenings annually in the School’s facilities in Winston-Salem, as well as across the state and the Southeast, in major U.S. cities and overseas. School of the Arts alumni have performed in or behind the scenes of Broadway shows, film, television and regional theatre, and are members of the world’s finest symphony orchestras and opera and dance companies. They have won or been nominated for all of the major awards in the entertainment industry, including Tony, Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and others. Among the best-known are Gillian Murphy, principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre; Deidrich Bader (that guy from the Drew Carey Show); Tony Fanning, art director for theatre and film (War of the Worlds); Mary-Louise Parker, Tony Award-winning actress (“Proof”); David Gordon Green, filmmaker (George Washington, All the Real Girls; and Lisa Kim, violinist with the New York Philharmonic.