Emmy Award-winning Ellen Cleghorne, Ph.D ’76 was the first full-fledged Black female Saturday Night Live cast member, noted for impressions of Anita Hill, Mary J. Blige, Whoopi Goldberg, and many others.

After runs in Tech musicals Hair, The Wiz, and Grease, La Toya Lewis ’01 graduated thinking, “If I could perform on that stage, I can perform on any stage in the world.”