Jesse Carlo, PhD, assistant professor and chair at ÌÒñ«ÉçÇø's Sands College of Performing Arts, is lighting up the stage and inspiring our students to reach for the stars. From Broadway to the classroom, we're taking audacious steps in the world of musical theater with our unique Life Experience Route.
Sands College: Where You've Seen Us
Sands College of Performing Arts students learn to navigate the industry from day one. In addition to designing, choreographing, stage managing, directing, and forming theater ensembles around the world, here’s where you’ve recently seen us.
Broadway
- & Juliet
- A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical
- After Midnight
- Ain’t Too Proud
- Aladdin
- Almost Famous
- American Psycho
- Back to the Future The Musical
- Be More Chill
- Bridges of Madison County
- Bring It On
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Caroline, Or Change
- Carousel
- Cats
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes
- Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour
- Dear Evan Hanson
- Diana
- Disney’s Frozen on Broadway
- Escape to Margaritaville
- Gettin’ the Band Back Together
- Hadestown
- Hair
- Hamilton
- Head Over Heels
- Hello, Dolly!
- Here Lies Love
- How To Dance In Ohio
- Ink
- Jagged Little Pill
- Kimberly Akimbo
- Merrily We Roll Along
- Miss Saigon
- MJ The Musical
- Motown the Musical
- Moulin Rouge! The Musical
- Mrs. Doubtfire
- Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
- Newsies
- On the Town
- Once On This Island
- Once Upon a One More Time
- Parade
- Pretty Woman
- Shuffle Along
- Some Like It Hot
- Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- The Book of Mormon
- The Ferryman
- The Prom
- The Tina Turner Musical
- Waitress
- West Side Story
- Wicked
Selected TV
- 9-1-1: Lone Star (Fox)
- Big Sky (ABC)
- Blue Bloods (CBS)
- Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
- Bull (CBS)
- Chicago Fire (NBC)
- Chicago Justice (NBC)
- Combat Hospital (ABC)
- Criminal Minds (CBS)
- Daisy Jones & The Six (Amazon Prime)
- Deadbeat (Hulu)
- Difficult People (Hulu)
- Gossip Girl (MAX)
- Gotham (FOX)
- Grease LIVE (Fox)
- Hawaii Five-0 (CBS)
- Homeland (Showtime)
- Instinct (CBS)
- Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
- Less Than Zero (Hulu)
- Madam Secretary (CBS)
- Mildred Pierce (HBO)
- Modern Love (Amazon Prime)
- Mr. Robot (USA)
- Murder in the First (TNT)
- NOS4A2 (AMC)
- Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
- Pose (FX)
- Royal Pains (USA)
- Saturday Night Live (NBC)
- Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (FX)
- Shameless (Showtime)
- Show Me a Hero (HBO)
- Swarm (Amazon Prime)
- The Americans (FX)
- The Blacklist (NBC)
- The Deuce (HBO)
- The Get Down (Netflix)
- The Good Fight (CBS)
- The Knick (Cinemax)
- The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (Amazon Prime)
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime)
- The Mayor (ABC)
- The Mysteries of Laura (NBC)
- The Path (Hulu)
- The Sound of Music LIVE (NBC)
- The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime)
- The Voice (NBC)
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)
- Younger (TV Land)
Selected Film
- Adam
- Black Panther
- Judas and the Black Messiah
- Life Itself
- Love is Love (short)
- Mapplethorpe
- Miller & Son
- Moonrise Kingdom
- My Friend Dahmer
- Night Comes On
- Rebel in the Rye
- Ruta Vita
- Satanic Panic
- Swallowed
- Tangerine
- The Hate U Give
- The Immigrant
- The Subject
- They/Them
- Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
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