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Gene Wilder (1933-2016)
actor, film director, comedian, television actor, film producer, stage actor, diarist, director
- University of Iowa, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Quentin Tarantino (born 1963)
actor, film director, film producer, film actor, film editor, television actor, director
Frank Miller (born 1957)
film director, actor, executive producer, film actor, comics artist
Penn Jillette (born 1955)
radio personality, actor, circus performer, jongleur, television actor, podcaster, comedian, musician, magician, illusionist, film actor, film director
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
Matt Groening (born 1954)
animator, film producer, comics artist, actor, cartoonist
- Evergreen State College
Elaine Lee
playwright, record producer, stage actor, colorist, actor, comics creator
- State University of New York at New Paltz, Stephens College
Dean Lorey (born 1967)
actor, television director, television producer
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (born 1973)
playwright, comics artist, television producer, theatrical producer, executive producer, actor, librettist, showrunner
- Georgetown University, Yale School of Drama