Students

This is the place to check out what's going on with PGT actors, both current and alumni. If you have info you would like to see listed about a PGT student, e-mail us.

• You can find Michael Backes on tour again in a play featuring one of America's favorite kidergarteners, Junie B. Jones!
• Congratulations to PGT graduate Michael Backes who was cast as Ren in the National Tour of Footloose.
• Congratulations to PGT graduate Kelly Levesque, who has signed with Reprise Records a Warner Brothers music label. We look forward to her debut album which should come out by summer 2001! Hear some excerpts at Kelly's website, www.kellylevesque.com.
• PGT graduate Lisa Clair recently produced, directed and performed in The Glass Menagerie. Lisa is currently studying at Bard University and will return to PGT as a teaching artist to share her studies in and love for theatre with the 2001 summer students.
• Check out PGT graduate Jason Siegel's PGT FAN CLUB. He has designed a web page dedicated to the appreciation of PGT. On his site, you can see lots of pictures, hear some sounds, and even view a couple of movies!
• Thank you to the 1999 Graduates for their founding and large contribution to the Play Group Piggy Bank, and their heartfelt poem "All I Really Need To Know I Learned From PGT."
• Along the same lines, we'd like to wish those graduates the best of luck in college. Lisa will be at Bard College, Ellie will be at Skidmore College, Ari will be at Cornell University, Danielle will be studying at Brown University and traveling to India, Caroline will be at Boston University, and Jason will be at Brown University.