There are a lot of people from our area that are working in the business, not all famous.  We have quite a few in the Twin Cities, Chicago and New York.  As far as our area of Iowa, Annabeth Gish was a co-chair of our fund raising campaign in '93-'94.  Gary Kroeger appeared in a couple of our shows recently and he was on Saturday Night Live '82-'85.  Tom Pardoe directed & choreographed our Pippin two years ago.  He appeared at Carnegie Hall, several Broadway shows and teaches at UCLA's musical theatre summer camp.  Robert James Waller ("Bridges Over Madison County" author) taught at our college.  Nancy Price is theatre patron & contributor and she wrote "Sleeping With the Enemy" (book and made into a movie with Julia Roberts).   Mark Nadler is a singer/songwriter & pianist in New york and won several New York MAC Awards.