Every year, Playbill conducts an annual report on the top 10 colleges represented on Broadway through their alumni performers, we call it the School of the Stars. That feature is so popular that because of wide-spread demand, we've now created a separate report on creative team credits. The surprising thing is: the top results actually do vary. Still, one college stands at the top this year.

Both with our regular Big 10 report and this new, extended report on creative teams, New York University reigned as the most represented college in the 2022—23 Broadway season, with 57 alumni creatives credited on Broadway shows.

However, while the second and third most-represented colleges on our performer's list were University of Michigan and American Musical and Dramatic Academy, respectively; the second and third most represented in creative teams was Yale University, with 47 alumni working on Broadway shows, and Columbia University, with 17 alumni designers.

Still, wherever you choose to study, anyone can find their way to Broadway, whether from near or far. The majority of our data was comprised of people who attended colleges from all over the country and world: colleges like Victoria University of Wellington in Australia (A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical's Anthony McCarten), University of the Philippines Diliman (KPOP's Clint Ramos), or University of Glasgow in Scotland (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child's John Tiffany). Take a look and see if your school—or a school you're considering attending—made the list!

Editor's Note: For the purposes of this list, we looked at every creative team member who was credited on a Broadway show from May 5, 2022, through April 27, 2023, which runs from the deadline for Tony Awards eligibility for last season to the same for this season. This team members included directors, designers, choreographers, music directors, book writers, composers, lyricists, playwrights, and stage managers. Alumni working in shows that opened on or after April 27, 2023, will be included in next year's list. College attendance data was pulled from publicly available sources, including Playbill, internet-accessible résumés, and professional networking websites. The ranking below is based only on our count of alumni that performed on Broadway during the above range of dates.

1. New York University: Brenda Abbandandolo (Costume Design: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window), Masi Asare (Lyrics: Paradise Square), Gregg Barnes (Costume Design: Some Like It Hot, Aladdin), Chad Beguelin (Book: Aladdin), Vivienne Benesch (Director: Birthday Candles), David Bengali (Projection Design: 1776, The Thanksgiving Play), Robert Billig (Musical Director: Chicago), Beowulf Boritt (Scenic Design-Projection Design: New York, New York, Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool, Ohio State Murders, The Piano Lesson, Come From Away, POTUS), Stephen Brackett (Director: A Strange Loop), Ayodele Casel (Choreography: Funny Girl), Rachel Chavkin (Director: The Thanksgiving Play), Lap Chi Chu (Lighting Design: Camelot), Sarah Cimino (Make-up Design: Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Jane Cox (Lighting Design: Macbeth), Billy Crystal (Book: Mr. Saturday Night), Ty Defoe (Choreographer: The Minutes), Neil Diamond (Music-Lyrics: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical), Carolyn Downing (Sound Design: Life of Pi, Death of a Salesman), Fred Ebb (Music-Lyrics: New York, New York, Chicago), Sherman Edwards (Music-Lyrics: 1776), Sarita Fellows (Costume Design: Death of a Salesman), Tilly Grimes (Costume Design: Shucked), Lux Haac (Costume Design: The Thanksgiving Play), Susan Hilferty (Costume Design: Parade, Funny Girl, Wicked), Winnie Holzman (Book: Wicked), Robert Horn (Book: Shucked), Allen Lee Hughes (Lighting Design: Ohio State Murders, Topdog/Underdog), Michael R. Jackson (Music-Book-Lyrics: A Strange Loop), Nicole Johnson (Director: Sweeney Todd), Christine Jones (Scenic Design: Birthday Candles, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Macbeth), Cookie Jordan (Hair Design: Camelot, The Skin of Our Teeth), Robert Kaplowitz (Sound Design: Cost of Living), Moisés Kaufman (Director: Paradise Square), Bradley King (Lighting Design: Fat Ham, Hadestown), Lisa Kopitsky (Fight Director: Fat Ham), Kris Kukul (Music-Orchestrations: Beetlejuice), Justin Levine (Orchestrations: Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Arnulfo Maldonado (Scenic Design: Topdog/Underdog, A Strange Loop), Michael Mayer (Director: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, Funny Girl), Elaine J. McCarthy (Projection Design: Wicked), Alan Menken (Music: Aladdin), Jessica Pabst (Costume Design: Cost of Living), Helen Park (Music-Lyrics: KPOP), Michael J. Passaro (Production Stage Manager: Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Clint Ramos (Costume Design: KPOP), David West Read (Book: & Juliet), Janet Billig Rich (Music Supervision: Pictures From Home), Nevin Steinberg (Sound Design: Sweeney Todd, Dear Evan Hansen, Hadestown, Hamilton, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Rachel Sterner (Production Stage Manager: Almost Famous, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Matt Stine (Orchestrations: Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Sky Switser (Costume Design: Mr. Saturday Night), Paul Tazewell (Costume Design: Hamilton, MJ The Musical, Mr. Saturday Night), Nathan Tysen (Lyrics: Paradise Square), Brian Usifer (Orchestrations: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical), Max Vernon (Music-Lyrics: KPOP), Doug Wright (Playwright: Good Night, Oscar), Lauren Yalango-Grant (Choreography: Parade), David Zinn (Costume Design: Almost Famous, Kimberly Akimbo, Funny Girl, The Minutes)

2. Yale University: Christina Anderson (Book: Paradise Square), Dwight D. Andrews (Music: Ohio State Murders), Christopher Ash (Projection Design: New York, New York), Christopher Ashley (Director: Come From Away), Dede Ayite (Costume Design: Ohio State Murders, Topdog/Underdog, American Buffalo, How I Learned to Drive), John Lee Beatty (Scenic Design: Summer, 1976, Chicago, Plaza Suite), Montana Levi Blanco (Costume Design: The Skin of Our Teeth, A Strange Loop), Shawn E. Boyle (Projection Design: Paradise Square), Mark Brokaw (Director: How I Learned to Drive), Jiyoun Chang (Lighting Design: KPOP, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf), Wilson Chin (Scenic Design: Cost of Living), Linda Cho (Costume Design: Summer, 1976, Take Me Out, POTUS, Take Me Out), Sophia Choi (Costume Design: KPOP), Aaron Copp (Lighting Design: Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool), Leah C. Gardiner (Director: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf), Richard Greenberg (Playwright: Take Me Out, Take Me Out), Kai Harada (Sound Design: Kimberly Akimbo, New York, New York, Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool, Mr. Saturday Night), Palmer Hefferan (Sound Design: The Skin of Our Teeth), Carolina Ortiz Herrera (Lighting Design: Good Night, Oscar), Susan Hilferty (Costume Design: Parade, Funny Girl, Wicked), Donald Holder (Lighting Design: The Lion King, Paradise Square), Suttirat Larlarb (Costume Design: Macbeth), Eugene Lee (Scenic Design: Wicked), William Ivey Long (Costume Design: Beetlejuice, Chicago), Robert Lopez (Music-Book-Lyrics: The Book of Mormon), Santo Loquasto (Scenic Design-Costume Design: The Music Man), Martyna Majok (Playwright: Cost of Living), Derek McLane (Scenic Design: Almost Famous, MJ The Musical, Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Jennifer Moeller (Costume Design: Pictures From Home, Camelot), Lynn Nottage (Book: MJ The Musical), Scott Pask (Scenic Design: Shucked, Some Like It Hot, Ain’t No Mo’, 1776, American Buffalo, The Book of Mormon, Mr. Saturday Night), Austin Pendleton (Director: Between Riverside and Crazy), Bray Poor (Sound Design: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Take Me Out, Take Me Out), Adam Rigg (Scenic Design: The Skin of Our Teeth), Walt Spangler (Scenic Design: Between Riverside and Crazy), Peter Stone (Book: 1776), Alex Timbers (Director: Beetlejuice, Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Ken Travis (Sound Design: Aladdin), Sharon Washington (Book: New York, New York), Hannah Wasileski (Projection Design: The Skin of Our Teeth), Thornton Wilder (Playwright: The Skin of Our Teeth), Doug Wright (Playwright: Good Night, Oscar), Michael Yeargan (Scenic Design: Pictures From Home, Camelot), Donna Zakowska (Costume Design: New York, New York), Yi Zhao (Lighting Design: The Skin of Our Teeth), Catherine Zuber (Costume Design: Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Mrs. Doubtfire)

3. Columbia: Saheem Ali (Director: Fat Ham), Seth Barrish (Director: Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool), Rachel Chavkin (Director: The Thanksgiving Play), Fred Ebb (Music-Lyrics: New York, New York, Chicago), George Furth (Book: Company), Katori Hall (Book: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Rick Hip-Flores (Music Director: Bad Cinderella), John Kander (Music-Lyrics: New York, New York, Chicago), Adrienne Kennedy (Playwright: Ohio State Murders), Jason Kim (Book: KPOP), Tom Kitt (Music-Lyrics-Orchestrations: Almost Famous), Katie Kresek (Orchestrations: Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Frank Lombardi (Production Stage Manager: A Doll’s House), Jeffrey L. Page (Director-Choreography: 1776), Diane Paulus (Director: 1776), Ntozake Shange (Playwright: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf), Jeanine Tesori (Music: Kimberly Akimbo)

4. Julliard: Michael Arden (Director: A Christmas Carol, Parade), David Auburn (Playwright: Summer, 1976), Bryan Carter (Orchestrations: Some Like It Hot), Sam Gold (Director: Macbeth), Noah Haidle (Playwright: Birthday Candles), Katori Hall (Book: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), John Benjamin Hickey (Director: Plaza Suite), Andrea Hood (Costume Design: Into the Woods), Lorin Latarro (Choreographer: Into the Woods, Mrs. Doubtfire), Mitchell Lemsky (Production Stage Manager: The Phantom of the Opera), David Lindsay-Abaire (Book-Lyrics: Kimberly Akimbo), Martyna Majok (Playwright: Cost of Living), Darrell Grand Moultrie (Choreographer: Fat Ham), Lonny Price (Director: Walking with Ghosts), David West Read (Book: & Juliet), Otis Sallid (Choreography: The Piano Lesson), Jonathan Tunick (Orchestrations: Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, The Music Man)

Note: There is a tie between Juilliard and Columbia in the number of Broadway alum.

5. Brown University: Christina Anderson (Book: Paradise Square), John Lee Beatty (Scenic Design: Summer, 1976, Chicago, Plaza Suite), Vivienne Benesch (Director: Birthday Candles), Montana Levi Blanco (Costume Design: The Skin of Our Teeth, A Strange Loop), Amanda Green (Lyrics: Mr. Saturday Night), David Lai (Musical Director: The Phantom of the Opera), Steven Levenson (Book: Dear Evan Hansen), Danny Mefford (Choreographer: Kimberly Akimbo, Dear Evan Hansen), Lynn Nottage (Book: MJ The Musical), Alfred Uhry (Book: Parade)

6. Harvard University: Masi Asare (Lyrics: Paradise Square), Scott Brown (Book: Beetlejuice), Katori Hall (Book: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Lucy Mackinnon (Projection Design: A Christmas Carol), Derek McLane (Scenic Design: Almost Famous, MJ The Musical, Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Diane Paulus (Director: 1776), Nevin Steinberg (Sound Design: Sweeney Todd, Dear Evan Hansen, Hadestown, Hamilton, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Daniel Troob (Orchestrations: Aladdin)

7. University of North Carolina School of the Arts: Joe Mantello (Director: Wicked), Mark McCullough (Lighting Design: How I Learned to Drive), Johnny Milani (Production Stage Manager: New York, New York, POTUS), Camille A. Brown (Director-Choreographer: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf), Karen Moore (Production Stage Manager: Some Like It Hot, The Book of Mormon), Liz Printz (Associate Hair Design: Hamilton), Barclay Stiff (Production Stage Manager: Take Me Out, Take Me Out), Paul Tazewell (Costume Design: Hamilton, MJ The Musical, Mr. Saturday Night)

8. University of California San Diego: Erin Gioia Albrecht (Production Stage Manager: A Strange Loop), Robert Brill (Scenic Design: Dancin’), Dominique Fawn Hill (Costume Design: Fat Ham), Annie Le (Costume Design: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical), Paloma H. Young (Costume Design: & Juliet), Kamra A. Jacobs (Production Stage Manager: Topdog/Underdog, Fat Ham), Anne Kauffman (Director, The Sign in Sydney Brustein's Window), Michael Greif (Director: Dear Evan Hansen)

Note: There is a tie between Harvard, University of California San Diego, and North Carolina School of the Arts.

9. Northwestern University: Lap Chi Chu (Lighting Design: Camelot), Selina Fillinger (Playwright: POTUS), George Furth (Book: Company), Michael Greif (Director: Dear Evan Hansen), John Logan (Book: Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Matthew Spangler (Playwright: The Kite Runner), David Thompson (Book: New York, New York)

10. Boston University: Howard Ashman (Lyrics: Aladdin), Gregory T. Livoti (Production Stage Manager: The Phantom of the Opera), Craig Lucas (Book: Paradise Square), Alex Neumann (Sound Design: Into the Woods), Benjamin Pearcy (Projection Design: Camelot), Kenneth Posner (Lighting Design: Take Me Out, Beetlejuice, Mr. Saturday Night, Take Me Out, Wicked)

11. Princeton University: David Bengali (Projection Design: 1776, The Thanksgiving Play), Lileana Blain-Cruz (Director: The Skin of Our Teeth), Richard Greenberg (Playwright: Take Me Out, Take Me Out), Noah Haidle (Playwright: Birthday Candles), Winnie Holzman (Book: Wicked), Thornton Wilder (Playwright: The Skin of Our Teeth)

12. SUNY Purchase: Reid Bartelme (Costume Design: Dancin’), Lisa Dawn Cave (Production Stage Manager: The Lion King), David Grill (Lighting Design: Dancin’), Brian MacDevitt (Lighting Design: The Book of Mormon, The Minutes, The Music Man, Plaza Suite), Kenneth Posner (Lighting Design: Take Me Out, Beetlejuice, Mr. Saturday Night, Take Me Out, Wicked), Jen Schriever (Lighting Design: 1776, Death of a Salesman, Birthday Candles, A Strange Loop)

13. Oberlin College: Montana Levi Blanco (Costume Design: The Skin of Our Teeth, A Strange Loop), Rob Bowman (Musical Director: Chicago), John Kander (Music-Lyrics: New York, New York, Chicago), Natasha Katz (Lighting Design: Almost Famous, Some Like It Hot, Sweeney Todd, Aladdin, MJ The Musical), Charlie Rosen (Orchestrations: Some Like It Hot, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, A Strange Loop), Julie Taymor (Director-Costume Design-Lyrics: The Lion King)

Note: There's 13 on this list because there's a tie between Oberlin College, SUNY Purchase, Princeton, and Boston University.

Honorable Mentions:

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art: Natasha Chivers (Lighting Design: Prima Facie), Dave Hearn (Choreography: Peter Pan Goes Wrong), Henry Lewis (Playwright: Peter Pan Goes Wrong), Jonathan Sayer (Playwright: Peter Pan Goes Wrong), Henry Shields (Playwright: Peter Pan Goes Wrong)

Carnegie Mellon University: David Dabbon (Music: Dancin’), Peter Hylenski (Sound Design: Almost Famous, Dancin’, Beetlejuice, Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Eugene Lee (Scenic Design: Wicked), Ann Roth (Costume Design: The Book of Mormon), Stephen Schwartz (Music-Lyrics: Wicked)

The New School: Jill BC Du Boff (Sound Design: Summer, 1976), Jordan E. Cooper (Playwright: Ain’t No Mo’), Jason Kim (Book: KPOP), Sterling Overshown (Music: Ain’t No Mo’), Stevie Walker-Webb (Director: Ain’t No Mo’)

University of Michigan: Arthur Miller (Playwright: Death of a Salesman), Jack O’Brien (Director: Shucked), Benj Pasek (Music-Lyrics: Dear Evan Hansen), Justin Paul (Music-Lyrics: Dear Evan Hansen), Aaron Tacy (Lighting Design: Walking with Ghosts)

Please send any omissions to [email protected]. Rankings may change as more information is received.