 Theatreworks has a history of giving young actors, writers, directors, and designers their first professional break.Amongst the alumni are four-time Tony Award winning director Jerry Zaks, Robert Jess Roth ("Beauty and the Beast"), Michael Mayer ("Thoroughly Modern Millie"), Gabriel Barre; writers Marta Kauffman and David Crane (TV's "Friends"), Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty ("Ragtime", "Once on This Island"), Jason Robert Brown ("Parade"), Larry O'Keefe (""), Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx ("Avenue Q"); Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Disney's "Frozen", with Lopez); and Tony-winning actors Roger Bart, Chuck Cooper, John Lloyd Young, and John Glover.Esteemed performers Jesse Tyler Ferguson, F. Murray Abraham, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Henry Winkler, Kathryn Boule and Judy Kuhn also got their start with Theatreworks.