Performing artists work in multimedia entertainment, television and film, and perform in a variety of roles associated with acting, playwriting, casting, directing and management.
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- Actor
- Art director
- Casting director
- Choreographer
- Director
- Dramatic coach
- Impersonator
- Multimedia entertainer
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- Model
- Novelist
- Playwright/scriptwriter
- Producer
- Professor
- Publicist
- Scenic designer
- Stand-up comedian
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- Set designer
- Stage manager
- Stuntman/stuntwoman
- Technical director
- Theater consultant
- TV anchor
- Voiceover talent
- Performance artist
Annually, more than 500 national and international companies and organizations recruit SCAD students and alumni. Over the past four years, an average of 8 out of 10 SCAD alumni responding to a survey were employed in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.
Employers of SCAD alumni include:

- Avenue Q in Las Vegas
- Bread and Puppet Theater Company
- Clear Channel Communications Inc.
- CLI MB Theatre Company
- Colorado Shakespeare Festival
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- HBO Films
- Mali Finn Casting
- Martha Graham Dance Company
- New Jersey Shakespeare Festival
- New York International Fringe Festival
- Playbill
- Playwrights Horizons
- Roundabout Theatre Company
- "Saturday Night Live"
- Savannah Music Festival
- Shubert Organization
- Smithsonian Institution
- The Walt Disney Company
- Williamstown Theatre Festival