PCPA Conservatory
The Conservatory
PCPA Pacific Conservatory supports a unique, fully accredited vocational training program at Allan Hancock College for aspiring actors and theatre technicians. It is the only training program, with an Equity theatre company with fully integrated community college Career and Technical Education programs, in the country. PCPA has trained over 10,000 students in a program of practical and experimental training in the fields of acting and technical theater.
PCPA performs its winter/spring season in two theatres in Santa Maria, the 440-seat thrust Marian Theatre and the 204-seat flexible black box Severson Theatre. During the summer, the company also performs in the outdoor 700-seat Solvang Festival Theater.
Student Roster
1st Year Acting
2nd Year Acting
2nd Year Technical Theatre
Technical Theatre Interns
Alumni
Robin Williams
Zac Efron
Jessica Chastain
Kathy Bates
Vincent Rodriguez III
Kristin Stokes
Joanna Jones
Boyd Gaines
Patrick Page
Meami Maszewski
Dana Costello
Roddy Kennedy
Kelly McGillis
Richard L Hay
Harry Groener
Robert Blackman
Mercedes Ruehl
John Dexter
John Lacovelli
Sharen Davis
William Thomas Hodgson
