Performing artists work in multimedia entertainment, television and film, and perform in a variety of roles associated with acting, playwriting, casting, directing and management.

- Actor
- Art director
- Casting director
- Choreographer
- Director
- Dramatic coach
- Impersonator

- Model
- Novelist
- Playwright/scriptwriter
- Producer
- Professor
- Publicist
- Scenic designer

- Set designer
- Stage manager
- Stuntman/stuntwoman
- Technical director
- Theater consultant
- TV anchor
- Voiceover talent
SCAD graduates are in demand at the United States' most recognized companies. Each year, more than 175 companies and organizations visit SCAD to meet and recruit our students and alumni. More than eight out of 10 SCAD 2008 alumni surveyed had been placed in jobs in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.
Some employers of SCAD performing arts alumni
- 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