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Since its founding in [[1926]], the College has awarded some 15,000 degrees in both graduate and undergraduate disciplines. Below is a list of some of the College's more recognizable graduates, organized by field. |
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The following is a list of notable individuals associated with [[Sarah Lawrence College]] through attendance as a student, or service as a member of the faculty or staff. |
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==Alumni== |
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=== Entertainment and media === |
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The following is a list of notable individuals associated with Sarah Lawrence College through attendance as a student, or service as a member of the faculty or staff.
Alumni
Entertainment and media
- David Lindsay-Abaire, award-winning playwright and screenwriter [1]
- J.J. Abrams, Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, and director
- Abiola Abrams, TV personality, writer & filmmaker
- Jane Alexander, actress, author, & former director of the National Endowment for the Arts [2]
- Dan Appel, filmmaker
- Jon Avnet, film producer, director, and writer [3]
- Damani Baker, film director [4]
- Golden Brooks, actress [5]
- Yancy Butler, actress [6]
- Austin Chick, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
- Jill Clayburgh, Academy Award-nominated actress [7]
- Brian De Palma, film director [8]
- Cary Elwes, actor
- Rachel Feldman, screenwriter and director
- Tovah Feldshuh, actress [9]
- Carrie Fisher, actress, attended
- Robin Givens, actress
- Adam Goldberg, actor, attended, but did not graduate
- Leslie Grossman, actress most notable for her role on the WB's Popular as Mary Cherry and the CW's What I Like About You.
- Sanaa Hamri, music video director [10]
- Katharine Houghton Grant, actress [11]
- Lauren Holly, actress
- Janine Jackson, journalist and activist
- Reo Jones, voice actor
- Sarah Kernochan, writer, producer, and director
- Scott King, television writer
- Téa Leoni, actress
- Eric Mabius, actor
- Julianna Margulies, actress
- Ivy Meeropol, film director[12]
- Larisa Oleynik, actress
- Wynn Padula, writer, director, cinematographer
- Jordan Peele
- Sam Robards, actor
- Amy Robinson, film producer and actress
- Holly Robinson Peete, actress
- Elisabeth Röhm, actress [13]
- Joan Micklin Silver, award-winning director
- Sabiha Sumar, director
- Misti Traya, actress
- Guinevere Turner, actress, producer, and writer
- Barbara Walters, television personality [2]
- Joanne Woodward, actress/political activist[2]
- Sal Borriello, writer,boxer
Music
- Max Bemis, singer and songwriter for the band Say Anything [14]
- Andrew Butler, member of Hercules and Love Affair [15]
- Win Butler, lead vocalist and songwriter for the band Arcade Fire [16]
- Abigail Chapman, vocalist
- Alice Cohen, singer and songwriter
- Margaret Fiedler, vocalist / multi-instrumentalist with Laika, Moonshake and PJ Harvey
- Elliott Goldkind, composer
- Lesley Gore, singer and songwriter
- Susie Ibarra, Jazz composer and avant-garde musician
- Ira Kaplan, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of the band Yo La Tengo
- Zoë Keating, cellist from the band Rasputina[17]
- Stacey Kent, jazz vocalist
- Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter and member of the band Old 97's [18]
- Mari Rosa, singer/songwriter/pianist
- JD Samson, member of the band Le Tigre [19]
- Kamala Sankaram, singer and accordion player for the band Squeezebox [20]
- Girlyman members Nate Borofsky, Ty Greenstein and Doris Muramatsu, folk-rock trio
- Carly Simon, singer and songwriter
- Joanna Simon, vocalist
Politics and public service
- Brooke Anderson, VP Communications, The Nuclear Threat Initiative [21]
- Lisa Anderson, scholar [22]
- Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning [23]
- Rahm Emanuel, U.S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois [2]
- Sharon Hom, director of Human Rights in China [24]
- Sue Kelly, U.S. House of Representatives, 19th Congressional District of New York [25]
Writing and poetics
- Carolyn Ferrell, writer
- Amanda Foreman, award-winning biographer
- Karl Taro Greenfeld, journalist and author
- Rebecca Godfrey, novelist
- Louise Gluck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former Poet Laureate of the United States
- Lucy Grealy, Irish memoirist and poet
- Justin Haythe, novelist and screenwriter
- Kaui Hart Hemmings, writer
- A.M. Homes, writer
- Nancy Huston, Canadian author who writes primarily in French
- Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
- Christian Kracht, Swiss writer
- David Lindsay-Abaire, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
- Bennett Madison, writer
- Jeffrey McDaniel, poet
- Brian Morton, novelist
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist
- Sharyn November, editor
- Ann Patchett, award-winning author [26]
- Anne Roiphe, novelist and essayist
- Esmeralda Santiago, Puerto Rican writer
- Alice Sheldon, who published science fiction as James Tiptree, Jr.
- Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Color Purple[2] [27]
Visual and performing arts
- Jean Erdman - dancer and wife of Joseph Campbell
- John Jasperse - choreographer, dancer, and artist
- Susan Meiselas, photographer
- Linda McCartney, photographer; was married to musician Paul McCartney
- Meredith Monk, composer, singer and choreographer [28]
- David Netto, interior designer
- Yoko Ono, conceptual artist; was married to John Lennon, attended, but did not graduate
- Alec Soth, photographer
- Vera Wang, fashion designer [29]
Other notable alumni
- Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, authority on West Nile Virus [30]
- Hope Cooke, wife of 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim[31]
- Cornelia Fort, pioneer aviatrix who became the first female pilot to die on war duty in America history
- Brad Howes, renowned C++ and Python programmer currently at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, academic and psychotherapist, attended, but did not graduate
Fictional alumni
- Loyd, of the HBO dramedy, Entourage
- Gil Chesterton, of the sitcom Frasier
- Karen Walker, of the sitcom Will & Grace
- Kat Stratford, in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You
Faculty
Current
- William Anderson, musician [32]
- Chester Biscardi, composer [33]
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist [34]
- Fawaz Gerges, Middle Eastern Affairs analyst for ABC news [35]
- Thomas Sayers Ellis, poet [36]
- Mark Helias, musician [37]
- Marie Howe, poet [38]
- Eduardo Lago, novelist and winner of the Premio Nadal [39]
- Tom Lux, poet [40]
- Maria Negroni, poet [41]
- Karen Nimereala, opera singer, teaches at Sarah Lawrence's campus in Paris, France[42]
- Gilberto Perez, author, film historian [43]
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, economist [44]
- Joel Sternfeld, photographer [45]
- Matilde Zimmermann, political activist and former U.S. Presidential candidate [46]
Former
- Glenda Adams, novelist
- Léonie Adams, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States and mentor to Louise Gluck[47]
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Peter Cameron, novelist
- Joseph Campbell, world-renowned cultural historian and critic of mythology[2]
- Suzanne Chazin, novelist
- Billy Collins, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States [48]
- Dorothy Delay, world-renowned violin teacher who also taught at the Juilliard School
- Mark Doty, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States[49]
- E.L. Doctorow, writer[2]
- Stephen Dobyns, poet [50]
- Cornelius Eady, poet [51]
- Dana Gioia, poet
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel Prize-winner in physics and one of only a few female winners of the prize
- Paul Goodman, writer, anarchist, Gestalt Therapy contributor
- Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer
- Allan Gurganus, writer
- Randall Jarrell, poet and writer [52]
- Norman Dello Joio, Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy Award-winning composer. Taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1944-50
- Mary Karr, poet and writer [53]
- Randall Kenan, writer
- Galway Kinnell, poet [54]
- Jane Kramer, Emmy Award-winning journalist
- Wilford Leach, Tony Award-winning director and screenwriter
- Max Lerner, journalist
- Paul Lisicky, poet [55]
- Valerie Martin, writer
- David Maslanka, composer
- Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer
- Nikita Mikros, computer programmer and game designer
- Grace Paley, poet, fiction writer, and political activist who in 2004 was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Sarah Lawrence College [2]
- Santha Rama Rau, writer
- Muriel Rukeyser, poet and political activist who, while teaching at Sarah Lawrence, helped student Alice Walker publish her first works [56]
- Theodore Roszak, sculptor
- Susan Sontag, leftist intellectual, essayist, novelist, and activist
- William Schuman, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and former director of the Juilliard School. Taught at Sarah Lawrence from 1935-45
- Jean Valentine, National Book Award-winning poet [57]
- Caroline F. Ware, New Deal activist
- Marguerite Yourcenar, writer
References
- ^ "A Mind Akimbo":South Coast Repertory.org
- ^ a b c d e f g h The New York Times, September 6, 1998
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ Golden Brooks's biography on filmbug
- ^ Yancy Bulter at TV.com
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Fall 06
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ Tovah Feldshuh website
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Spring 06
- ^ Katharine Houghton at TV.com
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Spring 05
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ http://www.thetabworld.com/Say_Anything_biography.html
- ^ http://www.timeout.com/london/music/features/4342/Hercules_And_Love_Affair-interview.html
- ^ http://stereogum.com/archives/win-butler-weighs-in-on-barack-hillary_007715.html
- ^ Zoe Keating.com
- ^ http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/2774/feature/music/authorsongwriter_rhett_miller
- ^ http://www.discogs.com/artist/JD+Samson
- ^ http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/199711/classacts.asp
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/la8-fac.html
- ^ http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.047d873163b300bc6c4451f401c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=nyc_photo_slide&catID=1194&doc_name=%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2Fbios%2Fbio_dcp.html
- ^ http://thepublicvoice.org/events/tunis05/speakers/
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ alumni.columbia.edu/learn/Lipkin_Bio_2007.pdf
- ^ "About New York" The New York Times, February 24, 1993
- ^ http://cygnusensemble.com/cms/content/view/12/35/
- ^ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/sarah_lawrence_college/index.html?query=BISCARDI,%20CHESTER&field=per&match=exact
- ^ http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au07/wonder-bukiet.html
- ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-53640277.html
- ^ thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/04/thomas-sayers-e.html
- ^ www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/6czf/
- ^ www.blueflowerarts.com/mhowe.html
- ^ http://pages.slc.edu/~elago/
- ^ www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/115
- ^ www.slc.edu/undergraduate/faculty.php?letter=N
- ^ www.karennimereala.com/biography.html
- ^ www.thenation.com/doc/20060327/perez
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/nyregion/16roosevelt.html?pagewanted=print&position=
- ^ www.slc.edu/undergraduate/faculty.php?letter=S
- ^ www.slc.edu/undergraduate/history/faculty.php
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DD1131F933A05755C0A96E948260
- ^ www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=80600
- ^ www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/94_95/dotybio.html
- ^ famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/stephen_dobyns
- ^ www.poets.org/ceady/
- ^ www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/301447/Randall-Jarre
- ^ www.poetryoutloud.org/poems/poet.html?id=3635
- ^ http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Sarah_Lawrence_College_-_President/id/2137960
- ^ www.sanmiguelpoetry.com/lisicky.htm
- ^ www.britannica.com/eb/article-9064399/Muriel-Rukeyse
- ^ [www.jeanvalentine.com/bio06.htm]