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*[[Jean Erdman]] - dancer and wife of [[Joseph Campbell]] |
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*[[John Jasperse]] - choreographer, dancer, and artist |
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*[[Susan Meiselas]], photographer |
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*[[Linda McCartney]], photographer; was married to musician [[Paul McCartney]] |
*[[Linda McCartney]], photographer; was married to musician [[Paul McCartney]] <ref>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04EFDB113CF933A15757C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all</ref> |
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*[[Meredith Monk]], composer, singer and choreographer <ref>http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php</ref> |
*[[Meredith Monk]], composer, singer and choreographer <ref>http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php</ref> |
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*[[David Netto]], interior designer |
*[[David Netto]], interior designer <ref>http://www.nettocollection.com/index.php?page=community</ref> |
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*[[Yoko Ono]], conceptual artist; was married to [[John Lennon]] |
*[[Yoko Ono]], conceptual artist; was married to [[John Lennon]] <ref>http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2002/06/21/30036.html</ref> |
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*[[Alec Soth]], photographer |
*[[Alec Soth]], photographer <ref>http://www.yossimilo.com/exhibitions/2004_03-alec_soth/</ref> |
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*[[Vera Wang]], fashion designer <ref>http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php</ref> |
*[[Vera Wang]], fashion designer <ref>http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php</ref> |
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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 [2]
- Abiola Abrams, TV personality, writer & filmmaker [3]
- Jane Alexander, actress, author, & former director of the National Endowment for the Arts [4]
- Dan Appel, filmmaker
- Jon Avnet, film producer, director, and writer [5]
- Damani Baker, film director [6]
- Golden Brooks, actress [7]
- Yancy Butler, actress [8]
- Austin Chick, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
- Jill Clayburgh, Academy Award-nominated actress [9]
- Brian De Palma, film director [10]
- Cary Elwes, actor [11]
- Rachel Feldman, screenwriter and director [12]
- Tovah Feldshuh, actress [13]
- Carrie Fisher, actress, attended [14]
- Robin Givens, actress [15] [16]
- Adam Goldberg, actor [17]
- 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 [18]
- Sanaa Hamri, music video director [19]
- Katharine Houghton Grant, actress [20]
- Lauren Holly, actress [21]
- Janine Jackson, journalist and activist [22]
- Reo Jones, voice actor [23]
- Sarah Kernochan, writer, producer, and director [24]
- Scott King, television writer
- Téa Leoni, actress [25]
- Eric Mabius, actor [26]
- Julianna Margulies, actress [27]
- Ivy Meeropol, film director [28]
- Larisa Oleynik, actress [29]
- Wynn Padula, writer, director, cinematographer [30]
- Jordan Peele, actor, comedian [31]
- Sam Robards, actor [32]
- Amy Robinson, film producer and actress
- Holly Robinson Peete, actress [33]
- Elisabeth Röhm, actress [34]
- Joan Micklin Silver, award-winning director
- Sabiha Sumar, director
- Misti Traya, actress
- Guinevere Turner, actress, producer, and writer
- Barbara Walters, television personality [4]
- Joanne Woodward, actress/political activist[4]
- Sal Borriello, writer,boxer
Music
- Max Bemis, singer and songwriter for the band Say Anything [35]
- Andrew Butler, member of Hercules and Love Affair [36]
- Win Butler, lead vocalist and songwriter for the band Arcade Fire [37]
- 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[38]
- Stacey Kent, jazz vocalist
- Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter and member of the band Old 97's [39]
- Mari Rosa, singer/songwriter/pianist
- JD Samson, member of the band Le Tigre [40]
- Kamala Sankaram, singer and accordion player for the band Squeezebox [41]
- 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 [42]
- Lisa Anderson, scholar [43]
- Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning [44]
- Rahm Emanuel, U.S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois [4]
- Sharon Hom, director of Human Rights in China [45]
- Sue Kelly, U.S. House of Representatives, 19th Congressional District of New York [46]
Writing and poetics
- Carolyn Ferrell, writer [47]
- Amanda Foreman, award-winning biographer [48]
- Karl Taro Greenfeld, journalist and author [49]
- Rebecca Godfrey, novelist [50]
- Louise Gluck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former Poet Laureate of the United States [51]
- Lucy Grealy, Irish memoirist and poet
- Justin Haythe, novelist and screenwriter
- Kaui Hart Hemmings, writer
- A.M. Homes, writer [52]
- Nancy Huston, Canadian author who writes primarily in French
- Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
- Joan W. Konner, Dean of Columbia School of Journalism [53]
- 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 [54]
- Ann Patchett, award-winning author [55]
- Anne Roiphe, novelist and essayist
- Esmeralda Santiago, Puerto Rican writer [56]
- Alice Sheldon, who published science fiction as James Tiptree, Jr.
- Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Color Purple[4] [57]
Visual and performing arts
- Jean Erdman - dancer and wife of Joseph Campbell[58]
- John Jasperse - choreographer, dancer, and artist [59]
- Susan Meiselas, photographer [60]
- Linda McCartney, photographer; was married to musician Paul McCartney [61]
- Meredith Monk, composer, singer and choreographer [62]
- David Netto, interior designer [63]
- Yoko Ono, conceptual artist; was married to John Lennon [64]
- Alec Soth, photographer [65]
- Vera Wang, fashion designer [66]
Other notable alumni
- Myra R. Drucker,former Chief Investment Officer,GM Trust Bank [67]
- Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, authority on West Nile Virus [68]
- Hope Cooke, wife of 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim[69]
- Cornelia Fort, pioneer aviatrix who became the first female pilot to die on war duty in America history
- Denise Hayman-Loa, head of pension coverage Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs [70]
- Brad Howes, renowned C++ and Python programmer currently at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Gloria Lau, founder/CEO Charles Schwab Tokio Marine [71]
- Blanche Lark Christerson, managing director of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management [72]
- Courtney McKenna, VP of Iridian Asset management (Bank of Ireland) [73]
- Deborah D. Rieman, CEO Checkpoint Software [74]
- Diana Schubart Heller, financial industry 'pioneer' [75]
- Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, academic and psychotherapist [76]
- Peggy Woodford Forbes, founder of Woodward Capital Management [77]
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 [78]
- Chester Biscardi, composer [79]
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist [80]
- Fawaz Gerges, Middle Eastern Affairs analyst for ABC news [81]
- Thomas Sayers Ellis, poet [82]
- Mark Helias, musician [83]
- Marie Howe, poet [84]
- Eduardo Lago, novelist and winner of the Premio Nadal [85]
- Tom Lux, poet [86]
- Maria Negroni, poet [87]
- Karen Nimereala, opera singer, teaches at Sarah Lawrence's campus in Paris, France[88]
- Gilberto Perez, author, film historian [89]
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, economist [90]
- Joel Sternfeld, photographer [91]
- Matilde Zimmermann, political activist and former U.S. Presidential candidate [92]
Former
- Glenda Adams, novelist
- Léonie Adams, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States and mentor to Louise Gluck[93]
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Peter Cameron, novelist
- Joseph Campbell, world-renowned cultural historian and critic of mythology[4]
- Suzanne Chazin, novelist
- Billy Collins, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States [94]
- Dorothy Delay, world-renowned violin teacher who also taught at the Juilliard School
- Mark Doty, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States[95]
- E.L. Doctorow, writer[4]
- Stephen Dobyns, poet [96]
- Cornelius Eady, poet [97]
- Dana Gioia, poet
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel Prize-winner in physics and one of only a few female winners of the prize [98]
- Paul Goodman, writer, anarchist, Gestalt Therapy contributor
- Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer
- Allan Gurganus, writer [99]
- Randall Jarrell, poet and writer [100]
- Norman Dello Joio, Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy Award-winning composer. Taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1944-50
- Mary Karr, poet and writer [101]
- Randall Kenan, writer
- Galway Kinnell, poet [102]
- Jane Kramer, Emmy Award-winning journalist
- Wilford Leach, Tony Award-winning director and screenwriter
- Max Lerner, journalist
- Paul Lisicky, poet [103]
- 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 [4]
- Santha Rama Rau, writer
- Muriel Rukeyser, poet and political activist who, while teaching at Sarah Lawrence, helped student Alice Walker publish her first works [104]
- 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 [105]
- Caroline F. Ware, New Deal activist
- Marguerite Yourcenar, writer
References
- ^ "A Mind Akimbo":South Coast Repertory.org
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ http://www.apbspeakers.com/themes/DefaultView/SpeakerPages/Abiola%20Abrams.aspx
- ^ 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
- ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/person/21754/Cary-Elwes
- ^ http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-color8jan08,1,657928,full.story
- ^ Tovah Feldshuh website
- ^ http://www.onthisveryspot.com/search.php?ss=Carrie_Fisher
- ^ http://www.cbn.com/700club/guests/bios/Robin_Givens061407.aspx
- ^ http://www.onthisveryspot.com/search.php?ss=Robin_Givens
- ^ http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/24196/personmain.jhtml
- ^ http://www.film.com/celebrities/leslie-grossman/14658020
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Spring 06
- ^ Katharine Houghton at TV.com
- ^ http://tv.yahoo.com/lauren-holly/contributor/28899/bio
- ^ http://www.aapf.org/focus/episodes/oct24.php
- ^ http://www.tv.com/reo-jones/person/156020/biography.html
- ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/person/97249/Sarah-Kernochan/biography
- ^ http://www.tribute.ca/people/T%E9a+Leoni/1493/8236
- ^ http://tv.yahoo.com/eric-mabius/contributor/32765/bio
- ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800229188/bio
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Spring 05
- ^ http://www.mahalo.com/Larisa_oleynik
- ^ http://scienceandfilm.org/filmmakers/wynn-padula
- ^ http://www.madtv.com/cast/jordanpeele.html
- ^ http://tv.yahoo.com/sam-robards/contributor/28707/bio
- ^ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89846234
- ^ 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/
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- ^ www.nypl.org/research/lpa/dan/pdf/DanERDMA.pdf
- ^ www.air.umd.edu/jasperse.html
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- ^ http://www.nettocollection.com/index.php?page=community
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- ^ http://nndb.com/people/750/000160270/
- ^ alumni.columbia.edu/learn/Lipkin_Bio_2007.pdf
- ^ "About New York" The New York Times, February 24, 1993
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- ^ SLC Magazine
- ^ http://cygnusensemble.com/cms/content/view/12/35/
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- ^ 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
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