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Revision as of 21:10, 7 May 2011
This is a list of famous people affiliated with Bennington College, including graduates/former students, and faculty.
Notable former students
- Alan Arkin
- Brooks Ashmanskas, Broadway performer, seven shows including Gypsy, The Producers and Little Me
- Larry Atlas, star of Cruising
- Rachel Barenblat
- Mark Barnes, public health law expert and prominent attorney
- Chris Barron, lead singer of Spin Doctors
- Bruce Berman, chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures; executive producer of The Matrix, among others (attended Bennington but did not graduate)
- John Billingsley, actor, best known for playing Dr. Phlox on Enterprise (recent Star Trek series)
- Ardan Michael Blum, director of a national charity in Switzerland
- Chris Bowen of Blue Man Group
- Carolyn Cassady
- Carol Channing
- Merce Cunningham
- Tim Daly
- Sean Daniel, film producer, who as a young executive brought "Animal House" and the first generation of Saturday Night Live stars to the screen for Universal.
- Richard Deacon, actor best known for playing Mel Cooley on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and Fred Rutherford on "Leave It To Beaver"
- Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.
- Peter Dinklage (1969-) actor.[1]
- Bill Dixon, free jazz pioneer
- Andrea Dworkin
- Mary Early
- Jill Eisenstadt
- Bret Easton Ellis, author
- Betty Ford, attended the Bennington School of Dance (summer only)
- Ruth Ann Fredenthal, painter, recipient of first Fulbright from Bennington
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Joel Garland 1
- Anna Gaskell, photographer
- Tod Goldberg
- Kathy Halbreich, director of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- Baird Hersey, musician and composer of twelve albums.
- Katherine Holabird, author of the Angelina Ballerina children's books
- Karen Houppert
- Alexandra Hughes, opera singer and singer-songwriter of comic songs on Prairie Home Companion
- Thomas Hughes, musician, of The Spinto Band
- Sam Hughes, musician, of The Spinto Band
- Yasmin Aga Khan
- Roger Kimball
- Mitchell Kriegman (TV writer/producer Clarissa Explains it All, Bear in the Big Bluehouse]])
- Jonathan Lethem
- James Levin, founder, Cleveland Public Theatre
- Harvey Lichtenstein
- Ben Mack, author
- Sally Mann
- Mitch Markowitz, television producer and writer
- Tom Matthews, Wine Spectator
- Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, President of Marlboro College
- Leslie McGrath
- Kathleen Norris, author of books on spirituality
- Thomas Ollendorff, visionary painter
- Michael Pollan (of the New York Times)
- Wendy Perron, editor-in-chief of Dance Magazine
- Anne Ramsey, Academy Award nominated actress
- Mary Ruefle, graduated 1974
- Tom Sachs (artist), artist
- Bradford L. Schlei, film producer
- Sam Schulman, writer, co-founder of Wigwag (magazine) and The American: A Magazine of Ideas for Business Leaders, and frequent contributor to Commentary and The Wall Street Journal
- Jonathan Marc Sherman
- Miles Simon, hip-hop artist, known as Meters to the public.
- Brix Smith, alternative rock musician
- Marc Spitz, novelist, playwright, and journalist
- Jared Paul Stern
- Rider Strong
- Elizabeth Swados, author/composer of Runaways
- Niloufar Talebi
- Donna Tartt
- Holland Taylor, Emmy Award winning actress
- Justin Theroux
- Joan Tower, composer
- Anne Waldman, poet
- Paula Jean Welden, of Dewey House, Bennington College, whose disappearance, aged 18, on December 1, 1946 remains unsolved.
- Christopher Wigle, Associate Artistic Director, Huntington Theatre, Boston
- Alec Wilkinson (of The New Yorker)
- Stanley Zappa, musician
- Marian Zazeela
Notable current faculty
- April Bernard
- Sven Birkerts
- Kitty Brazelton
- Susan Cheever
- Ronald L. Cohen
- Bernard Cooper
- Mansour Farhang
- Marguerite Feitlowitz
- David Gates
- Amy Gerstler
- Becky Godwin
- Milford Graves
- Donald Hall
- Amy Hempel
- Major Jackson
- Bret Anthony Johnston
- Dinah Lenney
- Timothy Liu
- Phillip Lopate
- Mac Maharaj
- Wyatt Mason
- Honor Moore
- Brian Morton
- Ed Ochester
- Laura Parnes
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- Allen Shawn
- Bruce Williamson
- Mark Wunderlich
- Paul Yoon
Notable former faculty
- W. H. Auden gave a series of lectures on Shakespeare in the spring of 1946 and resided in the Leigh house faculty apartment.
- Steven Bach
- Eric Bentley
- Henry Brant, American composer
- Kenneth Burke, critic
- Louis Calabro, American composer
- Sir Anthony Caro, British sculptor
- Nicholas Delbanco, novelist and director of the Bennington Writers' Workshop
- Bill Dixon, musician
- Peter Drucker, management guru and writer
- Paul Feeley, American painter
- Francis Fergusson, French scholar and translator
- Buckminster Fuller
- John Gardner,[disambiguation needed] novelist
- Martha Graham, dancer
- Lucy Grealy, American poet and writer
- Clement Greenberg, art ritic and historian
- Richard Haas, artist
- Stanley Edgar Hyman (whose wife Shirley Jackson used settings in and around Bennington College in her famous short story "The Lottery")
- Edward Hoagland, writer
- Lyman Kipp, sculptor
- Stanley Kunitz, American poet
- Ronnie Landfield, painter, (guest instructor) 1968
- Bernard Malamud, novelist
- Harry Mathews, poet, novelist, essayist
- Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer
- Roland Merullo, author
- Christopher Miller, author
- Howard Nemerov, American poet
- Kenneth Noland, Painter
- Jules Olitski, painter
- Mary Oliver, American poet
- Camille Paglia
- John Plumb, painter
- Jackson Pollock's first retrospective was held at Bennington in 1952.
- Larry Poons, painter
- Theodore Roethke
- Stanley Rosen, American ceramicist, formerly studio manager at the Greenwich House Pottery in the 1950s
- Stephen Sandy, poet
- Joel Shapiro, New York sculptor
- Barbara Herrnstein Smith, professor and author
- David Smith, sculptor
- Michael Todd, sculptor
- Glen Van Brummelen, Historian of Mathematics, former president of Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, founding faculty member of Quest University
- Isaac Witkin, sculptor
- Robert Woodworth, botanist and pioneer of time-lapse photography
References
- ^ Smith, Dinitia. "Dark, Handsome And Short; Star of a Sundance Hit Is Ready for an Encore", The New York Times, October 2, 2003. Accessed December 7, 2007. "Mr. Dinklage, who grew up in Mendham, N.J., said he first realized he was different when he was 5.... Mr. Dinklage attended the Delbarton School, a Catholic boys' school in Morristown, N.J., which was strongly sports-oriented.... Mr. Dinklage credits Mr. Dougherty with helping to get him into Bennington College in Vermont."