List of Sarah Lawrence College people
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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.
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
- Damani Baker, film director
- Golden Brooks, actress [3]
- Yancy Butler, actress [4]
- Austin Chick, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
- Jill Clayburgh, Academy Award-nominated actress [5]
- Brian De Palma, film director
- Cary Elwes, actor
- Rachel Feldman, screenwriter and director
- Tovah Feldshuh, actress [6]
- 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 [7]
- Katharine Houghton Grant, actress [8]
- 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[9]
- 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
- 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, attended but did not graduate
- Andrew Butler, member of Hercules and Love Affair
- Win Butler, lead vocalist and songwriter for the band Arcade Fire, attended, but did not graduate
- 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[10]
- Stacey Kent, jazz vocalist
- Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter and member of the band Old 97's attended, but did not graduate.
- Mari Rosa, singer/songwriter/pianist
- JD Samson, member of the band Le Tigre
- Kamala Sankaram, singer and accordion player for the band Squeezebox
- Girlyman members Nate Borofsky, Ty Greenstein and Doris Muramatsu, folk-rock trio
- Carly Simon, singer and songwriter
- Joanna Simon, vocalist
Politics and public service
- Lisa Anderson, scholar [11]
- Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning [12]
- Rahm Emanuel, U.S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois [2]
- Sharon Hom, director of Human Rights in China [13]
- Sue Kelly, U.S. House of Representatives, 19th Congressional District of New York [14]
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
- 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]
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
- 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
Other notable alumni
- Hope Cooke, wife of 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim[15]
- 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 faculty
- William Anderson, musician
- Chester Biscardi, composer
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist
- Fawaz Gerges, Middle Eastern Affairs analyst for ABC news
- Thomas Sayers Ellis, poet
- Mark Helias, musician
- Marie Howe, poet
- Eduardo Lago, novelist and winner of the Premio Nadal
- Tom Lux, poet
- Maria Negroni, poet
- Karen Nimereala, opera singer, teaches at Sarah Lawrence's campus in Paris, France
- Gilberto Perez, author, film historian
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, economist
- Joel Sternfeld, photographer
- Matilde Zimmermann, political activist and former U.S. Presidential candidate
Former faculty
- Glenda Adams, novelist
- Léonie Adams, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States and mentor to Louise Gluck
- 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
- Dorothy Delay, world-renowned violin teacher who also taught at the Juilliard School
- Mark Doty, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States
- E.L. Doctorow, writer[2]
- Stephen Dobyns, poet
- Cornelius Eady, poet
- 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
- Norman Dello Joio, Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy Award-winning composer. Taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1944-50
- Mary Karr, poet and writer
- Randall Kenan, writer
- Galway Kinnell, poet
- Jane Kramer, Emmy Award-winning journalist
- Wilford Leach, Tony Award-winning director and screenwriter
- Max Lerner, journalist
- Paul Lisicky, poet
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ^ Golden Brooks's biography on filmbug
- ^ Yancy Bulter at TV.com
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Fall 06
- ^ Tovah Feldshuh website
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Spring 06
- ^ Katharine Houghton at TV.com
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Spring 05
- ^ Zoe Keating.com
- ^ 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
- ^ "About New York" The New York Times, February 24, 1993