List of Sarah Lawrence College people
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
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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 [38]
- Alice Cohen, singer and songwriter [39]
- Margaret Fiedler, vocalist / multi-instrumentalist with Laika, Moonshake and PJ Harvey [40]
- Elliott Goldkind, composer [41]
- Lesley Gore, singer and songwriter [42]
- Susie Ibarra, Jazz composer and avant-garde musician [43]
- Ira Kaplan, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of the band Yo La Tengo [44]
- Zoë Keating, cellist from the band Rasputina[45]
- Stacey Kent, jazz vocalist [46]
- Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter and member of the band Old 97's [47]
- JD Samson, member of the band Le Tigre [48]
- Kamala Sankaram, singer and accordion player for the band Squeezebox [49]
- Girlyman members Nate Borofsky, Ty Greenstein and Doris Muramatsu, folk-rock trio
- Carly Simon, singer and songwriter [50]
- Joanna Simon, vocalist [51]
Politics and public service
- Brooke Anderson, VP Communications, The Nuclear Threat Initiative [52]
- Lisa Anderson, scholar [53]
- Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning [54]
- Rahm Emanuel, U.S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois [4]
- Sharon Hom, director of Human Rights in China [55]
- Sue Kelly, U.S. House of Representatives, 19th Congressional District of New York [56]
Writing and poetics
- Carolyn Ferrell, writer [57]
- Amanda Foreman, award-winning biographer [58]
- Karl Taro Greenfeld, journalist and author [59]
- Rebecca Godfrey, novelist [60]
- Louise Gluck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former Poet Laureate of the United States [61]
- Lucy Grealy, Irish memoirist and poet
- Justin Haythe, novelist and screenwriter
- Kaui Hart Hemmings, writer
- A.M. Homes, writer [62]
- Nancy Huston, Canadian author who writes primarily in French
- Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
- Joan W. Konner, Dean of Columbia School of Journalism [63]
- 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 [64]
- Ann Patchett, award-winning author [65]
- Anne Roiphe, novelist and essayist
- Esmeralda Santiago, Puerto Rican writer [66]
- Alice Sheldon, who published science fiction as James Tiptree, Jr.
- Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Color Purple[4] [67]
Visual and performing arts
- Jean Erdman - dancer and wife of Joseph Campbell[68]
- John Jasperse - choreographer, dancer, and artist [69]
- Susan Meiselas, photographer [70]
- Linda McCartney, photographer; was married to musician Paul McCartney [71]
- Meredith Monk, composer, singer and choreographer [72]
- David Netto, interior designer [73]
- Yoko Ono, conceptual artist; was married to John Lennon [74]
- Alec Soth, photographer [75]
- Vera Wang, fashion designer [76]
Other notable alumni
- Myra R. Drucker,former Chief Investment Officer,GM Trust Bank [77]
- Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, authority on West Nile Virus [78]
- Hope Cooke, wife of 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim[79]
- 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 [80]
- Brad Howes, renowned C++ and Python programmer currently at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Gloria Lau, founder/CEO Charles Schwab Tokio Marine [81]
- Blanche Lark Christerson, managing director of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management [82]
- Courtney McKenna, VP of Iridian Asset management (Bank of Ireland) [83]
- Deborah D. Rieman, CEO Checkpoint Software [84]
- Diana Schubart Heller, financial industry 'pioneer' [85]
- Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, academic and psychotherapist [86]
- Peggy Woodford Forbes, founder of Woodward Capital Management [87]
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 [88]
- Chester Biscardi, composer [89]
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist [90]
- Fawaz Gerges, Middle Eastern Affairs analyst for ABC news [91]
- Thomas Sayers Ellis, poet [92]
- Mark Helias, musician [93]
- Marie Howe, poet [94]
- Eduardo Lago, novelist and winner of the Premio Nadal [95]
- Tom Lux, poet [96]
- Maria Negroni, poet [97]
- Karen Nimereala, opera singer, teaches at Sarah Lawrence's campus in Paris, France[98]
- Gilberto Perez, author, film historian [99]
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, economist [100]
- Joel Sternfeld, photographer [101]
- Matilde Zimmermann, political activist and former U.S. Presidential candidate [102]
Former
- Glenda Adams, novelist
- Léonie Adams, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States and mentor to Louise Gluck[103]
- 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 [104]
- Dorothy Delay, world-renowned violin teacher who also taught at the Juilliard School
- Mark Doty, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States[105]
- E.L. Doctorow, writer[4]
- Stephen Dobyns, poet [106]
- Cornelius Eady, poet [107]
- Dana Gioia, poet
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel Prize-winner in physics and one of only a few female winners of the prize [108]
- Paul Goodman, writer, anarchist, Gestalt Therapy contributor
- Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer
- Allan Gurganus, writer [109]
- Randall Jarrell, poet and writer [110]
- Norman Dello Joio, Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy Award-winning composer. Taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1944-50
- Mary Karr, poet and writer [111]
- Randall Kenan, writer
- Galway Kinnell, poet [112]
- Jane Kramer, Emmy Award-winning journalist
- Wilford Leach, Tony Award-winning director and screenwriter
- Max Lerner, journalist
- Paul Lisicky, poet [113]
- 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 [114]
- Muriel Rukeyser, poet and political activist who, while teaching at Sarah Lawrence, helped student Alice Walker publish her first works [115]
- Theodore Roszak, sculptor [116]
- Susan Sontag, leftist intellectual, essayist, novelist, and activist [117]
- William Schuman, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and former director of the Juilliard School. Taught at Sarah Lawrence from 1935-45 [118]
- Jean Valentine, National Book Award-winning poet [119]
- Caroline F. Ware, New Deal activist
- Marguerite Yourcenar, writer [120]
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