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Revision as of 23:20, 5 March 2009
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, actor , author, & former director of the National Endowment for the Arts [4]
- Dan Appel, filmmaker
- Jon Avnet, film producer, director, and writer [2]
- Damani Baker, film director [2]
- Golden Brooks, actor [5]
- Yancy Butler, actor [6]
- Austin Chick, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
- Jill Clayburgh, Academy Award-nominated actor [7]
- Brian De Palma, film director [2]
- Cary Elwes, actor [8]
- Rachel Feldman, screenwriter and director [9]
- Tovah Feldshuh, actor [10]
- Carrie Fisher, actor [11]
- Robin Givens, actor [12] [13]
- Adam Goldberg, actor [14]
- Leslie Grossman, actor most notable for her role on the WB's Popular as Mary Cherry and the CW's What I Like About You [15]
- Sanaa Hamri, music video director [16]
- Katharine Houghton Grant, actor [17]
- Lauren Holly, actor [18]
- Janine Jackson, journalist and activist [19]
- Reo Jones, voice actor [20]
- Sarah Kernochan, writer, producer, and director [21]
- Scott King, television writer
- Téa Leoni, actor [22]
- Eric Mabius, actor [23]
- Julianna Margulies, actor [24]
- Ivy Meeropol, film director [25]
- Larisa Oleynik, actor [26]
- Wynn Padula, writer, director, cinematographer [27]
- Jordan Peele, actor, comedian [28]
- Sam Robards, actor [29]
- Amy Robinson, film producer and actress
- Holly Robinson Peete, actor [30]
- Elisabeth Röhm, actor [2]
- Kyra Minturn Sedgwick, actor, married to Kevin Bacon
- Joan Micklin Silver, award-winning director
- Sabiha Sumar, director
- Misti Traya, actor
- Guinevere Turner, actor , producer, and writer
- Barbara Walters, television personality [4]
- Joanne Woodward, actor /political activist[4]
- Sal Borriello, writer,boxer
Music
- Max Bemis, singer and songwriter for the band Say Anything [31]
- Andrew Butler, member of Hercules and Love Affair [32]
- Win Butler, lead vocalist and songwriter for the band Arcade Fire [33]
- Abigail Chapman, vocalist [34]
- Alice Cohen, singer and songwriter [35]
- Margaret Fiedler, vocalist / multi-instrumentalist with Laika, Moonshake and PJ Harvey [36]
- Elliott Goldkind, composer [37]
- Lesley Gore, singer and songwriter [38]
- Susie Ibarra, Jazz composer and avant-garde musician [39]
- Ira Kaplan, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of the band Yo La Tengo [40]
- Zoë Keating, cellist from the band Rasputina[41]
- Stacey Kent, jazz vocalist [42]
- Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter and member of the band Old 97's [43]
- JD Samson, member of the band Le Tigre [44]
- Kamala Sankaram, singer and accordion player for the band Squeezebox [45]
- Girlyman members Nate Borofsky, Ty Greenstein and Doris Muramatsu, folk-rock trio
- Carly Simon, singer and songwriter [46]
- Joanna Simon, vocalist [47]
Politics and public service
- Brooke Anderson, VP Communications, The Nuclear Threat Initiative [48]
- Lisa Anderson, scholar [49]
- Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning [50]
- Rahm Emanuel, U.S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois [4]
- Sharon Hom, director of Human Rights in China [51]
- Sue Kelly, U.S. House of Representatives, 19th Congressional District of New York [2]
Writing and poetics
- Carolyn Ferrell, writer [52]
- Amanda Foreman, award-winning biographer [53]
- Karl Taro Greenfeld, journalist and author [54]
- Rebecca Godfrey, novelist [55]
- Louise Gluck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former Poet Laureate of the United States [56]
- Lucy Grealy, Irish memoirist and poet [57]
- Justin Haythe, novelist and screenwriter [58]
- Kaui Hart Hemmings, writer [59]
- A.M. Homes, writer [60]
- Nancy Huston, Canadian author who writes primarily in French
- Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet [61]
- Joan W. Konner, Dean of Columbia School of Journalism [62]
- Christian Kracht, Swiss writer [63]
- Bennett Madison, writer [64]
- Jeffrey McDaniel, poet [65]
- Brian Morton, novelist [66]
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist [67]
- Sharyn November, editor [68]
- Ann Patchett, award-winning author [2]
- Anne Roiphe, novelist and essayist [69]
- Esmeralda Santiago, Puerto Rican writer [70]
- Alice Sheldon, who published science fiction as James Tiptree, Jr. [71]
- Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Color Purple[4] [2]
Visual and performing arts
- Jean Erdman - dancer and wife of Joseph Campbell[72]
- John Jasperse - choreographer, dancer, and artist [73]
- Susan Meiselas, photographer [74]
- Linda McCartney, photographer; was married to musician Paul McCartney [75]
- Meredith Monk, composer, singer and choreographer [76]
- David Netto, interior designer [77]
- Yoko Ono, conceptual artist; was married to John Lennon [78]
- Alec Soth, photographer [79]
- Vera Wang, fashion designer [2]
Other notable alumni
Josh Sadek Malcolm Pepin Dahvid Dahvid Dahvid
- Myra R. Drucker,former Chief Investment Officer,GM Trust Bank [80]
- Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, authority on West Nile Virus [81]
- Hope Cooke, wife of 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim[82]
- 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 [83]
- Brad Howes, renowned C++ and Python programmer currently at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Gloria Lau, founder/CEO Charles Schwab Tokio Marine [83]
- Blanche Lark Christerson, managing director of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management [84]
- Courtney McKenna, VP of Iridian Asset management (Bank of Ireland) [85]
- Deborah D. Rieman, CEO Checkpoint Software [86]
- Diana Schubart Heller, financial industry 'pioneer' [85]
- Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, academic and psychotherapist [87]
- Peggy Woodford Forbes, founder of Woodward Capital Management [84]
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
- Allison "Allie" Hamilton, in the movie The Notebook
- Guinevere Turner, co-screenwriter of American Psycho, has a cameo in the film as one of the girls Patrick has in Paul's apartment. He asks if she wants to get it on with the other girl, and she says "I'm not a lesbian! Why would you think that?" Patrick replies "well, for one thing, you DID go to Sarah Lawrence"--the joke being that Turner is a lesbian, and she actually went to Sarah Lawrence.
- Mia Thermopolis, of Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series.
Faculty
Current
- William Anderson, musician [88]
- Chester Biscardi, composer [89]
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist [67]
- Fawaz Gerges, Middle Eastern Affairs analyst for ABC news [90]
- Thomas Sayers Ellis, poet [91]
- Mark Helias, musician [92]
- Marie Howe, poet [93]
- Eduardo Lago, novelist and winner of the Premio Nadal [94]
- Tom Lux, poet [95]
- Maria Negroni, poet [96]
- Karen Nimereala, opera singer, teaches at Sarah Lawrence's campus in Paris, France[97]
- Gilberto Perez, author, film historian [98]
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, economist [99]
- Joel Sternfeld, photographer [100]
- Matilde Zimmermann, political activist and former U.S. Presidential candidate [101]
Former
- Glenda Adams, novelist
- Léonie Adams, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States and mentor to Louise Gluck[102]
- 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 [103]
- Dorothy Delay, world-renowned violin teacher who also taught at the Juilliard School
- Norman Dello Joio, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award winning composer [104]
- 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 [109]
- Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer
- Allan Gurganus, writer [110]
- Randall Jarrell, poet and writer [111]
- Mary Karr, poet and writer [112]
- Randall Kenan, writer
- Galway Kinnell, poet [113]
- Jane Kramer, Emmy Award-winning journalist [114]
- Wilford Leach, Tony Award-winning director and screenwriter [115]
- Max Lerner, journalist [116]
- Paul Lisicky, poet [117]
- Valerie Martin, writer [118]
- David Maslanka, composer [119]
- Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer [120]
- Nikita Mikros, computer programmer and game designer [121]
- 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 [122]
- Muriel Rukeyser, poet and political activist who, while teaching at Sarah Lawrence, helped student Alice Walker publish her first works [123]
- Theodore Roszak, sculptor [124]
- Susan Sontag, leftist intellectual, essayist, novelist, and activist [125]
- William Schuman, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and former director of the Juilliard School. Taught at Sarah Lawrence from 1935-45 [126]
- Jean Valentine, National Book Award-winning poet [127]
- Caroline F. Ware, New Deal activist
- Marguerite Yourcenar, writer [128]
References
- ^ "A Mind Akimbo":South Coast Repertory.org
- ^ a b c d e f g h i SLC Notable Alumni
- ^ 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
- ^ Golden Brooks's biography on filmbug
- ^ Yancy Bulter at TV.com
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Fall 06
- ^ NYTimes.com
- ^ 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
- ^ 700 Club
- ^ http://www.onthisveryspot.com/search.php?ss=Robin_Givens
- ^ MTV.com
- ^ Film.com
- ^ 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
- ^ NYTimes.com
- ^ 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
- ^ Mad TV Cast - Jordan Peele
- ^ http://tv.yahoo.com/sam-robards/contributor/28707/bio
- ^ NPR
- ^ [1]
- ^ Time Out Magazine - Interview with 'Hercules Love Affair'
- ^ http://stereogum.com/archives/win-butler-weighs-in-on-barack-hillary_007715.html
- ^ NYTimes.com
- ^ http://www.cmany.org/pages.php?pn=about_staff
- ^ http://www.spock.com/Margaret-Fiedler
- ^ http://www.wiscomposers.org/archives/1997/19970426a.html
- ^ http://www.123exp-biographies.com/t/00034119848/
- ^ http://www.americancomposers.org/ibarra_article.htm
- ^ SLC Archives
- ^ Zoe Keating.com
- ^ http://www.staceykent.com/reviews.html
- ^ 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://pixite.com/exhibits/C131
- ^ http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Simon-Joanna.htm
- ^ SLC Notable ALumni
- ^ http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/la8-fac.html
- ^ NYC.gov - Amanda Burden profile
- ^ http://thepublicvoice.org/events/tunis05/speakers/
- ^ Writers Center
- ^ Random House
- ^ Aspen Institute
- ^ Harper Collins
- ^ Britannica.com - Louise Gluck
- ^ http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=1133
- ^ http://www.bmsr.com.br/navigia/detalhe.asp?cod=72
- ^ http://mostlyfiction.com/contemp/hemmings.htm
- ^ encyclocentral.com
- ^ Britannica.com
- ^ http://nndb.com/people/464/000159984/
- ^ http://www.exalead.es/wikipedia/results/Ingo%20Hartmann/en
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3UFCGXMREU466
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine
- ^ http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/12/12/mclemee
- ^ a b http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au07/wonder-bukiet.html
- ^ SLC Magazine
- ^ Britannica.com - Anne Roiphe
- ^ [2]
- ^ http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/fallbooks/aliceingenderland/
- ^ www.nypl.org/research/lpa/dan/pdf/DanERDMA.pdf
- ^ www.air.umd.edu/jasperse.html
- ^ www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.Biography_VPage&AID=2K7O3R131CIT
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04EFDB113CF933A15757C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ http://www.nettocollection.com/index.php?page=community
- ^ http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2002/06/21/30036.html
- ^ http://www.yossimilo.com/exhibitions/2004_03-alec_soth/
- ^ http://nndb.com/people/750/000160270/
- ^ alumni.columbia.edu/learn/Lipkin_Bio_2007.pdf
- ^ "About New York" The New York Times, February 24, 1993
- ^ a b SLC Magazine: 'Money'
- ^ a b SLC Magazine
- ^ a b SLC Magazine: 'Money'
- ^ http://nndb.com/people/709/000127328/
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20050206095135/http://www.cherishment.com/authors.html
- ^ 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.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
- ^ The Daily Free Press - CFA dean, 95, was Emmy Award winner
- ^ www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/94_95/dotybio.html
- ^ famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/stephen_dobyns
- ^ www.poets.org/ceady/
- ^ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1963/mayer-autobio.html
- ^ [http://www.library.syr.edu/digital/guides/g/goodman_p.htm Paul Goodman Papers An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University]
- ^ http://nndb.com/people/640/000114298/
- ^ 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.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/13989/Jane-Alexander Britannica.com]
- ^ [query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE4DF113AF932A15755C0A96E948260 NY Times]
- ^ [www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/337027/Max-Lerner Britannica.com]
- ^ www.sanmiguelpoetry.com/lisicky.htm
- ^ NY Times
- ^ www.davidmaslanka.com/Bio.html
- ^ collegerelations.vassar.edu/2006/2323/
- ^ www.comeoutandplay.org/2008_pigeonpinatapummel.php
- ^ www.sad34.net/~globalclassroom/Library/Southasiaanyothername
- ^ www.britannica.com/eb/article-9064399/Muriel-Rukeyse
- ^ http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1869&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/books/28cnd-sont.html?pagewanted=3
- ^ www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/528433/William-Schuman
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- ^ Marguerite Yourcenar, Writer and Scholar, Dies, New York Times, December 1987