List of Sarah Lawrence College people

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1 Alumni
2 Faculty
- 2.1 Current faculty
- 2.2 Former faculty
3 References

[edit] Alumni

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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.
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

[edit] Politics and public service

Lisa Anderson, scholar
Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning
Rahm Emanuel, U.S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois ^[2]
Sharon Hom, director of Human Rights in China
Sue Kelly, U.S. House of Representatives, 19th Congressional District of New York

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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

[edit] Other notable alumni

Hope Cooke, wife of 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim^[11]
Cornelia Fort, pioneer aviatrix who became the first female pilot to die on war duty in America history
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, academic and psychotherapist, attended, but did not graduate

[edit] Fictional alumni

Loyd, of the HBO dramedy, Entourage
Gil Chesterton, of the sitcom Frasier
Karen Walker, of the sitcom Will & Grace

[edit] Faculty

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] References

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