List of The New School people
This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of The New School.
Alumni
World leaders
Writers
- Tennessee Williams,[4], two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright [5]
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, forerunner of the Beat Generation[6]
- James Baldwin, writer Go Tell It on the Mountain[7]
- Lorraine Hansberry, playwright A Raisin in the Sun, youngest Drama Desk Award winner in history [8]
- Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, two-time Academy Award Winner, including Best Screenplay [9]
- Jamaica Kincaid[10]
- Suzanne LaFleur, Love, Aubrey[11]
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, Newbery Award winner[12]
- William Styron, Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner[13]
- Paul Levinson, The Plot to Save Socrates
- Mike Doughty [14]
- Sean Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of It All
- Daniel Wolf, co-founder of The Village Voice
Fine artists
- George Maciunas, founding member of Fluxus
- Shigeko Kubota, vice-chairman of Fluxus
- Kevin Appel, painter
- Rosemary Cove, sculptor
- Jane Frank, painter, mixed media artist, sculptor, advertising designer and illustrator (named Jane Schenthal when attending New School)
- Julie Harvey, painter
- Edward Hopper, painter [15]
- Jasper Johns, forerunner of pop art and minimalism[16]
- Shirley Kaneda, painter, Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow[17]
- Julio Rosado del Valle, painter
- Norman Rockwell painter and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner[18][19]
- Gavin Spielman, painter and musician
- Julie Umerle, painter[20]
- Jay Van Buren, painter [21]
- Janise Yntema, painter
Fashion designers
- Donna Karan, creator of the DKNY label[22]
- Gilbert Adrian[23]
- Jeff Banks Welsh[24], designer and presenter of the BBC's The Clothes Show
- Bill Blass, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities member, co-founder of Council of Fashion Designers of America [25]
- Donald Brooks [26]
- Angela Gisela Brown, former New York fashion designer, now known as Princess Angela of Liechtenstein
- Doo-Ri Chung, Swarovski's Perry Ellis Award winner
- Tom Ford [27]
- Lazaro Hernandez
- Marc Jacobs [28]
- Elois Jenssen, costume designer for I Love Lucy
- Narciso Rodriguez[29]
- Lazaro Hernandez
- Isaac Mizrahi, four-time CDFA award winner[30]
- Anand Jon, fashion designer and convicted serial rapist
- Kevin Johnn, Fashion Designer, also on Project Runway
- Derek Lam
- Jillian Lewis, fashion Designer, also on Project Runway
- Claire McCardell
- Patrick Robinson
- Narciso Rodriguez
- Lela Rose
- Behnaz Sarafpour
- Willi Smith
- Peter Som
- Anna Sui[31]
- Zang Toi
- Kay Unger
- Jason Wu[29]
- Alexander Wang[32], fashion designer to Michelle Obama and Ivana Trump
- Carmen Marc Valvo
- Prabal Gurung
Illustrators and animators
- Peter DeSeve, Illustrator and Character Designer
- Hidekaz Himaruya, Manga Artist (Hetalia: Axis Powers, Chibi-san Date)
- Julia Gran, Graphic Designer and Illustrator, Children's Book Writer and Illustrator
- Bessie Pease Gutmann, Magazine and children's book illustrator in the early 1900s
- Joel Resnicoff, Commercial artist and fashion illustrator
- Brian Wood, Graphic novelist, Illustrator, Designer[33]
- Dan Yaccarino, Children's Book Writer and Illustrator[34]
- Thomas La Padula, illustrators[35]
Photographers
Designers
Musicians
- Ani DiFranco [37]
- Harry Belafonte, singer
- Sufjan Stevens, MFA, creative writing, 2000[38]
- Alex Skolnick, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Testament and the Alex Skolnick Trio
- Larry Harlow, salsa pioneer, M.A. in Philosophy[39]
- Mike Doughty, B.A. from Lang in poetry[40]
- Kelly Chen, Hong Kong Singer
- Melora Creager, Musician
- Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, Composer, Lutenist and Painter
- Jimmy Urine
- Sean Yseult
- Jake Shears
Actors, directors, and producers
- Tony Curtis[41]
- Stacy Farber
- Charis Michelsen, actress[42]
- Joel Schumacher, film director and producer
- Adrian Cronauer
- Paul Dano, Little Miss Sunshine[43]
- Eliza Donovan, Clueless and Sabrina the Teenage Witch[44]
- Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network[45]
- Jonah Hill, "Superbad"[46]
- Kevin Smith, Clerks (did not graduate)[47]
- Beatrice Arthur, theater and television actress, Tony Award winner, star of Maude and The Golden Girls[48]
- Ben Gazzara [49]
- Robert "Rob Zombie" Cummings, musician, writer and director[50]
- Harry Hurwitz, film director and artist
- Adam Jasinski, Winner of Big Brother 9
- Rod Steiger, On The Waterfront [51]
- Shelley Winters[52]
- Elaine Stritch [53]
- Olivia Palermo, NY "socialite", MTV's "The City" co-star[54]
- Peter Falk, B.A. political science, Colombo
- Walter Matthau
Political activists
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer, M.A. sociology, 1959, the first famous sex therapist[55]
- Abraham Foxman, director Anti-Defamation League
- Tinga Seisay, diplomat, pro-democracy activist
- Millicent Fenwick, editor, politician, diplomat
- Medea Benjamin
- William Donohue, sociology, Catholic League president
- Janine Jackson, MA sociology, program director Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
- Ellen Johnson, MA political science, president American Atheists
- Brother Sean Sammon, Superior General of the Marist Brothers
- Matisyahu, B.A., Eugene Lang College, 2002, Hasidic M.C.
- Michael Wenger, M.A., Zen priest, Dean of Buddhist Studies, San Francisco Zen Center
Academics
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III Ph.D., economist
- Eugene Goossen (1921–1997), art critic and historian.[56]
- Stanley Aronowitz, B.A., 1968, sociologist
- Ruth Benedict, psychological anthropologist, author of "Patterns of Culture", etc.
- Jean L. Cohen, Ph.D. political theorist
- Barbara A. Cornblatt, Ph.D., M.B.A., psychologist
- Uri Davis, M.A. anthropology, 1973
- Richard Grathoff, Ph.D., 1969, sociologist
- Yossi Sarid, M.A. political science, journalist
- Steven Seidman, sociologist
- Ira Progoff, Ph.D. psychology, psychotherapist
- Mady Hornig, psychiatrist
- Kevin Mattson, historian and political analyst
- George E. McCarthy M.A., Ph.D., sociologist
- Sidney Mintz, anthropologist
- Franco Modigliani Soc. Sci. D., economist
- Richard Noll, clinical psychologist and writer
- Peter L. Berger, sociologist, co-author of The Social Construction of Reality, Distinguished Alumnus
- Heather Boushey, Ph.D., economist
Businesspeople
Faculty
Past
Present
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