List of Ithaca College alumni
This is a List of Ithaca College people.
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Ithacans are persons affiliated with Ithaca College, especially alumni. The following is a list of such notable Ithacans.
Government
- Christopher Bateman, member of the New Jersey General Assembly
- Maggie Brooks, county executive of Monroe County, New York
- Ed Diana, county executive of Orange County, New York
- Loni Hancock, member of the California State Senate
Business
Executives
- Robert Iger (B.S. 1973), president and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
- Chris Burch (B.S. 1976), founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital and co-founder of Tory Burch LLC
Media and entertainment
Directors and producers
- Barbara Gaines (B.A. 1979), Emmy Award-winning executive producer, Late Show with David Letterman
- Mark Romanek, filmmaker (One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go) and Grammy Award-winning music video director
- Mike Royce, executive producer and writer, Everybody Loves Raymond and Lucky Louie
- Brian Herzlinger (1997), director, special correspondent on The Tonight Show
- David Guy Levy, film producer, August and Terri
- Liz Tigelaar, television writer and producer, Life Unexpected
- Larry Teng - Television Director/Producer
Actors
- David Boreanaz (B.S. 1991), actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Bones
- Gavin MacLeod, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor, The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Ricki Lake, Emmy Award-winning actress, Serial Mom, Hairspray, television host
- C. C. H. Pounder, Emmy Award-nominated actress, Bagdad Café, The Shield, Avatar and NCIS New Orleans
- Kerry Butler (B.F.A. 1992), Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, Xanadu, Catch Me If You Can and Little Shop of Horrors
- Aaron Tveit, Broadway lead actor of Catch Me If You Can and Next to Normal, currently starring in USA Network's Graceland
- Michelle Federer, (B.F.A. 1995), theater and film actress; originated the character, Nessarose, in Broadway's Wicked
- Jeremy Jordan, Tony Award-nominated and Grammy Award-nominated star of Newsies and Finding Neverland, also starred on Smash and in The Last 5 Years
- Ben Feldman, Emmy Award-nominated actor, Mad Men
- Mark Moses, actor, Desperate Housewives, Mad Men
- Andrew Daly, actor, Eastbound and Down, MADtv and Semi-Pro
- Matt Cavenaugh (B.F.A. 2001), Broadway actor, West Side Story
- Amanda Setton (B.A. 2007), film and TV actress, Gossip Girl, The Mindy Project, The Crazy Ones[1]
- Erinn Bartlett, actress[2]
- Ilene Graff, actress and singer
- Daniel McDonald, Tony Award-nominated actor
- David Newsom, actor and producer
- Brian Sack, humorist, author and contributor on Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck program
- Charlie Schlatter, actor, Diagnosis: Murder
- John Ross Bowie, actor, The Big Bang Theory
- Ben Fankhauser, Broadway performer in "Newsies"
- Kathryn Allison, 2014 winner of the NYMF Next Big Broadway Sensation competition
Hosts
- Ricki Lake, Emmy Award-winning actress and television personality, The Ricki Lake Show
- Robin Young, host, National Public Radio, Here and Now
- Larry Wachs, host, The Regular Guys Show
- Chip Hines (B.A. 1990), host, Spotlight on CatholicTV
- Chris Kellogg, morning radio host for WMAS-FM and The Kellogg Krew
Musicians
- Richard De Benedictis (B.A. 1958), Broadway and television composer
- Kate Aldrich (B.M. 1996), internationally renowned mezzo-soprano
- Gavin DeGraw (did not graduate), Grammy Award-nominated and platinum-selling musician best known for Billboard Hot 100 hits "I Don't Want to Be" and "Not Over You"
- Maureen Tucker, drummer for The Velvet Underground
- Cindy Bradley (B.F.A. Jazz Studies 1998), jazz trumpet player and composer
- Robert E. Brown, lead ethnomusicologist and musician
- Henrique de Curitiba, composer
- Margaret Daum, opera singer
- Tony DeSare (1997), jazz musician
- Matthew Hoch, singer and leading music scholar and teacher
- Scott LaFaro, influential jazz bassist with the Bill Evans Trio
Editors and publishers
- Robert Bluey, editor of the daily online edition of Human Events.
Journalists
- Thomas Donnelly, author of AEI's National Security Outlook
- Bob Kur, former national NBC reporter, now with Washington Post Radio
- David Muir (B.S. 1995), ABC news anchor for World News Saturday and co-anchor of Primetime
- Jessica Savitch (B.S. 1968), first female network anchor
Photographers
New Media
- Alex Westerman, Webby Award-winning creative director
Writers
- Rod Serling (former faculty), Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, creator of The Twilight Zone (Serling taught at Ithaca College Communications School from 1967 to 1975)
- Allan Loeb, film screenwriter, Things We Lost in the Fire, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, The Dilemma
- Chris Regan, (1989), Emmy Award-winning writer for The Daily Show
- Kristen Britain, author of Green Rider and First Rider's Call
- Mark Mahoney (B.S. 1985), Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, The Post-Star[4][5]
- Sandra McDonald, author of The Outback Stars and The Stars Down Under
- Julia Spencer-Fleming, author of the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series
- Julie Spira, author of The Perils of Cyber-Dating
- Liz Tigelaar, author and television writer and producer, Life Unexpected
Sportscasters
- Bruce Beck (B.S. 1978), weekend sports anchor for WNBC, NY
- Mike Catalana (B.S. 1985), sports director WHAM-TV Rochester, New York
- Lanny Frattare (B.S. 1970), play-by-play announcer for MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates
- Eric Frede (B.S. 1988), Boston Bruins studio host, NESN
- Neil Hartman (B.S. 1982), sports anchor, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia
- Karl Ravech (B.S. 1987), ESPN sportscaster
- Kevin Connors (B.S. 1997), ESPN sportscaster
- Matt Willis (2006), ESPN NASCAR analyst[6]
- Sal Paolantonio, ESPN sportscaster (Paolantonio has had two children attend Ithaca and he is on the college's Philadelphia Executive Committee)
Sport
Management
- Les Otten (B.S. 1971), vice chairman and partner, Boston Red Sox Organization
- Eddie Sawyer, professional baseball manager for the Philadelphia Phillies
Coaches
- Tom Nugent, college football head coach and sportscaster, College Football Hall of Famer, developer of the I Formation
- Eddie Sawyer, former Philadelphia Phillies manager and MLB scout
- Barry Smith, former NHL associate coach
- Henny Hiemenz, head college football coach, Carroll University
Athletes
- Robert Marella, former professional wrestler (known as Gorilla Monsoon), ringside commentator for the World Wrestling Federation
- Meghan Musnicki, rower and member of the gold medal-winning Women's 8+ for the United States at the 2012 London Olympics
- Glen Cook, professional baseball player for the Texas Rangers
Scientists and Engineers
- Steven Van Slyke (B.S. 1978), inventor with over 20 patents in OLED materials and device architecture
Other
- Richard Jadick (B.S. 1987), combat surgeon who was awarded the Bronze Star for service in Iraq
- Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, (1998) television presenter specializing in the ancient astronaut hypothesis[7]
References
- ↑ Ophir, Edon. "Ithaca's own 'Gossip Girl,'" The Ithacan (Ithaca College), August 28, 2008.
- ↑ "Erinn Bartlett". IMDb. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- ↑ "A Taste of the Aegean, but Only a Taste". New York Times. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- ↑ The Pulitzer Prizes - The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners
- ↑ Ithaca College Grad Wins Pulitzer - News Release - Ithaca College Office of Media Relations
- ↑ http://espn.go.com/rpm/blog/_/name/willis_matt
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