- Source: 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
= Entertainment and media
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Abiola Abrams, TV personality, writer and filmmaker
J. J. Abrams, Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, and director
Jane Alexander, actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts
Jon Avnet, film producer, director, and writer
Dylan Brody, playwright, author and stand-up comedian
Golden Brooks, actress
Yancy Butler, actress
Gabrielle Carteris, actress, best known for playing Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills, 90210
Austin Chick, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
Jill Clayburgh, Academy Award-nominated actress
Brian De Palma, film director
Cary Elwes, actor
Beverly Emmons, dance and Broadway lighting designer
Rachel Feldman, screenwriter and director
Tovah Feldshuh, actor
William Finley, actor
Carrie Fisher, actress, writer, comedienne, mental health advocate
Robin Givens, actor
Adam Goldberg, actor
Lesley Gore, singer of the 1963 hit song "It's My Party". Songwriter to the 1980 film Fame. Actress appeared in the ABC TV series Batman portrayal of the character Pussycat (one of Catwoman's minions). The 1965 film Girls On The Beach and Ski Party. Made an appearance on the Teenage Awards Music International.
Janine Jackson, journalist and activist
Reo Jones, voice actor
Stacey Kent, jazz singer
Sarah Kernochan, writer, producer, and director
Téa Leoni, actress
David Lindsay-Abaire, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter
Robert Lyons, playwright and director
Eric Mabius, actor
Consuelo Mack, business news journalist
Julianna Margulies, actress
Ivy Meeropol, film director
Larisa Oleynik, actress
Alice Pearce, actress
Jordan Peele, film director, actor, comedian
Holly Robinson Peete, actress
Sam Robards, actor
Amy Robinson, film producer and actress
Elisabeth Röhm, actress
Kyra Sedgwick, actress
Natalie Shaw, actress
Joan Micklin Silver, award-winning director
Sabiha Sumar, director
Aly Tadros, singer-songwriter
Misti Traya, actress
Guinevere Turner, actor, producer, and writer
James Veitch, comedian
Barbara Walters, television personality
Sigourney Weaver, actress
Merritt Wever, actress
Jeff Williams, actor
Joanne Woodward, actress /political activist
= Music
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Max Bemis, singer and songwriter for the band Say Anything
Win Butler, lead vocalist and songwriter for the band Arcade Fire
Alice Cohen, singer and songwriter
Margaret Fiedler, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist with Laika, Moonshake and PJ Harvey
Girlyman, folk-rock trio of Nate Borofsky, Ty Greenstein and Doris Muramatsu
Lesley Gore, singer and songwriter
Susie Ibarra, jazz composer and avant-garde musician
Diana Jones, singer-songwriter
Ira Kaplan, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of the band Yo La Tengo
Zoë Keating, composer and cellist from the band Rasputina
Stacey Kent, jazz vocalist
Josh Mancell, freelance composer and multi-instrumentalist
Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter and member of the band Old 97's
David Porter, TV composer for Breaking Bad
JD Samson, member of the band Le Tigre
Carly Simon, singer and songwriter
Joanna Simon, vocalist
Stewart Lupton, poet and singer-songwriter from the bands Jonathan Fire*Eater, the Childballads, and the Beatins'
Dana Williams, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet.
= Politics and public service
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Brooke Anderson, diplomat; Deputy Ambassador to the UN; former chief-of-staff to the White House National Security Council; VP Communications, The Nuclear Threat Initiative
Lisa Anderson, scholar; President of the American University in Cairo, Egypt; former dean of Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning
Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago; former White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama; former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois
Sharon Hom, director of Human Rights in China
Sue Kelly, U.S. House of Representatives, 19th Congressional District of New York
Clifford D. May, President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
= Writing and poetics
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G. D. Baum, writer
Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist
Carolyn Ferrell, writer
Amanda Foreman, award-winning biographer
Louise Gluck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former Poet Laureate of the United States
Rebecca Godfrey, novelist
Philip Graham, writer
Lucy Grealy, writer
Karl Taro Greenfeld, journalist and author
David Grimm, playwright
Allan Gurganus, writer
Benjamin Hale, novelist
Justin Haythe, novelist and screenwriter
Kaui Hart Hemmings, writer
A.M. Homes, writer
Nancy Huston, Canadian author who writes primarily in French
Porochista Khakpour, writer
Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Christian Kracht, Swiss writer
Phillis Levin, poet
Heather Lewis, American Author
Myra Cohn Livingston, children's poet
Bennett Madison, writer
Jeffrey McDaniel, poet
Giulia Melucci, writer
Brian Morton, novelist
Sharyn November, editor
Ann Patchett, author
Anne Roiphe, novelist and essayist
Esmeralda Santiago, Puerto Rican writer
Alice Sheldon, who published science fiction as James Tiptree, Jr.
Leora Skolkin-Smith, novelist
Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple
= Visual and performing arts
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Janine Antoni, sculptor, installation artist
Ian Spencer Bell, choreographer
Mary Griggs Burke, largest private collector of Japanese art outside Japan
Lucinda Childs, postmodern dancer and choreographer, member of the Judson Dance Theater
Alexis de Chaunac, Contemporary artist
Jean Erdman, dancer and wife of Joseph Campbell
Mary Heilmann, painter, sculptor
Dan Hurlin, writer, choreographer, actor, puppet/object maker and puppeteer, winner of Obie and Alpert Awards
John Jasperse, choreographer, dancer, and artist
Linda McCartney, photographer; was married to musician Paul McCartney
Susan Meiselas, photographer and photojournalist, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient
Meredith Monk, composer, singer and choreographer
Cady Noland, visual artist
Jedd Novatt, sculptor and painter
Yoko Ono, conceptual artist; was married to John Lennon
Maureen Paley, London art dealer
Meridel Rubenstein, photographer and installation artist
Christina Saj, artist
Sonia Sekula, Swiss-American abstract-expressionist painter
Alice Louise Judd Simpich, sculptor
Holly Solomon, Soho art dealer
Alec Soth, photographer
Nancy Spector, chief curator of the Guggenheim Museum, NY
Ruth Carter Stevenson (1945), patron of the arts and founder of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Vera Wang, fashion designer
= Other notable alumni
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Karen Adolph, psychologist and professor
Alice Brock, former restaurateur turned artist, title character of the song "Alice's Restaurant"
Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Syracuse University
Hope Cooke, wife of 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim
Cornelia Fort, pioneer aviator who became the first female pilot to die on war duty in America history
Dr. Susan Houde-Walter, former president of the Optical Society of America, CEO of LaserMax Inc.
Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, authority on West Nile Virus
Jean Baker Miller, feminist, psychoanalyst, social activist
Lee Radziwill, actress, socialite, younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and wife of Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, academic and psychotherapist
= Fictional alumni
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Lloyd, of the HBO dramedy Entourage, is a Sarah Lawrence graduate, perhaps a sly reference to Rahm Emmanuel, brother of Ari Emmanuel, the real-life inspiration for Lloyd's boss, Ari Gold.
Eric van der Woodsen, of the CW teen drama Gossip Girl
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
Jill Rosen, in the movie Baby It's You
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.
Jenny Whiteman, of the movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Mia Thermopolis, of Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series
Hero Brown, a character in Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man comic book series
Marcia Jeffries from the 1957 film A Face in the Crowd studied music when she went east to Sarah Lawrence
Gil Chesterton from sitcom Frasier claims to be married to Deb, a "Sarah Lawrence graduate and the owner of a very successful auto body repair shop" (and an Army Reservist), whom his co-workers had believed to be merely a pet cat.
Remy "Thirteen" Hadley of the Fox medical drama House
"Sewage Joe" on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation is revealed to be an alumnus when he sends a lewd photograph to Ann from his alumni e-mail address.
In J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, a girl on a train is described as "absolutely... a Sarah Lawrence type... looked like she'd spent the whole train ride in the john, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she had a leotard on under her dress."
In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie's older sister Candace has chosen to attend a “small liberal arts college back East called Sarah Lawrence.”
Parker Posey's character in Broken English
Charles Boyle, of NBC's police sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Mary Andrews played by Molly Ringwald on Riverdale attended the show's fictional stand-in for the school, Sarah Florence.
Faculty
= Current
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Kirsten Agresta, harpist
William Anderson, musician
Colin Beavan, environmental activist and blogger
Chester Biscardi, composer
Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist
Jerrilynn Dodds, art historian, Guggenheim Fellow, Slade Professor of Art at Oxford
Thomas Sayers Ellis, poet
Beverly Emmons, dance and Broadway lighting designer
Fawaz Gerges, Middle Eastern Affairs analyst for ABC news
Mark Helias, musician
Marie Howe, poet
William Melvin Kelley, novelist and short story writer
Eduardo Lago, novelist and winner of the Premio Nadal
Tom Lux, poet
Maria Negroni, poet
Victoria Redel, poet, novelist, short fiction
Vijay Seshadri, poet and essayist; winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Jacob Slichter, drummer for Semisonic
Joel Sternfeld, photographer
Malcolm Turvey, author, film historian, editor of October magazine
Matilde Zimmermann, political activist and former U.S. presidential candidate
= Former
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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, cultural historian and critic of mythology
Suzanne Chazin, novelist
Billy Collins, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States
Dorothy DeLay, violin teacher at the Juilliard School
Norman Dello Joio, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning composer
Stephen Dobyns, poet
E.L. Doctorow, writer
Mark Doty, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States
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
Irving Goldman, anthropologist
Paul Goodman, writer, anarchist, Gestalt Therapy contributor
Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer
Allan Gurganus, writer
Kimiko Hahn, poet
Randall Jarrell, poet and writer
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
Tao Lin, writer
Paul Lisicky, poet
Helen Lynd, sociologist
Valerie Martin, writer
David Maslanka, composer
Mary McCarthy, writer
Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer
Grace Paley, poet, fiction writer, and political activist who in 2004 was awarded an honorary doctorate from Sarah Lawrence College
Gilberto Perez, author, film historian
Santha Rama Rau, writer
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, economist
Theodore Roszak, sculptor
Muriel Rukeyser, poet and political activist who, while teaching at Sarah Lawrence, helped student Alice Walker publish her first works
J.D. Salinger, writer
Bessie Schonberg, dancer, choreographer and dance teacher, after whom the Bessie Awards were named.
William Schuman, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer; former director of the Juilliard School; taught at Sarah Lawrence 1935-45
Alan Shulman, composer and cellist
David Smith, sculptor
Susan Sontag, leftist intellectual, essayist, novelist, and activist
Brooke Stevens, novelist
Jean Valentine, National Book Award-winning poet
Caroline F. Ware, New Deal activist
Marguerite Yourcenar, writer
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