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.main|Sarah Lawrence College

Alumni

Entertainment and media

Abiola Abrams, TV personality, writer and filmmaker J. J. Abrams, film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, and director Jane Alexander, actress, author Jon Avnet, film producer, director, and writer Dylan Brody, playwright, author and stand-up comedian Golden Brooks, actress Yancy Butler, actress Gabrielle Carteris, actress Durga Chew-Bose, author and film director Austin Chick, filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer Jill Clayburgh, actress Brian De Palma, film director Cary Elwes, actor DoNormaal, rapper and actress Beverly Emmons, dance and Broadway lighting designer Rachel Feldman, screenwriter and director Tovah Feldshuh, actor William Finley, actor Carrie Fisher, actress, writer Robin Givens, actor Adam Goldberg, actor Peter Gould, television writer, director and producer G Hannelius, actress, singer and YouTube personality Melora Hardin, actress Jessica Harper, actress Noah Hawley screenwriter, director, and author Katharine Houghton, actress and playwright 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, playwright and screenwriter"A Mind Akimbo":South Coast Repertory.org Robert Lyons, playwright and director Eric Mabius, actor Consuelo Mack, business news journalist Julianna Margulies, Emmy Award-winning actress Ivy Meeropol, film director Larisa Oleynik, actress Alice Pearce, actress Jordan Peele, film director, actor, comedianMad TV Cast - Jordan Peele Holly Robinson Peete, actress Sam Robards, actor Amy Robinson, film producer and actress Elisabeth Röhm, actress Kyra Sedgwick, Emmy Award-winning 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, actressSigourney Weaver Bio Merritt Wever, actress Jeff Williams, actor Joanne Woodward, actress, political activist

Music Max Bemis, singer and songwriter Win Butler, musician Alice Cohen, singer and songwriter Margaret Fiedler, musician Girlyman, folk-rock trio of Nate Borofsky, Ty Greenstein and Doris Muramatsu Lesley Gore, singer and songwriter Susie Ibarra, musician and composer Diana Jones, singer-songwriter Ira Kaplan, musician Zoë Keating, musician Stacey Kent, vocalist Josh Mancell, freelance composer and multi-instrumentalist Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter and member of the band Old 97's David Porter, composer JD Samson, musician Carly Simon, singer and songwriter Joanna Simon, vocalist Dana Williams, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet

Politics and public service Brooke Anderson, diplomat; Lisa Anderson, academic Amanda Burden, public planning Robert Dawson, politician Rahm Emanuel, politician Sharon Hom, attorney, professor, activist Sue Kelly, politician Clifford D. May, journalist, activistClifford D. May. nndb.com Accessed May 5, 2009. Gloria Schaffer, politician

Writing and poetics G. D. Baum, writer2015, Sarah Lawrence College, Alumnae/i Publications , Retrieved June 21, 2015, "...G.D. Baum Point and Shoot....." Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist Kevin Coogan, investigative journalist Nicole Dennis-Benn, novelist Carolyn Ferrell, writer Amanda Foreman, award-winning biographer Louise Gluck, poet Rebecca Godfrey, novelistHarper Collins Philip Graham, writer Lucy Grealy, writer Karl Taro Greenfeld, journalist and authorAspen Institute David Grimm, playwright Allan Gurganus, writer Maggie Haberman, journalist Benjamin Hale, novelist Justin Haythe, novelist and screenwriter Kaui Hart Hemmings, writer A.M. Homes, writer Nancy Huston, Canadian author Leah Johnson, novelist Porochista Khakpour, writer Carolyn Kizer, poet Christian Kracht, Swiss writer Phillis Levin, poet Heather Lewis, author Myra Cohn Livingston, children's poet"Myra Cohn Livingston." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2003. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 18 May 2023.Rochman, Hazel. "Myra Cohn Livingston." American Writers for Children Since 1960: Poets, Illustrators, and Nonfiction Authors, edited by Glenn E. Estes, Gale, 1987. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 61. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 19 May 2023. Bennett Madison, writer Jeffrey McDaniel, poet 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, novelist

Visual and performing arts Carolyn Adams, dancer, choreographer, teacher Janine Antoni, sculptor, installation artist Ian Spencer Bell, choreographer Mary Griggs Burke, art collector Lucinda Childs, dancer and choreographer Alexis de Chaunac, contemporary artist Nancy Proskauer Dryfoos (BA 1936), sculptor Jean Erdman, dancer Mary Heilmann, painter, sculptor Dan Hurlin, writer, choreographer, actor John Jasperse, choreographer, dancer, and artist Gloria Kisch, sculptor Linda McCartney, photographer; was married to musician Paul McCartney Susan Meiselas, photographer and photojournalisthttp://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.Biography_VPage&AID=2K7O3R131CIT; Meredith Monk, composer, singer and choreographer Cady Noland, visual artist Jedd Novatt, sculptor and painter Yoko Ono, artist and musician Maureen Paley, art dealer Meridel Rubenstein, photographer and installation artist Christina Saj, artist Sonia Sekula, painter Alice Louise Judd Simpich, sculptor Holly Solomon, art dealerHolly Solomon – Wikipedia, 2011-09-10, Retrieved 2011-09-25 Alec Soth, photographer Nancy Spector, chief curator of the Guggenheim Museum, NY Ruth Carter Stevenson (1945), patron of the arts Vera Wang, fashion designer

Other notable alumni Karen Adolph, psychologist and professor Alice Brock, former restaurateur turned artist Nancy Cantor, academic administrator Pema Chödrön, author, first American Buddhist Hope Cooke, Queen consort of Sikkim from 1963 to 1975, author Cornelia Fort, pioneer aviator Susan Houde-Walter, businesswoman Ian Lipkin, public health expert Jean Baker Miller, feminist, psychoanalyst, social activist Lee Radziwill, actress, socialite Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, academic and psychotherapist

Fictional alumni

Lloyd, of the HBO dramedy Entourage, is a Sarah Lawrence graduate, perhaps a sly reference to Rahm Emanuel, brother of Ari Emanuel, 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 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 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 Kirsten Agresta, harpist William Anderson, musician Colin Beavan, environmental activist and blogger Chester Biscardi, composer Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist Jerrilynn Dodds, art historian, Thomas Sayers Ellis, poet Beverly Emmons, dance and Broadway lighting designer Fawaz Gerges, international relations Mark Helias, musicianhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/6czf/ Marie Howe, poet William Melvin Kelley, novelist and short story writer Eduardo Lago, novelist Maria Negroni, poet Victoria Redel, poet, novelist, short fiction David Ryan, writer, drummer for The Lemonheads Vijay Seshadri, poet and essayist Jacob Slichter, musician Joel Sternfeld, photographer Malcolm Turvey, author, film historian, publisher Matilde Zimmermann, political activist

Former Glenda Adams, novelist Léonie Adams, poet Rudolf Arnheim Peter Cameron, novelist Joseph Campbell, cultural historian Suzanne Chazin, novelist Billy Collins, poet Dorothy DeLay, violin teacher Norman Dello Joio, composerThe Daily Free Press - CFA dean, 95, was Emmy Award winner Stephen Dobyns, poet E.L. Doctorow, writer Mark Doty, poet Cornelius Eady, poet Dana Gioia, poet Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist Irving Goldman, anthropologist Paul Goodman, writerPaul Goodman Papers An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University 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, journalist Wilford Leach, director and screenwriter Max Lerner, journalist Tao Lin, writer Paul Lisicky, poet Tom Lux, poet Helen Lynd, sociologist Valerie Martin, writer David Maslanka, composer Mary McCarthy, writer Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer Grace Paley, poet, writer, activist Gilberto Perez, author, film historian Santha Rama Rau, writer Judith Rodenbeck, art historian Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, economist Theodore Roszak, sculptor Muriel Rukeyser, poet and political activist J.D. Salinger, writer Bessie Schonberg, dancer, choreographer William Schuman, composer Alan Shulman, composer and cellist David Smith, sculptor Susan Sontag, essayist, novelist, and activist Brooke Stevens, novelist Jean Valentine, poet Caroline F. Ware, New Deal activist Marguerite Yourcenar, writer

Trustees Former François-Henri Briard, attorney

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