List of Bennington College people

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This page lists notable alumni and faculty of Bennington College.

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Notable alumni

Architecture

  • Kevin Alter ’85: associate dean for graduate programs, Sid W. Richardson Centennial Professor of Architecture; director of the Summer Academy in Architecture; and associate director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at The University of Texas at Austin
  • Arjun Desai ’88: founder and partner, Desai/Chia Architecture (rated among the top 100 design firms by House Beautiful); winner, 2004 AIA/NY Design Award and 2005 American Architecture Award for their Cooper Square project
  • David Choi ’96: principal, CHOIDESIGN + Partners; winner, Coptic Church International Design Contest, Edge as Center Competition
  • John Diebboll ’78: principal, Michael Graves & Associates, NYC; author of The Art of the Piano
  • Judith DiMaio ’72: dean, New York Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Design Architecture; winner, Rome Prize in architecture

Art administration

  • Brooke Davis Anderson ’84: deputy director of Curatorial Programming, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; author of two books on the life and work of artist Martín Ramírez, and Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum
  • Peter Barnet ’73: curator, Medieval Art and The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Deborah Borda ’71: president and CEO, the Los Angeles Philharmonic; former president and CEO of the New York Philharmonic
  • Dan Cameron ’79: former director, visual arts, Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), Chief Curator of the Orange County Museum of Art
  • Kathy Halbreich ’71: associate director, The Museum of Modern Art (New York)
  • Maren Jenkins Hassinger ’69: director, the Rinehart School of Graduate Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art
  • George King ’77: director, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
  • James Levin ’76: founder, Cleveland Public Theatre
  • Harvey Lichtenstein ’53: chair, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Local Development Corporation; former executive director and president emeritus of the Board of Trustees, Brooklyn Academy of Music
  • Matthew Marks ’85: founder and owner, Matthew Marks Gallery
  • Sharon Ott ’72: former artistic director, Seattle Repertory Theater; Tony and Obie Awards; faculty, Savannah College of Art & Design; executive board member, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
  • Virlana Tkacz '74; founding director of Yara Arts Group
  • Anne Waldman ’66: director and cofounder, Jack Kerouac School, The Naropa Institute; the Dylan Thomas Memorial Prize and NEA fellowships

Business

  • Priscilla Alexander ’58: founder and president, ProTravel International
  • Bruce Berman ’74: chairman and CEO, Village Roadshow Pictures; executive producer, The Matrix, Ocean's Eleven, Analyze This, Mystic River, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Pamela deWindt Burke ’64: first vice president, McDonald & Co. Securities
  • Andrea Fiuczynski ’85: Senior Vice President, West Coast Chairman at Sotheby's
  • Glenn Horowitz ’77: rare book dealer/owner, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc.
  • Brad Jacobs ’77: former chairman and CEO, United Rentals, Inc.

Judith Jones ’45: vice president and senior editor, Knopf; author of The Tenth Muse: My Life with Food, and The Pleasures of Cooking for One

  • Corinne Silverman Kyle ’50: research director, Gallup International Institute
  • Andrew Langerman ’74: former managing director at Deutsche Bank Securities; former managing director at Fortis Bank; on the forefront of innovation in CDOs, derivatives and structured finance
  • Ruth Elias Rogers ’70: chef/owner, River Café, London; co-author, Italian Country Cookbook
  • Ellen Beskind Safir ’66: founder/CEO, New Century Advisers
  • John Sheldon ’77: managing director, Lazard
  • Nicholas Stephens ’77: partner, Edgewood Management Company; registered investment adviser
  • Kathryn Talalay ’71: project editor, W.W. Norton & Co.; author of Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler
  • Jim Weinstock ’78: senior vice president for investments at Beringer Weinstock Group

Dance/choreography

  • Penny Campbell ’70: lecturer of dance, Middlebury College
  • Liz Lerman ’69: choreographer, founder/director, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; 2002 MacArthur "Genius" Award winner
  • Carla Maxwell ’67: artistic director, José Limón Dance Company; Bessie Award winner
  • Lisa Nelson ’71: choreographer; former editor, Contact Quarterly; director of Videoda
  • Myrna Packer ’74: award-winning choreographer/dancer, co-artistic director of Bridgman/Packer Dance; recipient of grants and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation
  • Aileen Passloff ’53: chair, dance department, Bard College
  • Julie Arenal Primus ’60: choreographer for original and revival Broadway productions of Hair
  • Sara Rudner MFA ’99: director of dance, Sarah Lawrence College; former principal dancer, Twyla Tharp Dance; recipient of Bessie Award and Guggenheim grant

Education

  • Douglas Biow ’79: professor of Italian and comparative literature, University of Austin; 2006 Guggenheim fellow
  • Judith Butler ’78: professor and chair of comparative literature and rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley; author, Gender Trouble
  • Susan Forbes-Luxton '72: co-founder and associate director of Educational Solution Group
  • Uliana Fischbein Gabara ’61: dean of international education, University of Richmond (VA)
  • Emanuelle A. Kihm ’93: founder, The Open Classroom Collaborative, NYC arts education organization
  • Joan Hutton Landis ’51: former chair of liberal arts, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia; author of That Blue Repair
  • Ellen McCulloch-Lovell ’69: president, Marlboro College; former deputy assistant to President Clinton
  • Jeanne M. Poduska ’85: deputy director and principal research scientist, American Institutes for Research, Center for Integrating Education and Prevention Research in School; associate faculty, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Sally Liberman Smith ’50: founder/director, Lab School, Washington, DC
  • Ellen Taussig ’66: cofounder, The Northwest School, Seattle, WA; head of school since 1992

Film/theater/television

  • Alan Arkin ’55: actor, director, composer, author; film credits include Catch-22, The Russians Are Coming, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grosse Pointe Blank, The In-Laws, Little Miss Sunshine (Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Get Smart
  • Chris Bowen ’88: senior performing director, Blue Man Group; Obie and Drama Desk Awards
  • John Boyd: '03: actor, Bones[1]
  • Carol Channing ’42: Broadway and film actress; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly!; Golden Globe Award, Academy Award nomination
  • Spencer Cox (did not graduate): HIV/AIDS activist[2]
  • Tim Daly ’79: actor,Diner, Made in Heaven; TV credits include Witness to the Execution, Wings, The Fugitive, The Sopranos, Private Practice; Theatre World and Dramalogue awards
  • Peter Dinklage ’91: actor; film credits include Living in Oblivion, The Station Agent, Elf, Death at a Funeral, Saint John of Las Vegas, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, X-Men: Days of Future Past; TV credits include Nip/Tuck, 30 Rock, Game of Thrones
  • Liz Glotzer ’83: president of production, Castle Rock Pictures; executive producer, The Shawshank Redemption, The Majestic, The Mist
  • Mitchell Kriegman '74: Emmy award winning director and writer, The Book of Pooh, Bear in the Big Blue House, Clarissa Explains It All
  • Mitch Markowitz ’75: screenwriter, Good Morning Vietnam, Crazy People; TV credits include M*A*S*H, Too Close for Comfort, Monk
  • Alley Mills ’73: actress, The Wonder Years, The Bold and the Beautiful (Emmy and Golden Globe Award)
  • Barry Primus '60: actor/director/writer, Cagney & Lacey, The X-Files, LA Law; film credits include The Rose, American Hustle, Mistress, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
  • Melissa Rosenberg ’86: writer/producer; TV credits include The Agency, Boston Public, Dexter; film credits include Step Up, Twilight, New Moon
  • Suzanne Shepherd ’56: actress; film credits include Working Girl, Goodfellas; TV credits include Law & Order, The Sopranos
  • Rider Strong: '09: screenwriter, director, producer: Irish Twins; actor, Boy Meets World
  • Holland Taylor ’64: actress; film credits include To Die For, The Truman Show, One Fine Day; TV credits include Bosom Buddies, The Practice (Emmy Award), Two and a Half Men
  • Justin Theroux ’93: actor; film credits include Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Duplex, Mulholland Drive, American Psycho, Tropic of Thunder: Rain of Madness; TV credits include Alias, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, John Adams
  • Virlana Tkacz '74: theater director

Government/public service

  • Aliza Akhtar ’03: assistant to the general counsel, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
  • Elinor Bacon ’63: former CEO, National Capital Revitalization Corporation; former deputy assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; citizen member of the District of Columbia Office of Planning; president of E.R. Bacon Development
  • Princess Yasmin Aga Khan ’73: vice chairman, Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Association; president, Alzheimer's Disease International*Gay Johnson McDougall ’69: first UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues; executive director, International Human Rights Law Group; 1999 MacArthur "Genius" Award winner*Kay Crawford Murray ’56: pioneer for the advancement of women attorneys; former chair of the Committee on Women in the Law of the New York State Bar Association; former general counsel to the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice; inaugural recipient of the New York State Bar Association's Kay Crawford Murray Award*Elizabeth Pfister ’43: awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for her work in the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the first women in history to fly America's military aircraft, during World War II; founder, The Ninety-Nines: The International Organization of Women Pilots; inductee, Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame
  • Jerri Perloff ’65: program director, National Institutes of Health
  • Aaron Scholer ’97, MLAS ’98: Director of National Security Policy for progressive political strategy and legislative advocacy group; Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University, Department of Government*Eric Ramirez-Ferrero ’85: former University of Michigan Population Fellow; chief of party, EngenderHealth, Tanzania
  • Elizabeth Raspolic ’60: former Ambassador to Gabon and Sao Tome & Principe, and later Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim, to Guinea

Journalism/broadcasting

  • Gail Hirschhorn Evans ’63: former executive vice president, CNN Newsgroup; author of Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman
  • James Geary ’85: former deputy editor of TIME magazine, Europe, Middle East, and Africa
  • Pam Abel Hill ’60: broadcast journalist; two-time Emmy Award winner
  • Roger Kimball '75: art critic and conservative social commentator; editor and publisher of New Criterion
  • Francesca Lyman ’72: environmental writer for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Sierra magazine; “Your Environment" column for MSNBC
  • Thomas Matthews ’75: executive editor, Wine Spectator
  • Ted Mooney ’73: senior editor, Art in America magazine
  • Carl Navarre ’74: former publisher and editor-in-chief, Atlantic Monthly Press; CEO, MyPublisher, Inc.
  • Wendy Perron ’69: editor-in-chief, Dance Magazine
  • Raphael Rubinstein ’79: senior editor, Art in America magazine
  • Joyce Sunila '65: film commentator, lifestyle columnist for The Los Angeles Times
  • Alec Wilkinson ’74: staff writer, The New Yorker; author of eight nonfiction books; Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
  • Elizabeth Richter Zimmer ’66: former dance editor, The Village Voice

Music

  • Chris Barron ’90: lead singer, Spin Doctors
  • Christopher P. Lombardi ’90: co-founder, Matador Records
  • Ahrin Mishan ’86: composer, TV credits include Ed, The Whoopi Goldberg Show; film credits include End of Magic, Birds of America
  • Mountain Man (group): indie folk singing trio
  • Lisa Sokolov ’76: jazz vocalist, improviser and composer; originator, Embodied VoiceWork; director, The Institute for Embodied VoiceWork in New York; associate professor, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts
  • Michael Starobin ’79: orchestrator on Broadway for Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins, Falsettos, Guys and Dolls, King Lear, Visiting Mr. Green, Next to Normal
  • Will Stratton '10: singer/songwriter
  • Elizabeth Swados ’73: composer, writer, director; three-time Obie winner
  • James Tenney ’58: experimental composer; Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition, CalArts
  • Joan Tower ’61: composer; Asher Edelman Professor of Music, Bard College; Grammy Award recipient
  • Susannah Waters ’86: soprano, profiled in Opera News; NYC Opera debut 1997 in Handel's Xerxes
  • Anthony Wilson ’90: composer/arranger, guitarist; toured with Diana Krall

Science/medicine

  • Patricia Cronin Adams ’64: former president, New England Pediatric Society
  • Judith Schneider Bond ’61: chair, biochemistry and molecular biology, Penn State University; former president, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Barrie Cassileth ’59: Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair in Integrative Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Michael Coady ’89: assistant professor, department of surgery, Yale University School of Medicine
  • Jennifer Mieres ’82: director, nuclear cardiology; associate professor, New York University School of Medicine
  • Stephen Pratt ’77: senior chemist, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Kristina Stinson ’92: population ecologist/staff scientist, Harvard Forest, Harvard University
  • Andrew Vershon ’79: professor, molecular biology and biochemistry, Waksman Institute, Rutgers University
  • Peter S. White ’71: professor of ecology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; director, North Carolina Botanical Garden

Visual arts

  • Ralph Alswang ’87: official White House photographer, Clinton administration
  • Susan Crile ’65: painter; faculty, Hunter College
  • Helen Frankenthaler ’49: painter; pioneer in abstract expressionism
  • Anna Gaskell ’92: photographer; named as one of three Best and Brightest art photographers in America by Esquire magazine
  • Sally Mann ’73: photographer; named one of "America's best photographers" by TIME magazine, author, Deep South, Proud Flesh
  • Tom Sachs ’89: installation artist; work appeared in New York Times Magazine, Elle Décor magazine, The New York Post, GQ
  • Marian Zazeela '60: light-artist, designer, painter and musician

Writing

  • Miriam Marx Allen ’49: author; book, Love, Groucho: Letters from Groucho Marx to His Daughter Miriam
  • Mohammed Naseehu Ali '95: author; book, The Prophet of Zongo Street
  • Claire Blatchford '66: author and deafness advocate; book, Turning: Words Heard from Within
  • Carolyn Cassady ’44: author; book, Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg
  • Kiran Desai ’93: author; books, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (New York Times Notable Book) and Inheritance of Loss (winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize for fiction)
  • Gretel Ehrlich ’67: author; books, Arctic Heart: A Poem Cycle, Islands, The Universe, Home, This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland, The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold; Whiting Creative Writing award, Guggenheim fellowship
  • Jill Eisenstadt '85, novelist; books, From Rockaway and Kiss Out
  • Bret Easton Ellis ’86: author; books, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Lunar Park, The Informers
  • Lynn Emanuel ’72: poet; books, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly; National Poetry Series Award, Pushcart Prize, NEA, professor at University of Pittsburgh
  • Elizabeth Frank ’67: author; Pulitzer Prize for Louise Bogan: A Portrait; Cheat and Charmer: A Novel, Joseph E. Harry Chair in Modern Languages and Literature, Bard College
  • Tod Goldberg '09: author; books, Gangsterland, Living Dead Girl, Other Resort Cities, Burn Notice series
  • Sandra Hochman '57, poet and novelist, books, Manhattan Pastures, Jogging: A Love Story, Playing Tahoe; 1963 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award
  • Barbara Howes '37: poet; wife of William Jay Smith
  • Jonathan Lethem ’86: author; books, You Don't Love Me Yet, The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn (National Book Critics Circle Award), 2005 MacArthur "Genius" Award winner, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, Chronic City, appointed Disney professor of creative writing at Pomona College
  • Cynthia Macdonald '50: poet; books, Amputations, (W)holes, I Can't Remember
  • Kathleen Norris ’69: author of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (New York Times Notable Book), and Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life; Guggenheim fellowship
  • Michael Pollan ’76: author; books, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Botany of Desire (New York Times bestseller), Second Nature: A Gardener's Education, and A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
  • Riva Magaril Poor ’56: author; award-winning book, 4 Days, 40 Hours: Reporting a Revolution in Work and Leisure (1970); more than 500 speeches and 200 guest appearances on TV and radio shows, including Today, CBS News, Merv Griffin and Phil Donahue
  • Mary Ruefle '74: poet and essayist; books, Madness Rock and Honey (National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist), A Little White Shadow, Among the Musk Ox People; recipient of William Carlos Williams Award
  • Eva Salzman '82, poet; books, The English Earthquake, Bargain with the Watchman
  • Reginald Shepherd '88: poet, books, Some Are Drowning, Wrong, Otherhood
  • Donna Tartt ’86: author; 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner for The Goldfinch; books, The Secret History, The Little Friend
  • Anne Waldman ’66: poet, books, Marriage: A Sentence, In the Room of Never Grieve, professor at Naropa University
  • Thisuri Wanniarachchi '16: author; books, Colombo Streets, The Terrorist's Daughter
  • Susan Wheeler '77, poet; books, Smokes, Bag o' Diamonds, Meme; Norma Farber First Book Award and finalist for National Book Award; Director of Creative Writing at Princeton University

Notable current faculty

Notable former faculty

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bennington.edu/AfterBennington.aspx
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