Here is a list of notable people associated with Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. It includes graduates, attendees, and faculty of the college.
Alumni
Arts
Dance
- Arthur Aviles, dancer and choreographer
Film, Television and Theatre
- Raphael Bob-Waksberg, actor, producer, writer (BoJack Horseman)
- Ashim Ahluwalia, filmmaker
- Anne Bogart, theater director
- Jordan Bridges, actor
- Salvador Carrasco, film director (The Other Conquest)
- Joel and Ethan Coen, filmmakers
- Gia Coppola, film director
- Chevy Chase, comedian, writer, and television and film actor
- Blythe Danner, actress
- Mia Farrow, actress
- Theodore J. Flicker, sculptor/film director
- Lola Glaudini, actor (The Sopranos)
- Griffin Gluck
- Wynne Greenwood
- Adrian Grenier, actor (Entourage)
- Christopher Guest, actor/director (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show)
- Larry Hagman, actor
- K8 Hardy
- Todd Haynes, filmmaker
- Jonah Hill, Actor
- Ezra Miller, actor
- Peter Hobbs, actor[1]
- Gaby Hoffmann, actress
- Hellin Kay, filmmaker and photographer
- Lola Kirke, actress[2]
- Howard Koch, screenwriter (Casablanca, Letter from an Unknown Woman)
- Annie Korzen, actress, comedian and writer.
- Rhoda Levine, choreographer, theatre and opera director (NYC Opera) Play it By Ear, children's book writer
- Olde English, sketch comedy group
- Adam Conover, comedian, writer, and television host
- Tracy Nelson, actress
- Ellen Parker, actress, the Guiding Light
- Jeff Preiss, filmmaker
- Rosalie Purvis, theater director
- Marianne Rendón, actress[2]
- Peter Sarsgaard, actor
- Eric Schaeffer, writer, director, actor
- Peter Stone, playwright
- Michael Tolkin, filmmaker, novelist
- Lana Wachowski, film and television director, writer and producer
- Alexandra Wentworth, actor/comedian
- Sherman Yellen, screenwriter/playwright/lyricist; political essayist on Huffington Post and The Environmentalist
- Yang Jin-mo, South Korean film editor[3]
Music
- Walter Becker, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan
- Ran Blake, pianist
- Knox Chandler, musician
- Frances Bean Cobain, musician and daughter of the late Kurt Cobain from Nirvana (band)
- Carl Davis, composer and conductor
- Drop the Lime, electronic dance musician
- Donald Fagen, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan
- Jeanne Lee, jazz singer, poet and composer.
- Jack Lewis, musician (known as "Lesser Lewis")
- Gilda Lyons, composer, vocalist, visual artist
- Soul Khan, hip-hop artist
- Michael Montes, composer
- Zeena Parkins, avant-garde harpist
- Steve Vibert Pouchie Latin Jazz
- Elliott Sharp, musician
- Richard M. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
- Robert B. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
- Libby Titus, singer, songwriter and actor
- Jonathan Tunick, composer and arranger
- Stefan Weisman, composer
- PWR BTTM
- Told Slant
- Bruce Wolosoff, composer
- Adam Yauch, musician, Beastie Boys
- Nick Zinner, musician (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Head Wound City)
Visual Arts
- Sadie Benning, video artist
- Cecilia Berkovic, artist
- Nayland Blake, artist
- Paul Chan, artist
- Ronald Chase, artist, director & educator
- Frances Bean Cobain, visual artist, model, and musician
- Adriana Farmiga, visual artist
- Joanne Greenbaum, painter
- Duncan Hannah, painter and author
- David Horvitz, artist[4]
- Jamie Livingston, photographer/cinematographer
- Holly Lynton, photographer
- Malerie Marder, photographer
- Lothar Osterburg, printmaker and multimedia artist
- Serkan Ozkaya, artist
- R.H. Quaytman, artist
- Herb Ritts, photographer
- Carolee Schneeman, artist
- Amy Sillman, painter
- Gordon Stevenson, multimedia artist
- Rudi Stern, multimedia artist
- Arthur Tress, photographer
- Tapu Javeri, photographer
- Xaviera Simmons, artist
- Daniel Gordon, artist
- Mary Lum, visual artist
Writing
- Jedediah Berry, writer
- Keith Botsford, author, editor, journalist, translator, composer
- Mary Caponegro, writer
- Phyllis Chesler, author
- Chris Claremont, comic book writer (X-Men)
- Cyrus Console, poet and essayist
- Rikki Ducornet, writer
- Andrew Durbin, novelist, editor
- J.F. Englert, author, poet, journalist
- Louise Fitzhugh, author
- Daphne Gottlieb, poet, author
- Ken Grimwood, author
- Anthony Hecht, poet
- Pierre Joris, poet and translator
- Charlotte Mandell, literary translator
- Hal Niedzviecki, novelist
- Albert Jay Nock, author and theorist
- Daniel Pinkwater, children's author, humorist and NPR commentator
- Tad Richards, poet and novelist
- Thomas Rockwell author, How to Eat Fried Worms, Shakespeare Scholar
- Elizabeth Royte, writer
- Mary Lee Settle, author, won National Book Award
- Rachel Sherman, author
- Juliana Spahr, poet and critic
- Glenn Stout, author, editor,[5] series editor (The Best American Sports Writing)
- Wesley Updike, father of John Updike, inspiration for The Centaur
- Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff, writer
- John Yau, poet, publisher
Business
- James Cox Chambers
- Asher Edelman, investment banker, served as the basis for the character Gordon Gekko in Wall Street due to his 1985 takeover of Datapoint
Fashion
- Tom Ford, fashion designer and filmmaker
Science
- Harvey Bialy, molecular biologist
- László Z. Bitó, scientist and novelist
- John Joseph Bittner, cancer geneticist
- Giga Zedania, academic and educational manager in the country of Georgia
Journalism
- Dylan Byers, media reporter
- David Cote, critic and writer
- John Curran, financial journalist[6]
- Michael Deibert, author and journalist
- Mark Ebner, journalist and author
- Ronan Farrow, journalist and author, co-recipient of 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
- Tim Griffin, curator-in-chief of the Kitchen and editor-in-chief of ArtForum International
- Alexis Papahelas, journalist
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic
- Richard Rovere, journalist, author
- Matt Taibbi, journalist (The Nation, The eXile, The NY Press, Rolling Stone)
Other
- Bruce Chilton, Biblical scholar
- Wayne L. Horvitz, labor mediator.[7]
- Tokata Iron Eyes, Native American activist
- Andrew J. Nicholson, scholar of Asian religions
- Susan Playfair (1940-2021), stockbroker, designer, and author
- Gary Robinson, software engineer, graduated 1979, developed anti-spam algorithms[8]
- David Rolf, President of SEIU Local 775
- Bo Bo Nge, Burmese economist, vice governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar, and political prisoner
Faculty
- Peggy Ahwesh
- Diana Al-Hadid
- Thurman Barker
- Jonathan Brent
- Franklin Bruno
- Ian Buruma
- Mary Caponegro
- Caleb Carr
- Anne Carson
- Bruce Chilton
- Teju Cole
- Mark Danner
- Moyra Davey
- Tim Davis
- Jeremy Denk
- John Esposito
- Gidon Eshel
- Barbara Ess
- Elizabeth Frank
- Neil Gaiman
- Kyle Gann
- Jackie Goss
- Benjamin Hale
- Ed Halter
- Michael Hudson
- Bill T. Jones
- Jeffrey Kahane
- Ani Kavafian
- Ida Kavafian
- Robert Kelly
- So Yong Kim
- Verlyn Klinkenborg
- David Krakauer
- Ann Lauterbach
- An-My Lê
- Gideon Lester
- Erica Lindsay
- Norman Manea
- Walter Russell Mead
- Edie Meidav
- Daniel Mendelsohn
- Peter N. Miller
- Bradford Morrow
- Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad
- Kamau Amu Patton
- Gilles Peress
- Judy Pfaff
- Francine Prose
- Kelly Reichardt
- Jennifer Ringo
- Lucy Sante
- Peter Serkin
- Vik Muniz
- Stephen Shore
- Amy Sillman
- Mona Simpson
- Michael Specter
- Richard Teitelbaum
- Joan Tower
- George Tsontakis
- Dawn Upshaw
- Laura van den Berg
- Cecelia Watson
- Lawrence Weschler
- Mitch Epstein
- Liz Deschenes
- Alexander Soros
- John Ryle
Former faculty
- Chinua Achebe[9]
- Andre Aciman
- JoAnne Akalaitis
- John Ashbery
- Artine Artinian
- Alfred Jules Ayer
- Bruce Baillie
- Emily Barton
- Bernard Iddings Bell
- Saul Bellow
- Kenneth M. Bilby
- Heinrich Blücher (buried in the Bard Cemetery with his wife, Hannah Arendt)
- Benjamin Boretz
- James Clarke Chace
- Paul de Man
- Jacob Druckman
- Ralph Ellison
- Donald Finkel
- Harvey Fite
- Heinz Insu Fenkl
- Ryszard Frelek
- William Gaddis
- Leah Gilliam
- Karen Greenberg
- Daron Hagen
- Felix Hirsch
- Bob Holman
- William Humphrey
- Peter Hutton
- Mat Johnson
- Joel Kovel
- Harvey J. Levin
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Ken Lum
- Mary McCarthy
- Allan McCollum
- Adolfas Mekas
- Franco Modigliani
- Toni Morrison
- Elizabeth Murray
- Jacob Neusner
- Albert Jay Nock
- Arthur Penn
- Paul Ramirez Jonas
- Orhan Pamuk
- David Rieff
- Roswell Rudd
- Mary Lee Settle
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Wadada Leo Smith
- Wilhelm Sollmann
- Joseph Somers
- William Weaver
- Ted Weiss
References
- ^ "Peter Hobbs obituary". Los Angeles Times. 2011-01-15. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ a b "7 Things to Know About Imposters' Marianne Rendón". bravotv.com. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ "<옥자> 양진모 편집감독 - 리듬과 타이밍". Cine 21. 2017-07-17. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
- ^ David Horvitz Bio CHERT Gallery Berlin Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "GLENN STOUT.NET". indiepro.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ Stevens, Charles W. (2013-07-12). "John Curran, 59; dogged journalist, Bloomberg editor". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2013-07-31.
- ^ Hevesi, Wayne (June 21, 2009). "Wayne L. Horvitz, 88, Labor Mediator, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved June 22, 2009.
- ^ "Gary Robinson". Google. 2010-09-18. Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
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{{cite web}}: External link in|quote= - ^ Mark Nickel (2009-09-15). "Famed African Writer Chinua Achebe Joins the Brown Faculty". Brown University. Retrieved 2012-09-24.