List of Bard College people
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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.
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.
- Joshua Lutz, photographer
- 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
- Joshua Lutz, photographer
- 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
- Jesse Browner, novelist, essayist, translator
- 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
- Erika McEntarfer, Head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Fashion
- Tom Ford, fashion designer and filmmaker
Science
- Harvey Bialy, molecular biologist
- László Z. Bitó, scientist and novelist
- John Joseph Bittner, cancer geneticist
- Tatiana Prowell, oncologist
- 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