List of Bennington College people

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
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

W. H. Auden gave a series of lectures on Shakespeare in the spring of 1946 and resided in the Leigh house faculty apartment.
Steven Bach
Ben Belitt, poet and language professor
Eric Bentley
Henry Brant, American composer
Kenneth Burke, critic
Louis Calabro, American composer
Sir Anthony Caro, British sculptor
Tony Carruthers, theater designer
Nicholas Delbanco, novelist and director of the Bennington Writers' Workshop
Bill Dixon, musician
Peter Drucker, management guru and writer
Paul Feeley, American painter
Francis Fergusson, French scholar and translator
Vivian Fine, composer
Claude Fredericks, American poet
Buckminster Fuller
John Gardner, novelist
Martha Graham, dancer
Lucy Grealy, American poet and writer
Clement Greenberg, art critic and historian
Richard Haas, artist
Edward Hoagland, writer
Stanley Edgar Hyman (whose wife Shirley Jackson used settings in and around Bennington College in her famous short story "The Lottery")
Lyman Kipp, sculptor
Stanley Kunitz, American poet
Ronnie Landfield, painter, (guest instructor) 1968
Bernard Malamud, novelist
Harry Mathews, poet, novelist, essayist
Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer
Roland Merullo, author
Howard Nemerov, American poet
Kenneth Noland, Painter
Jules Olitski, painter
Mary Oliver, American poet
Camille Paglia
Wendy Perron, dancer/choreographer
John Plumb, painter
Mark Poirier, novelist and short story writer
Jackson Pollock's first retrospective was held at Bennington in 1952.
Larry Poons, painter
Theodore Roethke
Joel Shapiro, New York sculptor
Barbara Herrnstein Smith, professor and author
David Smith, sculptor
Michael Todd, sculptor
Glen Van Brummelen, historian of mathematics, former president of Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, founding faculty member of Quest University
Isaac Witkin, sculptor
Robert Woodworth, botanist and pioneer of time-lapse photography

References

↑ http://www.bennington.edu/AfterBennington.aspx
↑ Bernstein, Jacob (February 22, 2013). "Surviving AIDS, but Not the Life That Followed". NYTimes.com. Retrieved October 7, 2013.

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