List of Bennington College people
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This is a list of famous people affiliated with Bennington College, including graduates, former students, and faculty.
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Alan Arkin
- Brooks Ashmanskas, Broadway performer, seven shows including Gypsy, The Producers, and Little Me
- Larry Atlas, star of Cruising
- Mark Barnes, public health law expert and prominent attorney
- Chris Barron (Lead Singer of the Spin Doctors)
- Bruce Berman (Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures; executive producer of The Matrix, among others - attended Bennington, though he did not graduate from Bennington.
- John Billingsley, actor, best known for playing Dr. Phlox on Enterprise (final Star Trek series)
- Ardan Michael Blum Director of a national Charity in Switzerland
- Chris Bowen of the Blue Man Group
- Carolyn Cassady
- John Cauman, art historian
- Carol Channing
- Merce Cunningham
- Tim Daly
- Sean Daniel, Hollywood producer, who as a young executive brought "Animal House" and the first generation of Saturday Night Live stars to the screen for Universal.
- Richard Deacon, actor best known for playing Mel Cooley on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and Fred Rutherford on "Leave It To Beaver"
- Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.
- Peter Dinklage
- Andrea Dworkin
- Mary Early
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Betty Ford, attended the Bennington School of Dance (summer only)
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Joel Garland 1
- Anna Gaskell, photographer
- Kathy Halbreich, director of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- Karen Houppert
- Alexandra Hughes, opera singer and singer-songwriter of comic songs on Prairie Home Companion
- Thomas Hughes (musician), of The Spinto Band
- Sam Hughes (musician), of The Spinto Band
- Yasmin Aga Khan
- Roger Kimball
- Mitch Kriegman (TV writer/producer who discovered Melissa Joan Hart)
- Jonathan Lethem
- James Levin, founder, Cleveland Public Theatre
- Harvey Lichtenstein
- Sally Mann
- Mitch Markowitz, television producer and writer
- Tom Matthews, Wine Spectator
- Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, President of Marlboro College
- Ted Mooney
- Thomas Ollendorff, visionary painter
- Wendy Perron, editor of Dance magazine
- Michael Pollan (of the New York Times)
- Anne Ramsey, Academy Award nominated actress
- Mary Ruefle, graduated 1974
- Sam Schulman, co-founder of Wigwag (magazine) and The American: A Magazine of Ideas for Business Leaders, and frequent contributor to Commentary and The Wall Street Journal
- Jonathan Marc Sherman
- Miles Simon, hip-hop artist, known as Meters to the public.
- Marc Spitz, novelist, playwright, and journalist
- Jared Paul Stern
- Mike Strati, co-creator of Walnuts!
- Elizabeth Swados, author/composer of Runaways
- Donna Tartt
- Justin Theroux
- Anne Waldman, poet
- Matthew Weiss
- Christopher Wigle, Associate Artistic Director, Huntington Theatre, Boston
- Alec Wilkinson (of The New Yorker)
- Marian Zazeela
[edit] Notable Current Faculty
- Steven Bach
- Kitty Brazelton
- Ronald L. Cohen
- Mansour Farhang
- Marguerite Feitlowitz
- Milford Graves
- Donald Hall
- Mac Maharaj
- Laura Parnes
- Allen Shawn
[edit] Notable Former Faculty
- Pat Adams, painter
- W.H. Auden gave a series of lectures on Shakespeare in the spring of 1946 and resided in the Leigh house faculty apartment.
- Eric Bentley
- Willard Boepple, New York painter
- Henry Brant, American composer
- Kenneth Burke, critic
- Sir Anthony Caro, British sculptor
- Alan Cheuse, writer
- Nicholas Delbanco, novelist
- Bill Dixon, musician
- Peter Drucker, management guru and writer
- Paul Feeley, American painter
- Francis Fergusson, French scholar and translator
- Claude Fredericks, poet and classicist
- Buckminster Fuller
- John Gardner, novelist
- Martha Graham, dancer
- Lucy Grealy, American poet and writer
- Clement Greenberg, art ritic and historian
- Richard Haas, artist
- Stanley Edgar Hyman (whose wife Shirley Jackson used settings in and around Bennington College in her famous short story "The Lottery")
- Edward Hoagland, writer
- Stanley Kunitz, American poet
- Bernard Malamud, novelist
- Harry Mathews, poet, novelist, essayist
- Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer
- Roland Merullo, author of the Revere Beach Trilogy
- Stephen Mueller, New York painter
- Howard Nemerov, American poet
- Mary Oliver, American poet
- Camille Paglia
- Jackson Pollock's first retrospective was held at Bennington in 1952.
- Theodore Roethke
- Stanley Rosen, American ceramicist, formerly studio manager at the Greenwich House Pottery in the 1950s
- Stephen Sandy, poet
- Joel Shapiro, New York sculptor
- Barbara Herrnstein Smith, professor and author
- Glen Van Brummelen, Historian of Mathematics, former president of Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, founding faculty member of Quest University
- Philip Wofford, painter
- Robert Woodworth, botanist and pioneer of time-lapse photography
- Gunnar Schonbeck, A music teacher who revolutionized the way people thought about instruments and music
