- List of Bennington College people
This is a list of famous people affiliated with
Bennington College , including graduates, former students, and faculty.*
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 theBlue 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 ofSaturday 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 2006Man Booker Prize for her novel "The Inheritance of Loss ".
*Peter Dinklage (1969-) actor. [Smith, Dinitia. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE5DE163CF931A35753C1A9659C8B63 "Dark, Handsome And Short; Star of a Sundance Hit Is Ready for an Encore"] , "The New York Times ",October 2 ,2003 . AccessedDecember 7 ,2007 . "Mr. Dinklage, who grew up in Mendham, N.J., said he first realized he was different when he was 5.... Mr. Dinklage attended the Delbarton School, a Catholic boys' school in Morristown, N.J., which was strongly sports-oriented.... Mr. Dinklage credits Mr. Dougherty with helping to get him into Bennington College in Vermont."]
*Bill Dixon , free jazz pioneer
*Andrea Dworkin
*Mary Early
*Bret Easton Ellis
*Betty Ford , attended the Bennington School of Dance (summer only)
*Ruth Ann Fredenthal , painter, recipient of first Fulbright from Bennington
*Helen Frankenthaler
*Joel Garland [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307534/ 1]
*Anna Gaskell , photographer
*Kathy Halbreich , director of theWalker Art Center , Minneapolis
*Karen Houppert
*Alexandra Hughes , opera singer and singer-songwriter of comic songs onPrairie Home Companion
*Thomas Hughes (musician) , ofThe Spinto Band
*Sam Hughes (U.S. musician) , of The Spinto Band
*Yasmin Aga Khan
*Roger Kimball
*Mitchell Kriegman (TV writer/producer Clarissa Explains it All, Bear in the Big Bluehouse] )
*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 ofMarlboro College
*Ted Mooney
*Thomas Ollendorff , visionary painter
*Wendy Perron , editor ofDance magazine
*Michael Pollan (of theNew York Times )
*Anne Ramsey ,Academy Award nominated actress
*Mary Ruefle , graduated 1974
* Sam Schulman, co-founder ofWigwag (magazine) and The American: A Magazine of Ideas for Business Leaders, and frequent contributor toCommentary andThe Wall Street Journal
*Jonathan Marc Sherman
*Miles Simon , hip-hop artist, known asMeters to the public.
*Marc Spitz , novelist, playwright, and journalist
*Jared Paul Stern
*Elizabeth Swados , author/composer of Runaways
*Donna Tartt
*Holland Taylor ,Emmy Award winning actress
*Justin Theroux
*Joan Tower , composer
*Anne Waldman , poet
*Matthew Weiss
*Paula Jean Welden , of Dewey House, Bennington College, whose disappearance, aged 18, on December 1st 1946 remains unsolved.
* Christopher Wigle, Associate Artistic Director, Huntington Theatre, Boston
*Alec Wilkinson (ofThe New Yorker )
*Marian Zazeela Notable current faculty
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Steven Bach
*Kitty Brazelton
*Ronald L. Cohen
*Mansour Farhang
*Marguerite Feitlowitz
*Milford Graves
*Donald Hall
*Mac Maharaj
*Laura Parnes
*Allen Shawn
*Amy Hempel Notable former faculty
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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
*Louis Calabro , American composer
*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 ,dn novelist
*Martha Graham , dancer
*Lucy Grealy , American poet and writer
*Clement Greenberg , art ritic and historian
*Richard Haas , artist
*Stanley Edgar Hyman (whose wifeShirley Jackson used settings in and around Bennington College in her famous short story "The Lottery ")
*Edward Hoagland , writer
*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 of the Revere Beach Trilogy
*Stephen Mueller , New York painter
*Howard Nemerov , American poet
*Kenneth Noland , Painter
*Jules Olitski , painter
*Mary Oliver , American poet
*Camille Paglia
*Jackson Pollock 's first retrospective was held at Bennington in 1952.
*Larry Poons , painter
*Theodore Roethke
* Stanley Rosen, American ceramicist, formerly studio manager at theGreenwich House Pottery in the 1950s
* Stephen Sandy, poet
*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 ofCanadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics , founding faculty member ofQuest University
*Isaac Witkin , sculptor
*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 musicReferences
Iassac Witkin; Sculptor
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