Saint Ann's School (New York City)

Infobox Secondary school
name = Saint Ann's School
established = 1965
type = Private
principal = Dr. Larry Weiss
colors = Blue and Gold
city = Brooklyn
state = New York
country = USA
website = [http://www.saintannsny.org]
grades = pre-K-12
address = The Bosworth Building129 Pierrepont Street
newspaper = "The Saint Ann's Ram"

Saint Ann's School is a private school in New York City known for its strength in the arts as well as academics. The school is a coeducational pre-K-12 day school with rigorous programs in the arts, humanities, and sciences. The school has no grades, relying instead on full-page anecdotal reports from teachers.

The school is located in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. It was founded by a board delegated by Saint Ann's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn Heights in 1965. Stanley Bosworth became its first headmaster. It disaffiliated with the Episcopal Church in 1982. In 2004, Bosworth retired and was succeeded by Dr. Lawrence S. Weiss, who is known as "Larry" to the students.

The school's program for the arts includes Costume Making and Design, Printmaking, Architecture and Design, Figure Drawing, African Dance, Modern Dance, Film Production, Intensive Acting, Technical Theater and Play Production, Puppetry, Playwriting, Voice and more. Academically, Saint Ann's is extremely strong: the school allows its high school juniors and seniors to essentially design their own curricula. Furthermore, in a 2004 survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal, Saint Ann's was rated the number one high school in the country (for having the highest percentage of graduating seniors enrolling in Ivy League and other highly selective colleges). [April 2, 2004 "Wall Street Journal", Cover Story (Personal Journal)] In late 2007, the Wall Street Journal again listed Saint Ann's as one of the world's top 50 schools for its success in preparing students to enter top American universities.cite web|url=http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-COLLEGE0711-sort.html|title=How the Schools Stack Up|publisher="The Wall Street Journal"|date=2007-12-28|author=Staff writer|accessdate=2008-07-25]

Saint Ann's is also famous for being the choice school of many celebrities. Richard Avedon, Dan Aykroyd, Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Peter Carey, Graydon Carter, Alfonso Cuarón, Willem Dafoe, Donna Dixon, Amitav Ghosh, Simon Kirke, Daniel Libeskind, Norman Mailer, Peter Neufeld, Peggy Noonan, Steve Reich, Tim Robbins, Robert Rosenblum, Susan Sarandon, Barry Scheck, Julian Schnabel, Jim Simpson, Art Spiegelman, Whitley Streiber, Sigourney Weaver, and Peter Yarrow are just a few of the many famous Saint Ann's parents.Fact|date=February 2007

Notable Faculty

* [http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=8613 Jane Avrich]
* [http://www.rizzoliusa.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780789313799 Bob Swacker]
* [http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_08.html Paul Lockhart]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/books/review/18grandin.html Katya Arnold]
*William Everdell
* [http://www.melissakantor.com/ Melissa Kantor]

Notable Alumni

Actors and Actresses

*Jon Abrahams (actor). [Lee, Linda. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E2DB1F3DF934A15756C0A9679C8B63 "A NIGHT OUT AT THE: Paramount Hotel; The Pajama Game"] , "The New York Times", May 27, 2001. Accessed November 3, 2007. "A product of St. Ann's School in Brooklyn, Mr. Abrahams, 23, had invited a batch of friends from high school to join him. He lives in North Park Slope, "exactly 41 minutes from here," he said."]
*Eva Amurri (actress)
*Jennifer Connelly (actress). [Kalogerakis, George. [http://nymag.com/shopping/articles/02/springfashion/connelly.htm "Mind Games"] , "New York (magazine)", February 18, 2002. Accessed November 15, 2007. "Connelly grew up mostly in Brooklyn Heights, the daughter of a clothing-manufacturer father and antiques-dealer mother. She attended Saint Ann's and started modeling when she was 10."]
*Alexis Dziena (actress)
*Josh Hamilton (actor)
*Paz de la Huerta (actress)
*Michelle Hurd (actress)
*Monica Keena (actress)
*Joie Lee (actress, sister of director Spike Lee)
*Mia Sara (actress)

Filmmakers and Screenwriters

*Akiva Goldsman (screenwriter)
*Ry Russo-Young (director) [Amdur, Neil. [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/movies/14orph.html "Friends Reunite for Film, but Actress’s Death Casts Pall on Premiere"] , "The New York Times", April 14, 2007. Accessed November 7, 2007. "Lily Wheelwright and Ry Russo-Young were friends while growing up in the West Village and pursuing their artistic dreams as classmates at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn."]
*Sabrina Tubio-Cid (producer)
*Alissa Shipp (producer)
*Nick Guthe (screenwriter/director)

Musicians

*Michael Diamond (musician)
*Simone Dinnerstein (pianist)
*Erika Nickrenz (pianist)

Athletes

*Katherine Healy (figure skater)
*Meredith Rainey (U.S. Olympic Team track/field athlete)

Writers

*Daniel Bergner (writer, journalist)
*Beth Bosworth (writer, editor)
*Seth Faison (writer, journalist)
*Sasha Frere-Jones (writer)
*Samantha Gillison (writer)
*Dan Goor (comedy writer)
* Neil Gordon (writer, editor)
*William Hogeland (writer)
*Anne Midgette (writer, journalist)
*Lynn Nottage (playwright)
*Meghan O'Rourke (poet, journalist)
*Hara Person (editor, UAHC Press)
*John Pomfret (writer, journalist)
*Jendi Reiter (poet)
* John Sifton (journalist, human rights researcher)
*Sam Sifton (writer, journalist)

Other Notables

*Tobias Frere-Jones (typographer)
*Bernadette Meyler (law professor)
*Zac Posen (designer)
*Joseph Sigelman (business)
*Daniel Weinreb (software}

References

See also

* Education in New York City
* [http://www.saintannsny.org/ Saint Ann's School]
* [http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/n_10337/index.html New York Magazine article on former headmaster Stanley Bosworth]