This is a list of notable people associated with Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States. It includes graduates, attendees, and faculty of the college.
Alumni Arts Dance Arthur Aviles, dancer and choreographer
Film, television and theatre Ashim Ahluwalia, filmmaker Raphael Bob-Waksberg, actor, producer, writer (BoJack Horseman) Anne Bogart, theater director Jordan Bridges, actor Salvador Carrasco, film director (The Other Conquest) Chevy Chase, comedian, writer, and television and film actor Joel and Ethan Coen, filmmakers Adam Conover, comedian, writer, and television host Gia Coppola, film director Pauline Chalamet, French-American actress Blythe Danner, actress Daisy Eagan, American 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 Peter Hobbs, actor Gaby Hoffmann, actress Hellin Kay, filmmaker and photographer Lola Kirke, actress 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 Ezra Miller, actor Tracy Nelson, actress Olde English, sketch comedy group Ellen Parker, actress, the Guiding Light Jeff Preiss, filmmaker Rosalie Purvis, theater director Marianne Rendón, actress Peter Sarsgaard, actor Eric Schaeffer, writer, director, actor Jeff Scher, American filmmaker, animator and painter Peter Stone, playwright Michael Tolkin, filmmaker, novelist Lana Wachowski, film and television director, writer and producer Alexandra Wentworth, actor/comedian Yang Jin-mo, South Korean film editor Sherman Yellen, screenwriter/playwright/lyricist; political essayist for Huffington Post and The Environmentalist
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 of Nirvana Carl Davis, composer and conductor Drop the Lime, electronic dance musician Donald Fagen, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan Ear, electronic music duo Joel Harrison, jazz guitarist, singer, composer, and arranger 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 vibraphonist PWR BTTM Elliott Sharp, musician Richard M. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter Robert B. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter Libby Titus, singer, songwriter and actor Told Slant Jonathan Tunick, composer and arranger Stefan Weisman, composer 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 Paul Chan, artist Ronald Chase, artist, director & educator Frances Bean Cobain, visual artist, model, and musician Adriana Farmiga, visual artist Daniel Gordon, artist Joanne Greenbaum, painter Duncan Hannah, painter and author David Horvitz, artistDavid Horvitz Bio CHERT Gallery Berlin Tapu Javeri, photographer Jamie Livingston, photographer/cinematographer Mary Lum, visual artist Joshua Lutz, photographer Holly Lynton, photographer Malerie Marder, photographer Kambui Olujimi, visual artist Lothar Osterburg, printmaker and multimedia artist Lee Knox Ostertag, American cartoonist and writer Serkan Ozkaya, artist R.H. Quaytman, artist Herb Ritts, photographer Carolee Schneeman, artist Amy Sillman, painter Xaviera Simmons, artist Rudi Stern, multimedia artist Gordon Stevenson, multimedia artist Arthur Tress, photographer
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 Camonghne Felix, American writer and poet 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 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 Brandon Blackwood, fashion designer and philanthropist Tom Ford, fashion designer and filmmaker
Science Harvey Bialy, molecular biologist László Z. Bitó, scientist and novelist John Joseph Bittner, cancer geneticist Stephanie Chasteen, American physicist and science educator Matthew J. DeGennaro, American mosquito scientist Zoe R. Donaldson, American neuroscientist Tatiana Prowell, oncologist Ann Reid, biologist Elie A. Shneour, neurochemist, biophysicist and author 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 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 Wafa Mustafa, Syrian journalist and activist Alexis Papahelas, journalist Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic Richard Rovere, journalist, author Matt Taibbi, journalist (The Nation, The eXile, The NY Press, Rolling Stone) Lucian Wintrich, artist and White House correspondent for The Gateway Pundit in 2017
Other Loren AliKhan, judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Sonita Alizadeh, Afghan rapper and activist Hannah Bronfman, American DJ, influencer, and entrepreneur Susan D'Agostino, American mathematician and science journalist Elio Fox, American poker player Bo Bo Nge, Burmese economist, vice governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar, and political prisoner Bruce Chilton, Biblical scholar Wayne L. Horvitz, labor mediator Tokata Iron Eyes, Native American activist Kalina Konstantinova, Bulgarian entrepreneur and politician Pamela Merritt, American writer and reproductive justice activist Sana Mustafa, Syrian refugee, author, activist and non-profit founder 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 David Rolf, president of SEIU Local 775 Karen Saxe, mathematician Michael Sylvester (politician), American politician and member of the Maine House of Representatives Diya Vij, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Faculty Peggy Ahwesh Thurman Barker Jonathan Brent Franklin Bruno Ian Buruma Mary Caponegro Caleb Carr Anne Carson Bruce Chilton Teju Cole Mark Danner Moyra Davey Tim Davis Jeremy Denk Liz Deschenes Mitch Epstein Gidon Eshel John Esposito Barbara Ess Elizabeth Frank Neil Gaiman Kyle Gann Jackie Goss Diana Al-Hadid Benjamin Hale Ed Halter Michael Hudson Bill T. Jones Jeffrey Kahane Ani Kavafian Ida Kavafian Robert Kelly So Yong Kim Verlyn Klinkenborg David Krakauer Ann Lauterbach An-My Lê Gideon Lester Erica Lindsay Norman Manea Walter Russell Mead Edie Meidav Daniel Mendelsohn Peter N. Miller Bradford Morrow Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad Vik Muniz Kamau Amu Patton Gilles Peress Judy Pfaff Francine Prose Kelly Reichardt Jennifer Ringo John Ryle Lucy Sante Peter Serkin Stephen Shore Amy Sillman Mona Simpson Alexander Soros Michael Specter Richard Teitelbaum Joan Tower George Tsontakis Dawn Upshaw Laura van den Berg Cecelia Watson Lawrence Weschler
Former faculty Chinua Achebe Andre Aciman JoAnne Akalaitis Artine Artinian John Ashbery Alfred Jules Ayer Bruce Baillie Emily Barton Bernard Iddings Bell Saul Bellow Kenneth M. Bilby Heinrich Blücher (buried in the Bard Cemetery with his wife, Hannah Arendt) Benjamin Boretz James Clarke Chace Paul de Man Jacob Druckman Ralph Ellison Heinz Insu Fenkl Donald Finkel Harvey Fite William Gaddis Leah Gilliam Karen Greenberg Daron Hagen Felix Hirsch Bob Holman William Humphrey Peter Hutton Mat Johnson Joel Kovel Harvey J. Levin Roy Lichtenstein Ken Lum Mary McCarthy Allan McCollum Adolfas Mekas Franco Modigliani Toni Morrison Elizabeth Murray Jacob Neusner Albert Jay Nock Arthur Penn Orhan Pamuk Paul Ramirez Jonas David Rieff Roswell Rudd Mary Lee Settle Isaac Bashevis Singer Wadada Leo Smith Wilhelm Sollmann Joseph Somers William Weaver Ted Weiss
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