This list of notable people associated with Bennington College includes matriculating students, alumni, attendees, faculty, trustees, and honorary degree recipients of Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont.
Notable alumni Architecture NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeReferenceJudith Munk1946artist and designer associated with Scripps Institution of OceanographyB.A.https://www.facebook.com/benningtoncollege/posts/pfbid0idccCV1fFbCjSjAgTfwxUGbUJqM2yRuCjo7L55mtaxppwBh9fVrj4aEoeN7CT8sAl
Art administration NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeReferenceDeborah Borda1971president and CEO, the Los Angeles Philharmonic; former president and CEO of the New York PhilharmonicB.A.Dan Cameron1979former director, visual arts, Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), chief curator of the Orange County Museum of ArtB.A.Kathy Halbreich1971associate director, the Museum of Modern Art (New York)B.A.Maren Hassinger1969director, the Rinehart School of Graduate Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of ArtB.A.Lindsay Howard2008art curator in New YorkB.A.Harvey Lichtenstein1953chair, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Local Development Corporation; former executive director and president emeritus of the board of trustees, Brooklyn Academy of MusicB.A.Matthew Marks1985founder and owner, Matthew Marks GalleryB.A.Sharon Ott1972former artistic director, Seattle Repertory Theater; Tony and Obie Awards; faculty, Savannah College of Art & Design; executive board member, Stage Directors and Choreographers SocietyB.A.Virlana Tkacz1974founding director of Yara Arts GroupB.A.Anne Waldman1966director and co-founder, Jack Kerouac School, the Naropa Institute; Dylan Thomas Memorial Prize and NEA fellowshipsB.A.
Aviation NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeReferenceBetty Haas Pfister1942member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, two-time winner of the All Women’s International Air RaceaviatorB.A.
Business NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeReferenceBruce Berman1974chairman and CEO, Village Roadshow Pictures; executive producer, The Matrix, Ocean's Eleven, Analyze This, Mystic River, Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryB.A.Deborah Borda1971president and CEO, the Los Angeles Philharmonic; former president and CEO of the New York PhilharmonicB.A.Ashley Gjøvik2005former Apple Inc. employee; labor activist and whistleblowerJudith Jones1945vice president and senior editor, Knopf; author of The Tenth Muse: My Life with Food and The Pleasures of Cooking for OneB.A.
Dance/choreography NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeReferenceUlysses Dove1970choreographer and dancer, created works performed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the New York City BalletB.A.Liz Lerman1969choreographer, founder/director, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; 2002 MacArthur "Genius" Award winnerB.A.Lisa Nelson1971choreographer; former editor, Contact Quarterly; director of VideodaB.A.Sara Rudner1999director of dance, Sarah Lawrence College; former principal dancer, Twyla Tharp Dance; recipient of Bessie Award and Guggenheim grantB.A.Laura Spector1976former dancer; vine artist
Education NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeReferenceJudith Butler1978professor and chair of comparative literature and rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley; author, Gender TroubleB.A.Sheila Miyoshi Jager 1984professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin CollegeB.A.Ellen McCulloch-Lovell1969president, Marlboro College; former deputy assistant to President ClintonB.A.Sally Liberman Smith1950founder/director, Lab School, Washington, DCB.A.
Film/theater/television NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeCitationBetty Aberlin1963actress and poet, Mister Rogers′ NeighborhoodB.A.Alan Arkin1955actor, 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 SmartB.A.John Billingsley1982film and television actor with multiple credits, known for his role as Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: EnterpriseB.A.Chris Bowen1988senior performing director, Blue Man Group; Obie and Drama Desk AwardsB.A.John Boyd2003actor, Bones, FBIB.A.Carol Channing1942Broadway and film actress; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly!; Golden Globe Award, Academy Award nominationB.A.Spencer CoxHIV/AIDS activistB.A.Tim Daly1979actor, Diner, Made in Heaven; TV credits include Witness to the Execution, Wings, The Fugitive, The Sopranos, Private Practice, Madam Secretary; Theatre World and Dramalogue awardsB.A.Peter Dinklage1991actor; 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 ThronesB.A.Camelia FriebergCanadian film director and producerB.A."Crusading producer passionate about film: She isn't afraid to confront the mandarins and accountants". Toronto Star, June 19, 1994.Mitchell Kriegman1974Emmy award winning director and writer, The Book of Pooh, Bear in the Big Blue House, Clarissa Explains It AllB.A.Mitch Markowitz1975screenwriter, Good Morning Vietnam, Crazy People; TV credits include M*A*S*H, Too Close for Comfort, MonkB.A.Alley Mills1973The Wonder Years, The Bold and the Beautiful (Emmy and Golden Globe Award)B.A.Barry Primus1960actor/director/writer, Cagney & Lacey, The X-Files, LA Law; film credits include The Rose, American Hustle, Mistress, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of DeathB.A.Anne Ramsey1951actress, The Goonies, Throw Momma from the Train (Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe Award nomination, two Saturn Awards)B.A.Melissa Rosenberg1986writer/producer; TV credits include The Agency, Boston Public, Dexter; film credits include Step Up, Twilight, New MoonB.A.Suzanne Shepherd1956actress; film credits include Working Girl, Goodfellas; TV credits include Law & Order, The SopranosB.A.Jonathan Marc Sherman1990playwright/actor; plays written include: Women and Wallace, Things We Want, and the musical The ConnectorB.ATreva Silverman1959TV writer, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Room 222, The Monkees, Captain Nice B.A."Bennington College Confers Degrees Upon 62 Graduates". Rutland Daily Herald. June 29, 1959. p. 2. Retrieved October 28, 2023.Rider Strong2009screenwriter, director, producer: Irish Twins; actor, Boy Meets WorldM.F.A.Holland Taylor1964actress; 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 MenB.A.Justin Theroux1993actor, 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, The Leftovers, John AdamsB.A.Virlana Tkacz 1974theater directorB.A.Jill Wisoff1977film composer/actor; film credits include Welcome to the Dollhouse, Smart House, Creating KarmaB.A.
Government/public service NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeCitationWill Greer2024 representative in the Vermont House of Representatives; high bailiff of Bennington CountyB.A.Princess Yasmin Aga Khan1973vice chairman of Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Association; president of Alzheimer's Disease InternationalB.A.Ujwal Thapa2000political activist, and co-founder of grassroots political party Bibeksheel NepaliB.A.
Journalism/broadcasting NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeCitationJames Geary1985former deputy editor of TIME magazine, Europe, Middle East, and AfricaB.A.Roger Kimball1975art critic and conservative social commentator; editor and publisher of New CriterionB.A.Ted Mooney1973senior editor, Art in America magazineB.A.Wendy Perron1969editor-in-chief, Dance MagazineB.A.Alec Wilkinson1974staff writer, The New Yorker; author of eight nonfiction books; Robert F. Kennedy Book AwardB.A.
Music NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeCitationChris Barron1990lead singer, Spin DoctorsB.A.Alex Bleeker2008member of the band Real Estate and Alex Bleeker and the FreaksB.A.Mountain Manindie folk singing trio consisting of Molly Sarlé, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, and Amelia MeathLisa Sokolov1976jazz vocalist, improviser and composer; originator, Embodied VoiceWork; director, the Institute for Embodied VoiceWork in New York; associate professor, NYU's Tisch School of the ArtsB.A.Michael Starobin1979orchestrator on Broadway for Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins, Falsettos, Guys and Dolls, King Lear, Visiting Mr. Green, Next to NormalB.A.Will Stratton2009singer/songwriterB.A.Elizabeth Swados1973composer, writer, director; three-time Obie winnerB.A.James Tenney1958experimental composer; Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition, CalArtsB.A.Joan Tower1961composer; Asher Edelman Professor of Music, Bard College; Grammy Award recipientB.A.Susannah Waters1986soprano, profiled in Opera News; NYC Opera debut 1997 in Handel's XerxesB.A.Anthony Wilson1990composer/arranger, guitarist; toured with Diana KrallB.A.
Science/medicine NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeCitationBarrie Cassileth1959Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair in Integrative Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterB.A.Joan Hinton1942nuclear physicist, China activistB.A.Jennifer Mieres1982director, nuclear cardiology; associate professor, New York University School of MedicineB.A.
Sports NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeCitationMartha Rockwell1966Olympic cross-country skierB.A.
Visual arts NameClass yearNotabilityDegreeCitationRalph Alswang1987official White House photographer, Clinton administrationB.A.Susan Crile1965painter; faculty, Hunter CollegeB.A.Helen Frankenthaler1949painter; pioneer in abstract expressionismB.A.Anna Gaskell1992photographer; named as one of three Best and Brightest art photographers in America by Esquire magazineB.A.Maren Hassinger1969installation, sculpture, and performance artist also working in video; director of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of ArtB.A.Sally Mann1973photographer; named one of "America's best photographers" by TIME magazine; author, Deep South, Proud FleshB.A.Jill Nathansonpainter, color field paintingB.A.Robert Perkinspoet and artist B.A.Anne Poorpainter and war correspondent in World War IIB.A.Nigel Poorphotographer, podcaster, cofounder of Ear HustleB.A.Tom Sachs1989installation artist; work appeared in New York Times Magazine, Elle Décor magazine, The New York Post, GQB.A.Cosmo Whyte2001Jamaican-born American sculptor, painter, installation artist, educatorB.A.Marian Zazeela1960light-artist, designer, painter and musicianB.A.Jane Zweibel1981painter, mixed media art, sculptureB.A.
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