The following is a list of notable individuals associated with
Sarah Lawrence College through attendance as a student, or service as a member of the faculty or staff.[1]
Alumni
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J. J. Abrams, Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, director, and founder of Bad Robot Productions
Brian De Palma, film director best known for his suspense and thriller films, often cited as a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors
Rahm Emanuel, former
White House Chief of Staff under President
Barack Obama; former member of the United States House of Representatives and chairman of the Democratic Caucus; the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Leader Steny Hoyer and Whip Jim Clyburn
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus; the second female laureate in physics, after Marie Curie
Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance
Alice Walker, author, known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Barbara Walters, journalist, writer, and media personality, a regular fixture on morning television and news magazine and evening news shows, and the first female co-anchor of network evening news
Vera Wang, fashion designer known for her wedding gown collection
Stewart Lupton, poet and singer-songwriter from the bands Jonathan Fire*Eater, the Childballads, and the Beatins'
Dana Williams, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet.
Politics and public service
Brooke Anderson, diplomat; Deputy Ambassador to the UN; former chief-of-staff to the White House National Security Council; VP Communications, The Nuclear Threat Initiative[47]
Lisa Anderson, scholar; President of the American University in Cairo, Egypt; former dean of Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs[48]
Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, authority on West Nile Virus[94]
Guinevere Turner, co-screenwriter of American Psycho, has a cameo in the film as one of the girls Patrick has in Paul's apartment. He asks if she wants to get it on with the other girl, and she says "I'm not a lesbian! Why would you think that?" Patrick replies "well, for one thing, you DID go to Sarah Lawrence"—the joke being that Turner is a lesbian, and she actually went to Sarah Lawrence.
Marcia Jeffries from the 1957 film
A Face in the Crowd studied music when she went east to Sarah Lawrence
Gil Chesterton from sitcom Frasier claims to be married to Deb, a "Sarah Lawrence graduate and the owner of a very successful auto body repair shop" (and an Army Reservist), whom his co-workers had believed to be merely a pet cat.
"Sewage Joe" on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation is revealed to be an alumnus when he sends a lewd photograph to Ann from his alumni e-mail address.
In
J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, a girl on a train is described as "absolutely... a Sarah Lawrence type... looked like she'd spent the whole train ride in the john, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she had a leotard on under her dress."
In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie's older sister Candace has chosen to attend a “small liberal arts college back East called Sarah Lawrence.”
^TheStickmanLLC Added May 7, 2007 All my reviews (May 7, 2007).
"Yancy Butler at". Tv.com. Archived from
the original on April 4, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2011.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)
^Guitarnina User Score 5.
"Reo Jones". TV.com. Archived from
the original on September 18, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2011. {{
cite web}}: |author= has generic name (
help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)
^"Britannica.com". Britannica.com. December 10, 1925. Retrieved September 25, 2011.
^"Myra Cohn Livingston." Gale Literature:
Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2003. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 18 May 2023.
^Rochman, Hazel. "Myra Cohn Livingston." American Writers for Children Since 1960: Poets, Illustrators, and Nonfiction Authors, edited by Glenn E. Estes, Gale, 1987. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 61. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 19 May 2023.
^Erin Rose Connolly 2011 CT POL Champion.
"Poetry Out Loud". Poetry Out Loud. Archived from
the original on June 21, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2011.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)
The following is a list of notable individuals associated with
Sarah Lawrence College through attendance as a student, or service as a member of the faculty or staff.[1]
Alumni
This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's
verifiability policy. Please
improve this article by removing names that do not have independent
reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate
citations.(June 2019)
Select notables
J. J. Abrams, Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, director, and founder of Bad Robot Productions
Brian De Palma, film director best known for his suspense and thriller films, often cited as a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors
Rahm Emanuel, former
White House Chief of Staff under President
Barack Obama; former member of the United States House of Representatives and chairman of the Democratic Caucus; the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Leader Steny Hoyer and Whip Jim Clyburn
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus; the second female laureate in physics, after Marie Curie
Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance
Alice Walker, author, known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Barbara Walters, journalist, writer, and media personality, a regular fixture on morning television and news magazine and evening news shows, and the first female co-anchor of network evening news
Vera Wang, fashion designer known for her wedding gown collection
Stewart Lupton, poet and singer-songwriter from the bands Jonathan Fire*Eater, the Childballads, and the Beatins'
Dana Williams, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet.
Politics and public service
Brooke Anderson, diplomat; Deputy Ambassador to the UN; former chief-of-staff to the White House National Security Council; VP Communications, The Nuclear Threat Initiative[47]
Lisa Anderson, scholar; President of the American University in Cairo, Egypt; former dean of Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs[48]
Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, authority on West Nile Virus[94]
Guinevere Turner, co-screenwriter of American Psycho, has a cameo in the film as one of the girls Patrick has in Paul's apartment. He asks if she wants to get it on with the other girl, and she says "I'm not a lesbian! Why would you think that?" Patrick replies "well, for one thing, you DID go to Sarah Lawrence"—the joke being that Turner is a lesbian, and she actually went to Sarah Lawrence.
Marcia Jeffries from the 1957 film
A Face in the Crowd studied music when she went east to Sarah Lawrence
Gil Chesterton from sitcom Frasier claims to be married to Deb, a "Sarah Lawrence graduate and the owner of a very successful auto body repair shop" (and an Army Reservist), whom his co-workers had believed to be merely a pet cat.
"Sewage Joe" on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation is revealed to be an alumnus when he sends a lewd photograph to Ann from his alumni e-mail address.
In
J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, a girl on a train is described as "absolutely... a Sarah Lawrence type... looked like she'd spent the whole train ride in the john, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she had a leotard on under her dress."
In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie's older sister Candace has chosen to attend a “small liberal arts college back East called Sarah Lawrence.”
^TheStickmanLLC Added May 7, 2007 All my reviews (May 7, 2007).
"Yancy Butler at". Tv.com. Archived from
the original on April 4, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2011.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)
^Guitarnina User Score 5.
"Reo Jones". TV.com. Archived from
the original on September 18, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2011. {{
cite web}}: |author= has generic name (
help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)
^"Britannica.com". Britannica.com. December 10, 1925. Retrieved September 25, 2011.
^"Myra Cohn Livingston." Gale Literature:
Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2003. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 18 May 2023.
^Rochman, Hazel. "Myra Cohn Livingston." American Writers for Children Since 1960: Poets, Illustrators, and Nonfiction Authors, edited by Glenn E. Estes, Gale, 1987. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 61. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 19 May 2023.
^Erin Rose Connolly 2011 CT POL Champion.
"Poetry Out Loud". Poetry Out Loud. Archived from
the original on June 21, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2011.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)