# List of Ithaca College alumni

Ithacans are persons affiliated with Ithaca College, especially alumni. The following is a list of notable Ithacans.

## Art

* Nydia Blas, a visual artist whose works explore the identities of young black women
* Cathleen Chaffee, art curator, art historian

## Business

* Chris Burch (B.S. 1976), founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital and co-founder of Tory Burch LLC
* Bess Freedman. (B.S. 1992), CEO Brown Harris Stevens
* Edward Glazer (B.A. 1992), Co-owner and Co-chairman of Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Manchester United
* Bob Iger (B.S. 1973), chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
* Stew Leonard, Jr. (B.S. 1977), president and CEO, Stew Leonard's

## Entertainment
### Actors

* Kathryn Allison, 2014 winner of the NYMF Next Big Broadway Sensation competition
* Erinn Bartlett, actress
* David Boreanaz (B.S. 1991), actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Bones
* The Birthday Boys (2005, 2006), sketch comedy group and stars of IFC comedy show
* John Ross Bowie, actor, The Big Bang Theory
* Kerry Butler (B.F.A. 1992), Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, Xanadu, Catch Me If You Can and Little Shop of Horrors
* Matt Cavenaugh (B.F.A. 2001), Broadway actor, West Side Story
* Thom Christopher, Emmy Award winning actor, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and One Life to Live
* Andy Daly (1993), actor and comedian
* Michelle Federer (B.F.A. 1995), theater and film actress; originated the character, Nessarose, in Broadway's Wicked
* Ben Feldman, Emmy Award-nominated actor known for Mad Men and Superstore
* Ilene Graff, actress and singer
* Sean Grandillo, actor, Spring Awakening, The Real O'Neals
* Jennifer Hall, actress
* Jeremy Jordan (B.F.A., 2007), Tony Award-nominated and Grammy Award-nominated star of Newsies and Bonnie & Clyde, also starred on Smash and in Joyful Noise
* Ricki Lake (non-degreed), Emmy Award-winning actress, Serial Mom, Hairspray; television host
* Gavin MacLeod, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor, The Love Boat, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show
* Daniel McDonald, Tony Award-nominated actor
* Mark Moses, actor, Desperate Housewives, Mad Men
* David Newsom, actor and producer
* Joe Pera (2010), stand-up comedian, actor, star/creator of Adult Swim's Joe Pera Talks with You
* CCH Pounder, Emmy Award-nominated actress, Bagdad Café, The Shield and Avatar
* Judson Pratt (1938), television, film and stage actor known for Union Pacific, Sergeant Rutledge and Born Yesterday
* Brian Sack, humorist, author, and contributor on Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck program
* Charlie Schlatter, actor, Diagnosis: Murder
* Amanda Setton (B.A. 2007), film and TV actress, Gossip Girl, The Mindy Project, The Crazy Ones
* Aaron Tveit, Tony Award-winning actor in Moulin Rouge!, Catch Me If You Can and Next to Normal, starred in USA Network's Graceland and Fox's Grease: Live
* Jeff Winkless, voice-over actor

### Directors and producers

* Matthew Bennett (1986), scripted and non-scripted director and producer. Created modern Aftershow format with After the Catch.
* Bill D'Elia, writer, director and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder, Chicago Hope, Boston Legal, Ally McBeal and others; co-creator of Judging Amy
* Anna DeShawn, American media personality and podcaster
* Peter Dougherty (1977), creator of Yo! MTV Raps
* Barbara Gaines (B.A. 1979), Emmy Award-winning executive producer, Late Show with David Letterman
* Brian Herzlinger (1997), director, special correspondent on The Tonight Show
* David Guy Levy, film producer, Would You Rather and Terri
* Jesse Zook Mann (B.S. 2002), Emmy Award-winning documentary film and television producer and director
* Mark Romanek, filmmaker (One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go) and Grammy Award-winning music video director
* Mike Royce, executive producer and writer, Everybody Loves Raymond and One Day at a Time
* Deborah Snyder (1991), executive producer of Suicide Squad, 300 and Watchmen
* Larry Teng, television director and producer
* Liz Tigelaar, television writer and executive producer, Life Unexpected and Casual
* Alex Westerman, Webby Award-winning creative director

### Hosts, presenters, and news anchors

* David Brody (B.S.1988), Emmy Award winning journalist and White House Correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network
* Alan Colmes (non-degreed), television and radio host of Hannity & Colmes and The Alan Colmes Show
* Chip Hines (B.A. 1990), host of Spotlight on CatholicTV
* Chris Kellogg, morning radio host for WMAS-FM and The Kellogg Krew
* Bob Kur (B.S. 1970), Washington Post Radio, former NBC News national reporter
* David Muir (B.S. 1995), ABC World News anchor
* Jessica Savitch (B.S. 1968), the first female network anchor
* Todd Schnitt, conservative radio personality and host of The Schnitt Show
* Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (1998), television presenter specializing in the ancient astronaut hypothesis
* Robin Young, host of National Public Radio's Here and Now

### Music

* Kate Aldrich (B.M. 1996), internationally renowned mezzo-soprano
* Rick Beato (B.M. 1980), YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer and educator.
* Cindy Bradley (B.F.A. Jazz Studies 1998), jazz trumpet player and composer
* Nick Brignola, jazz baritone saxophonist
* Suzan Brittan, dance vocalist
* Robert E. Brown, lead ethnomusicologist and musician
* Ted Cohen (non-degreed), music industry executive
* Alec Coone, multi-instrumentalist member of Balam Acab
* Patricia Craig, renowned operatic soprano
* Margaret Daum, opera singer
* Richard De Benedictis (B.A. 1958), Broadway and television composer
* Henrique de Curitiba, composer
* Gavin DeGraw (non-degreed), Grammy Award-nominated and platinum-selling musician
* Tony DeSare (1997), jazz musician
* Julius Eastman (non-degreed), composer of minimal music.
* Arnald Gabriel (1950), Conductor Emeritus of the U.S. Air Force Band
* Matthew Hoch, singer; leading music scholar and teacher
* Scott LaFaro, influential jazz bassist with the Bill Evans Trio
* New York Voices, Grammy Award-winning vocal music group of Ithaca alumni
* Maureen Tucker, drummer for The Velvet Underground
* Ruth Underwood, xylophonist for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
* Bora Yoon (B.A. 2002), musician

### Screenwriters and designers

* Max Brallier, children's book author, Emmy Award-winning writer, and screenwriter. Author of The Last Kids on Earth and Eerie Elementary
* Paul Gallo (B.F.A. 1974), Tony Award-nominated lighting designer, has designed more than 200 shows in NYC and regional theaters
* Allan Loeb, film screenwriter, Things We Lost in the Fire, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, The Dilemma
* Chris Regan (1989), Emmy Award-winning writer for The Daily Show
* Rod Serling, former faculty, taught at Ithaca College Communications School 1967-1975; Emmy Award-winning screenwriter; creator of The Twilight Zone

### Sportscasters

* Bruce Beck (B.S. 1978), weekend sports anchor for WNBC, NY
* Brendan Burke (B.S. 2006) sportscaster for Fox Sports and television announcer for New York Islanders on MSG Network
* Mike Catalana (B.S. 1985), sports director WHAM-TV Rochester, New York
* Ed Cohen (B.S 2005), WEPN-FM Radio voice of the New York Knicks.
* Kevin Connors (B.S. 1997), ESPN sportscaster
* Thomas Donnelly, author of AEI's National Security Outlook
* Lanny Frattare (B.S. 1970), play-by-play announcer for MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates
* Eric Frede (B.S. 1988), Boston Bruins studio host, NESN
* Drew Goodman (B.S. 1985) Television Announcer Colorado Rockies 2002–present, Denver Nuggets 1994-2004
* Neil Hartman (B.S. 1982), sports anchor, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia
* Jack Michaels (B.S. 1995), announcer for the Edmonton Oilers on Sportsnet
* Nick Nickson, hockey broadcaster for Los Angeles Kings
* Sal Paolantonio, ESPN sportscaster; member of the college's Philadelphia Executive Committee
* Eric Reid, TV announcer for Miami Heat
* Karl Ravech (B.S. 1987), ESPN sportscaster

## Law

* Mitchell S. Goldberg (BA 1981), Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

## Literature and journalism

* Robert Bluey, editor of the daily online edition of Human Events
* Kristen Britain, author of Green Rider and First Rider's Call
* Jason Colavito, author
* Mark Mahoney (B.S. 1985), Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, The Post-Star
* Andrew Marchand, sports media reporter for the New York Post
* Sandra McDonald, author of The Outback Stars and The Stars Down Under
* Tish Rabe (1973), children's book author and writer of over 40 Dr. Seuss books
* Bill Roorbach, novelist, short story writer and memoirist
* K. M. Soehnlein, novelist and essayist
* Julia Spencer-Fleming, author of the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series
* Julie Spira, author of The Perils of Cyber-Dating
* David A. Weiner (1990), executive editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland and writer/director of In Search of Darkness

## Politics

* Christopher Bateman, member of the New Jersey General Assembly
* Michael A. Battle, former Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, United States Department of Justice
* Ed Diana, county executive of Orange County, New York
* Richard K. Eaton, Senior Judge on the United States Court of International Trade
* Eileen Filler-Corn (B.A. 1986), Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates
* Emily Gallagher (2006), member of the New York State Assembly
* Loni Hancock, member of the California State Senate
* Ben Walsh (B.A. 2001), mayor of Syracuse, New York

## Science and medicine

* Richard Jadick (B.S. 1987), combat surgeon who was awarded the Bronze Star for service in Iraq
* C. William Schwab (B.A. chemistry 1968 ), Chief of the Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery Research at the University of Pennsylvania,
* Steven Van Slyke (B.S. 1978), chemist, an inventor with over twenty patents related to organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), materials, and device architecture

## Sports

* Glen Cook, professional baseball player for the Texas Rangers
* Conor Heun, mixed martial artist
* Tommy Hicks, former light heavyweight boxer
* Henny Hiemenz, head college football coach, Carroll University
* George Kissell, coach for St. Louis Cardinals
* Tim Locastro, professional baseball player for the New York Yankees
* Robert Marella, former professional wrestler (known as Gorilla Monsoon), ringside commentator for the World Wrestling Federation
* Emily Morley, the first Bahamian rower to qualify for the Olympic Games
* Meghan Musnicki, rower and member of the gold medal-winning women's 8+ for the United States at the 2012 London Olympics
* Tom Nugent, college football head coach and sportscaster; College Football Hall of Famer; developer of the I Formation
* Les Otten (B.S. 1971), vice chairman and partner, Boston Red Sox Organization
* Eddie Sawyer, former Philadelphia Phillies manager and MLB scout
* Barry Smith, former NHL associate coach
* Travis Warech American-German-Israeli basketball player for Israeli team Hapoel Be'er Sheva
* Jerry Welsh, head coach college basketball Potsdam State University, head coach college basketball Iona College
* Tony Wise, former NFL assistant coach
* Jeff Wittman, member of the College Football Hall of Fame.