# List of Bard College people

Here is a list of notable people associated with Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. It includes graduates, attendees, and faculty of the college.

## Alumni
### Arts
#### Dance

* Arthur Aviles, dancer and choreographer

#### Film, Television and Theatre

* Raphael Bob-Waksberg, actor, producer, writer (BoJack Horseman)
* Ashim Ahluwalia, filmmaker
* Anne Bogart, theater director
* Jordan Bridges, actor
* Salvador Carrasco, film director (The Other Conquest)
* Joel and Ethan Coen, filmmakers
* Gia Coppola, film director
* Chevy Chase, comedian, writer, and television and film actor
* Blythe Danner, 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
* Ezra Miller, 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
* Olde English, sketch comedy group
* Adam Conover, comedian, writer, and television host
* Tracy Nelson, actress
* Ellen Parker, actress, the Guiding Light
* Jeff Preiss, filmmaker
* Rosalie Purvis, theater director
* Marianne Rendón, actress
* Peter Sarsgaard, actor
* Eric Schaeffer, writer, director, actor
* Peter Stone, playwright
* Michael Tolkin, filmmaker, novelist
* Lana Wachowski, film and television director, writer and producer
* Alexandra Wentworth, actor/comedian
* Sherman Yellen, screenwriter/playwright/lyricist; political essayist on Huffington Post and The Environmentalist
* Yang Jin-mo, South Korean film editor

#### 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 from Nirvana (band)
* Carl Davis, composer and conductor
* Drop the Lime, electronic dance musician
* Donald Fagen, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan
* 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
* Elliott Sharp, musician
* Richard M. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
* Robert B. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
* Libby Titus, singer, songwriter and actor
* Jonathan Tunick, composer and arranger
* Stefan Weisman, composer
* PWR BTTM
* Told Slant
* 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
* Joshua Lutz, photographer
* Paul Chan, artist
* Ronald Chase, artist, director & educator
* Frances Bean Cobain, visual artist, model, and musician
* Adriana Farmiga, visual artist
* Joanne Greenbaum, painter
* Duncan Hannah, painter and author
* David Horvitz, artist
* Jamie Livingston, photographer/cinematographer
* Holly Lynton, photographer
* Malerie Marder, photographer
* Lothar Osterburg, printmaker and multimedia artist
* Serkan Ozkaya, artist
* R.H. Quaytman, artist
* Herb Ritts, photographer
* Carolee Schneeman, artist
* Amy Sillman, painter
* Gordon Stevenson, multimedia artist
* Rudi Stern, multimedia artist
* Arthur Tress, photographer
* Tapu Javeri, photographer
* Xaviera Simmons, artist
* Daniel Gordon, artist
* Mary Lum, visual artist

#### 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
* 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
* Glenn Stout, author, editor, series editor (The Best American Sports Writing)
* 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

### Fashion

* Tom Ford, fashion designer and filmmaker

### Science

* Harvey Bialy, molecular biologist
* László Z. Bitó, scientist and novelist
* John Joseph Bittner, cancer geneticist
* Tatiana Prowell, oncologist
* 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
* Alexis Papahelas, journalist
* Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic
* Richard Rovere, journalist, author
* Matt Taibbi, journalist (The Nation, The eXile, The NY Press, Rolling Stone)

### Other

* Bruce Chilton, Biblical scholar
* Wayne L. Horvitz, labor mediator.
* Tokata Iron Eyes, Native American activist
* 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
* Bo Bo Nge, Burmese economist, vice governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar, and political prisoner

## Faculty

* Peggy Ahwesh
* Diana Al-Hadid
* 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
* John Esposito
* Gidon Eshel
* Barbara Ess
* Elizabeth Frank
* Neil Gaiman
* Kyle Gann
* Jackie Goss
* 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
* Kamau Amu Patton
* Gilles Peress
* Judy Pfaff
* Francine Prose
* Kelly Reichardt
* Jennifer Ringo
* Lucy Sante
* Peter Serkin
* Vik Muniz
* Stephen Shore
* Amy Sillman
* Mona Simpson
* Michael Specter
* Richard Teitelbaum
* Joan Tower
* George Tsontakis
* Dawn Upshaw
* Laura van den Berg
* Cecelia Watson
* Lawrence Weschler
* Mitch Epstein
* Liz Deschenes
* Alexander Soros
* John Ryle

## Former faculty

* Chinua Achebe
* Andre Aciman
* JoAnne Akalaitis
* John Ashbery
* Artine Artinian
* 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
* Donald Finkel
* Harvey Fite
* Heinz Insu Fenkl
* Ryszard Frelek [pl]
* 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
* Paul Ramirez Jonas
* Orhan Pamuk
* David Rieff
* Roswell Rudd
* Mary Lee Settle
* Isaac Bashevis Singer
* Wadada Leo Smith
* Wilhelm Sollmann
* Joseph Somers
* William Weaver
* Ted Weiss