page_title: Midwood High School
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Midwood High School / Notable people / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: A profile photo of Erich Segal
context_page_description: Midwood High School is a high school located at 2839 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, administered by the New York City Department of Education. It has an enrollment of 3,938 students. Its H-shaped building, with six Ionic columns and a Georgian cupola, was constructed in 1940 as part of the Works Projects Administration.
context_section_description: Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, 1935, class of 1953), Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter, Academy Award-nominated actor, Grammy Award winner
  Antonio Anderson (born 1973), NFL player
  Steve Augeri (born 1959), singer, briefly attended Midwood
  Victor Axelrod (aka Ticklah), musician, producer, arranger and engineer
  Noah Baumbach (born 1969, class of 1987), Academy Award-nominated writer, director, and independent filmmaker (The Squid and the Whale)
  Paul Ben-Victor (born 1965, class of 1976), actor
  Joan Berkowitz (born 1931), chemist
  Jacques Berlinerblau (born 1966), professor at Georgetown University and writer
  Andrew D. Bernstein, Senior Director of NBA Photos
  Richard J. Bernstein (born 1932), philosopher who teaches at The New School for Social Research
  Steve Bracey (1950-2006), NBA basketball player
  Al Brodax (1926-2016), film and television producer
  Richard Campagna (born 1954), 2004 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate
  Mark Cane (born 1944; class of 1961), climate scientist and professor at Columbia University
  Judi Chamberlin (née Rosenberg; 1944-2010), activist, leader, organizer, public speaker and educator in the psychiatric survivors movement
  Robin Alta Charo (born 1958), professor of law and bioethics
  Roz Chast (born 1954), cartoonist
  Humayun Chaudhry (born 1965), physician and President and CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States
  Tony Colorito (born 1964), football player for the Denver Broncos of the NFL
  Didi Conn (née Bernstein; born 1951), stage, screen, and television actress, who played Frenchy in the original cast of Grease
  John Corigliano (born 1938), Academy Award, Pulitzer Prize for Music, and Grammy Award-winning composer
  Richard Cummings (1938-2014), author, playwright, politician, and academic
  Richard Davidson (born 1951), professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; founder and Chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
  Carole Demas (born 1940, class of 1957), actress, singer, producer, and writer
  J. M. DeMatteis (born 1953), writer of comic books, television, and novels
  Veronica Driscoll (1926–1994), nurse and labor organizer
  Phil Dusenberry (1936-2007, class of 1954), advertising executive for the BBDO advertising agency.
  Hilly Elkins (1929-2010), theater and film producer
  Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliot Charles Adnopoz, 1931, class of 1949), folk singer and performer
  Walter Ferguson (born 1930; class of 1948), visual artist who painted at least two murals at Midwood
  Martin J. Fettman (born 1956; class of 1973), astronaut
  Felice Frankel (born 1945), photographer of scientific images
  Stephen J. Friedman (1937-1996), film producer
  Stewart D. Friedman, author and professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania
  Henry Gross (born 1951), singer-songwriter; Sha Na Na
  Robert Grossman (1940-2018, class of 1957), visual artist
  Madeleine Grumet (born 1940; class of 1957), academic in curriculum theory and feminist theory
  Morty Gunty (1929-1984), comedian and actor
  Gerald Gutierrez (1950–2003), Tony Award-winning stage and film director
  Lee Israel (1939–2014, class of 1957), author, literary forger, and thief
  Hakeem Jeffries (born 1970, class of 1988), U.S. Congressman
  June Jordan (1936-2002), poet
  Selna Kaplan (1927–2010), pediatric endocrinologist and a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco
  Karl Katz (1929-2017), art historian, curator, and museum director
  Johnny Kelly (born 1968), drummer for Type O Negative, Danzig, A Pale Horse Named Death, Seventh Void
  Arthur Komar (1931–2011), theoretical physicist, specializing in general relativity and the search for quantum gravity
  Rochelle Lazarus (born 1947), Chairman Emeritus of Ogilvy & Mather
  Emmanuel Lewis (born 1971, class of 1989), actor
  Michael Lynne (1941-2019), CEO of New Line Cinema, vintner
  Robert Markowitz (born 1935), movie and television director
  Wentworth Miller (born 1972), Golden Globe Award-nominated actor (did not graduate)
  Joel Moses (born 1941), Israeli-American MIT provost
caption: Erich Segal
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