Notable Alumni
- Ashim Ahluwalia, filmmaker
- Walter Becker, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan
- Sadie Benning, video artist
- Jedediah Berry, writer
- Harvey Bialy, molecular biologist
- László Z. Bitó, scientist and novelist
- John Joseph Bittner (1925), Cancer geneticist.
- Nayland Blake, artist
- Ran Blake, pianist
- Anne Bogart, theater director
- Keith Botsford, author, editor, journalist, translator, composer
- Jordan Bridges, actor
- Mary Caponegro, writer
- Paul Chan, artist
- Chevy Chase, comedian, writer, and television and film actor
- Ronald Chase, artist, director & educator
- Phyllis Chesler, author
- Bruce Chilton, Biblical scholar
- Chris Claremont, writer (X-Men)
- David Cote (writer), critic and writer
- Blythe Danner, actress
- Carl Davis, composer and conductor
- Michael Deibert, journalist and author
- Drop the Lime, electronic dance musician
- Rikki Ducornet, writer
- Mark Ebner, journalist and author
- Asher Edelman, investment banker, served as the basis for the character Gordon Gekko in Wall Street due to his 1985 takeover of Datapoint.
- Donald Fagen, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan
- Ronan Farrow, American human rights activist
- Theodore J. Flicker, sculptor/film director
- Lola Glaudini, actor (The Sopranos)
- Daphne Gottlieb, poet, author
- Joanne Greenbaum, painter
- Ken Grimwood, author
- Christopher Guest, actor/director (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show)
- Larry Hagman, actor
- Todd Haynes, filmmaker
- Anthony Hecht, poet
- Peter Hobbs, actor
- Gaby Hoffmann, actor
- Wayne L. Horvitz, labor mediator.
- David Horvitz, artist
- Howard Koch, screenwriter (Casablanca, Letter from an Unknown Woman)
- Patrick Kindlon, musician
- Pierre Joris, poet and translator
- Jeanne Lee, jazz singer, poet and composer.
- Jack Lewis, musician (known as "Lesser Lewis")
- Jamie Livingston, photographer/cinematographer
- Rhoda Levine,choreographer, theatre and opera director (NYC Opera) Play it By Ear, children's book writer
- Charlotte Mandell, literary translator
- Malerie Marder, photographer
- Susan Mernit, Netscape and America Online executive
- Hal Niedzviecki, novelist
- Albert Jay Nock, author and theorist
- Olde English, sketch comedy group
- Alexis Papahelas, journalist
- Ellen Parker, actress, the Guiding Light.
- Zeena Parkins, avant-garde harpist
- Daniel Pinkwater, novelist and NPR commentator
- Rosalie Purvis, theater director
- Herb Ritts, photographer
- Gary Robinson, software engineer, graduated 1979, developed anti-spam algorithms
- Thomas Rockwell author, "How to Eat Fried Worms", Shakespeare Scholar
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic
- Richard Rovere, journalist, author
- Eric Schaeffer, writer, director, actor
- Carolee Schneeman, artist
- Elliott Sharp, musician
- Rachel Sherman, author
- Richard M. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
- Robert B. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
- Amy Sillman, painter
- Juliana Spahr, poet and critic
- Peter Stone, playwright
- Matt Taibbi, journalist (The Nation, The eXile, The NY Press, Rolling Stone)
- Michael Tolkin, filmmaker, novelist
- Arthur Tress, photographer
- Alexandra Wentworth, actor/comedian
- John Yau, poet, publisher
- Sherman Yellen, screenwriter/playwright/lyricist; political essayist on Huffington Post and The Environmentalist
- Nick Zinner, musician (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Head Wound City)
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