Performing Arts
- Suchindra Bali, Tamil actor
- Leonard Cohen (1956–1957), Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist
- Wafah Dufour (LL.M.), singer/songwriter
- Alonzo Elliot, composer and song writer (studied with Nadia Boulanger and Leonard Bernstein, among others)
- Oscar Hammerstein II², writer, producer, and director of musicals, awarded two Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, and nine Tony Awards
- Hoyt Hilsman, screenwriter, playwright and critic
- Howard Koch (screenwriter), blacklisted in the 1950s, work includes Casablanca (1942) (for which he received an Academy Award), The War of the Worlds (1936), Letter to an Unknown Woman (1948)
- Robinne Lee, actress, Seven Pounds (2008) with Will Smith, Hav Plenty (1997), among other films
- Rod MacDonald (1973), singer/songwriter
- Abraham Polonsky (1935), Academy Award-nominated screenwriter blacklisted in the 1950s
- Paul Robeson (1923), actor of stage and film, singer (opera, lieder, international folk music, spirituals), and writer; fluent or near fluent in 12 languages
- Tom Rothman (1980), co-chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment
- Nick Santora (1996), writer (The Sopranos, Law & Order), producer (Prison Break) and novelist
- Franklin Schaffner (legal education interrupted by service during World War II), Academy Award-winning film director
- Stephen Strimpell, actor of stage and film
- Cenk Uygur, host of liberal talk radio show The Young Turks
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“More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.”
—Uta Hagen (b. 1919)