Academy, Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Awards
- Mark Boal (1995), screenwriter, recipient of two Academy Awards (Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for The Hurt Locker (2009))
- James Burrows (1962), producer and creator of Cheers and Emmy award-winning director of Will & Grace, Wings, News Radio, among other television series.
- Marc Cohn (1981), singer-songwriter, recipient of a Grammy Award (1991, Best New Artist).
- Alex Klein (1987), oboist, recipient of the Grammy (2002, Best Solo Instrumentalist with Orchestra)
- William Goldman (1952), novelist (The Princess Bride) and recipient of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay All the President's Men(1976)).
- Bill Irwin (1973), actor in numerous plays and movies, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Rachel Getting Married, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, My Blue Heaven, and Eight Men Out, 1984 MacArthur Fellow, clown, Tony Award (2005 for Best Actor in a Play)
- Natasha Katz (1981), lighting director, recipient of three Tony Awards for Once (2012), The Coast of Utopia (2007), and Aida (2000).
- Gregory Mosher (1971), Tony Award-winning director.
- Julie Taymor (1974), Emmy and Tony award-winning theatrical and cinematic director, filmmaker, screenwriter (Frida, Titus, Broadway's The Lion King, Across the Universe).
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