Actors, Artists, and Cinema
- Sebastian Arcelus 1999, Broadway actor.
- Purva Bedi 1996, film and television actress.
- Charles William Brackett 1915, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Monique Curnen 1992, film and television actress.
- Gordon Clapp 1971, Emmy Award-winning actor on NYPD Blue.
- Bud Collyer, radio actor and game show host.
- Walker Evans 1926, noted photographer, especially for the Farm Securities Administration during the Great Depression; dropped out after his freshman year.
- Keith Fowler, faculty, 1964-1968, artistic director of the Virginia Museum Theater, the American Revels Company, and theater professor at the University of California, Irvine.
- John Frankenheimer 1951, director of The Manchurian Candidate and other notable films.
- Crispin Freeman 1994, voice actor.
- Saxton Freymann 1980, artist.
- Max Gail 1965, actor.
- A.R. Gurney 1952, playwright, The Dining Room and Sylvia.
- Jason Hehir 1998, documentary director.
- Tao Ho 1960, architect.
- Wendy W. Jacob 1980, artist.
- David Bar Katz 1989, Emmy and Tony-nominated theater and television writer and director.
- Elia Kazan 1931, writer and Oscar-winning director of Gentleman's Agreement and On the Waterfront as well as A Streetcar Named Desire and other major films.
- Leslie Keno 1979, appraiser for Antiques Roadshow and furniture designer.
- Art Lande 1968, jazz pianist.
- Nick Lyle 1981, Artist
- Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle 1983, artist.
- Ralph Eugene Meatyard Attended 1943-44, photographer.
- Carolyn McCormick 1981, actress.
- Andy McElfresh 1985, screenwriter and writer / director for The Tonight Show.
- Meleko Mokgosi 2007, artist and first winner of the Hammer Museum's Mohn Award.
- Richard Murphy (screenwriter) 1934, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.
- Barbara Ernst Prey 1979, watercolor artist and member, National Council on the Arts.
- John Sayles 1972, Hollywood genre writer and director of a number of independent films including Lone Star and Eight Men Out.
- Peter Simon, stage and television actor.
- Stephen Sondheim 1950, composer and lyricist for stage and screen and one of the most popular composers in Broadway musical history.
- Fletcher Steele 1907, landscape architect.
- Paul Stekler 1974, documentarian.
- Jon Stone 1952, writer, director and co-creator of Sesame Street.
- David Strathairn 1970, Oscar-nominated actor. Performed in Sneakers, Dolores Claiborne, Memphis Belle, L.A. Confidential, and Good Night, and Good Luck.
- Ken Talley 1982 Hubbard Hutchinson Fellowship; dancer, Lewitzky Dance Co 1985–1995.
- David Turner 1997, Broadway actor.
- Leehom Wang 1998, Singer, songwriter, actor, director.
- Martha Williamson 1977, Producer, Touched by an Angel.
- Frederick Wiseman 1951, director of Titicut Follies and other documentaries.
- Camille Utterback 1992, interactive installation artist and MacArthur Foundations "genius award" winner.
- Mayda Del Valle 2000, Broadway actress Def Jam Poets, winner National Slam Poetry".
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