List of Bennington College people

This is a list of famous people affiliated with Bennington College, including graduates, former students, and faculty.

* Alan Arkin
* Brooks Ashmanskas, Broadway performer, seven shows including Gypsy, The Producers, and Little Me
* Larry Atlas, star of Cruising
* Mark Barnes, public health law expert and prominent attorney
* Chris Barron (Lead Singer of the Spin Doctors)
* Bruce Berman (Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures; executive producer of The Matrix, among others - attended Bennington, though he did not graduate from Bennington.
* John Billingsley, actor, best known for playing Dr. Phlox on Enterprise (final Star Trek series)
* Ardan Michael Blum Director of a national Charity in Switzerland
* Chris Bowen of the Blue Man Group
* Carolyn Cassady
* John Cauman, art historian
* Carol Channing
* Merce Cunningham
* Tim Daly
* Sean Daniel, Hollywood producer, who as a young executive brought "Animal House" and the first generation of Saturday Night Live stars to the screen for Universal.
* Richard Deacon, actor best known for playing Mel Cooley on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and Fred Rutherford on "Leave It To Beaver"
* Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize for her novel "The Inheritance of Loss".
* Peter Dinklage (1969-) actor. [Smith, Dinitia. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE5DE163CF931A35753C1A9659C8B63 "Dark, Handsome And Short; Star of a Sundance Hit Is Ready for an Encore"] , "The New York Times", October 2, 2003. Accessed December 7, 2007. "Mr. Dinklage, who grew up in Mendham, N.J., said he first realized he was different when he was 5.... Mr. Dinklage attended the Delbarton School, a Catholic boys' school in Morristown, N.J., which was strongly sports-oriented.... Mr. Dinklage credits Mr. Dougherty with helping to get him into Bennington College in Vermont."]
* Bill Dixon, free jazz pioneer
* Andrea Dworkin
* Mary Early
* Bret Easton Ellis
* Betty Ford, attended the Bennington School of Dance (summer only)
* Ruth Ann Fredenthal, painter, recipient of first Fulbright from Bennington
* Helen Frankenthaler
* Joel Garland [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307534/ 1]
* Anna Gaskell, photographer
* Kathy Halbreich, director of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
* Karen Houppert
* Alexandra Hughes, opera singer and singer-songwriter of comic songs on Prairie Home Companion
* Thomas Hughes (musician), of The Spinto Band
* Sam Hughes (U.S. musician), of The Spinto Band
* Yasmin Aga Khan
* Roger Kimball
* Mitchell Kriegman (TV writer/producer Clarissa Explains it All, Bear in the Big Bluehouse] )
* Jonathan Lethem
* James Levin, founder, Cleveland Public Theatre
* Harvey Lichtenstein
* Sally Mann
*Mitch Markowitz, television producer and writer
*Tom Matthews, Wine Spectator
* Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, President of Marlboro College
* Ted Mooney
* Thomas Ollendorff, visionary painter
* Wendy Perron, editor of Dance magazine
* Michael Pollan (of the New York Times)
* Anne Ramsey, Academy Award nominated actress
* Mary Ruefle, graduated 1974
* Sam Schulman, co-founder of Wigwag (magazine) and The American: A Magazine of Ideas for Business Leaders, and frequent contributor to Commentary and The Wall Street Journal
* Jonathan Marc Sherman
* Miles Simon, hip-hop artist, known as Meters to the public.
* Marc Spitz, novelist, playwright, and journalist
* Jared Paul Stern
* Elizabeth Swados, author/composer of Runaways
* Donna Tartt
* Holland Taylor, Emmy Award winning actress
* Justin Theroux
* Joan Tower, composer
* Anne Waldman, poet
* Matthew Weiss
* Paula Jean Welden, of Dewey House, Bennington College, whose disappearance, aged 18, on December 1st 1946 remains unsolved.
* Christopher Wigle, Associate Artistic Director, Huntington Theatre, Boston
* Alec Wilkinson (of The New Yorker)
* Marian Zazeela

Notable current faculty

* Steven Bach
* Kitty Brazelton
* Ronald L. Cohen
* Mansour Farhang
*Marguerite Feitlowitz
* Milford Graves
*Donald Hall
* Mac Maharaj
*Laura Parnes
* Allen Shawn
*Amy Hempel

Notable former faculty

* Pat Adams, painter
* W. H. Auden gave a series of lectures on Shakespeare in the spring of 1946 and resided in the Leigh house faculty apartment.
* Eric Bentley
* Willard Boepple, New York painter
* Henry Brant, American composer
* Kenneth Burke, critic
* Louis Calabro, American composer
* Sir Anthony Caro, British sculptor
* Alan Cheuse, writer
* Nicholas Delbanco, novelist
* Bill Dixon, musician
* Peter Drucker, management guru and writer
* Paul Feeley, American painter
* Francis Fergusson, French scholar and translator
* Claude Fredericks, poet and classicist
* Buckminster Fuller
* John Gardner,dn novelist
* Martha Graham, dancer
* Lucy Grealy, American poet and writer
* Clement Greenberg, art ritic and historian
* Richard Haas, artist
* Stanley Edgar Hyman (whose wife Shirley Jackson used settings in and around Bennington College in her famous short story "The Lottery")
* Edward Hoagland, writer
* Lyman Kipp, sculptor
* Stanley Kunitz, American poet
* Ronnie Landfield, painter, (guest instructor) 1968
* Bernard Malamud, novelist
* Harry Mathews, poet, novelist, essayist
* Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer
* Roland Merullo, author of the Revere Beach Trilogy
* Stephen Mueller, New York painter
* Howard Nemerov, American poet
* Kenneth Noland, Painter
* Jules Olitski, painter
* Mary Oliver, American poet
* Camille Paglia
* Jackson Pollock's first retrospective was held at Bennington in 1952.
* Larry Poons, painter
* Theodore Roethke
* Stanley Rosen, American ceramicist, formerly studio manager at the Greenwich House Pottery in the 1950s
* Stephen Sandy, poet
* Joel Shapiro, New York sculptor
* Barbara Herrnstein Smith, professor and author
* David Smith, sculptor
* Michael Todd, sculptor
* Glen Van Brummelen, Historian of Mathematics, former president of Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, founding faculty member of Quest University
* Isaac Witkin, sculptor
* Philip Wofford, painter
* Robert Woodworth, botanist and pioneer of time-lapse photography
* Gunnar Schonbeck, A music teacher who revolutionized the way people thought about instruments and music

References

Iassac Witkin; Sculptor