List of Bard College people

Last updated August 10, 2025

Here is a list of notable people associated with Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. It includes graduates, attendees, and faculty of the college.

Alumni

Arts

Dance

Arthur Aviles, dancer and choreographer

Film, Television and Theatre

Raphael Bob-Waksberg, actor, producer, writer ( BoJack Horseman )
Ashim Ahluwalia, filmmaker
Anne Bogart, theater director
Jordan Bridges, actor
Salvador Carrasco, film director ( The Other Conquest )
Joel and Ethan Coen, filmmakers
Gia Coppola, film director
Chevy Chase, comedian, writer, and television and film actor
Blythe Danner, actress
Mia Farrow, actress
Theodore J. Flicker, sculptor/film director
Lola Glaudini, actor ( The Sopranos )
Griffin Gluck
Wynne Greenwood
Adrian Grenier, actor ( Entourage )
Christopher Guest, actor/director ( This is Spinal Tap , Waiting for Guffman , Best in Show )
Larry Hagman, actor
K8 Hardy
Todd Haynes, filmmaker
Jonah Hill, Actor
Ezra Miller, actor
Peter Hobbs, actor^[1]
Gaby Hoffmann, actress
Hellin Kay, filmmaker and photographer
Lola Kirke, actress^[2]
Howard Koch, screenwriter ( Casablanca , Letter from an Unknown Woman )
Annie Korzen, actress, comedian and writer.
Joshua Lutz, photographer
Rhoda Levine, choreographer, theatre and opera director (NYC Opera) Play it By Ear, children's book writer
Olde English, sketch comedy group
Adam Conover, comedian, writer, and television host
Tracy Nelson, actress
Ellen Parker, actress, the Guiding Light
Jeff Preiss, filmmaker
Rosalie Purvis, theater director
Marianne Rendón, actress^[2]
Peter Sarsgaard, actor
Eric Schaeffer, writer, director, actor
Peter Stone, playwright
Michael Tolkin, filmmaker, novelist
Lana Wachowski, film and television director, writer and producer
Alexandra Wentworth, actor/comedian
Sherman Yellen, screenwriter/playwright/lyricist; political essayist on Huffington Post and The Environmentalist
Yang Jin-mo, South Korean film editor^[3]

Music

Walter Becker, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan
Ran Blake, pianist
Knox Chandler, musician
Frances Bean Cobain, musician and daughter of the late Kurt Cobain from Nirvana (band)
Carl Davis, composer and conductor
Drop the Lime, electronic dance musician
Donald Fagen, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan
Jeanne Lee, jazz singer, poet and composer.
Jack Lewis, musician (known as "Lesser Lewis")
Gilda Lyons, composer, vocalist, visual artist
Soul Khan, hip-hop artist
Michael Montes, composer
Zeena Parkins, avant-garde harpist
Steve Vibert Pouchie Latin Jazz
Elliott Sharp, musician
Richard M. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
Robert B. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
Libby Titus, singer, songwriter and actor
Jonathan Tunick, composer and arranger
Stefan Weisman, composer
PWR BTTM
Told Slant
Bruce Wolosoff, composer
Adam Yauch, musician, Beastie Boys
Nick Zinner, musician (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Head Wound City)

Visual Arts

Sadie Benning, video artist
Cecilia Berkovic, artist
Nayland Blake, artist
Joshua Lutz, photographer
Paul Chan, artist
Ronald Chase, artist, director & educator
Frances Bean Cobain, visual artist, model, and musician
Adriana Farmiga, visual artist
Joanne Greenbaum, painter
Duncan Hannah, painter and author
David Horvitz, artist^[4]
Jamie Livingston, photographer/cinematographer
Holly Lynton, photographer
Malerie Marder, photographer
Lothar Osterburg, printmaker and multimedia artist
Serkan Ozkaya, artist
R.H. Quaytman, artist
Herb Ritts, photographer
Carolee Schneeman, artist
Amy Sillman, painter
Gordon Stevenson, multimedia artist
Rudi Stern, multimedia artist
Arthur Tress, photographer
Tapu Javeri, photographer
Xaviera Simmons, artist
Daniel Gordon, artist
Mary Lum, visual artist

Writing

Jedediah Berry, writer
Keith Botsford, author, editor, journalist, translator, composer
Jesse Browner, novelist, essayist, translator
Mary Caponegro, writer
Phyllis Chesler, author
Chris Claremont, comic book writer ( X-Men )
Cyrus Console, poet and essayist
Rikki Ducornet, writer
Andrew Durbin, novelist, editor
J.F. Englert, author, poet, journalist
Louise Fitzhugh, author
Daphne Gottlieb, poet, author
Ken Grimwood, author
Anthony Hecht, poet
Pierre Joris, poet and translator
Charlotte Mandell, literary translator
Hal Niedzviecki, novelist
Albert Jay Nock, author and theorist
Daniel Pinkwater, children's author, humorist and NPR commentator
Tad Richards, poet and novelist
Thomas Rockwell author, How to Eat Fried Worms, Shakespeare Scholar
Elizabeth Royte, writer
Mary Lee Settle, author, won National Book Award
Rachel Sherman, author
Juliana Spahr, poet and critic
Glenn Stout, author, editor,^[5] series editor ( The Best American Sports Writing )
Wesley Updike, father of John Updike, inspiration for The Centaur
Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff, writer
John Yau, poet, publisher

Business

James Cox Chambers
Asher Edelman, investment banker, served as the basis for the character Gordon Gekko in Wall Street due to his 1985 takeover of Datapoint
Erika McEntarfer, Head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Fashion

Tom Ford, fashion designer and filmmaker

Science

Harvey Bialy, molecular biologist
László Z. Bitó, scientist and novelist
John Joseph Bittner, cancer geneticist
Tatiana Prowell, oncologist
Giga Zedania, academic and educational manager in the country of Georgia

Journalism

Dylan Byers, media reporter
David Cote, critic and writer
John Curran, financial journalist^[6]
Michael Deibert, author and journalist
Mark Ebner, journalist and author
Ronan Farrow, journalist and author, co-recipient of 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Tim Griffin, curator-in-chief of the Kitchen and editor-in-chief of ArtForum International
Alexis Papahelas, journalist
Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic
Richard Rovere, journalist, author
Matt Taibbi, journalist ( The Nation , The eXile , The NY Press , Rolling Stone )

Other

Bruce Chilton, Biblical scholar
Wayne L. Horvitz, labor mediator.^[7]
Tokata Iron Eyes, Native American activist
Andrew J. Nicholson, scholar of Asian religions
Susan Playfair (1940-2021), stockbroker, designer, and author
Gary Robinson, software engineer, graduated 1979, developed anti-spam algorithms^[8]
David Rolf, President of SEIU Local 775
Bo Bo Nge, Burmese economist, vice governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar, and political prisoner

Faculty

Former faculty

References

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1 2 "7 Things to Know About Imposters' Marianne Rendón". bravotv.com. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
↑ "<옥자> 양진모 편집감독 - 리듬과 타이밍". Cine 21. 2017-07-17. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
↑ David Horvitz Bio CHERT Gallery Berlin Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "GLENN STOUT.NET". indiepro.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
↑ Stevens, Charles W. (2013-07-12). "John Curran, 59; dogged journalist, Bloomberg editor". Boston Globe . Retrieved 2013-07-31.
↑ Hevesi, Wayne (June 21, 2009). "Wayne L. Horvitz, 88, Labor Mediator, Dies". The New York Times . Retrieved June 22, 2009.
↑ "Gary Robinson". Google. 2010-09-18. Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-18. I make the music recommendation technology at flyfi.com -- Where I grew up Bronxville, NY Companies I've worked for Athenium, OLI Systems, Lambda Technology Schools I've attended Bard College; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
↑ Mark Nickel (2009-09-15). "Famed African Writer Chinua Achebe Joins the Brown Faculty". Brown University. Retrieved 2012-09-24.

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[latimes-1] "Peter Hobbs obituary". Los Angeles Times . 2011-01-15. Retrieved 2011-01-16.

[bravotv.com-2] 1 2 "7 Things to Know About Imposters' Marianne Rendón". bravotv.com. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2018.

[cine21-3] "<옥자> 양진모 편집감독 - 리듬과 타이밍". Cine 21. 2017-07-17. Retrieved 2020-02-11.

[chert-berlin-4] David Horvitz Bio CHERT Gallery Berlin Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine

[5] "GLENN STOUT.NET". indiepro.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.

[bglobe-6] Stevens, Charles W. (2013-07-12). "John Curran, 59; dogged journalist, Bloomberg editor". Boston Globe . Retrieved 2013-07-31.

[7] Hevesi, Wayne (June 21, 2009). "Wayne L. Horvitz, 88, Labor Mediator, Dies". The New York Times . Retrieved June 22, 2009.

[twsSepaxxf-8] "Gary Robinson". Google. 2010-09-18. Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-18. I make the music recommendation technology at flyfi.com -- Where I grew up Bronxville, NY Companies I've worked for Athenium, OLI Systems, Lambda Technology Schools I've attended Bard College; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

[9] Mark Nickel (2009-09-15). "Famed African Writer Chinua Achebe Joins the Brown Faculty". Brown University. Retrieved 2012-09-24.

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