List of Ithaca College alumni

Ithacans are persons affiliated with Ithaca College, especially alumni. The following is a list of notable Ithacans.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Art

• Nydia Blas, a visual artist whose works explore the identities of young black women
• Cathleen Chaffee, art curator, art historian^[1]

Business

• Chris Burch (B.S. 1976), founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital and co-founder of Tory Burch LLC^[2]
• Bob Iger (B.S. 1973), chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company^[3]
• Stew Leonard, Jr. (B.S. 1977), president and CEO, Stew Leonard's
• Bess Freedman. (B.S. 1992), CEO Brown Harris Stevens

Entertainment

Actors

• Kathryn Allison, 2014 winner of the NYMF Next Big Broadway Sensation competition
• Erinn Bartlett, actress
• David Boreanaz (B.S. 1991), actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Bones^[4]
• The Birthday Boys (2005, 2006), sketch comedy group and stars of IFC comedy show^[5]
• John Ross Bowie, actor, The Big Bang Theory
• Kerry Butler (B.F.A. 1992), Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, Xanadu, Catch Me If You Can and Little Shop of Horrors^[6][7]
• Matt Cavenaugh (B.F.A. 2001), Broadway actor, West Side Story
• Thom Christopher, Emmy Award winning actor, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and One Life to Live
• Andy Daly (1993), actor and comedian^[8]
• Michelle Federer (B.F.A. 1995), theater and film actress; originated the character, Nessarose, in Broadway's Wicked^[9][10]
• Ben Feldman, Emmy Award-nominated actor known for Mad Men and Superstore^[11]
• Ilene Graff, actress and singer
• Sean Grandillo, actor, Spring Awakening, The Real O'Neals
• Jennifer Hall, actress
• Jeremy Jordan (B.F.A., 2007), Tony Award-nominated and Grammy Award-nominated star of Newsies and Bonnie & Clyde, also starred on Smash and in Joyful Noise^[12]
• Ricki Lake (non-degreed), Emmy Award-winning actress, Serial Mom, Hairspray; television host
• Gavin MacLeod, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor, The Love Boat, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Daniel McDonald, Tony Award-nominated actor
• Mark Moses, actor, Desperate Housewives, Mad Men
• David Newsom, actor and producer
• Joe Pera (2010), stand-up comedian, actor, star/creator of Adult Swim's Joe Pera Talks with You^[13]
• CCH Pounder, Emmy Award-nominated actress, Bagdad Café, The Shield and Avatar^[14]
• Judson Pratt (1938), television, film and stage actor known for Union Pacific, Sergeant Rutledge and Born Yesterday^{[15][16][17][18]}
• Brian Sack, humorist, author, and contributor on Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck program
• Charlie Schlatter, actor, Diagnosis: Murder
• Amanda Setton (B.A. 2007), film and TV actress, Gossip Girl, The Mindy Project, The Crazy Ones^[19]
• Aaron Tveit, Tony Award-winning actor in Moulin Rouge!, Catch Me If You Can and Next to Normal, starred in USA Network's Graceland and Fox's Grease: Live^[20]
• Jeff Winkless, voice-over actor

Directors and producers

• Matthew Bennett (1986), scripted and non-scripted director and producer. Created modern Aftershow format with After the Catch.
• Bill D'Elia, writer, director and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder, Chicago Hope, Boston Legal, Ally McBeal and others; co-creator of Judging Amy
• Anna DeShawn, American media personality and podcaster
• Peter Dougherty (1977), creator of Yo! MTV Raps^[21]
• Barbara Gaines (B.A. 1979), Emmy Award-winning executive producer, Late Show with David Letterman^[22]
• Brian Herzlinger (1997), director, special correspondent on The Tonight Show
• David Guy Levy, film producer, Would You Rather and Terri
• Jesse Zook Mann (B.S. 2002), Emmy Award-winning documentary film and television producer and director
• Mark Romanek, filmmaker (One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go) and Grammy Award-winning music video director
• Mike Royce, executive producer and writer, Everybody Loves Raymond and One Day at a Time
• Deborah Snyder (1991), executive producer of Suicide Squad, 300 and Watchmen
• Larry Teng, television director and producer
• Liz Tigelaar, television writer and executive producer, Life Unexpected and Casual
• Alex Westerman, Webby Award-winning creative director

Hosts, presenters, and news anchors

• David Brody (B.S.1988), Emmy Award winning journalist and White House Correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network
• Alan Colmes (non-degreed), television and radio host of Hannity & Colmes and The Alan Colmes Show^[23]
• Chip Hines (B.A. 1990), host of Spotlight on CatholicTV
• Chris Kellogg, morning radio host for WMAS-FM and The Kellogg Krew
• Bob Kur (B.S. 1970), Washington Post Radio, former NBC News national reporter
• David Muir (B.S. 1995), ABC World News anchor^[24]
• Jessica Savitch (B.S. 1968), the first female network anchor
• Todd Schnitt, conservative radio personality and host of The Schnitt Show
• Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (1998), television presenter specializing in the ancient astronaut hypothesis^[25]
• Robin Young, host of National Public Radio's Here and Now

Music

• Kate Aldrich (B.M. 1996), internationally renowned mezzo-soprano
• Rick Beato (B.M. 1980), YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer and educator.
• Cindy Bradley (B.F.A. Jazz Studies 1998), jazz trumpet player and composer
• Nick Brignola, jazz baritone saxophonist
• Suzan Brittan, dance vocalist
• Robert E. Brown, lead ethnomusicologist and musician
• Ted Cohen (non-degreed), music industry executive^[26]
• Alec Coone, multi-instrumentalist member of Balam Acab
• Patricia Craig, renowned operatic soprano
• Margaret Daum, opera singer
• Richard De Benedictis (B.A. 1958), Broadway and television composer
• Henrique de Curitiba, composer
• Gavin DeGraw (non-degreed), Grammy Award-nominated and platinum-selling musician^[27]
• Tony DeSare (1997), jazz musician
• Julius Eastman (non-degreed), composer of minimal music.
• Arnald Gabriel (1950), Conductor Emeritus of the U.S. Air Force Band^[28]
• Matthew Hoch, singer; leading music scholar and teacher
• Scott LaFaro, influential jazz bassist with the Bill Evans Trio
• New York Voices, Grammy Award-winning vocal music group of Ithaca alumni
• Maureen Tucker, drummer for The Velvet Underground
• Ruth Underwood, xylophonist for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
• Bora Yoon (B.A. 2002), musician

Screenwriters and designers

• Max Brallier, children's book author, Emmy Award-winning writer, and screenwriter. Author of The Last Kids on Earth and Eerie Elementary
• Paul Gallo (B.F.A. 1974), Tony Award-nominated lighting designer, has designed more than 200 shows in NYC and regional theaters^[29][30]
• Allan Loeb, film screenwriter, Things We Lost in the Fire, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, The Dilemma
• Chris Regan (1989), Emmy Award-winning writer for The Daily Show
• Rod Serling, former faculty, taught at Ithaca College Communications School 1967-1975; Emmy Award-winning screenwriter; creator of The Twilight Zone
• Ted Nivison, (B.F.A., 2020), YouTuber, director, and comedian

Sportscasters

• Bruce Beck (B.S. 1978), weekend sports anchor for WNBC, NY
• Brendan Burke (B.S. 2006) sportscaster for Fox Sports and television announcer for New York Islanders on MSG Network
• Mike Catalana (B.S. 1985), sports director WHAM-TV Rochester, New York
• Ed Cohen (B.S 2005), WEPN-FM Radio voice of the New York Knicks.
• Kevin Connors (B.S. 1997), ESPN sportscaster^[31]
• Thomas Donnelly, author of AEI's National Security Outlook
• Lanny Frattare (B.S. 1970), play-by-play announcer for MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates
• Eric Frede (B.S. 1988), Boston Bruins studio host, NESN
• Drew Goodman (B.S. 1985) Television Announcer Colorado Rockies 2002–present, Denver Nuggets 1994-2004
• Neil Hartman (B.S. 1982), sports anchor, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia
• Jack Michaels (B.S. 1995), announcer for the Edmonton Oilers on Sportsnet
• Nick Nickson, hockey broadcaster for Los Angeles Kings
• Sal Paolantonio, ESPN sportscaster; member of the college's Philadelphia Executive Committee
• Eric Reid, TV announcer for Miami Heat
• Karl Ravech (B.S. 1987), ESPN sportscaster

Law

• Mitchell S. Goldberg (BA 1981), Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[32]

Literature and journalism

• Robert Bluey, editor of the daily online edition of Human Events
• Kristen Britain, author of Green Rider and First Rider's Call
• Jason Colavito, author
• Mark Mahoney (B.S. 1985), Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, The Post-Star^[33][34]
• Andrew Marchand, sports media reporter for the New York Post
• Sandra McDonald, author of The Outback Stars and The Stars Down Under
• Tish Rabe (1973), children's book author and writer of over 40 Dr. Seuss books
• Bill Roorbach, novelist, short story writer and memoirist
• K. M. Soehnlein, novelist and essayist
• Julia Spencer-Fleming, author of the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series
• Julie Spira, author of The Perils of Cyber-Dating
• David A. Weiner (1990), executive editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland and writer/director of In Search of Darkness ^[35][36]

Politics

• Christopher Bateman, member of the New Jersey General Assembly
• Michael A. Battle, former Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, United States Department of Justice
• Ed Diana, county executive of Orange County, New York
• Richard K. Eaton, Senior Judge on the United States Court of International Trade
• Eileen Filler-Corn (B.A. 1986), Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates^[37]
• Emily Gallagher (2006), member of the New York State Assembly
• Loni Hancock, member of the California State Senate
• Ben Walsh (B.A. 2001), mayor of Syracuse, New York

Science and medicine

• Richard Jadick (B.S. 1987), combat surgeon who was awarded the Bronze Star for service in Iraq^[38]
• C. William Schwab (B.A. chemistry 1968 ), Chief of the Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery Research at the University of Pennsylvania,^{[39][40] [41]}
• Steven Van Slyke (B.S. 1978), chemist, an inventor with over twenty patents related to organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), materials, and device architecture

Sports

• Glen Cook, professional baseball player for the Texas Rangers

• Conor Heun, mixed martial artist
• Tommy Hicks, former light heavyweight boxer
• Henny Hiemenz, head college football coach, Carroll University
• George Kissell, coach for St. Louis Cardinals
• Tim Locastro, professional baseball player for the New York Yankees
• Robert Marella, former professional wrestler (known as Gorilla Monsoon), ringside commentator for the World Wrestling Federation
• Emily Morley, the first Bahamian rower to qualify for the Olympic Games
• Meghan Musnicki, rower and member of the gold medal-winning women's 8+ for the United States at the 2012 London Olympics
• Tom Nugent, college football head coach and sportscaster; College Football Hall of Famer; developer of the I Formation
• Les Otten (B.S. 1971), vice chairman and partner, Boston Red Sox Organization
• Eddie Sawyer, former Philadelphia Phillies manager and MLB scout
• Barry Smith, former NHL associate coach
• Travis Warech American-German-Israeli basketball player for Israeli team Hapoel Be'er Sheva
• Jerry Welsh, head coach college basketball Potsdam State University, head coach college basketball Iona College^[42]
• Tony Wise, former NFL assistant coach
• Jeff Wittman, member of the College Football Hall of Fame.^[43]

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External links

• Official alumni website