List of Ithaca College alumni

This is a List of Ithaca College people.

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

Government

• Michael A. Battle, former Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, United States Department of Justice
• Christopher Bateman, member of the New Jersey General Assembly
• Maggie Brooks, county executive of Monroe County, New York
• 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, member of Virginia House of Delegates
• Loni Hancock, member of the California State Senate

Business

Executives

• Chris Burch (B.S. 1976), founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital; co-founder of Tory Burch LLC
• Robert Iger (B.S. 1973), president and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
• Stew Leonard, Jr. (B.S. 1977), president and CEO, Stew Leonard's

Media and entertainment

Directors and producers

• 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
• Barbara Gaines (B.A. 1979), Emmy Award-winning executive producer, Late Show with David Letterman
• Brian Herzlinger (1997), director, special correspondent on The Tonight Show
• David Guy Levy, film producer, August and Terri
• 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 Lucky Louie
• Larry Teng, television director and producer
• Liz Tigelaar, television writer and executive producer, Life Unexpected and Casual

Actors

• Kathryn Allison, 2014 winner of the NYMF Next Big Broadway Sensation competition
• Erinn Bartlett, actress^[1]
• David Boreanaz (B.S. 1991), actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Bones
• 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
• Matt Cavenaugh (B.F.A. 2001), Broadway actor, West Side Story
• Andrew Daly, actor, Eastbound and Down, MADtv and Semi-Pro
• Ben Fankhauser, Broadway performer in Newsies
• Michelle Federer, (B.F.A. 1995), theater and film actress; originated the character "Nessarose" in Broadway's Wicked
• Ben Feldman, Emmy Award-nominated actor, Mad Men and Superstore
• Ilene Graff, actress and singer
• Jennifer Hall, actress
• Jeremy Jordan, Tony Award-nominated and Grammy Award-nominated star of Supergirl, Newsies and Finding Neverland; also starred on Smash and in The Last 5 Years
• Ricki Lake, Emmy Award-winning actress, Serial Mom, Hairspray; television host
• Gavin MacLeod, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor, The Love Boat, The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Daniel McDonald, Tony Award-nominated actor
• Mark Moses, actor, Desperate Housewives, Mad Men
• David Newsom, actor and producer
• C. C. H. Pounder, Emmy Award-nominated actress, Bagdad Café, The Shield, Avatar and NCIS New Orleans
• Aaron Tveit, Broadway lead actor of Catch Me If You Can and Next to Normal, currently starring in USA Network's Graceland
• 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^[2]
• Jeff Winkless, voice-over actor

Hosts

• Chip Hines (B.A. 1990), host of Spotlight on CatholicTV
• Chris Kellogg, morning radio host for WMAS-FM and The Kellogg Krew
• Ricki Lake, Emmy Award-winning actress and television personality, The Ricki Lake Show (Attended for one year. Did not graduate.)^[3]
• Todd Schnitt, conservative radio personality and host of ‘’The Schnitt Show’’
• Robin Young, host of National Public Radio's Here and Now
• Larry Wachs, host of The Regular Guys Show

Musicians

• Kate Aldrich (B.M. 1996), internationally renowned mezzo-soprano
• 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
• 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 (did not graduate), Grammy Award-nominated and platinum-selling musician best known for Billboard Hot 100 hits "I Don't Want to Be" and "Not Over You"
• Tony DeSare (1997), jazz musician
• 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

Editors and publishers

• Robert Bluey, editor of the daily online edition of Human Events

Journalists

• David Brody, journalist and White House Correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network
• Thomas Donnelly, author of AEI's National Security Outlook
• Bob Kur, former national NBC reporter, now with Washington Post Radio
• David Muir (B.S. 1995), ABC news anchor for ABC World News Tonight with David Muir
• Jessica Savitch (B.S. 1968), first female network anchor

Photographers

• Clay Enos
• Lauren DeCicca (B.F.A. 2011), photographer for the New York Times^[4]

New media

• Alex Westerman, Webby Award-winning creative director

Writers

• Kristen Britain, author of Green Rider and First Rider's Call
• Jason Colavito, author
• Allan Loeb, film screenwriter, Things We Lost in the Fire, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, The Dilemma
• Mark Mahoney (B.S. 1985), Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, The Post-Star^[5][6]
• Sandra McDonald, author of The Outback Stars and The Stars Down Under
• Chris Regan, (1989), Emmy Award-winning writer for The Daily Show
• Bill Roorbach, novelist, short story writer and memoirist
• Rod Serling, former faculty, taught at Ithaca College Communications School 1967-1975; Emmy Award-winning screenwriter; creator of The Twilight Zone
• 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
• Liz Tigelaar, author and television writer and producer, Life Unexpected

Sportscasters

• Bruce Beck (B.S. 1978), weekend sports anchor for WNBC, NY
• Brendan Burke, sportscaster for Fox Sports
• Mike Catalana (B.S. 1985), sports director WHAM-TV Rochester, New York
• Kevin Connors (B.S. 1997), ESPN sportscaster
• Lanny Frattare (B.S. 1970), play-by-play announcer for MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates
• Eric Frede (B.S. 1988), Boston Bruins studio host, NESN
• Neil Hartman (B.S. 1982), sports anchor, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia
• Nick Nickson, announcer for Los Angeles Kings
• Sal Paolantonio, ESPN sportscaster; has had two children attend Ithaca; member of the college's Philadelphia Executive Committee
• Eric Reid, TV announcer for Miami Heat
• Karl Ravech (B.S. 1987), ESPN sportscaster
• Matt Willis (2006), ESPN NASCAR analyst^[7]

Sport

Management

• Les Otten (B.S. 1971), vice chairman and partner, Boston Red Sox Organization
• Eddie Sawyer, professional baseball manager for the Philadelphia Phillies

Coaches

• Henny Hiemenz, head college football coach, Carroll University
• George Kissell, coach for St. Louis Cardinals
• Tom Nugent, college football head coach and sportscaster; College Football Hall of Famer; developer of the I Formation
• Eddie Sawyer, former Philadelphia Phillies manager and MLB scout
• Barry Smith, former NHL associate coach

Athletes

• Glen Cook, professional baseball player for the Texas Rangers
• Conor Heun, mixed martial artist
• Tommy Hicks, former light heavyweight boxer
• Robert Marella, former professional wrestler (known as Gorilla Monsoon); ringside commentator for the World Wrestling Federation
• Emily Morley, 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

Scientists and engineers

• Steven Van Slyke (B.S. 1978), inventor with over 20 patents in OLED materials and device architecture

Other

• Richard Jadick (B.S. 1987), combat surgeon who was awarded the Bronze Star for service in Iraq
• Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, (1998) television presenter specializing in the ancient astronaut hypothesis^[8]

References

External links

• Official Alumni website