Belles lettres

• Daniel Aaron
  Daniel Aaron (academic)
  Daniel Aaron is an American writer and academic. Aaron helped found the Library of America in 1978.In 1937, Aaron became the first to graduate with a degree in "American Civilization" from Harvard University....
  
   (BA 1933) “…may be the most eminent living critic of American literature and culture.” He is the author of many articles and books, including, Men of Good Hope: A Story of American Progressives, The Unwritten War: Writers of the Civil War and, with Richard Hofstadter and William Miller, The Structure of American History, all books that have appeared in numerous editions.
• Uwem Akpan
  Uwem Akpan
  Uwem Akpan, born May 19, 1971, is a Nigerian Jesuit priest and writer. He is the author of Say You’re One of Them , a collection of five stories published by Little, Brown & Company...
  
   (M.F.A. 2007), Jesuit priest and Nigerian author. Akpan's 2008 book "Say You're One of Them" contains fictional accounts of people seeking normality in the face of often extreme circumstances. "Say You're One of Them" won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and the PEN/Beyond Margins Award.
• Max Apple
  Max Apple
  Max Apple is an American short story writer, novelist, and university professor at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Apple was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and received his B.A. and Ph.D from The University of Michigan...
  
  , (BA 1963). Author of: The Oranging of America (1976, short stories), Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right (1978, novel), Three Stories (1983, short stories), Free Agents (1984, novel), The Propheteers: A Novel (1987, novel), Roommates: My Grandfather's Story (1994, biography, of Apple's grandfather)
• Robert Arthur, Jr., (BA 1930), writer, novelist, editor. Created the juvenile "The Three Investigators" mystery series and worked on the anthology TV series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. By the premiere of the show on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades...
  
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• Erik Barmack, (B.A. 1995), born 1973, author of the novel, "The Virgin" and the non-fiction book, "Why Fantasy Football Matters"
• Sven Birkerts
  Sven Birkerts
  Sven Birkerts is an American essayist and literary critic of Latvian ancestry. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies, which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture."Birkerts was born in Pontiac,...
  
  , (A.B. 1973), Essayist and author of The Gutenberg Elegies
• Mary Gaitskill
  Mary Gaitskill
  Mary Gaitskill is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories , and The O. Henry Prize Stories .-Life:Gaitskill was born in Lexington, Kentucky...
  
  , Bad Behavior (1988), Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991), Because They Wanted To (1997) (stories), Veronica (2005).
• Naomi Gilpatrick (B.A.) Miss Gilpatrick was drama critic of the campus newspaper and won the university's top literature award for "The Broken Pitcher," a complicated love story that Dial Press published as a novel in 1945. The New York Times called "The Broken Pitcher" an "odd little novel in which everyone is shattered by fond emotions." The novel's heroine is a college girl who is in love with her late father, then meets and falls in love with her stepfather.
• Josh Greenfeld
  Josh Greenfeld
  Josh Greenfeld is an author and screenwriter mostly known for his screenplay for the 1974 film Harry and Tonto along with Paul Mazursky, which earned them an Academy Award nomination and its star, Art Carney, the Oscar itself for Best Actor...
  
  , novelist, playwright, screenwriter and author of A Child Called Noah trilogy.
• Judith Guest
  Judith Guest
  Judith Guest is an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and is the great-niece of Poet Laureate Edgar Guest .- Work :...
  
  , (B.A. 1959), wrote Ordinary People
  Ordinary People
  Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of Robert Redford. It stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton....
  
  , which was later turned into an Academy Award winning film.
• Aaron Hamburger
  Aaron Hamburger
  Aaron Hamburger is an American writer best known for his short story collection The View from Stalin's Head and novel Faith for Beginners ....
  
   (B.A. 1995) (born 1973) is an American writer
  Writer
  A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
  
   best known for his short story collection The View from Stalin's Head (2004) and novel Faith for Beginners (2005). The View from Stalin's Head was awarded the Rome Prize
  Rome Prize
  The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists and to 15 scholars The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists...
  
   by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome
  American Academy in Rome
  The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...
  
  . His next book, Faith for Beginners, is a novel about a dysfunctional family
  Dysfunctional family
  A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often abuse on the part of individual members occur continually and regularly, leading other members to accommodate such actions. Children sometimes grow up in such families with the understanding that such an arrangement is...
  
   vacation in Jerusalem, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.
• Gabrielle Hamilton
  Gabrielle Hamilton (chef)
  Gabrielle Hamilton is an American chef and author. She is the chef/owner of Prune, a restaurant in New York City, and the author of Blood, Bones, and Butter, a memoir...
  
   (MFA) owner/manager of Prune restaurant in Manhattan, and author of Blood Bones and Butter. Recipient of the James Beard
  James Beard
  James Andrew Beard was an American chef and food writer. The central figure in the story of the establishment of a gourmet American food identity, Beard was an eccentric personality who brought French cooking to the American middle and upper classes in the 1950s...
  
   award for best chef.
• Robert Hayden
  Robert Hayden
  Robert Hayden was an American poet, essayist, educator. He was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976.-Biography:...
  
  , (MA 1944), Professor of Poetry 1969-1980.
• James Avery Hopwood
  Avery Hopwood
  James Avery Hopwood , was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.-Biography:...
  
  , (AB 1905), playwright, established the U-M Hopwood Award
  Hopwood Award
  The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood.Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the Class of 1905 of The University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the...
  
  s (won by Arthur Miller and Lawrence Kasdan, q.v.). One of the premier playwrights of the jazz age and had, at one time, 4 plays running simultaneously on Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
  
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• Laura Kasischke
  Laura Kasischke
  Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and American poet with poetry awards and multiple well reviewed works of fiction. Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for...
  
  , author, In a Perfect World ;Suspicious River
  Suspicious River
  Suspicious River is a Canadian dramatic film, released in 2000. The film was directed by Lynne Stopkewich, based on a novel by Laura Kasischke...
  
   ; White Bird in a Blizzard ; The Life Before Her Eyes ; Boy Heaven ;Be Mine
  Be Mine
  "Be Mine" is a song by Wild Orchid, released as their first single from their second album, Oxygen. After scoring modest pop success with singles like "Talk to Me" and "At Night I Pray", the single was released and was heavily promoted by RCA records which hoped that Wild Orchid would finally score...
  
   ;Feathered
• Jane Kenyon
  Jane Kenyon
  Jane Kenyon was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant.-Life:...
  
  , (B.A 1970, M.A. 1972), poet and wife of former Michigan Professor Donald Hall
  Donald Hall
  Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:...
  
  , U.S. Poet Laureate
  Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
  The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the nation's official poet. During his or her term, the Poet Laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of...
  
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• Elizabeth Kostova
  Elizabeth Kostova
  Elizabeth Johnson Kostova is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.-Early life:Elizabeth Z. Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville...
  
  , (M.F.A. 2004), writer. Her first novel, The Historian
  The Historian
  The Historian interweaves the history and folklore of Vlad Ţepeş, a 15th-century prince of Wallachia known as "Vlad the Impaler", and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula together with the story of Paul, a professor; his 16-year-old daughter; and their quest for Vlad's tomb...
  
  , was published in 2005, and has become a best-seller.
• Janet Malcolm
  Janet Malcolm
  Janet Malcolm is an American writer and journalist on staff at The New Yorker magazine. She is the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession , In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer ....
  
  , 1955, was a writer for The New Yorker
  The New Yorker
  The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
  
   and wrote In the Freud Archives.
• Thomas McGuane
  Thomas McGuane
  Thomas Francis McGuane III is an American author. His work includes ten novels, short fiction and screenplays, as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors.-Early life:...
  
    (MDNG), novelist
• Paula McLain (MFA) is the author of the novel Ticket to Ride, a memoir titled Like Family, two collections of poetry, as well as her newest release, The Paris Wife, which is a historical fiction novel.
• Patrick O'Keeffe, (MFA), winner of the Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing for Above the Bar. (administered by the Hopwood Program
  Hopwood Program
  The Hopwood Program administers the University of Michigan Hopwood Award in literature, as well as several other awards in writing. It is located in the Hopwood Room at the University of Michigan and serves the needs and interests of Hopwood contestants. The Room was established by Professor Roy W...
  
  ) and instructor in the University of Michigan's Sweetland Writing Center has won the 2006 Story Prize
  Story Prize
  The Story Prize is an annual book award established in 2004 that honors the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction with a $20,000 cash award. Each of two runners-up receives $5,000. Eligible books must be written in English and first published in the United States during a calendar...
  
  , the richest U.S. prize for short fiction, for The Hill Road, a collection of four novellas set in a fictional Irish farming village. O'Keeffe's writing has been compared to the Irish short-story and novel writer William Trevor. Mr. O'Keeffe received the 2006 Whiting Writers Award at a ceremony Oct. 25 at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City
• Frank O’Hara
  Frank O'Hara
  Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara was an American writer, poet and art critic. He was a member of the New York School of poetry.-Life:...
  
  , (M.A. 1951). Author of: A City Winter and Other Poems,Oranges: 12 pastorals, Second Avenue, Odes, Lunch Poems. Love Poems.
• Susan Olasky
  Susan Olasky
  Susan Northway Olasky is a senior writer for World magazine and the author of eight historical novels for children. She is also an assistant professor of public policy at Patrick Henry College.-Youth and education:...
  
  , (AB 1975), author.
• Susan Orlean
  Susan Orlean
  Susan Orlean is an American journalist. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside....
  
  , (AB 1976), wrote The Orchid Thief. The book was made into the movie Adaptation.
• Marge Piercy
  Marge Piercy
  Marge Piercy is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers, a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.-Biography:...
  
  , (AB 1957), wrote Braided Lives and Fly Away Home. Hopwood Program
  Hopwood Program
  The Hopwood Program administers the University of Michigan Hopwood Award in literature, as well as several other awards in writing. It is located in the Hopwood Room at the University of Michigan and serves the needs and interests of Hopwood contestants. The Room was established by Professor Roy W...
  
   award winner.
• Matthew Rohrer
  Matthew Rohrer
  Matthew Rohrer is an American poet.Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Rohrer was raised in Oklahoma. He earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of Iowa.His first book of poetry, A Hummock in the Malookas , was selected by Mary Oliver...
  
   (BA) American poet and Hopwood Award winner.
• Ari Roth
  Ari Roth
  Ari Roth is an American theatrical producer, playwright, director and educator. Since 1997, he has served as the Artistic Director of Theater J in Washington, D.C...
  
   playwright and Artistid Director of Theater J
  Theater J
  Theater J is a professional theater company located in Washington, DC, founded to present works that "celebrate the distinctive urban voice and social vision that are part of the Jewish cultural legacy" as a self-mission.-Organization:...
  
  
• Allen Seager, author, Amos Berry and A Frieze of Girls
• Betty Smith
  Betty Smith
  Betty Smith, née Elisabeth Wehner , was an American author.-Biography:Born on December 15, 1896 in Brooklyn, New York to German immigrants, she grew up poor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and attended Girl's High School. These experiences served as the framework to her first novel, A Tree Grows in...
  
  , (1921–22, 1927, 1931), author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• James Tobin, (1978, MA 1979, PhD 1986), wrote To Conquer the Air, Ernie Pyle's War, and Great Projects.
• Nancy Willard
  Nancy Willard
  Nancy Willard is an award-winning children's author, poet, and novelist. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn...
  
  (BA, Ph.D).In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal
  Newbery Medal
  The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association . The award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The award has been given since 1922. ...
  
   for A Visit to William Blake's Inn
  A Visit to William Blake's Inn
  A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers is a book by Nancy Willard that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1982. It is also the only book to have won both the Newbery Award and the Caldecott Honor Award...
  
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• Edmund White
  Edmund White
  Edmund Valentine White III is an American author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.- Life and work :...
  
  , (AB 1962), wrote for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
• Stewart Edward White
  Stewart Edward White
  Stewart Edward White was an American author.-Biography:Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan he attended Grand Rapids High School, and earned degrees from University of Michigan ....
  
  ,(Ph.D., 1895; M.A., 1903). Author

Art, architecture, design

• Bill Barrett
  Bill Barrett (artist)
  Bill Barrett is an American sculptor, painter and jeweller.He is considered a central figure in the second-generation of American metal sculptors and is internationally known for his abstract sculptures in steel, aluminum and bronze....
  
  , (B.S. 1958) sculptor and painter
• Charles Correa
  Charles Correa
  Charles Correa is an Indian architect, planner and activist.-Early life:Charles Correa was born in Hyderabad, India...
  
   (ARCH: B.Arch. 1953); Honorary Doctor of Architecture degree from the UM in 1980.
• John De Lorean
  John De Lorean
  John Zachary DeLorean was an American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry, most notably with General Motors, and founder of the DeLorean Motor Company....
  
   (BUS: MBA 1957) - GM Group Vice President and Designer of the "back to the future" gull-wing automobile
  De Lorean DMC-12
  The DeLorean DMC-12 is a sports car originally manufactured in Dunmurry, a suburb west of Belfast, Northern Ireland by John DeLorean's DeLorean Motor Company for the American market in 1981-82. Most commonly known as the DeLorean, it was the only model produced by the company which would go into...
  
  
• John Dinkeloo - Civil Engineer and partner of 1982 Pritzker Prize
  Pritzker Prize
  The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...
  
   laureate Kevin Roche
  Kevin Roche
  Kevin Roche is an Irish-American architect known for his creative work with glass.Born in Dublin, Roche spent his formative years in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork before he graduated from University College Dublin in 1945. He then worked with Michael Scott from 1945-1946...
  
   in the firm Roche-Dinkeloo
  Roche-Dinkeloo
  Roche-Dinkeloo, otherwise known as Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC , is an architectural firm based in Hamden, Connecticut founded in 1966....
  
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• Alden B. Dow
  Alden B. Dow
  Alden B. Dow was an American architect; he was the son of Herbert Henry Dow and Grace A. Dow. Dow is known for his prolific architectural design. His personal house in Midland, the Midland Center for the Arts, as well as the current building for the Grace A...
  
   (b. April 10, 1904, Midland, Michigan
  Midland, Michigan
  Midland is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan in the Tri-Cities region of the state. It is the county seat of Midland County. The city's population was 41,863 as of the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Midland Micropolitan Statistical Area....
  
   – d. August 20, 1983) was an American architect
  Architect
  An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
  
  ; he was the son of Herbert Henry Dow
  Herbert Henry Dow
  Herbert Henry Dow was a Canadian born, American chemical industrialist. He is a graduate of Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio. His most significant achievement was the founding of the Dow Chemical Company in 1897...
  
   (founder of the Dow Chemical Company
  Dow Chemical Company
  The Dow Chemical Company is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. As of 2007, it is the second largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue and as of February 2009, the third-largest chemical company in the world by market capitalization .Dow...
  
  ) and Grace A. Dow
  Grace A. Dow
  Grace A. Dow was an American philanthropist who is best known as the wife of Herbert H. Dow, and mother of architect Alden B. Dow.- Personal :...
  
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• Dan Dworsky
  Dan Dworsky
  Daniel Leonard Dworsky has been a leading Southern California architect since the early 1950s. He is a longstanding member of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. Among other works, Dworsky designed Crisler Arena, the basketball arena at the University of Michigan named for...
  
   (ARCH: B.Arch. 1950). Designed the University's Crisler Arena
  Crisler Arena
  Crisler Arena, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, is the home arena for the University of Michigan men's and women's basketball teams. Constructed in 1967, the arena seats 13,751 spectators. It is named for Herbert O...
  
   as well as the Federal Reserve Bank in Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects
  American Institute of Architects
  The American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image...
  
   and his work has received over 80 national, regional, and community awards for design excellence, including a Gold Medal from the LA Chapter of AIA. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce in 2004. Dan played fullback, linebacker, and center at Michigan. He was a starter all four years of his football career playing on some of the greatest Wolverine teams in history. He was a key member of Coach Fritz Crisler's
  Fritz Crisler
  Herbert Orin "Fritz" Crisler was an American football coach who is best known as "the father of two-platoon football," an innovation in which separate units of players were used for offense and defense. Crisler developed two-platoon football while serving as head coach at the University of...
  
   national championship teams in 1947 and 1948. Dan attended UM on a football scholarship while studying architecture. During that time he earned six letters for varsity athletics - four in football and two in wrestling where he competed in the heavyweight division. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Dons in 1949. When the team folded, he turned down an offer to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers and returned to Michigan to finish his architecture degree. Dworsky was inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
  National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of Fame
  The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, in Commack, New York, is dedicated to honoring American Jewish sports figures who have distinguished themselves in sports....
  
   in 1981. In 1983 he was selected as a member of the All Time 50 year Rose Bowl
  Rose Bowl Game
  The Rose Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is played on Monday, January 2...
  
   Team.
• Tony Fadell
  Tony Fadell
  Anthony M. Fadell is a Lebanese American computer science engineer. He was known for being the Senior Vice President of the iPod Division at Apple Inc., having succeeded Jon Rubinstein in 2006. On November 4, 2008, Apple announced that Fadell would be stepping down as Senior Vice President but...
  
   (COE: BSE CompE 1991) - "Father" of the Apple
  Apple Computer
  Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
  
   iPod
  IPod
  iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...
  
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• Mike Kelley (BFA 1976) Became bad boy gross out artist in L.A. in the style of Paul McCarthy
  Paul McCarthy
  Paul McCarthy , is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.-Life:McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and studied art at the University of Utah in 1969. He went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute receiving a BFA in painting...
  
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• Natalie Ann Griffith (2007) Fashion Designer - New York Nat
• Richard Keyes
  Richard Keyes
  Richard D. Keyes is an American painter associatedwith abstract expressionism, impressionist landscapes and the California Plein-Air Paintingrevival. Keyes is now a Professor Emeritis at Long Beach City College, where he...
  
   (SOAD: BA Design 1957) Professor Emeritus at Long Beach City College
  Long Beach City College
  Long Beach City College, established in 1927, is a community college located in Long Beach, California. It is divided into two campuses. The Liberal Arts Campus, known as LAC, is located in the residential community of the Lakewood Village section of Long Beach, on Carson Street west of Clark Avenue...
  
  , after a 30 year career there teaching life drawing and painting.
• Charles Willard Moore
  Charles Willard Moore
  Charles Willard Moore was an American architect, educator, writer, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991.-Life and career:...
  
   (ARCH: B.Arch 1947), 1992 Hon Arch D. Designer of Lurie Tower on Michigan's North Campus. Winner of the AIA Gold Medal
  AIA Gold Medal
  The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture."...
  
   in 1991.
• Robert Nickle
  Robert Nickle
  Robert Nickle was a 20th-century American artist known primarily for his "street scrap" collage work.In 1943 he graduated from the University of Michigan where he studied architecture and design...
  
   (AB 1943) (b. 1919, Saginaw, Michigan - d. 1980) was an influential 20th Century American artist known primarily for his "street scrap" collage
  Collage
  A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
  
   work. Nickle studied architecture and design at Michigan. Nickle worked and taught primarily in Chicago, Illinois where he was affiliated with the Art Institute of Chicago
  Art Institute of Chicago
  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
  
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• Marian Sarah Parker (COE: BSE CE 1895) - First American woman to receive a civil engineering degree. A member of Purdy & Henderson, she helped to design such revolutionary steel skyscrapers as New York's Flat Iron Building
  Flatiron Building
  The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building, as it was originally called, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902 it was one of the tallest buildings in the city and the only skyscraper...
  
   and the Waldorf Astoria
  Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
  The Waldorf-Astoria is a luxury hotel in New York. It has been housed in two historic landmark buildings in New York City. The first, designed by architect Henry J. Hardenbergh, was on the Fifth Avenue site of the Empire State Building. The present building at 301 Park Avenue in Manhattan is a...
  
   Hotel.
• Ralph Rapson
  Ralph Rapson
  Ralph Rapson was the head of architecture at the University of Minnesota for many years...
  
   (September 13, 1914, Alma, Michigan
  Alma, Michigan
  Alma is the largest city in Gratiot County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,275 at the 2000 census. It was incorporated as the Village of Alma in 1872 and became a city in 1905....
  
   – March 29, 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
  
  ) was the head of architecture at the University of Minnesota for many years. He was one of the world's oldest practicing architects at his death at age 93, and also one of the most prolific.
• Bernard "Tony" Rosenthal (B.A. 1936) sculptor of the abstract
• Colonel William A. Starrett, (COE: B.S.C.E. 1897, D.Eng. (hon.) 1931). Starrett was general contractor for the Empire State Building
  Empire State Building
  The Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark skyscraper and American cultural icon in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet , and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 ft high. Its name is derived...
  
   and responsible for its record-making construction pace (completed in one year and 45 days).
• John Tishman (COE: BSE EE 1946, honorary Doctorate of Engineering 2000), a founding partner of Tishman Realty and Construction. Tishman built the first three buildings 100 stories and above in the world—the John Hancock Center
  John Hancock Center
  John Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue in the Streeterville area of Chicago, Illinois, is a 100-story, 1,127-foot tall skyscraper, constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with chief designer Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Khan...
  
   in Chicago and the twin, 110-story towers of the World Trade Center
  World Trade Center
  The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new...
  
   in New York. He also managed construction for Disney's $1-billion EPCOT Center in Florida, and the renovation and restoration of the landmark Carnegie Hall
  Carnegie Hall
  Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
  
   in New York.
• Raoul Wallenberg
  Raoul Wallenberg
  Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman, diplomat and humanitarian. He is widely celebrated for his successful efforts to rescue thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary from the Holocaust, during the later stages of World War II...
  
   (ARCH: B.Arch 1935): Swedish diplomat famous for assisting Hungarian Jews in late World War II.
• Eric Staller
  Eric Staller
  Eric Staller an American artist born September 14, 1947. He uses light and architecture as a medium to create and design works of art.-Biography:...
  
   (B.A. 1971) (Artist Architecture)

Literature and graphic arts

• Jennifer Allison
  Jennifer Allison
  Jennifer Allison is an American author of mystery novels who is best known as the author of the Gilda Joyce children's series of books.Born Jennifer Allison Brostrom, she grew up in Saline, Michigan and is a 1984 graduate from Saline High School. Jennifer holds a B.A...
  
    (BA) is an American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   author of mystery novels who is best known as the author of the Gilda Joyce
  Gilda Joyce
  Gilda Joyce is a mystery novel series written by Jennifer Allison, published by Dutton Children's Books.Gilda Joyce is a psychic investigator, a spy and an undercover reporter, who solves mysteries of the supernatural using a Ouija board, her wits and her Masters Psychic Handbook, seeking the...
  
   children's series of books.
• Robert Asprin
  Robert Asprin
  Robert Lynn Asprin was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.- Background :...
  
  , (MDNG: 1964-1965). Science-fiction and fantasy author.
• Dean Bakopoulos, 1997, novelist, Please Don't Come Back From the Moon
• Lloyd Dangle
  Lloyd Dangle
  Lloyd Dangle is an American writer and visual artist, particularly known as a cartoonist, illustrator, and political satirist...
  
   (BFA 1983) cartoonist
• Neal Gabler
  Neal Gabler
  Neal Gabler is a professor, journalist, author, film critic and political commentator.He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan and holds advanced degrees in film and American culture.-Journalist:...
  
  , (LAW: JD), as a student at the University of Michigan in the late 1960s, he filed so often for the Michigan Daily that, at its 50th anniversary, he was cited as having produced more column inches than anyone else in the paper's history. Author: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood was published in 1989; Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity (1994); Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality (1998); Walt Disney: Triumph of the American Imagination (2006).
• Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr., (A.B. 1933), wrote Cheaper by the Dozen
  Cheaper by the Dozen
  Cheaper by the Dozen is a biographical book written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey that tells the story of time and motion study and efficiency experts Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and their twelve children. The book focuses on the many years the...
  
  .
• Cathy Guisewite
  Cathy Guisewite
  Cathy Lee Guisewite is the cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, about a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships, and being a mother. As Cathy put it in one of her strips, "The four basic guilt groups."Born in Dayton, Ohio, Guisewite grew up in Midland,...
  
  , (BA 1972), author, creator of Cathy
  Cathy (comic strip)
  Cathy was a comic strip drawn by Cathy Guisewite. It featured a woman who struggled through the "four basic guilt groups" of life — food, love, mom, and work — the strip gently poked fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. Cathy's characteristics and issues both made fun of and...
  
   comic strip
• Jon Hein
  Jon Hein
  Jon Hein is an American radio personality and former webmaster. He created the now-defunct website jumptheshark.com and currently works for The Howard Stern Show. Hein is an alumnus of the University of Michigan where he appeared in the sketch comedy troupe Comedy Company with Jon Glaser...
  
  , (BA 1989), creator of the popular Jump the Shark
  Jump the Shark
  "Jump the Shark" is the 197th episode and the ninth season's fifteenth episode of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States and Canada on April 21, 2002 on Fox, and subsequently aired in the United Kingdom. It was written by executive producers...
  
   website.
• Ross Macdonald
  Ross Macdonald
  Not to be confused with John D. MacDonaldRoss Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar...
  
  , (MA 1942, PhD 1952), wrote the Lew Archer
  Lew Archer
  Lew Archer is a fictional character created by Ross Macdonald. Archer is a private detective working in Southern California.-Profile:Initially, Lew Archer was similar to Philip Marlowe. However, he eventually broke from that mold, though some similarities remain...
  
   Mystery Series
• Dwayne McDuffie
  Dwayne McDuffie
  Dwayne Glenn McDuffie was an American writer of comic books and television, known for creating the animated television series Static Shock, writing and producing the animated series Justice League Unlimited, and co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic-book company Milestone...
  
   (BA, MA) cartoonist and fantasy author
• Richelle Mead (BA) bestselling American fantasy author
• Brad Meltzer
  Brad Meltzer
  Brad Meltzer is a bestselling American political thriller novelist, non-fiction writer, TV show creator and award-winning comic book author.-Early life:...
  
  , (BA 1992), author of several popular novels and creator of TV series Jack and Bobby.
• Allen "Al" Milgrom
  Al Milgrom
  Allen "Al" Milgrom is an American comic book writer, penciller, inker and editor, primarily for Marvel Comics. He is known for his 10-year run as editor of Marvel Fanfare; his long involvement as writer, penciler, and inker on Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man; his four-year tenure as West...
  
   (BA 1972) is an American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   comic book
  Comic book
  A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
  
   writer
  Writer
  A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
  
  , penciller
  Penciller
  A penciller is an artist who works in the creation of comic books, graphic novels, and similar visual art forms.The penciller is the first step in rendering the story in visual form and may require several steps of feedback with the writer. These artists are concerned with layout to showcase...
  
  , inker
  Inker
  The inker is one of the two line artists in a traditional comic book or graphic novel. After a pencilled drawing is given to the inker, the inker uses black ink to produce refined outlines over the pencil lines...
  
   and editor
  Editing
  Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
  
  , primarily for Marvel Comics
  Marvel Comics
  Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
  
  . He is known for his ten-year run as editor of Marvel Fanfare
  Marvel Fanfare
  Marvel Fanfare is the title of two comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Both versions of Marvel Fanfare were anthology, showcase titles featuring a variety of characters from the Marvel universe.-Volume One:...
  
  ; his long involvement as writer, penciler, and inker on Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man; his four-year tenure as West Coast Avengers
  West Coast Avengers
  The West Coast Avengers is a fictional group of superheroes that appear in publications published by Marvel Comics. The team first appear in The West Coast Avengers #1 and was created by Roger Stern and Bob Hall.- Publication history :...
  
   penciller; and his long stint as the inker of X-Factor
  X-Factor (comics)
  X-Factor is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. It is a spin-off of the popular X-Men franchise, featuring characters from X-Men stories. The series has been relaunched several times with different team rosters, most recently as X-Factor Investigations.X-Factor launched in...
  
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• Jim Ottaviani
  Jim Ottaviani
  Jim Ottaviani is the author of several comic books about the history of science. His best-known work, Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists, features biographical stories about Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Niels Bohr, and several stories about physicist Richard Feynman...
  
   (MA nuclear engineering) is the author of several comic book
  Comic book
  A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
  
  s about the history of science
  History of science
  The history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural world and the domains of the social sciences....
  
  . His best-known work, Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists, features biographical stories about Galileo Galilei
  Galileo Galilei
  Galileo Galilei , was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism...
  
  , Isaac Newton
  Isaac Newton
  Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...
  
  , Niels Bohr
  Niels Bohr
  Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...
  
  , and several stories about physicist Richard Feynman
  Richard Feynman
  Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics...
  
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• Otto Penzler
  Otto Penzler
  Otto Penzler is an editor of mystery fiction in the United States, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where he lives.-Biography:...
  
   (born July 8, 1942) is an editor of mystery fiction in the United States, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where he lives.
• William Shawn
  William Shawn
  William Shawn was an American magazine editor who edited The New Yorker from 1952 until 1987.-Education and Early Life:...
  
  , (MDNG: 1925-1927) The New Yorker
  The New Yorker
  The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
  
   editor from 1952–1987
• Ben Tausig, (BA 2002), noted crossword puzzle constructor. Mr. Tausig constructs a weekly crossword aimed at younger solvers which appears in the Village Voice, Chicago Reader, Detroit Metro Times, Washington City Paper, San Francisco Bay Guardian, and many other alternative weeklies. He has published freelance work in the New York Times, New York Sun, Los Angeles Times, and Found magazine.
• Chris Van Allsburg
  Chris Van Allsburg
  Chris Van Allsburg is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He twice won the Caldecott Medal, for Jumanji and The Polar Express , both of which he wrote and illustrated, and both of which were later adapted into successful motion pictures...
  
  , (BA 1972), author and illustrator, best known for Jumanji
  Jumanji
  Jumanji is the title of a 1981 children's illustrated short story and fantasy story written and illustrated by the American author Chris Van Allsburg. It was made into a 1995 film of the same name. Both the book and the movie are about a magical board game that implements real animals and other...
  
   and The Polar Express
  The Polar Express
  The Polar Express is a 1985 children's book written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, a former professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. It was adapted as an Oscar-nominated motion-capture film in 2004....
  
  . Both books were made into films, with Jumanji
  Jumanji (film)
  Jumanji is a 1995 American fantasy-comedy film about a supernatural board game that makes wild animals and other jungle hazards materialize upon each player's move. It was directed by Joe Johnston and is based on Chris Van Allsburg's popular 1981 picture book of the same name...
  
   starring Robin Williams
  Robin Williams
  Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
  
  , and Polar Express starring Tom Hanks
  Tom Hanks
  Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...
  
  
• Sam Viviano
  Sam Viviano
  Sam Viviano is an American caricature artist and art director. Viviano’s caricatures are known for their wide jaws, which Viviano has explained is a result of his incorporation of side views as well as front views into his distortions of the human face. He has also developed a reputation for his...
  
  , (A.B. 1975). Art Director and sometime cover illustrator for MAD magazine.

Music

• The Arbors
  The Arbors
  The Arbors were an American pop group formed in 1964 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The members, two sets of brothers, met at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and began playing local shows in Michigan before moving to New York...
  
  , '60s pop group (all four members; group named after Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...
  
  )
• Clarice Assad
  Clarice Assad
  Clarice Assad is a classical and jazz composer, arranger, pianist, and vocalist.A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Clarice Assad has performed professionally since the age of seven. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Chicago College of the Performing Arts, in Chicago, IL, and a Masters...
  
  , (MA) Her master’s thesis concerto has been recorded by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
  Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
  Nadja Rose Catherine Salerno-Sonnenberg is an Italian-born classical violinist, author, and teacher. She is a United States citizen.-Career:...
  
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• Dr. Steven Ball (Ph.D. 2008) In addition to being a Fulbright Scholar, he is part of a small number of artists in the world of the theater organ ever to have achieved a Doctoral degree in music, and the first to have ever done so with a degree in Organ Performance (DMusA U of M, 2008). Ball was accepted as a rare undergraduate in the studio of Dr. Marilyn Mason of the University of Michigan. His undergraduate work was followed by several years of study abroad which included work at l'Institute de Touraine in Tours (France), the University of Utrecht and Royal Dutch Carillon School of Amersfoort (The Netherlands) as well as the Royal Carillon School of Mechelen (Belgium).
• Chris Bathgate
  Chris Bathgate
  Chris Bathgate is an American indie folk singer-songwriter and musician. He is prominent in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti folk music scene in Michigan. In 2007, Bathgate signed to , on which he released his most prominent album to date, A Cork Tale Wake. His most recent release was Salt Year, a full...
  
   (BFA) (born April 21, 1982) is an American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   indie folk
  Indie folk
  Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community showing heavy influences from folk music scenes of the 50s, 60s and early 70s, country music, and indie rock. A few early artists included Lou Barlow, Beck, Jeff Buckley and Elliott Smith...
  
   singer-songwriter
  Singer-songwriter
  Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
  
   and musician
  Musician
  A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
  
  . He is prominent in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti folk music scene in Michigan
  Michigan
  Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
  
  .*Don Blum
  Don Blum
  Don Blum is a musician, best known as the drummer for the Indie rock band The Von Bondies. Blum currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
  
  , (BA 1994) drummer in the band The Von Bondies
  The Von Bondies
  The Von Bondies were an American alternative rock band. The group disbanded in July 2011. Its most recent members were Jason Stollsteimer on vocals and lead guitar, Christy Hunt on rhythm guitar and Leann Banks on bass guitar...
  
  
• Evan Chambers
  Evan Chambers
  Evan Chambers is a composer, traditional Irish fiddler, and Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan. He received a Doctorate in music composition from the University of Michigan...
  
   (Ph.D.) composer, traditional Irish fiddler, and Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan
• David Daniels (MM 1992), countertenor
• Joe Dassin
  Joe Dassin
  Joseph Ira Dassin , more commonly known as Joe Dassin, was an American singer-songwriter best known for his French songs of the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  , (Ph.D.) French
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
   singer
• William Doppmann made his solo debut with the Cincinnati Symphony at the age of 10. During his sophomore year at the University of Michigan, he won two of America's “…most coveted awards for young artists, the Walter W. Naumburg award in New York and the Michaels Memorial Award in Chicago”, being the only musician to win both awards in the same year. In 1988 he received the University of Michigan's distinguished Alumni Citation of Merit and has been an annual recipient of an ASCAP Award since 1993.
• Gabriela Lena Frank
  Gabriela Lena Frank
  Gabriela Lena Frank is an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist.- Biography :...
  
   (D.M.A. 2001) composer
• George Frayne (BFA, MFA) founder of music group Commander Cody
  Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
  Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen is an American country rock band founded in 1967. Core members included founder George Frayne, John Tichy, Billy C. Farlow, Bill Kirchen, Andy Stein, Paul "Buffalo" Bruce Barlow, Lance Dickerson, and Bobby Black....
  
  
• Jay Gorney
  Jay Gorney
  Jay Gorney was an American theater and film song writer. He was born Abraham Jacob Gornetzsky in Białystok, Russia on December 12, 1894. In 1906, he witnessed the Bialystock pogrom which forced his family into hiding for nearly two weeks, after which they fled to the United States...
  
   (LS&A: BA 1917; LAW: 1919) Composer, Songwriter: Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
• Muriel Costa-Greenspon
  Muriel Costa-Greenspon
  Muriel Costa-Greenspon was an American mezzo-soprano who had a lengthy career at the New York City Opera between 1963-1993...
  
  , (AB, MA), a mezzo-soprano who "… stood as one of New York City Opera's most valuable players for thirty years…"…"…was adored by audiences for her zesty performing style and admired by composers, conductors and singing colleagues for her intelligent, committed musicianship and incisive singing." Born in Detroit, a daughter of deaf parents.
• Tally Hall
  Tally Hall (band)
  Tally Hall is an American rock band formed in December 2002 based in Ann Arbor, Michigan with a relatively significant cult following. Once under the Atlantic Records recording label, Tally Hall is, again, signed to indie label Quack! Media who previously helped finance and nationally distribute...
  
  , band named after a shopping plaza in Michigan.
• Joe Henry
  Joe Henry
  Joseph Lee "Joe" Henry is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Henry's musical style spans several genres, including alt. country, rock, jazz and folk.- Early years :...
  
  , Singer/Songwriter music producer.
• Katt Hernandez
  Katt Hernandez
  Katt Hernandez is a violinist living in Stockholm, Sweden with strong connection to Boston, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. Katt's violin playing employs many virtuostic extended techniques, as well as microtones. Her influences range a vast gamut of music, and...
  
  , (B.F.A. 1997), Improvising violinist, microtonalist, and Maverick, toured the Country with Vashti Bunyan
  Vashti Bunyan
  Vashti Bunyan is an English singer-songwriter. In 1970, Bunyan released her first album, Just Another Diamond Day. The album sold very few copies, and Bunyan, discouraged, abandoned her musical career...
  
  , and created new techniques for string multi-phonics and microtonal harmonics.
• Charlene Kaye, a musician, has recorded with fellow U-M alum Darren Criss
  Darren Criss
  Darren Everett Criss is an American actor, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and a founding member and co-owner of the theater company StarKid Productions. He currently portrays Blaine Anderson, an openly gay high school student, on the FOX television series Glee...
  
  , who has become a regular cast member on Glee
  Glee (TV series)
  Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
  
  . Her band is called the Brilliant Eyes.
• James Kibbie
  James Kibbie
  James Kibbie is an American concert organist, recording artist and pedagogue. He is Professor of Organ at the University of Michigan.- Biography :James Kibbie was born in 1949 in Vinton, Iowa, USA...
  
   (DMA 1981), Concert organist, recording artist and Professor of Organ at the University of Michigan.
• Martin Kierszenbaum
  Martin Kierszenbaum
  Martin Kierszenbaum is a graduate of the University of Michigan and head of A&R at Interscope Records and president of Interscope's subsidiary imprint Cherrytree Records...
  
   (also known by his pseudonym
  Pseudonym
  A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
  
   of Cherry Cherry Boom Boom, Kirschbaum being German for cherry tree
  Cherry Tree
  Cherry Tree may refer to:* A tree that produces cherries* An ornamental cherry tree that produces cherry blossomsPlaces* Cherry Tree, Pennsylvania, a borough in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States* Cherry Tree, Oklahoma...
  
  ) is head of A&R at Interscope Records
  Interscope Records
  Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that currently operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-History:...
  
   and president of Interscope's subsidiary imprint Cherrytree Records
  Cherrytree Records
  Cherrytree Records is an American record label and is an imprint of Interscope Records.-History:Cherrytree Records was founded in 2005 by Martin Kierszenbaum, being German for cherry tree...
  
  . He is a songwriter and producer as well as A&R for Lady Gaga
  Lady GaGa
  Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...
  
  , Sting, Keane, Tokio Hotel
  Tokio Hotel
  Tokio Hotel is a pop rock band from Germany, founded in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Schäfer and bassist Georg Listing...
  
  , Feist, Far East Movement
  Far east movement
  Far East Movement is an Asian American electro hop quartet based in Los Angeles. The group formed in 2003 and consists of Kev Nish , Prohgress , J-Splif , and DJ Virman...
  
   and Natalia Kills
  Natalia Kills
  Natalia Keery-Fisher is an English singer-songwriter, actress, and short-film director who performs under the stage name Natalia Kills. She released her first single "Don't Play Nice" under the name Verbalicious in February 2005...
  
  . He has co-written songs for Lady Gaga
  Lady GaGa
  Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...
  
  , t.A.T.u, Flipsyde, Tokio Hotel, Ai, Alexandra Burke
  Alexandra Burke
  Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewen Burke is a British R&B and pop recording artist who rose to fame after winning the fifth series of British television series The X Factor in 2008...
  
   and Colby O'Donis
  Colby O'Donis
  Colby O'Donis is an American-Puerto Rican pop and R&B singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor. In 2008, he released his debut album Colby O, and his single "What You Got" featuring Akon reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  .
• Fred LaBour
  Fred LaBour
  Frederick LaBour , better known by his stage name Too Slim, is a Grammy award winning American musician, best known for his work with the Western swing musical and comedy group Riders in the Sky....
  
   (M.A.) a musician and instrumental in the spread of the Paul is Dead
  Paul Is Dead
  "Paul is dead" is an urban legend suggesting that Paul McCartney of the English rock band The Beatles died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a look-alike....
  
   urban legend
  Urban legend
  An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true...
  
  .
• Andrew Lippa
  Andrew Lippa
  Andrew Lippa is an American composer, lyricist, book writer, performer, and producer. He is a resident artist at the Ars Nova Theater in New York City.-Biography:...
  
   (BA 1987), lyricist and composer.
• Hollis Urban Lester Liverpool
  Chalkdust
  Hollis Urban Lester Liverpool, better known as Chalkdust is a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago. He has been singing calypso since 1967 and has recorded over 300 calypsos....
  
   (Ph.D. ethnomusicology
  Ethnomusicology
  Ethnomusicology is defined as "the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts."Coined by the musician Jaap Kunst from the Greek words ἔθνος ethnos and μουσική mousike , it is often considered the anthropology or ethnography of music...
  
  ), better known as Chalkdust (born 1941), calypsonian
  Calypsonian
  A calypsonian , originally known as the chantwell is a musician, from the Anglophone Caribbean, who sings songs called calypso. Calypsos are musical renditions having their origins in the West African griot tradition...
  
   from Trinidad and Tobago
  Trinidad and Tobago
  Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
  
   and ethnomusicologist at the University of the Virgin Islands
  University of the Virgin Islands
  The University of the Virgin Islands is a public university located in the United States Virgin Islands.-Academics:The university has five academic divisions: Business, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Nursing, and Science and Mathematics. UVI offers several graduate degree programs and...
  
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• Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
  
  , (MDNG: 1976-1978), singer and actress.
• Dawn Xiana Moon, (AB 2003), writer and musician.
• Randy Napoleon
  Randy Napoleon
  Randy Napoleon is a jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger who is a member of The Freddy Cole Quartet and the leader of the Randy Napoleon Trio. He has toured with Benny Green, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra , led by John Clayton, Jeff Clayton and Jeff Hamilton, and with Michael Bublé.-Early...
  
  , (BFA 1999) jazz guitarist.
• Nomo
  Nomo
  Nomo is a band from Ann Arbor, Michigan. The band formed at the University of Michigan, and is not to be confused with the 1980's Pop/New Wave band of the same name fronted by California singer-songwriter David Batteau, which is best known for the 1985 minor hit "Red Lipstick".Fronted by Elliot...
  
   is a band from Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Michigan
  Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
  
  . The band formed at the University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
  The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
  
  ,
• Jessye Norman
  Jessye Norman
  Jessye Norman is an American opera singer. Norman is a well-known contemporary opera singer and recitalist, and is one of the highest paid performers in classical music...
  
  , (MUSIC: MMUS 1968; HSCD 1987), is an opera/concert singer.
• Felix Pappalardi
  Felix Pappalardi
  Felix A. Pappalardi Jr. was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bass guitarist.- Early life :Pappalardi was born in the Bronx, New York...
  
  , musician, record producer.
• Richard Perry
  Richard Perry
  Richard Perry is an American music producer. Perry began as a performer in his adolescence, but shifted gears after graduating college and rose through the late 1960s and early 1970s to become a highly successful and popular record producer with over a dozen gold records to his credit by 1982...
  
   (BA 1964) is an American music producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  .
• Jeremy Peters, (AB 2004), vocalist, trombonist, co-founder of Quite Scientific Records.
• Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
  
  , (MDNG: 1963-1964) rock star
• Mark Powell, (BM 1992) American conductor, composer, and music educator, founder of ARCO - The American Radio Chamber Orchestra
• Daniel Bernard Roumain
  Daniel Bernard Roumain
  Daniel Bernard Roumain is a classically trained composer, performer, violinist, and band-leader noted for blending funk, rock, hip-hop and classical music into an energetic and experiential sonic form. DBR is of Haitian-American heritage and he attended Dillard Center for the Arts in Fort...
  
  , (Ph. D.), composer and performer, the self-styled "Dred Violinist"
• Ella Riot
  My Dear Disco
  Ella Riot is a musical group based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Released in January 2009, their debut full-length album, DanceThink LP, fuses electro-pop, funk, rock, and techno into a distinctive sound the band members have dubbed "DanceThink." Named one of the most promising bands in the nation by the...
  
  , a band formed by Michigan undergraduates who invented the category "DanceThink Music," which is meant to stimulate the feet and the brain.
• David Shayman, a.k.a, Disco D
  Disco D
  David Aaron Shayman, better known by his stage name Disco D , was an American record producer and composer. He started as a teenage DJ in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he helped DJ Godfather popularize the Detroit electronic music called "Ghettotech"...
  
  , (BUS: BBA 2002) marketing and corporate strategy, teenage DJ prodigy who helped pioneer Detroit booty music and later gave it the "ghettotech
  Ghettotech
  Ghettotech or Detroit club music is a form of electronic dance music originating from Detroit. It combines elements of Chicago's ghetto house with electro, hip hop, techno, and grafts the perceived raunch of Miami Bass as the vocal stamp of the music. It is usually faster than most other dance...
  
  " moniker; later relocated to New York and branched out as a producer of hip-hop
  Hip hop music
  Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
  
  , R&B, and dancehall
  Dancehall
  Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably,...
  
   tracks for mainstream artists such as 50 Cent
  50 Cent
  Curtis James Jackson III , better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, investor, record producer, and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin and The Massacre . Get Rich or Die Tryin has been certified eight times platinum by...
  
  , Nina Sky
  Nina Sky
  Nina Sky is an American musical duo composed of identical twins Nicole and Natalie Albino .-Early life and career:Albino's parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico and were divorced when the girls were younger...
  
  , and more notoriously, the much-maligned Kevin Federline
  Kevin Federline
  Kevin Earl Federline is an American dancer, rapper, fashion model, and actor. Previously engaged to actress Shar Jackson, Federline is best known for his two-year marriage to pop singer Britney Spears...
  
   single, "Popozão".
• Vienna Teng
  Vienna Teng
  Cynthia Yih Shih , better known by her stage name Vienna Teng, is a Taiwanese American pianist and singer-songwriter based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Teng has released four studio albums: Waking Hour , Warm Strangers , Dreaming Through the Noise , and Inland Territory...
  
   (b. October 3, 1978, Saratoga, California
  Saratoga, California
  Saratoga is a city in Santa Clara County, California, USA. It is located on the west side of the Santa Clara Valley, directly west of San Jose, in the San Francisco Bay area. The population was 29,926 at the 2010 census....
  
  ) is a Taiwanese American pianist
  Pianist
  A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
  
   and singer-songwriter
  Singer-songwriter
  Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
  
   based in Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...
  
  . Her birth name is Cynthia Yih Shih. Teng has released four studio album
  Studio album
  A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
  
  s: Waking Hour (2002), Warm Strangers
  Warm Strangers
  Warm Strangers is singer-songwriter Vienna Teng's second album.-Track listing:#Feather Moon - 4:06#Harbor - 4:24#Hope on Fire - 4:26#Shine - 2:39#Mission Street - 4:32#My Medea - 4:09#Shasta - 3:29...
  
   (2004), Dreaming Through The Noise
  Dreaming Through the Noise
  -Track listing:All songs written by Vienna Teng.#"Blue Caravan" - 3:56#"Whatever You Want" - 4:00#"Love Turns 40" - 5:12#"I Don't Feel So Well" - 4:16#"City Hall" - 4:48#"Nothing Without You" - 3:39#"Transcontinental, 1:30 A.M." - 3:46#"1BR/1BA" - 4:02...
  
   (2006), and Inland Territory
  Inland Territory
  Inland Territory is the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter Vienna Teng. It was released in Germany on February 6, 2009 and in the U.S. on April 7, 2009...
  
   (2009). She has also released one live album, The Moment Always Vanishing (2009), on which she is double-billed with her percussionist, Alex Wong.
• Thomas Tyra
  Thomas Tyra
  Thomas Tyra was an American composer, arranger, bandmaster, and music educator.-Early life and education:...
  
  , (MUSIC: Ph.D. 1971), musician
• Sachal Vasandani, jazz vocalist. The Chicago-born artist attracted attention when he was named DownBeat magazine's Collegiate Jazz Vocalist of the Year in 1999. He has worked with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
  Wynton Marsalis
  Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...
  
  . His break-through debut recording, "Eyes Wide Open," lead to tours and opening for artists such as jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and pop singer Joan Osborne. Vasandani's second album, 2009's "We Move," was chosen in November as a New York Times Critic's Pick.
• Julia Wolfe
  Julia Wolfe
  Julia Wolfe is an American composer. She was born in Philadelphia, holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Princeton and Yale, and currently works in New York. Wolfe's music is rhythmically vigorous and often clangorously dissonant...
  
  , an American composer
• Jack Yellen
  Jack Yellen
  Jack Selig Yellen was an American lyricist and screenwriter.-Life and career:Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school...
  
   (BA 1913) - American lyricist and screenwriter, Two of his most recognized songs, still popular in the 21st century, are "Happy Days Are Here Again
  Happy Days Are Here Again
  "Happy Days Are Here Again" is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen and published by EMI Robbins Catalog, Inc./Advanced Music Corp...
  
  " and "Ain't She Sweet
  Ain't She Sweet
  Ain't She Sweet was an American album featuring four tracks recorded in Hamburg in 1961 by The Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan and cover versions of Beatles and British Invasion-era songs recorded by the Swallows...
  
  ." ASCAP Board of Directors (1951–69); Songwriters Hall of Fame 1972

Talent Management

• Peter Benedek, (A.B. 1970). Co-founder and senior partner of United Talent Agency (UTA), a literary and talent agency which represents, inter alia, Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford, Ben Stiller and Jack Black.
• Jacques Espinasse, (BUS: BBA 1965, MBA 1966), CFO of Vivendi Universal, owner of Universal Studios and Universal Music Group.
• George Finkel, (BA 1958), TV Sports Producer for NBC Sports
  NBC Sports
  NBC Sports is the sports division of the NBC television network. Formerly "a service of NBC News," it broadcasts a diverse array of programs, including the Olympic Games, the NFL, the NHL, MLS, Notre Dame football, the PGA Tour, the Triple Crown, and the French Open, among others...
  
   1971-1990. Won 3 Emmy awards.
• Dan Glickman
  Dan Glickman
  Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman is an American businessman and politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He was Chairman and CEO of the...
  
  , (BA 1966), President and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America
  Motion Picture Association of America
  The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. , originally the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America , was founded in 1922 and is designed to advance the business interests of its members...
  
  , Inc.
• Robert E. Nederlander (A.B., 1955; LAW: J.D., 1958), a limited partner in the New York Yankee Partnership, president and director of Nederlander Organization, Inc., and president of Nederlander Television and Film Production. A former U-M regent.
• Robert Nederlander, Jr. (BS 1985; LAW: JD 1989) President & CEO Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, which is focused on new business development for the family’s Nederlander “brand”.
• Robert Roth
  Robert Roth
  Robert Roth , was an active member in the anti-war, anti-racism and anti-imperialism movements of the 1960’s and 70’s, and key member of the Students for a Democratic Society political movement in the Columbia University Chapter in New York, where he eventually presided...
  
  (BUS: MBA 1979) - Executive Vice President and CFO of HBO.
• John Sloss (LS&A: BA 1978; LAW: JD 1981) Having established himself as one of the top dealmakers in the world of indie film, in 2001 he founded Cinetic Media, an agency dedicated to discovering small pics, arranging financing for them, and selling them to the indie specialty arms of large studios, often at Sundance and other big film festivals. Through Cinetic, Sloss has orchestrated the sales of some of the biggest indie successes of the '00s, including The Fog of War
  The Fog of War
  The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 American documentary film about the life and times of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara as well as illustrating his observations of the nature of modern warfare...
  
  , Super Size Me
  Super Size Me
  Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock's film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003 during which he eats only McDonald's food...
  
  , Napoleon Dynamite
  Napoleon Dynamite
  Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite. The film was Jared Hess' first full-length feature and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, Peluca....
  
  , Andrew Jarecki's Capturing the Friedmans
  Capturing the Friedmans
  Capturing the Friedmans is a documentary film directed by Andrew Jarecki. It focuses on the 1980s investigation of Arnold and Jesse Friedman for child molestation...
  
  , and Little Miss Sunshine
  Little Miss Sunshine
  Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama film. The road movie's plot follows a family's trip to a children's beauty pageant.Little Miss Sunshine was the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer...
  
  .

Theatre

• Michael Bellavia
  Michael Bellavia
  Michael Bellavia is the CEO of Animax Entertainment, an Emmy Award winning creative studio that produces character driven content for all screens. He earned his BS in Engineering from the University of Michigan and his MBA from Columbia Business School...
  
  , (BS 1991), Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
   winning President Animax Entertainment
  Animax Entertainment
  Animax Entertainment is an animation and interactive production studio based in Van Nuys, California. Animax's clients include Disney, ESPN, Warner Bros., National Geographic, Sesame Workshop, WWE and many others. Animax has a particular expertise in Adobe Flash animation and has produced work...
  
  
• Selma Blair
  Selma Blair
  Selma Blair is an American actress who has worked in film, theatre and television. She has performed in feature films including Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, Hellboy, The Fog, Purple Violets and Hellboy II: The Golden Army...
  
  , (BA 1994), actress, known for Cruel Intentions
  Cruel Intentions
  Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American drama film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. The film is an adaptation of the 18th-century French epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos and is set among wealthy teenagers living in modern New York...
  
   and Legally Blonde
  Legally Blonde
  Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and produced by Marc E. Platt...
  
  
• Sophina Brown
  Sophina Brown
  Sophina Brown is an American actress who had a starring role on the CBS drama series Numb3rs where she played Nikki Betancourt, an "adrenaline junkie" and former LAPD officer....
  
   (BFA) appears as a regular in the cast of Numb3rs
  NUMB3RS
  Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
  
   in 2008
• Bruno Campos
  Bruno Campos
  Bruno Campos is a Brazilian-born United States-based actor, best known for his role as Dr. Quentin Costa on the Golden Globe Award-winning television show Nip/Tuck.-Early life:...
  
   (LAW) (born December 3, 1973) is a Brazil
  Brazil
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
  
  ian-born United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  -based actor
  Actor
  An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
  
  , best known for his role as Dr. Quentin Costa
  Quentin Costa
  Dr. Quentin Costa is a fictional character in the American television series Nip/Tuck, portrayed by Bruno Campos.-Character's background:Quentin Costa is introduced in the episode "Sean McNamara" as a plastic surgeon from Atlanta, Georgia...
  
   on the Golden Globe Award
  Golden Globe Award
  The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
  
  -winning television show Nip/Tuck
  Nip/Tuck
  Nip/Tuck is an American drama series created by Ryan Murphy, which aired on FX in the United States. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a plastic surgery practice, and follows its founders, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy...
  
  .
• Esther K. Chae
  Esther K. Chae
  Esther Chae is a Korean-American actor and writer. Chae has appeared in numerous television shows such as NCIS, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, The West Wing, The Shield, and ER...
  
  , (MA), actress
• Gavin Creel
  Gavin Creel
  Gavin James Creel is an American actor, singer and song writer.Born in Findlay, Ohio, Creel received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre at the University of Michigan in 1998. Creel, who is openly gay, is a regular on the LGBT RFamilyVacations cruise with Rosie O'Donnell...
  
  , (BFA 1998), Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
  -nominated actor
• Jessica Cauffiel
  Jessica Cauffiel
  Jessica Cauffiel is an American actress and singer.-Early life:Cauffiel was born in Detroit, Michigan; her mother is a social worker and her father is Lowell Cauffiel, a best-selling true crime author, screenwriter and television documentary producer...
  
   (SMTD: BFA) actress
• Darren Criss
  Darren Criss
  Darren Everett Criss is an American actor, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and a founding member and co-owner of the theater company StarKid Productions. He currently portrays Blaine Anderson, an openly gay high school student, on the FOX television series Glee...
  
   (BFA 2009), Actor, singer-songwriter, and cast member of Glee
  Glee (TV series)
  Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
  
  , as well as a member of Team StarKid
  Team StarKid
  StarKid Productions, also known as Team StarKid, is a student-created theatre production troupe formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, founded in 2009 by theatre students at the University of Michigan...
  
  
• Ann B. Davis
  Ann B. Davis
  Ann Bradford Davis is an American television actress.Davis achieved prominence for her role in The Bob Cummings Show for which she twice won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series...
  
  , (BFA 1948), played live-in maid "Alice" on The Brady Bunch
  The Brady Bunch
  The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, and Ann B. Davis. The series revolved around a large blended family...
  
   TV series
• Donald Alan "Don" Diamond
  Don Diamond
  Donald Alan "Don" Diamond was an American radio, film, and television actor who portrayed "Crazy Cat", the sidekick and heir apparent to Chief Wild Eagle on the popular 1960s television sitcom, F Troop .-Career:...
  
   (B.A. 1942) (June 4, 1921 – June 19, 2011) was an American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   radio, film, and television
  Television
  Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
  
   actor
  Actor
  An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
  
   probably most famous for his comic portrayal as Crazy Cat, sidekick and heir apparent to Chief Wild Eagle on the popular 1960s television sitcom, F Troop
  F Troop
  F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show...
  
  .
• Michael Dunn (MDNG) AKA Gary Neil Miller. His filmography as actor includes: The Mutations (25-Sep-1974); Murders in the Rue Morgue (Sep-1971); Boom (26-May-1968) ;No Way to Treat a Lady (20-Mar-1968) ; Madigan (13-Mar-1968) ;You're a Big Boy Now (9-Dec-1966); Ship of Fools (29-Jul-1965).Dunn was probably best known for his recurring role as mad scientist Dr. Miguelito Loveless, perpetually pursued by Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon in the 1960s TV series The Wild Wild West.
• Ingrid Eggertsen,(BFA), an actress whose filmography and TV appearances include: “Quinceañera,” (winner of the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival), “Diary of an Affair” on E! and “What Should You Do?” on Lifetime, and the films “Smile” and “Lost in the Garden of Eden’.
• Michael Epstein, (B.Arch), An Academy Award-nominated documentary producer, director and writer whose work has been awarded two George Foster Peabody Awards, an Emmy and a Writers Guild. Epstein’s latest effort was “LENNONYC,” which premiered at the 2010 New York Film Festival, and was awarded the George Foster Peabody Award. Epstein’s previous films include 1996’s “The Battle Over Citizen Kane”; 2000’s “Hitchcock, Selznick & The End of Hollywood”; 2006’s “The Marines of Lima Company”; 2008’s “Grand Central” and many others.
• Hunter Foster
  Hunter Foster
  Hunter Foster is an American musical theatre actor/singer, librettist and playwright.-Early life:Foster was born in Lumberton, North Carolina, but raised in Augusta, Georgia and Troy, Michigan. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Michigan in 1992...
  
  , (BFA 1992), Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
  -nominated actor
• David Alan Grier
  David Alan Grier
  David Alan Grier , also known as "D.A.G." , is an American actor and comedian known for his work on the sketch comedy television show In Living Color.-Early life:...
  
  , (BA 1978), actor/comedian
• Avery Hopwood
  Avery Hopwood
  James Avery Hopwood , was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.-Biography:...
  
   (A.B. 1905), one of the most successful playwrights of the Jazz Age
  Jazz Age
  The Jazz Age was a movement that took place during the 1920s or the Roaring Twenties from which jazz music and dance emerged. The movement came about with the introduction of mainstream radio and the end of the war. This era ended in the 1930s with the beginning of The Great Depression but has...
  
  
• Lawrence C. Hull, (BA 1905), the first Rhodes Scholar chosen from Michigan.
• Ruth Hussey
  Ruth Hussey
  Ruth Carol Hussey was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.-Early life:...
  
   (1911–2005), actress
• Gregory Jbara
  Gregory Jbara
  -Early life:Jbara was born in Nankin Township , Michigan, the son of an advertising office manager and an insurance claims adjuster. He is of Lebanese and Irish descent. After graduating from Wayne Memorial High School in Wayne, Michigan, Jbara attended the University of Michigan from 1979 to 1981...
  
   (MDNG: 1979-1981), Tony award winning actor
• James Earl Jones
  James Earl Jones
  James Earl Jones is an American actor. He is well-known for his distinctive bass voice and for his portrayal of characters of substance, gravitas and leadership...
  
  , (BFA 1955), actor, the voice of "Darth Vader
  Darth Vader
  Darth Vader is a central character in the Star Wars saga, appearing as one of the main antagonists in the original trilogy and as the main protagonist in the prequel trilogy....
  
  " in the Star Wars
  Star Wars
  Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
  
   movies, winner of two Tony Awards
• Tusshar Kapoor
  Tusshar Kapoor
  Tusshar Kapoor is an Indian actor. He is the son of Bollywood actor Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor and brother of Ekta Kapoor. He studied at the University of Michigan and graduated with a BBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.Tushar made his debut with Mujhe kuch kehna hai alongside...
  
  , actor in Indian cinema
• Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  Andrew Keenan-Bolger is an American musical theatre actor and singer. He originated the role of Robertson Ay in the first national tour of Mary Poppins and is currently appearing in that role on Broadway...
  
  , (B.F.A. 2007) known for his role in the national tour of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a one act musical comedy conceived by Rebecca Feldman with music and lyrics by William Finn, a book by Rachel Sheinkin and additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley...
  
   as well as for his video blog, "Andrew's Blog"
• Celia Keenan-Bolger (BFA 2007) Broadway actress who originated the role of Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a one act musical comedy conceived by Rebecca Feldman with music and lyrics by William Finn, a book by Rachel Sheinkin and additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley...
  
  . She also starred as Éponine
  Éponine
  Éponine Thénardier is a fictional character in the 1862 novelLes Misérables by Victor Hugo.- Éponine in the novel :As children, Éponine and her younger sister Azelma are described as pretty, well-dressed, charming and a delight to see. They are pampered and spoiled by their parents the Thénardiers...
  
   in the revival of Les Misérables
  Les Misérables (musical)
  Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....
  
  
• Nancy Kovack
  Nancy Kovack
  __forcetoc__Nancy Kovack is a former American actress.-Biography:She attended the University of Michigan at age 15 and graduated by 19. At the age of 20 she had won eight beauty titles....
  
   (b. March 11, 1935, Flint, Michigan
  Flint, Michigan
  Flint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau reports the 2010 population to be placed at 102,434, making Flint the seventh largest city in Michigan. It is the county seat of Genesee County which lies in the...
  
  ) is an American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   actress. She attended the University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
  The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
  
   at age 15 and graduated by 19. At the age of 20 she had won eight beauty titles. She has appeared on a number of TV episodes, including Star Trek
  Star Trek: The Original Series
  Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...
  
  , Bewitched
  Bewitched
  Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...
  
  , Batman
  Batman (TV series)
  Batman is an American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin — two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company network for three seasons from January 12, 1966 to...
  
  , Perry Mason
  Perry Mason (TV series)
  Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...
  
  , The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement...
  
  , and Burke's Law
  Burke's Law
  Burke's Law is a detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud...
  
  . In 1969 she was nominated for an Emmy for an appearance on Mannix
  Mannix
  Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors...
  
  . She also had parts in Strangers When We Meet
  Strangers When We Meet (film)
  Strangers When We Meet is a 1960 drama film about two married neighbors who have an affair. The movie was adapted by Evan Hunter from his novel of the same name and directed by Richard Quine...
  
   (1960), Diary of a Madman
  Diary of a Madman (film)
  Diary of a Madman is a 1963 horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, and Chris Warfield.The screenplay, written by producer Robert Kent, is an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story "Le Horla" , written in 1887...
  
   (1963) with Vincent Price
  Vincent Price
  Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.-Early life and career:Price was born in St...
  
  , The Outlaws Is Coming
  The Outlaws Is Coming
  The Outlaws IS Coming! is the sixth and last theatrical feature film to star the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity. By this time, the trio consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Joe DeRita . Like its predecessor, The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze...
  
   (1965) with The Three Stooges, Sylvia
  Sylvia (1965 film)
  Sylvia is a drama film directed by Gordon Douglas, written by Sydney Boehm and starring George Maharis, Carroll Baker and Peter Lawford.Released by Paramount Pictures, it was filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Plot:...
  
   (1965), Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966), and Frankie and Johnny
  Frankie and Johnny (1966 film)
  Frankie and Johnny is a 1966 musical film starring Elvis Presley as a riverboat gambler. The role of "Frankie" was played by Donna Douglas from The Beverly Hillbillies TV series. The film reached #40 on the Variety weekly national box office list for 1966. The budget of the film was estimated at...
  
   (1966).
• Christine Lahti
  Christine Lahti
  Christine Lahti is an American actress and film director. Lahti has had a successful career in television and film. Throughout her career she has garnered 2 Golden Globe Awards from 8 Nominations, An Emmy Award from 6 Nominations and 2 Academy Award nominations...
  
  , (BFA 1972), actress, winner of the Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
  , an Emmy, and two Golden Globe awards.
• Mark Lenard
  Mark Lenard
  Mark Lenard was an American actor, primarily in television.-Biography:Lenard was born Leonard Rosenson in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant, Abraham, and his wife, Bessie...
  
   (MA) Ambassador Sarek on Star Trek; Here Come the Brides Aaron Stempel (1968–69); Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (6-Dec-1991) ; Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (26-Nov-1986) ; Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1-Jun-1984) ; Star Trek: The Motion Picture (7-Dec-1979) ; Getting Married (17-May-1978) ;Annie Hall (20-Apr-1977) ;Hang 'Em High (31-Jul-1968) ; The Greatest Story Ever Told (15-Feb-1965)
• Matt Letscher
  Matt Letscher
  Matthew Letscher is an American actor.-Biography:Letscher was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He attended college at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI where he was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity....
  
   Film and TV actor. Played Capt. Love in The Mask of Zorro
  The Mask of Zorro
  The Mask of Zorro is a 1998 American swashbuckler film based on the Zorro character created by Johnston McCulley. It was directed by Martin Campbell and stars Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stuart Wilson...
  
  .
• Kurt Luedtke won an Academy Award Writing Adapted Screenplay
  Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay
  The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source...
  
   for the film Out of Africa
• Lucy Liu
  Lucy Liu
  Lucy Alexis Liu is an American actress and film producer. She became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal , and has also appeared in several Hollywood films including Charlie's Angels, Chicago, Kill Bill, and Kung Fu Panda.-Early...
  
  , (BFA 1990), actress, best known for work in Ally McBeal
  Ally McBeal
  Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia...
  
   and for the movie versions of Charlie's Angels .
• Strother Martin
  Strother Martin
  Strother Martin was an American actor in numerous films and television programs. Martin is perhaps best known as the prison "captain" in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, where he uttered the line, "What we've got here is...failure to communicate."-Early life:Strother Martin Jr. was born in Kokomo,...
  
  , (BA 1947), actor, member of the diving team.
• Jeff Marx
  Jeff Marx
  Jeff Marx is a composer and lyricist of musicals. He is best known for creating the Broadway musical Avenue Q with collaborator Robert Lopez.- Early life :...
  
  , (BFA 1993), Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
   winning co-creator/composer/lyricist of the hit Broadway musical "Avenue Q
  Avenue Q
  Avenue Q is a musical in two acts, conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics. The book was written by Jeff Whitty and the show was directed by Jason Moore and produced by Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, and Jeffrey Seller...
  
  ".
• Bob McGrath
  Bob McGrath
  Robert Emmet "Bob" McGrath is an American singer and actor best known for playing the human character Bob on Sesame Street. He was born in Ottawa, Illinois. McGrath was named for Irish patriot Robert Emmet....
  
  , (1954), actor/singer/writer best known as "Bob" from the PBS
  Public Broadcasting Service
  The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
  
   children's television series "Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...
  
  ".
• Marian Mercer
  Marian Mercer
  Marian Ethel Mercer was an American actress and singer.Born in Akron, Ohio, she graduated from the University of Michigan, then spent several seasons working in summer stock. She made her Broadway debut in the chorus of the short-lived musical, Greenwillow in 1960...
  
  , (B.A. SMTD) 1969 Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
  -winning actress.
• Eric Millegan
  Eric Millegan
  Eric Millegan is an American actor, primarily known for his work on the Fox series Bones in which he played Dr. Zack Addy. Millegan is openly gay, and was out before being cast as Zack Addy in Bones.-Biography:...
  
  , co-star (former) on TV show Bones
  Bones (TV series)
  Bones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...
  
  
• Jack O'Brien (born June 18, 1939) is an American director, producer, writer and lyricist and a three time Tony
  Tony
  Tony is a male name. It can be a short form of Anthony or Antonio. It may refer to:* Anthony , includes a list of people with this name* Kawasaki Ki-61, a Japanese WWII-era fighter aircraft, code-named "Tony"...
  
   winner.
• Eren Ozker
  Eren Ozker
  Eren Ozker was a Turkish American Puppeteer. She was one of the original performers during the first season of Jim Henson's popular television series, The Muppet Show....
  
   (1970), puppeteer and Muppet performer
• Martin Pakledinaz
  Martin Pakledinaz
  Martin Pakledinaz is an American costume designer for stage and film.He won his Tony Awards for designing the costumes of Thoroughly Modern Millie and the 2000 revival of Kiss Me Kate, which also earned him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design.He worked on the 1995 production of...
  
  , (MFA 1976) and two-time Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
   winner.
• David Paymer
  David Paymer
  David Paymer is an American actor and television director, seen in such films as Quiz Show, Searching for Bobby Fischer, City Slickers, Crazy People, State and Main, Payback, Get Shorty, Carpool, The American President, Ocean's Thirteen, and Drag Me to Hell...
  
  , (BA 1975) character actor (Carpool
  Carpool (film)
  Carpool is a 1996 comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring David Paymer and Tom Arnold.-Plot:Workaholic advertising executive of Bauer & Cole, Daniel Miller , has an important business meeting, but finds himself having to drive the neighborhood carpool for his sons, Bucky Miller and...
  
  , Get Shorty
  Get Shorty
  Get Shorty is a 1990 novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard. In 1995, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name.-Plot summary:...
  
  )
• Jean Peters
  Jean Peters
  Jean Peters was an American actress, known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s and as the second wife of Howard Hughes...
  
   (October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000) was an American actress.
• Gilda Radner
  Gilda Radner
  Gilda Susan Radner was an American comedian and actress, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978.-Early life:...
  
  , (BA 1970), actress and comedian, best known for her work on Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
  
  
• Ted Raimi
  Ted Raimi
  Theodore "Ted"/"Half Ted" Raimi is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles as Lieutenant Tim O'Neill in seaQuest DSV and Joxer the Mighty in Xena: Warrior Princess/Hercules: The Legendary Journeys...
  
  , (BA 1983), actor, best known for his work on seaQuest DSV
  SeaQuest DSV
  seaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it was renamed seaQuest 2032. Set in "the near future", seaQuest mixes high drama with realistic scientific fiction...
  
   and Xena: Warrior Princess
  Xena: Warrior Princess
  Xena: Warrior Princess is an American–New Zealand supernatural fantasy adventure series that aired in syndication from September 4, 1995 until June 18, 2001....
  
  .
• Joey Richter
  Joey Richter
  Joseph Michael "Joey" Richter is an American actor, singer, and internet personality. Richter rose to fame co-starring as Ron Weasley in the fan-parody musicals, A Very Potter Musical and A Very Potter Sequel , created by University of Michigan theatre group, Team StarKid...
  
   (BFA 2011), Actor and singer, as well as a member of Team StarKid
  Team StarKid
  StarKid Productions, also known as Team StarKid, is a student-created theatre production troupe formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, founded in 2009 by theatre students at the University of Michigan...
  
  
• William Russ
  William Russ
  William Russ is an American actor, best known for his role as Alan Matthews on Boy Meets World.-Early life:Russ was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, and is the son of a naval officer...
  
  , actor, best known for his role as the father on Boy Meets World
  Boy Meets World
  Boy Meets World is an American comedy-drama series that chronicles the events and everyday life lessons of Cory Matthews, played by Ben Savage, a kid from suburban Philadelphia who grows up from a young boy to a married man. The show aired for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000 on ABC, part of the...
  
  
• Ellen Sandweiss
  Ellen Sandweiss
  Ellen Sandweiss is an American B-movie actress. She has also performed in musical theatre as a dancer and pop singer, and in a one-woman show of Jewish music....
  
   (born December 30, 1958) (MA in Theatre Management) is an American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   B-movie actress. She has also performed in musical theatre
  Musical theatre
  Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
  
   as a dancer and pop
  Pop music
  Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
  
   singer, and in a one-woman show of Jewish music
• Martha Scott
  Martha Scott
  Martha Ellen Scott was an American actress best known for her roles as mother of the lead character in numerous films and television shows.-Early life:...
  
  , actor, Our Town
  Our Town
  Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives...
  
   (Academy award nomination), The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur
  Ben-Hur (1959 film)
  Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic film directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston in the title role, the third film adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay was written by Karl Tunberg, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Fry. The score was composed by...
  
  .
• Douglas Sills
  Douglas Sills
  -Life and career:Born in Detroit, Michigan, he grew up in the suburb of Franklin, where he was friends with both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. Sills attended Cranbrook School, from which he graduated in 1978, and the University of Michigan where he majored in music...
  
   (born July 5, 1960) is an American actor.
• Randy and Jason Sklar (born January 12, 1972), professionally known as the Sklar Brothers, are American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   identical twin comedians.
• Team StarKid
  Team StarKid
  StarKid Productions, also known as Team StarKid, is a student-created theatre production troupe formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, founded in 2009 by theatre students at the University of Michigan...
  
  , the cast and creators of YouTube sensation, A Very Potter Musical
  A Very Potter Musical
  A Very Potter Musical is a musical with music and lyrics by Darren Criss and A.J. Holmes, and a book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden...
  
  .
• Jennifer Laura Thompson
  Jennifer Laura Thompson
  Jennifer Laura Thompson is an American stage actress and singer. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan and graduated in 1991....
  
  , (BFA 1991), Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
  -nominated actress, former Galinda in the broadway musical, Wicked
  Wicked (musical)
  Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...
  
  .
• Kapila Vatsyayan
  Kapila Vatsyayan
  Kapila Vatsyayan is a leading Indian scholar of classical Indian dance and Indian art and architecture.Vatsyayan received her M.A. from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. from the Banaras Hindu University. She is the author of many books including The Square and the Circle of Indian Arts,...
  
   (M.A.), Indian arts scholar, founder/director of Indira Kalakendra
  Indira Kalakendra
  Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi is the premier government funded arts organization in India, as an autonomous institution under the Union Ministry of Culture. Established in the memory of Indira Gandhi, late Indian Prime Minister, and with Kapila Vatsyayan as its founding...
  
  .
• James Wolk
  James Wolk
  James Joseph Wolk , also credited as Jimmy Wolk, is an American actor, known for his roles in the 2010 series Lone Star and the film You Again.-Career:...
  
   (BFA 2007)(born James Joseph Wolk; March 22, 1985) is an American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   actor
  Actor
  An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
  
  , best known for his role as Brad Cohen
  Brad Cohen
  Brad Cohen is an American motivational speaker and an award-winning teacher and author who has severe Tourette syndrome . Cohen described his experiences growing up with the condition in his book, Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had, co-authored with Lisa Wysocky...
  
   in Hallmark Hall of Fame
  Hallmark Hall of Fame
  Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The second longest-running television program in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2011...
  
  ’s Front of the Class.

Directors/producers/screenwriters

• Rowland Barber author of "Harpo Speaks", "The Night They Raided Minsky", and "Somebody Up There Likes Me"
• Carlo Bernard, one of the principal writers of the Prince of Persia
  Prince of Persia
  Prince of Persia is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner and released in 1989 for the Apple II, that represented a great leap forward in the quality of animation seen in video games....
  
  : The Sands of Time, a 2010 fantasy-adventure film
• John Briley
  John Briley
  John Richard Briley is an American writer best known for screenplays of biopics. He won the Academy Award For Best Original Screenplay at the 1982 Oscars for Gandhi...
  
  , (BA 1951, MA 1952), was a screenwriter/novelist of “Gandhi
  Gandhi (film)
  Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Ben Kingsley as Gandhi. They both...
  
  .”
• Herbert Brodkin, (BA 1924), was a TV producer for The Defenders, Playhouse 90, Sakharov, Skokie and Holocaust.
• Forman Brown
  Forman Brown
  Forman Brown was one of the world's leaders in puppet theatre in his day, as well as an important early gay novelist. He was a member of the Yale Puppeteers and the driving force behind Turnabout Theatre. He was born in Otsego, Michigan, in 1901 and died in 1996, two days after his 95th birthday...
  
   (BA 1922) Forman's Yale Puppeteers, which he established upon graduating from University of Michigan, opened a puppet theatre in Los Angeles in the 1920s which attracted celebrity attention and support from some of Hollywood's biggest names, i.e. Greta Garbo, Marie Dressler, and Douglas Fairbanks, as well as other notable figures including Albert Einstein.
• Hal Cooper
  Hal Cooper
  Harold Wallace Cooper was a Canadian ice hockey player who played eight games with the New York Rangers during the 1944-45 NHL season. He was 5'5" tall and weighed 155 lbs. He also played in the American Hockey League for the Providence Reds and the Hershey Bears and also in the United...
  
  , (BA 1946), was a TV producer/director for “Maude,” “Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Mayberry RFD,” “That Girl,” “I Dream of Jeannie” and “Empty Nest.”
• Valentine Davies
  Valentine Davies
  Valentine Davies was an American film and television writer, producer, and director. His credits included Miracle on 34th Street , Chicken Every Sunday , The Bridges at Toko-Ri , and The Benny Goodman Story...
  
  , (BA 1927), was a screenwriter for “Miracle on 34th Street.”
• Drew Dowdle, producer, writer and director: Devil
  Devil (film)
  Devil is a 2010 American supernatural horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle and written by Brian Nelson based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan. The film stars Chris Messina, Bojana Novakovic, Bokeem Woodbine, Logan Marshall-Green, Jenny O'Hara and Geoffrey Arend...
  
   (2010),Quarantine (2008),The Poughkeepsie Tapes
  The Poughkeepsie Tapes
  The Poughkeepsie Tapes is a mockumentary directed by John Erick Dowdle and stars Bobbi Sue Luther, Samantha Robson and Ivar Brogger.-Plot:...
  
   (2007), brother of John Dowdle
  John Erick Dowdle
  John Erick Dowdle is a U.S. director, producer, screenwriter, and editor.-Early life:Dowdle grew up in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. After graduating from the St. Thomas Academy, an all-boys, military, Catholic high school, Dowdle moved to Iowa City, Iowa to attend the University of Iowa. There he...
  
  
• Marc Earlbaum, (BA) Director of Cafe
  Cafe (2010 film)
  Café is a 2010 independent drama film directed by Marc Erlbaum. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alexa Vega and Jamie Kennedy, who was Hewitt's boyfriend at the time of filming.-Plot:...
  
  , released in 2010
• Jon Glaser
  Jon Glaser
  Jonathan Daniel "Jon" Glaser is an American actor, comedian and television writer based out of New York City. A graduate of the University of Michigan where he performed in the sketch comedy troupes Comedy Company and Just Kidding with Jon Hein, he is a five-time Emmy nominee with the writing...
  
  , (BA) writer, comedian
• Jonathan Glickman
  Jonathan Glickman
  Jonathan Glickman is an American film producer and the President of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picutres Film Division.-Personal life and education:...
  
  , (BA 1991), President of Spyglass Entertainment
  Spyglass Entertainment
  Spyglass Entertainment is an American film production company, co-founded by Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum in 1998. The studio was founded with an investment from European media conglomerates Kirch Group and Mediaset, and a five-year distribution deal with The Walt Disney Company...
  
   and producer of Rush Hour (1998 film) series.
• Gary Hardwick, (BA 1982), is a novelist and filmmaker of “Deliver Us From Eva.” Hardwick wrote the screenplay and directed the romantic comedy, which starred LL Cool J.
• Adam Herz
  Adam Herz
  Adam Herz is an American screenwriter and producer. He founded the production company Terra Firma Films in 2003 with a first-look deal at Universal Studios....
  
  , writer and producer of American Pie
  American Pie (film)
  American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film written by Adam Herz. American Pie was the directorial film debut of brothers Paul and Chris Weitz, and the first film in the American Pie film series...
  
  
• Max Hodge
  Max Hodge
  Max Hodge was an American television writer who worked on shows including The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., CHiPS and Mission: Impossible, and is perhaps best known for creating Mr. Freeze for Batman....
  
  , (BA 1939), was a TV writer for “Wild, Wild West,” “Mission Impossible,” “Marcus Welby” and “The Waltons.”
• Lawrence Kasdan
  Lawrence Kasdan
  Lawrence Edward "Larry" Kasdan is an American film producer, director and screenwriter.-Life and career:Kasdan was born in Miami, Florida, the son of Sylvia Sarah , an employment counselor, and Clarence Norman Kasdan, who managed retail electronics stores.His Brother is the writer/producer Mark...
  
  , (BA 1970, MA 1972), studied creative writing and won four Hopwood Award
  Hopwood Award
  The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood.Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the Class of 1905 of The University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the...
  
  s. Best known for his work on the Star Wars films, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and on Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...
  
  .
• Aviva Kempner
  Aviva Kempner
  Aviva Kempner is an American filmmaker. Her documentaries investigate non-stereotypical images of Jews in history and focus on the untold stories of Jewish heroes. She is most well known for The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg....
  
   (A.B.) director and screenwriter
• Maryam Keshavarz
  Maryam Keshavarz
  Maryam Keshavarz is Iranian-American filmmaker.Keshavarz studied Persian literature at the University of Shiraz before turning to filmmaking. She has a B.A...
  
   (M.A.) filmmaker
• David Levien
  David Levien
  David Levien is an American screenwriter, novelist, director, and producer. Best known as the co-writer of Ocean's Thirteen, and Rounders Levien has also produced films such as The Illusionist and The Lucky Ones....
  
  , (BA 1989), co-wrote and co-directed “The Knockaround Guys,” a movie about the sons of New York gangsters. Levien also co-wrote the poker movie “Rounders,” which starred Matt Damon.
• Marian Mercer
  Marian Mercer
  Marian Ethel Mercer was an American actress and singer.Born in Akron, Ohio, she graduated from the University of Michigan, then spent several seasons working in summer stock. She made her Broadway debut in the chorus of the short-lived musical, Greenwillow in 1960...
  
   played role of Nancy Beebe on It's a Living; Tony 1968 for Promises, Promises; Empty Nest Ursula Dietz (1992–94); It's a Living Nancy Beebe (1980–89); St. Elsewhere Eve Leighton (1983–86); Out on a Limb (4-Sep-1992) ; Murder in Three Acts (30-Sep-1986) ;Nine to Five (19-Dec-1980) ; Oh, God! Book II (3-Oct-1980) ; John and Mary (14-Dec-1969)
• John Nelson, a special effects expert, has worked on films ranging from The Pelican Brief
  The Pelican Brief
  The Pelican Brief is a legal-suspense thriller written by John Grisham in 1992. The hardcover edition was published by Doubleday in that same year. Two paperback editions were published, both by Dell Publishing in 1993...
  
  , In the Line of Fire
  In the Line of Fire
  In the Line of Fire is a 1993 American thriller film about a disillusioned and obsessed former CIA agent who attempts to assassinate the President of the United States and the Secret Service agent who tracks him...
  
  , I, Robot
  I, Robot
  I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950 in an edition of 5,000 copies. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. The stories are...
  
   and Iron Man
  Iron Man
  Iron Man is a fictional character, a superhero in the . The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby, first appearing in Tales of Suspense #39 .A billionaire playboy, industrialist and ingenious engineer,...
  
   to Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr.. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, and Edward Furlong...
  
  . Nelson has won an Oscar for his work on Sir Ridley Scott's Gladiator
  Gladiator
  A gladiator was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their legal and social standing and their lives by appearing in the...
  
  .
• David Newman
  David Newman (filmmaker)
  David Newman was an American filmmaker. From the late 1960s through the early 1980s he frequently collaborated with Robert Benton. He was married to fellow writer Leslie Newman, with whom he had two children, until the time of his death...
  
  , (BA 1958, MA 1959), was a screenwriter for Superman I, II, III, Bonnie & Clyde, What's Up Doc? and Still of the Night.
• Leslie Newman
  Leslie Newman
  Leslie Newman is a screenwriter who co-wrote the first three Superman films with husband David Newman, who died in 2003. They had two children together...
  
  , (BA 1958), was a screenwriter for Superman.
• Jeff Marx
  Jeff Marx
  Jeff Marx is a composer and lyricist of musicals. He is best known for creating the Broadway musical Avenue Q with collaborator Robert Lopez.- Early life :...
  
  , (BA 1993), is a composer and lyricist of musicals. He is best known for creating the Broadway musical Avenue Q with collaborator Robert Lopez. Together, they wrote the show’s 21 songs.
• David Murray
  David Murray
  David Murray may refer to:In politics and society*David Murray, 1st Viscount of Stormont *David Murray, 4th Viscount of Stormont *Sir David Murray, 2nd Baronet *David Murray, 5th Viscount of Stormont...
  
  , (BA 1990), had his film Livermore shown nationwide on the PBS series “Independent Lens.”
• Dudley Nichols
  Dudley Nichols
  Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter who first came to prominence after winning and refusing the screenwriting Oscar for The Informer in 1936....
  
  , (MDNG: 1914-1917), was a screenwriter for For Whom the Bell Tolls, Stagecoach, the Oscar
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   winning The Informer, and Bringing up Baby
• Jack O'Brien
  Jack O'Brien (director)
  Jack O'Brien is an American director, producer, writer and lyricist. He served as the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California from 1981 through the end of 2007....
  
  , (AB 1961, MA 1962), is a Broadway producer of "The Full Monty" and "Hairspray," for which he won a Tony in 2003. He also was the producer of "His Girl Friday" in London for the National Theatre of Great Britain.
• Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
  Justin Paul
  -Biography:Justin was raised in Connecticut and attended Music Theatre of Connecticut School of Performing Arts in Westport, CT as well as Staples High School in Westport, CT. He graduated from the University of Michigan in December 2006 with a BFA in Musical Theatre.He is the co-creator of the...
  
   (BFAs 2006) - American musical theatre writing team.
• Scott Petersen, (BA 1992), filmed a documentary called “Scrabylon,” set primarily at the 2001 World Scrabble Championships in Las Vegas.
• John Rich
  John Rich (director)
  John Rich is a film and television director. He directed such television shows as Where's Raymond?, Mister Ed, The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude, Good Times, Barney Miller, Newhart, Benson, The Brady Bunch, and Gilligan's Island...
  
  , (BA 1948, MA 1949), was a producer for Maude
  Maude (TV series)
  Maude was an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978.Maude starred Beatrice Arthur as Maude Findlay, an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York with...
  
  , That Girl
  That Girl
  That Girl is an American television situation comedy that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character, Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who had moved from her hometown of Brewster, New York to make it big in New York City...
  
  , Mayberry RFD, and MacGyver
  MacGyver
  MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The series was filmed in Los Angeles...
  
  
• Allen Rucker
  Allen Rucker
  Allen Rucker is an American writer and author. Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, he earned a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis , an M.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan , and another M.A...
  
  , writer and television producer
• Todd Samovitz, (BA 1989), is co-author of the screenplay “Wonderland”
• Jeffrey Seller
  Jeffrey Seller
  Jeffrey Seller is an American theatrical producer. He is the winner of three Tony Awards for Best Musical: Rent , which also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Avenue Q ; and In the Heights...
  
  , (BA 1986), is a Broadway producer and three-time Tony Award winner for Best Musical (Rent
  Rent (musical)
  Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème...
  
   in 1996, Avenue Q
  Avenue Q
  Avenue Q is a musical in two acts, conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics. The book was written by Jeff Whitty and the show was directed by Jason Moore and produced by Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, and Jeffrey Seller...
  
   in 2004, and In the Heights
  In the Heights
  In the Heights is a musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story explores three days in the characters' lives in the New York City Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights....
  
   in 2008).
• Robert Shaye
  Robert Shaye
  Robert Kenneth Shaye , often referred to as Bob Shaye, is an American businessman, film producer, director and actor.-Early life:...
  
   (BUS: BBA 1960) - Founder and Co-Chairman, New Line Cinema
  New Line Cinema
  New Line Cinema, often simply referred to as New Line, is an American film studio. It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne as a film distributor, later becoming an independent film studio. It became a subsidiary of Time Warner in 1996 and was merged with larger sister studio Warner...
  
  . Produced The Lord of the Rings
  The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
  The Lord of the Rings is an epic film trilogy consisting of three fantasy adventure films based on the three-volume book of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers and The Return of the King .The films were directed by Peter...
  
   trilogy. Initially ridiculed for backing the costly fantasy trilogy—it was easily the most expensive project New Line had ever undertaken— Shaye laughed all the way to the bank. The franchise racked up $2.92 billion at the box office, took home 17 Academy Awards
• Chris Smith, (MA 2000), co-produced the Antwone Fisher
  Antwone Fisher
  Antwone Quenton Fisher is an American director, screenwriter, author and film producer. His 2001 autobiographical book Finding Fish is a New York Times Best Seller...
  
   movie.
• Ron Sproat
  Ron Sproat
  Ronald Sproat was an American screenwriter and playwright known for Dark Shadows.He was openly gay.-Career:...
  
   (MA) created character Barnabas Collins
  Barnabas Collins
  Barnabas Collins is a fictional character, one of the feature characters in the ABC daytime serial Dark Shadows, which aired from 1966 to 1971. Originally played by Canadian actor Jonathan Frid, Barnabas Collins is a 200-year-old vampire who is in search of fresh blood and his lost love, Josette...
  
   in Dark Shadows
  Dark Shadows
  Dark Shadows is a gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis. The story bible, which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements...
  
  
• Roger L. Stevens
  Roger L. Stevens
  Roger Lacey Stevens was an American theatrical producer, arts administrator, and a real estate executive. He is the founding Chairman of both the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts , and National Endowment for the Arts .Born in Detroit, Michigan, Stevens was educated at The Choate School in...
  
  , (MDNG: 1928-1930, HLLD 1964), was a stage producer for West Side Story, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Man for All Seasons and Annie.

Fiction/non-fiction

• Megan Abbott
  Megan Abbott
  Megan Abbott is an American author of crime fiction and of a non-fiction analysis of hardboiled crime fiction and a graduate of the University of Michigan. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing, with a female twist. She has stated that she...
  
   (B.A.) is a US author of crime fiction
  Crime fiction
  Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...
  
   and of a non-fiction analysis of hardboiled
  Hardboiled
  Hardboiled crime fiction is a literary style, most commonly associated with detective stories, distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sex. The style was pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined...
  
   crime fiction. She won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Award
  Edgar Award
  The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...
  
   in 2008 for Queenpin
• Saladin Ahmed
  Saladin Ahmed
  Saladin Ahmed is an Arab-American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. He has been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award and the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. His fiction has been published in book anthologies and magazines such as Strange Horizons, Orson Scott Card's...
  
  , science fiction and fantasy author, poet.
• Ellen Airgood, whose debut novel is South of Superior
• Arthur Bahr, (BA 1969), Wrote Certifiably Insane, nominated for and Edgar Allan Poe Award for best new Author in 1999
• Philip Breitmeyer
  Philip Breitmeyer
  Philip Breitmeyer was a florist, one of the founders of Florists' Telegraph Delivery , and the mayor of Detroit, Michigan.-Biography:...
  
  , (AB 1947), wrote Lightening Ridge! Further Adventures of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
• Meg Waite Clayton
  Meg Waite Clayton
  Meg Waite Clayton is the bestselling author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, The Wednesday Sisters, and The Language of Light. Clayton's first novel, The Language of Light, was a finalist for Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize. Her novel The Wednesday Sisters became a national bestseller and a...
  
   (LAW: JD) Clayton's first novel, The Language of Light, was a finalist for Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize. Her novel The Wednesday Sisters became a national bestseller and a book club favorite.
• Jennifer Coburn, (AB 1988), wrote The Wife of Reilly,Reinventing Mona, "Tales From the Crib" and "The Queen Gene".
• KC Frederick, (AB 1956, MA 1958, PhD 1963), wrote Accomplices.
• Underwood Dudley
  Underwood Dudley
  Underwood Dudley is a mathematician, formerly of DePauw University, who has written a number of research works and textbooks but is best known for his popular writing. Most notable are several books describing crank mathematics by people who think they have squared the circle or done other...
  
  , (PhD 1965), is a native of New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  . Is known for his popular writing about crank
  Crank (person)
  "Crank" is a pejorative term used for a person who unshakably holds a belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false. A "cranky" belief is so wildly at variance with commonly accepted belief as to be ludicrous...
  
   mathematics.
• Elizabeth Ehrlich
  Elizabeth Ehrlich
  Elizabeth Potok is an American Jewish author. Her works include Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir and a biography of Nellie Bly. She was born in Detroit, and currently lives in Westchester County, New York. She has also taught at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.-External links:*...
  
  , wrote Miriam's Kitchen.
• Terry Gamble (AB 1977), wrote The Water Dancers, a novel set in northern Michigan.
• Thomas Grace, Jr., (AB 1984 , M.ARCH'86), is a best-selling author of the adventure thrillers Spyder Web, Quantum Web, Twisted Web, Bird of Prey and Cause of Death.
• Ann Hagedorn, (MALS 1975), wrote Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad.
• Steve Hamilton
  Steve Hamilton (author)
  Steve Hamilton is an American writer of detective fiction. He was born January 10, 1961 and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated in 1983 from the University of Michigan where he won the Hopwood Award for fiction. -Works:...
  
  , (AB 1983), wrote Blood is the Sky, an Alex McKnight mystery set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. His 1999 novel A Cold Day in Paradise won an Edgar Award. His 2010 novel The Lock Artist won him a second Edgar Award
  Edgar Award
  The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...
  
  , this time for Best Novel. With this second win, Hamilton joins only 4 other authors who have won the award twice.
• Hervie Haufler, (AB 1941), is the author of Codebreakers' Victory: How the Allied Cryptographers Won World War II.
• Joyce Henry, (AB 1948), is the author of Beat the Bard: What's Your Shakespeare IQ?
• Raelynn Hillhouse
  Raelynn Hillhouse
  Raelynn Hillhouse is an American national security and Intelligence Community analyst, former smuggler during the Cold War, and a spy novelist.-Personal history:...
  
   (HHRS: MA, PHD 1993): writes spy novelist and is also a noted national security expert and blogger (The Spy Who Billed Me), and political scientist.
• Kathryn Lasky
  Kathryn Lasky
  Kathryn Lasky is an American author whose work includes several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.-Biography:...
  
  , (BA 1966), acclaimed children's author and non-fiction writer.
• Ross Macdonald
  Ross Macdonald
  Not to be confused with John D. MacDonaldRoss Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar...
  
  , (MA 1942, PhD 1952), wrote the Lew Archer Mystery Series.
• Brad Meltzer
  Brad Meltzer
  Brad Meltzer is a bestselling American political thriller novelist, non-fiction writer, TV show creator and award-winning comic book author.-Early life:...
  
  , (AB 1992), has written The Zero Game, The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel and The Millionaires.
• Walter Miller
  Walter Miller (philologist)
  Samuel Walter Miller, LL. D., Litt. D. was an American linguist, Classics scholar and archaeologist responsible for the first American excavation in Greece and a founder of the Stanford University Classics department....
  
  , (MA 1844), was a Classics scholar and the first to translate the Ilad into English in the native dactylic hexameter.
• Davi Napoleon
  Davi Napoleon
  Davi Napoleon, aka Davida Skurnick is an American theater historian and critic. She is a theater columnist for The Faster Times, an online newspaper, and a regular contributor to Live Design, a monthly magazine about entertainment design and designers...
  
  , (AB 1966, AM 1968), wrote Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater.
• Preeta Samarasan
  Preeta Samarasan
  Preeta Samarasan Malaysian author writing in English whose first novel, Evening Is the Whole Day, won the Hopwood Novel Award , was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009, and was on the longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction....
  
   (MFA 2006), wrote Evening is the Whole Day.
• Hubert Skidmore
  Hubert Skidmore
  Hubert Skidmore was an American author. His twin brother was novelist Hobert Skidmore, and he was married to the novelist Maritta Wolff, author of Whistle Stop and a fellow student at the University of Michigan, in 1942. He died in a house fire in 1946...
  
  , Mr. Skidmore had written six novels by the time he was 30, including Hawk's Nest, about an industrial accident in West Virginia. Married to Maritta Wolff
  Maritta Wolff
  -Biography:She was born on December 25, 1918 in born in Grass Lake, Jackson County, Michigan. She grew up on her grandparents' farm and attended a one-room country school. Wolff was a senior at the University of Michigan when she wrote a novel-length story for an English composition class that won...
  
  .
• Ellen Slezak, (AB 1980), wrote Last Year's Jesus: A Novella and Nine Stories.
• Gilbert Snider, (MD 1975, Mdres 1981), wrote the medical thriller entitled Brain Warp.
• Richard Stewart, (AB 1952, MD 1955, Mdres 1961, MPHIH 1962), wrote Leper Priest of Moloka'i: The Father Damien Story.
• Robert Traver, (JD 1928), pen name for John D. Voelker, wrote Anatomy of a Murder.
• Juliet Winters Carpenter
  Juliet Winters Carpenter
  Juliet Winters Carpenter is an American translator of modern Japanese literature. Born in the American Midwest, she studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan and the Inter-University Centre for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo...
  
  , (BA, MA (1976)), Award Winning Translator of Japanese, Numerous Books
• Maritta Wolff
  Maritta Wolff
  -Biography:She was born on December 25, 1918 in born in Grass Lake, Jackson County, Michigan. She grew up on her grandparents' farm and attended a one-room country school. Wolff was a senior at the University of Michigan when she wrote a novel-length story for an English composition class that won...
  
   (B.A. 1940) Author of Whistle Stop, called by Sinclair Lewis
  Sinclair Lewis
  Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of...
  
  "the most important novel of the year." Ms. Wolff also authored: About Lyddy Thomas (1947), Back of Town (1952), The Big Nickelodeon (1956) and Buttonwood (1962).

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