List of University of Michigan arts alumni

This is a list of arts-related alumni from the University of Michigan.

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Academic unit key
SymbolAcademic unit
ARCHTaubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
BUSRoss School of Business
COECollege of Engineering
DENTSchool of Dentistry
GFSPPGerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
HHRSHorace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
LAWLaw School
LSACollege of LS&A
MEDMedical School
SMTDSchool of Music, Theatre and Dance
PHARMSchool of Pharmacy
SEDSchool of Education
SNRESchool of Natural Resources
SOADThe Stamps School of Art & Design
SOISchool of Information
SONSchool of Nursing
SOKSchool of Kinesiology
SOSWSchool of Social Work
SPHSchool of Public Health
MDNGMatriculated, did not graduate

Art, architecture, and design

Arts and entertainment

Alumni lives in film

Dance

Directors, producers, and screenwriters

National Medal of the Arts

Emmy award
Further information: Emmy Award

Collectively, as of 2017, 29 Michigan alumni have won 81 Emmy awards.

Golden Globe Award winners
  • Darren Criss, is an American actor, singer and songwriter who won in 2019.
  • Gary Gilbert (born 1965), film producer and the founder and president of Gilbert Films
  • James Earl Jones (born 1931), actor; career has spanned more than 60 years
  • Jeff Levy-Hinte (a.k.a. Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte), film producer; President of Antidote International Films
  • Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone; born 1958), singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman
  • Pasek and Paul (Benj Pasek and Justin Paul), songwriting duo and composing team for musical theater, films, and television
  • Christine Lahti (born 1950), actress, filmmaker, two-time Golden Globe winner
  • John Rich (1925–2012), film and television director

Grammy Award winners
Further information: Grammy Award
  • George Crumb (D.M.A.) (born 1929), composer of avant-garde music; winner of a Grammy and a Pulitzer prize
  • Chip Davis (B.A.) (born 1947), founder and leader of Mannheim Steamroller
  • John M. Eargle (M.A.) (1931–2007), Oscar and Grammy-winning audio engineer; musician
  • David Effron (B.A.), conductor and educator
  • Gabriela Lena Frank (D.M.A.) (born 1972), pianist and composer of contemporary classical music
  • Joe Henry (B.A.) (born 1960), singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer; has released 13 studio albums and produced multiple recordings for other artists, including three Grammy Award-winning albums
  • Bob James (M.A.) (born 1939), multiple Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer
  • James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931), actor; career has spanned more than 60 years; has won three Grammys
  • Fred LaBour (M.A.) (born 1948), better known by his stage name Too Slim; Grammy award-winning musician, best known for his work with the Western swing musical and comedy group Riders in the Sky
  • Madonna (MDNG) (born 1958), singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman; referred to as the "Queen of Pop" since the 1980s; seven-time Grammy award winner
  • Jessye Norman (MUSIC: MMUS 1968; HSCD 1987), opera and concert singer and 4 time Grammy winner
  • Pasek and Paul, musical duo
  • Gilda Radner (1946–1989), comedian, actress, and one of seven original cast members of SNL
  • Christopher Rouse (University of Michigan fellow) (born 1949), composer
  • Jennifer Laura Thompson (B.F.A. 1991) is an American actress and singer.
  • Don Was (MDNG) (born 1952), musician, record producer and record executive; winner of three Grammy awards

Tony Award winners
Further information: Tony Award
  • Celia Keenan-Bolger (born January 26, 1978) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for portraying Scout Finch in the successful play To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Gavin James Creel (born 1976), actor, singer, and songwriter; best known for his work in musical theatre; received a Tony Award for his performance as Cornelius Hackl in Hello, Dolly!
  • Gregory Jbara (born 1961), film, television and stage actor, and singer
  • James Earl Jones (born 1931), actor; career has spanned more than 60 years
  • Michael L. Maguire (born 1955), actor, best known for his role as Enjolras in the original Broadway production of the musical Les Misérables; this role won him a Tony Award in 1987
  • Jeff Marx (born 1970), composer and lyricist of musicals; winner of two Tony Awards
  • Marian Ethel Mercer (1935–2011), actress and singer
  • Arthur Asher Miller (1915–2005), playwright, essayist, and figure in twentieth-century American theater
  • Jack O'Brien (born 1939), director, producer, writer and lyricist is a winner of three Tony Awards
  • Martin Pakledinaz (1953–2012), costume designer for stage and film; winner of two Tony Awards
  • Pasek and Paul, known together as Pasek and Paul, are an American songwriting duo and composing team for musical theater, films, and television
  • Jeffrey Seller (BA 1986), Broadway producer; three-time Tony Award winner for Best Musical (Rent 1996, Avenue Q 2004, and In the Heights 2008) and, most recently, Hamilton
  • James D. Stern, film and Broadway producer; won a 2003 Tony Award for Hairspray

Graphic arts

Music

Academy Award nominees and winners
Further information: Academy Awards
  • John Briley (BA 1951, MA 1952), won Academy Award For Best Original Screenplay, Gandhi
  • Valentine Davies, film and television writer, producer, and director; Miracle on 34th Street earned him an Academy Award for Best Story
  • Charles Crawford Davis (COE: 1916), won 1948 Oscar for his invention of the Davis Drive System, a system for merging sound with pictures and driving the film through movie cameras and projectors
  • Michael Dunn (MDNG), nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 1966 for Ship of Fools
  • John M. Eargle (MM 1954), Oscar and Grammy-winning audio engineer; musician (piano, church and theater organ)
  • Michael Epstein (BArch); also winner of two George Foster Peabody Awards, an Emmy, and a Writers Guild Award
  • Gary Gilbert (BBA), The Kids Are All Right (nominated for Best Picture); producer; founder and president of Gilbert Films
  • James Earl Jones (BFA 1955), actor; the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies; winner of two Tony Awards and an honorary Oscar
  • Lawrence Edward "Larry" Kasdan (MA), The Big Chill (nominated, screenplay), Grand Canyon (nominated, screenplay), The Accidental Tourist (nominated, screenplay; Best Picture); Grand Canyon won the Golden Bear at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
  • Christine Lahti (BFA 1972), actress; winner of the Academy Award, an Emmy, and two Golden Globe awards
  • Kurt Luedtke, Out of Africa (winner – Writing Adapted Screenplay)
  • Arthur Miller (BA 1938), nominated for The Crucible; the play was adapted for film twice, by Jean-Paul Sartre as the 1957 film Les Sorcières de Salem and by Miller himself as the 1996 film The Crucible; his adaptation earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay based on Previously Produced Material, his only nomination
  • John Nelson, Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects for Gladiator and Blade Runner 2049
  • Dudley Nichols, nominated for Best Screenplay for The Long Voyage Home in 1941, for Best Original Screenplay for Air Force in 1944, and for Best Story and Screenplay (Written Directly for the Screen) for The Tin Star in 1958; he won Best Screenplay for The Informer in 1936, but initially refused the honor due to an ongoing writer's strike
  • Pasek and Paul Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, known together as Pasek and Paul, are an Academy and Tony Award-winning American songwriting duo and composing team for musical theater, films, and television

Talent management

Theatre, film, and television

Writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction
  • Daniel Aaron (BA 1933), 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
  • Megan Abbott (BA), author of crime fiction and of a non-fiction analysis of hardboiled crime fiction; Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2008 for Queenpin
  • Saladin Ahmed (BA), Arab-American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet
  • Uwem Akpan (MFA 2007), Nigerian author; Jesuit priest; won Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and the PEN/Beyond Margins Award for Say You're One of Them
  • Jennifer Allison (BA), author of mystery novels and the Gilda Joyce children's series
  • Olive San Louie Anderson, author of An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys’ College
  • Max Apple (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), and Roommates: My Grandfather's Story (1994, biography of his grandfather)
  • Robert Arthur, Jr. (BA 1930), writer, novelist, editor; created "The Three Investigators" mystery series for young readers and worked on the anthology TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  • Robert Asprin (MDNG: 1964–1965), science fiction and fantasy author
  • Brit Bennett (MFA 2014), author of The Mothers (2016)
  • Kevin Boyle (PhD), author; professor of history; his 2004 book, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, won the National Book Award
  • Sven Birkerts (AB 1973), essayist and author of The Gutenberg Elegies, and son of emeritus faculty member Gunnar Birkerts
  • Philip Breitmeyer (AB 1947), wrote Lightning Ridge! Further Adventures of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Michael Byers (MFA), writer
  • Juliet Winters Carpenter (BA, MA 1976), translator of Japanese, author
  • Meg Waite Clayton (LAW: JD), The Language of Light was a finalist for Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize; The Wednesday Sisters became a national bestseller and a book club favorite
  • James Oliver "Jim" Curwood (MDNG: 1899–1900), action-adventure writer and conservationist
  • Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. (MFA 1988), Filipino writer
  • Underwood Dudley (PhD 1965), known for his popular writing about crank mathematics
  • Elizabeth Ehrlich, wrote Miriam's Kitchen
  • Neal Gabler (LAW: JD) author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (1989), Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity (1994), Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality (1998), and Walt Disney: Triumph of the American Imagination (2006)
  • Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior (1988), Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991), Because They Wanted To (1997) (stories), Veronica (2005)
  • Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. (AB 1933), wrote Cheaper by the Dozen
  • Connie Glaser (MA), author, speaker, and columnist on the topics of women's leadership and communications
  • Josh Greenfeld, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, author of A Child Called Noah trilogy
  • Judith Guest (BA 1959), wrote Ordinary People, later turned into an Academy-Award winning film
  • Cathy Guisewite (BA 1972), author, creator of Cathy comic strip
  • Aaron Hamburger (BA 1995), writer; his short story collection The View from Stalin's Head (2004) was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome; his novel Faith for Beginners (2005) was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award
  • Gabrielle Hamilton (MFA), owner and manager of Prune restaurant in Manhattan; author of Blood Bones and Butter; recipient of the James Beard award for best chef
  • Steve Hamilton (AB 1983), wrote Blood is the Sky, an Alex McKnight mystery; his 1999 novel A Cold Day in Paradise won an Edgar Award; his 2010 novel The Lock Artist won an Edgar for Best Novel; one of only five authors to win the award twice
  • Robert Hayden (MA 1944), Professor of Poetry 1969–1980
  • Raelynn Hillhouse (HHRS: MA, PhD 1993), author of spy novels; national security expert; blogger (The Spy Who Billed Me); political scientist
  • Matthew Hittinger (MFA 2004), author of the poetry collection Skin Shift (2012), and the chapbook Pear Slip (2007); winner of the Spire Press 2006 Chapbook Award
  • James Avery Hopwood (AB 1905), playwright, established the U-M Hopwood Awards; one of the premier playwrights of the jazz age; at one time had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway
  • James Hynes, novelist
  • Randa Jarrar, Palestinian-American novelist, short story writer, and translator
  • Ruth Ward Kahn (BA, 1889), author, lecturer
  • Laura Kasischke (MFA 1987), author and Guggenheim award winner, In a Perfect World, Suspicious River, White Bird in a Blizzard, The Life Before Her Eyes, Boy Heaven, Be Mine, Feathered
  • Jane Kenyon (BA 1970, MA 1972), poet and wife of former Michigan professor Donald Hall, U.S. Poet Laureate
  • Elizabeth Kostova (MFA 2004), writer; her first novel, The Historian, was published in 2005, and has become a best-seller
  • Kathryn Lasky (BA 1966), children's author and nonfiction writer
  • Daniel Lyons (MFA 1992), writer; senior editor at Forbes magazine; writer at Newsweek; editor of ReadWrite
  • Ross Macdonald (MA 1942, PhD 1952), wrote the Lew Archer mystery series
  • Janet Malcolm, 1955, writer for The New Yorker; wrote In the Freud Archives
  • Sebastian Matthews (MFA), poet and writer
  • Thomas McGuane (MDNG), novelist
  • Richelle Mead (BA), bestselling fantasy author
  • Brad Meltzer (BA 1992), wrote The Zero Game, The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, and The Millionaires; creator of TV series Jack and Bobby
  • Walter Miller (MA 1844), classics scholar; first to translate the Iliad into English in the native dactylic hexameter
  • Sara Moulton (BA 1974), author of Sara Moulton Cooks at Home, Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals, and Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners
  • Nami Mun (MFA), Korean American novelist and short story writer
  • Davi Napoleon (AB 1966, AM 1968), wrote Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater
  • Bich Minh Nguyen (MFA), novelist; American Book Award for Short Girls
  • Frank O’Hara (MA 1951); author of A City Winter and Other Poems,Oranges: 12 Pastorals, Second Avenue, Odes, Lunch Poems, Love Poems
  • Patrick O'Keeffe (MFA), winner of the Hopwood Program's Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing for Above the Bar; instructor in U-M's Sweetland Writing Center; won the 2006 Story Prize for The Hill Road; won 2006 Whiting Writers Award
  • Susan Olasky (AB 1975), author
  • Susan Orlean (AB 1976), wrote The Orchid Thief, made into the movie Adaptation
  • John Patric (attended 1924–25), wrote for National Geographic and Reader's Digest in the 1930s and 1940s
  • Otto Penzler, editor of mystery fiction; proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City
  • Marge Piercy (AB 1957), wrote Braided Lives and Fly Away Home; Hopwood Program award winner
  • Elwood Reid, novelist and short story writer
  • Kathryn Reiss (MFA), award-winning author of children's and young adult fiction
  • Paisley Rekdal (MFA), poet
  • Matthew Rohrer (BA), poet and Hopwood Award winner
  • Ari Roth, playwright and artistic director of Theater J
  • Kristen Roupenian (MFA), author of You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories
  • Preeta Samarasan (MFA 2006), wrote Evening is the Whole Day
  • Ruth L. Schwartz (MFA 14985), poet
  • Allen Seager, author, Amos Berry and A Frieze of Girls
  • William Shawn (MDNG: 1925–1927), The New Yorker editor 1952–1987
  • Porter Shreve (MFA), author; professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Purdue University
  • Danez Smith (MFA 2017), poet
  • John Sinclair (BA 1964), poet, one-time manager of the band MC5
  • Hubert Skidmore, had written six novels by the time he was 30, including Hawk's Nest; married to Maritta Wolff
  • Betty Smith (1921–22, 1927, 1931), author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Robert Traver, pen name of John D. Voelker (JD 1928), wrote Anatomy of a Murder
  • Jia Tolentino (MFA 2015), staff writer for The New Yorker and formerly deputy editor of Jezebel and contributing editor at The Hairpin.
  • David Treuer (PhD 1999), writer
  • Chris Van Allsburg (BA 1972), author and illustrator; best known for Jumanji and The Polar Express, both made into films
  • Jesmyn Ward (MFA 2005), author of Where the Line Bleeds (2008); Salvage the Bones (2011); Men We Reaped (2013); and Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017)
  • Edmund White (AB 1962), writer for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker
  • Stewart Edward White (PhD 1895, MA 1903), author
  • Nancy Willard (BA, PhD), 1982 Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn
  • Maritta Wolff (BA 1940), author of Whistle Stop, called by Sinclair Lewis "the most important novel of the year;" also wroteAbout Lyddy Thomas (1947), Back of Town (1952), The Big Nickelodeon (1956) and Buttonwood (1962)
  • Sarah Zettel (BA), science fiction, fantasy, and mystery author

See also
  • Hopwood Program

References
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