Juilliard School Faculty
by Sylviastel | created - 01 Jul 2014 | updated - 01 Jul 2014 | Public
1. Rene Auberjonois
Actor | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
René Murat Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York City, to Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline (Murat), who was born in Paris, and Fernand Auberjonois, who was Swiss-born. René was born into an already artistic family, which included his grandfather, a well-known Swiss ...
2. JoAnne Akalaitis
Director | Dead End Kids
JoAnne Akalaitis was born on June 29, 1937 in Cicero, Illinois, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Dead End Kids (1986), Phedre (2002) and The Iphigenia Cycle (1997).
3. Joseph Alessi
Music_department | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Joseph Alessi is known for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) and Live from Lincoln Center (1976).
4. Nancy Allen
Music_department | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Nancy Allen is known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), A Quiet Place Part II (2020) and Black Swan (2010).
5. Samuel Adler
Location_management | Fast Five
Samuel Adler is known for Fast Five (2011), Second Act (2018) and The Watch (2012).
6. Emanuel Ax
Soundtrack | The Talented Mr. Ripley
Emanuel Ax was born on June 8, 1949 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He is an actor, known for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Horse Whisperer (1998) and The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002). He is married to Yoko Nozaki. They have two children.
7. Milton Babbitt
Music_department | Alice Cooper: (No More) Love at Your Convenience
Milton Babbitt was born on May 10, 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for Alice Cooper: (No More) Love at Your Convenience (1977), Alice Cooper: You and Me (1977) and C'è musica & musica (1972). He was married to Sylvia Babbitt and Sylvia Miller. He died on January 29, ...
8. Jon Robin Baitz
Writer | Brothers & Sisters
Mr. Baitz was born in 1961 in Los Angeles, and grew up there, in Brazil and South Africa. Plays include: "Other Desert Cities", "The Substance of Fire", "A Fair Country", and "Ten Unknowns", (All produced at Lincoln Center), The Paris Letter", "The Film Society", "Mizlansky/Zilinsky" and "Three ...
9. Julius Baker
Julius Baker was born on September 23, 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is known for New York Stories (1989), Lovesick (1983) and Great Performances (1971). He was married to Ruth. He died on August 6, 2003 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
10. Brian Bedford
Actor | Nixon
Brian Bedford was born on February 16, 1935 in Morley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Nixon (1995), Robin Hood (1973) and Grand Prix (1966). He was married to Tim MacDonald. He died on January 13, 2016 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
11. Henry Brant
Music_department | Good Morning, Vietnam
Henry Brant was born on September 15, 1913 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a composer, known for Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Louisiana Story (1948) and The Big Break (1953). He was married to Kathy Wilkowski, Maxine Picard and Patricia Gorman. He died on April 26, 2008 in Santa Barbara, ...
12. Luciano Berio
Soundtrack | La prisonnière
Luciano Berio was born on October 24, 1925 in Oneglia, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and composer, known for Woman in Chains (1968), Metropoli (1983) and Chung Kuo: China (1972). He was married to Talia Pecker, Susan Oyama and Cathy Berberian. He died on May 27, 2003 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
13. Eric Bogosian
Actor | Talk Radio
Eric Bogosian was born in Boston and grew up in Woburn, Massachusetts. After graduating from Woburn Memorial High School in 1971, he attended the University of Chicago and graduated from Oberlin College in 1976, whereupon he moved to New York City. In New York he was hired by the Kitchen as an ...
14. Maria Callas
Soundtrack | Ghost in the Shell
This volatile opera diva was born Sophie Cecilia Kalos in New York City to Greek émigrés on December 2, 1923. Her father set up a pharmacy and changed the family name from Kalogeropoulos to Callas. As a child Maria studied the piano. When her parents separated (she was 14 at the time), her mother ...
15. Elliott Carter
Composer | Tiny Galaxy Concert @ Haw Par
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American Western-classical-music composer who was born in and lived in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, ...
16. Ron Carter
Music_department | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Ron Carter was born on May 4, 1937 in Ferndale, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), House of Gucci (2021) and What Happens in Vegas (2008). He has been married to Quintell Williams since 2012. He was previously married to Janet Hasbrouch.
17. Antonio Ciacca
Composer | Non abbiamo sete di scenografie - la lunga storia della chiesa di Alvar Aalto a Riola
Antonio Ciacca was born on March 14, 1969 in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a composer, known for Non abbiamo sete di scenografie - la lunga storia della chiesa di Alvar Aalto a Riola (2018) and My Main Man. Appunti per un film sul jazz a Bologna (2009).
18. John Corigliano
Composer | Le violon rouge
John Corigliano was born on February 16, 1938 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a composer, known for The Red Violin (1998), Altered States (1980) and Revolution (1985).
19. Alfredo Corvino
20. Colin Davis
Soundtrack | Star Trek: First Contact
Colin Davis was born on September 25, 1927 in Weybridge, Surrey, England, UK. He is known for Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Red Sparrow (2018) and The Big Lebowski (1998). He was married to Ashraf Naini and April Cantelo. He died on April 14, 2013 in London, England, UK.
21. Dorothy Delay
Self | 60 Minutes
Dorothy Delay was born on March 31, 1917 in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, USA. She was married to Edward Newhouse. She died on March 24, 2002 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
22. James DePreist
Soundtrack | Song to Song
James DePreist was born on November 21, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Ginette DePreist and Betty Childress. He died on February 8, 2013 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
23. David Diamond
Composer | Dreams That Money Can Buy
Composer and educator, educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and the New Music School. He studied with Roger Sessions and Nadia Boulanger. He received Elfrida Whiteman, Guggenheim, and National Academy of Arts and Letters grants and Prix de Rome, Paderewski, and...
24. Glenn Dicterow
Music_department | The Turning Point
Glenn Dicterow is known for The Turning Point (1977), Live from Lincoln Center (1976) and The Bell Telephone Hour (1959).
25. Christopher Durang
Actor | The Cowboy Way
Christopher Durang was born on January 2, 1949 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Cowboy Way (1994), The Secret of My Success (1987) and HouseSitter (1992). He was married to John Augustine. He died on April 2, 2024 in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, USA.
26. Sixten Ehrling
Music_department | Det sjunde inseglet
Sixten Ehrling was born on April 3, 1918 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He was a composer, known for The Seventh Seal (1957), Miss Julie (1951) and Tre önskningar (1960). He was married to Gunnel Lindgren-Ehrling. He died on February 13, 2005 in New York City, New York, USA.
27. Simon Estes
Actor | Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Simon Estes was born on February 2, 1938 in Centerville, Iowa, USA. He is an actor, known for Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1980), The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977) and Hello I Must Be Going (2012). He is married to Yvonne Bare. They have three children.
28. Daniel Ferro
Daniel Ferro was born on March 8, 1979 in Bogota, Colombia.
29. Rudolf Firkusny
Self | Rudolf Firkusny
Rudolf Firkusny was born on February 11, 1912 in Napajedla, Morava, Austria-Hungary. He was married to Tatiana Nevolová Firkusný. He died on July 19, 1994 in Staatsburg, New York, USA.
30. Joseph Fuchs
Self | Klingendes Österreich
31. John Guare
Writer | Atlantic City
John Guare was born on February 5, 1938 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Atlantic City (1980), Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and Taking Off (1971).
32. Gerre Hancock
Soundtrack | Reckless
Gerre Hancock was born on February 21, 1934 in Lubbock, Texas, USA. Gerre is known for Reckless (1995) and Requiem Mass (1985). Gerre was married to Judith Eckerman. Gerre died on January 21, 2012 in Austin, Texas, USA.
33. William Hickey
Actor | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Son of Edward & Nora Hickey. Best known as the ancient Mafia don in Prizzi's Honor (1985), Hickey had a long, distinguished career in film, television, and the stage. Began career as a child actor on the variety stage. Made Broadway debut as walk-on in George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" (1951 ...
34. Martha Hill
Actress | The Second Voyage of the Mimi
Martha Hill is known for The Second Voyage of the Mimi (1988).
35. Hanya Holm
Hanya Holm was born on March 3, 1893 in Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate], Germany. She is known for The Vagabond King (1956), The Golden Fleece (1941) and Pinocchio (1957). She died on November 3, 1992 in New York City, New York, USA.
36. John Houseman
Actor | The Paper Chase
Academy Award-winning actor John Houseman's main contribution to American culture was not his own performances on film but rather, his role as a midwife to one of the greatest actor-directors-cinematic geniuses his adopted country ever produced (Orson Welles) and as a midwife to a whole generation ...
37. Sharon Isbin
Music_department | The Departed
Acclaimed for her extraordinary lyricism, technique and versatility, multiple Grammy Award winner Sharon Isbin has been hailed as "the pre-eminent guitarist of our time". She is the winner of Guitar Player magazine's Best Classical Guitarist award, the Munich, Toronto and Madrid international ...
38. Joseph Kalichstein
Soundtrack | New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts
Joseph Kalichstein was born on January 15, 1946 in Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine [now Israel]. He was married to Rowain . He died on March 31, 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
39. Yoheved Kaplinsky
Self | Why Competitions
40. Joel Krosnick
Music_department | A Late Quartet
Joel Krosnick is known for A Late Quartet (2012), The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary (2012) and Speak the Music: Robert Mann and the Mysteries of Chamber Music (2013).
41. Tony Kushner
Writer | West Side Story
Tony Kushner's play "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" earned him the Pulitzer Prize, among many other awards. His other acclaimed plays include "Slavs", "Homebody/Kabul" and "Caroline, or Change". He has collaborated with children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak on ...
42. Michael Langham
Director | Great Performances
Michael Langham was born on August 22, 1919 in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK. He was a director, known for Great Performances (1971), Folio (1955) and Approach to Theatre (1956). He was married to Helen Burns. He died on January 15, 2011 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, UK.
43. Eugene Levinson
Music_department | Live from Lincoln Center
Eugene Levinson is known for Live from Lincoln Center (1976).
44. José Limon
Actor | The Moor's Pavane
José Limon was born on January 12, 1908 in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Moor's Pavane (1951), Folio (1955) and And David Wept (1971). He was married to Pauline Lawrence. He died on December 2, 1972 in Flemington, New Jersey, USA.
45. Romulus Linney
Actor | Kinsey
Romulus Linney, the prolific American playwright, was born on September 21, 1930 in Philadelphia. He was the namesake of his great-grandfather, the Republican Congressman, Romulus Zachariah Linney, a Confederate Army veteran who represented North Carolina's 8th District from 1895-1901. Raised in ...
46. Gene Lockhart
Actor | His Girl Friday
Gene Lockhart was born on July 18, 1891, in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of John Coates Lockhart and Ellen Mary (Delany) Lockhart. His father had studied singing and young Gene displayed an early interest in drama and music. Shortly after the 7-year-old danced a Highland fling in a concert ...
47. Jon Manasse
Music_department | Kinsey
Jon Manasse is known for Kinsey (2004), White Noise (2022) and Miracle at St. Anna (2008).
48. Robert F. Mann
Music_department | That Thing You Do!
Robert F. Mann is known for That Thing You Do! (1996), Bird on a Wire (1990) and Father of the Bride (1991).
49. Wynton Marsalis
Soundtrack | A Star Is Born
Wynton Marsalis is widely recognized as the pre-eminent jazz artist of our time. He is hailed not only as a performer on the trumpet, but also as a music educator and a promoter of the history and culture of jazz. Marsalis is also an established artist in performing trumpet in works of classical ...
50. Alberta Masiello
Music_department | Live from the Metropolitan Opera
Alberta Masiello is known for The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977).
51. João Carlos Martins
Composer | A Grande Vitória
João Carlos Martins is known for A Grande Vitória (2014), Serenata Monumental da Queima das Fitas (RTP) (1995) and Gabriel Sater: Amor de Índio (2022).
52. Dakin Matthews
Actor | Child's Play 3
From February 2014 Dakin is taking on the iconic role of Mickey, the grizzled no-mercy trainer in ROCKY, THE MUSICAL at Broadway's Winter Gardens Theatre. This role was originally played by veteran screen actor Burgess Meredith in the original 1976 movie and he received an Academy award nomination ...
53. Michael Mayer
Director | Out in the Dark
Michael Mayer is known for Out in the Dark (2012), Happy Times (2019) and Fireworks (2011).
54. Terrence McNally
Writer | American Playhouse
Terrence McNally was born on November 3, 1938 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for American Playhouse (1980), Frankie and Johnny (1991) and The Ritz (1976). He was married to Thomas Kirdahy. He died on March 24, 2020 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.
55. Yevgeniya Melnikova
Actress | Chipollino
Yevgeniya Melnikova was born on June 27, 1909 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Chipollino (1973), The Diamond Arm (1969) and The Circus (1936). She was married to Anatoliy Pavlovich. She died on September 10, 2001 in Moscow, Russia.
57. Marsha Norman
Writer | The Laundromat
Marsha Norman was born on September 21, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She is a writer and art director, known for The Laundromat (1985), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) and The Color Purple (2023). She has been married to Tim Dykma since 1987. She was previously married to Dann C. Byck...
58. Orin O'Brien
Actress | Live from Lincoln Center
Orin O'Brien is known for Live from Lincoln Center (1976) and The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2023).
59. Itzhak Perlman
Music_department | Ying xiong
Probably the pre-eminent violinist of our time, Itzhak Perlman is known for his brilliant technique, direct interpretation and precision. Mr. Perlman's recordings include not only all standard violin repertoires but those of contemporary composers. He has appeared with every major orchestra in the ...
60. Vincent Persichetti
Composer | Mosselman
Vincent Persichetti was born on June 6, 1915 in Philadelphia, USA. He was a composer, known for Mosselman (2010). He died on August 14, 1987 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
61. Erik Ralske
Music_department | Don't Worry Darling
Erik Ralske is known for Don't Worry Darling (2022), Crater (2023) and Live from Lincoln Center (1976).
62. Christopher Rouse
Sound_department | BBC Proms
Christopher Rouse is known for BBC Proms (2022), BBC Proms Streaming (2020) and BBC Proms (2023).
63. Henning Rübsam
Actor | Honoring Eric Bentley: A Centennial Tribute Concert
Henning Rübsam is known for Honoring Eric Bentley: A Centennial Tribute Concert (2023), Hookers Hustlers Pimps and Their Johns (1993) and Behind the Curtain: Being a Professional Dancer (2006).
64. Michel Saint-Denis
Producer | Twelfth Night
Michel Saint-Denis was born on September 13, 1897 in Beauvais, Oise, France. He was a producer and director, known for Twelfth Night (1939), The Black Arrow (1951) and Scenes from Macbeth (1937). He was married to Suria Magito and Marie Ostroga. He died on July 31, 1971 in London, England, UK.
65. Peter Schickele
Composer | Silent Running
Peter Schickele is a renowned American composer. Inspired by the music of Spike Jones, as a young teenager, he also studied composition and music history at Juilliard. After graduating from Juilliard he asked himself what in the world he was going to do with a PhD in music history, and proceeded to...
66. William Schuman
Composer | Omnibus
William Schuman was born on August 4, 1910 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for Omnibus (1952), Night Journey (1960) and Eye on New York (1956). He died on February 15, 1992 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
67. BernNadette Stanis
Actress | Good Times
BernNadette Stanis is best known as Thelma from Good Times (1974), but there's much more to her than that. In the 1970s she was the personification of black beauty. As sophisticated and graceful as she was, she still became TV's first black sex symbol or "It" girl. Thelma/BernNadette and the Evans ...
68. György Sándor
Writer | Vigyázat, mélyföld!
György Sándor was born on April 4, 1938 in Budapest, Hungary. He is an actor and production manager, known for Vigyázat, mélyföld! (1986), Amerikai anzix (1975) and Nem szoktam hazudni (1966). He is married to Judit Csonka. He was previously married to Christina Sandor.
69. Alan Schneider
Director | Play of the Week
Born in Russia, stage director Alan Schneider worked primarily in the U.S., and was best known for interpreting the plays of Samuel Beckett. Schneider made very infrequent ventures into cinema, the best-known being Film (1965), an experimental silent movie written by Beckett, made in 1964 with ...
70. Marian Seldes
Actress | Home Alone 3
Tony Award-winner Marian Hall Seldes, one of the premier stage actresses in America, was born on August 23, 1928 in Manhattan, New York, to writer and journalist Gilbert Seldes, and his socialite wife, the former Alice Wadhams Hall. Her paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and her ...
71. Anna Sokolow
Anna Sokolow was born on February 9, 1910 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She is known for Un beso en la noche (1945), La corte de faraón (1944) and Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950). She died on March 29, 2000 in New York City, New York, USA.
72. David Soyer
Self | Camera Three
David Soyer was born on February 24, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Janet Soyer. He died on February 25, 2010 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
73. Liz Smith
Actress | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Liz Smith found fame as an actress at an age when most people are considering retirement. It was a long road to eventual stardom, during which she struggled to raise a family after a broken marriage. She became best known for her roles in The Vicar of Dibley (1994) and The Royle Family but her ...
74. Leon Theremin
Self | Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Leon Theremin was born on August 15, 1896 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was married to Maria, Katia Constantina and Lavinia Williams. He died on November 3, 1993 in Moscow, Russia.
75. Tracie Thoms
Actress | Rent
Tracie Thoms has had wide-ranging success in film, television and theatre throughout her busy career.
Tracie's currently a series regular opposite Oscar winner Octavia Spencer on the Apple series, Truth Be Told, while at the same time recurring on Fox's 9-1-1 and ABC's Station 19.
Tracie realized a ...
76. Antony Tudor
Antony Tudor was born on April 4, 1908 in London, England, UK. He was a director and production designer, known for In a Monastery Garden (1932), Folio (1955) and The Tempest/II (1939). He died on April 19, 1987 in New York City, New York, USA.
77. Wendy Wasserstein
Actress | Life with Mikey
Wendy Wasserstein was born on October 18, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Life with Mikey (1993), The Object of My Affection (1998) and Great Performances (1971). She died on January 30, 2006 in New York City, New York, USA.
78. Earl Wild
Soundtrack | Greta
Earl Wild was born on November 26, 1915 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Greta (2018), The United States Steel Hour (1953) and The Revlon Revue (1959). He was married to Rolland Davis. He died on January 23, 2010 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
79. Teddy Wilson
Soundtrack | Catch Me If You Can
Multiple award-winning (Esquire Gold Award, Silver Award, Downbeat Poll, Metronome Poll, more) jazz pianist who went on to play with the groups of Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Jimmie Noone, and Willie Bryant. In 1935, he went on tour with Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa as the Benny Goodman Trio, ...
80. Stefan Wolpe
Composer | Dance for the Camera
Stefan Wolpe was born on August 25, 1902 in Berlin, Germany. He was a composer, known for Dance for the Camera (1994), Stationary Music (2008) and Camera Three (1955). He was married to Ola Okuniewska. He died on April 4, 1972 in New York City, New York, USA.
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