Faculty
Our faculty is made up of innovative scholars, artists, composers, performers, and researchers at the top of their fields, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize; Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Bessie, Tony, ASCAP, and Drama Desk Awards; National Science Foundation grants; and Guggenheim, NEA, and NEH fellowships.
Our proximity to New York City allows some Purchase faculty, especially in our conservatory programs, to maintain their professional careers, which enhances the classroom with real-life perspective (in real time). It also provides students with a wealth of connections that can benefit them during their time here as well as after graduation.
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- Shemeem Burney Abbas
- Athar Abdul-Quader
- Richard Abramowitz
- Elliott Abrams
- Liz Duffy Adams
- Evan Adamson
- Ennis Addison
- Scott Adkins
- Alan Anderson
- Aryana Alexis Anderson
- Chris Anderson
- Joel Neville Anderson
- Ryan Andrews
- Andrea Anthony
- Anthony Antonellis
- Pablo Arraya
- Toivo Asheeke
- Graham Ashton
- Janis Astor del Valle
- B Lee Aultman
- Asma Ayob
- Christian Bailey
- Thomas Baird
- Gail Baldoni
- Carol Bankerd
- Adam Barruch
- Kimberly Bartosik
- Milcah Bassel
- David Bassuk
- Linda Bastone
- A. Dean Bell
- Sidra Bell
- Michael Bell-Smith
- Elise Bender
- Leandro Benmergui
- James Bergesen
- Lawrence A. Berglas
- Sue Bernhard
- Trazana Beverley
- Adam Birnbaum
- Christopher Bisignano
- Sonya Blesofsky
- Marissa Bluestone
- Matthew Bollinger
- Bina Bora
- C. Ray Borck
- Margot Bordelon
- William T. Borger
- Nancy Bowen
- Joel Brandwine
- Virginia Breen
- Timothy Briner
- Julie Broglin
- Ellen Brooks
- Khristopher Brooks
- Bradley Brookshire
- Cynthia Brosnan
- Silas Brown
- Stephanie Brown
- Deborah Buck
- Stephen Buck
- Lenka Pichlíková Burke
- Esteban Cabeza de Baca
- Iris Cahn
- Beth Campbell
- Jill Campbell
- Naydu Carmona
- Jessica J. Carnevale
- Darrah Carr
- Carolyn B. Cates
- Marguerite Cattan
- Cédric Ceulemans
- Lenora Champagne
- Wells Chandler
- Iuliia Chikish
- Laura M. Chmielewski
- Kari Cholnoky
- Tracy Christensen
- Jason Cianciulli
- Simona Cipriani
- Jakub Ciupiński
- Larry Clark
- Timothy Cobb
- Jaffe Cohen
- Alexis Cole
- Gaby Collins-Fernandez
- Stephen A. Cooke
- Deborah Cooper
- Sara Cooper
- Donna Cornachio
- Alex Correia
- Michael Costa
- Lindsey Crane
- Natalie Cruz
- Oona Curley
- Meagan Curtis
- Theresa Daddezio
- James G. Daly
- Ross A. Daly
- Amy Daniel
- Annette Courniotes Davies
- Damien Davis
- Jennifer Dawson
- Eric De Sena
- Peter Dearing
- Bill Deere
- Benjamin Degen
- David DeJesus
- Peter Denenberg
- Gregory DePaul
- Kim Detterbeck
- Emiliano Diaz
- Matthew DiCarlo
- Rachel Dickstein
- Alexia Toskos Dils
- Alexander Dodge
- Anthony Paul Domestico
- Joe Dotts
- Imani Douglas
- Hilary Doyle
- Colleen Duffy
- James Dunn
- Erika Ebbs
- Stella Ebner
- Jill Echo
- Monika L. Eckenberg
- LaVonda Elam
- Bradley Teal Ellis
- Aliza Erber
- Victoria Estok
- Murielle Etienne
- Robert Etter
- Maruti Evans
- Rachel Fabian
- Jan Robert Factor
- Jon Faddis
- Oren Fader
- Patrizia Farina
- Samantha Farinella
- Davalois Fearon
- Gene Fein
- Monica Ferrell
- Stephen Ferri
- Joe Ferry
- Marshall Fine
- Jacqueline Horan Fisher
- Scott Fisher
- Tracy Schpero Fitzpatrick
- Stephen Flusberg
- Joseph Forbes
- Melissa Forstrom
- Paul Francis
- Jean Freebury
- Lisa Frey
- Brandalyn Fulton
- Amber Galeo
- Samuel Galloway
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- Mtume Gant
- Alfredo Garcia-Pardo
- Shawn Garnier
- Rudolf Gaudio
- Linda Gelman
- Kaori Kubo Germano
- Darcy Gervasio
- Patrice Giasson
- Dawn Gibson-Brehon
- Shannon Gillen
- Cobina Gillitt
- Kate Gilmore
- Linda Gironda
- Steve Gomer
- Amanda Gookin
- Eric Gottesman
- Christopher Graham
- Pasquale Grasso
- Christopher Greco
- Russell Greenberg
- David Grill
- Elizabeth Guffey
- Maria Guralnik
- Tamisha Guy
- Chelsea Haines
- Andy Hall
- Robert T. Hall
- Rachel Hallote
- Paula Halperin
- Bonnie Hamilton
- Dan Hanessian
- Alysa Hantgan
- Lauren Harburger
- Bruce Harris
- Stephen Harris
- Casey Haskins
- Rebecca Haviland
- David Hazeltine
- Gerard Hecht
- Kristen Heinrich
- Ursula Heinrich
- Nicole Helregel
- Amina Henry
- Alison Hublard Hershman
- Yanine Hess
- Faye Hirsch
- Carlie Hoffman
- Dan Hoffman
- Nathan Holmes
- Patrick Holt
- Ryan Homsey
- Cassandra Hooper
- Mara T. Horowitz
- Sharon Horvath
- Gareth Hougham
- Marie Hubert
- Titia Hulst
- Sanford Ikeda
- Matthew Immergut
- Chrys Ingraham
- A. Dean Irby
- Allyson K. Jackson
- David H. Jameson
- Camilla Jantke-Chiappari
- Ingrid Jensen
- Kemp Jernigan
- Jonathan Jetter
- Phil Joly
- Mark Jonas
- Madeline Jones
- Myna Joseph
- Liam Joynt
- Anthony Kadleck
- Allison Kahn
- Allison Kahn
- Laura Kaminsky
- Daniel Kang
- Morris B. Kaplan
- Paul Kaplan
- Kristen Karlberg
- Shmuel Katz
- Lisa Keller
- Noah Kellman
- Anne M. Kern
- George Keteku
- David J. Kim
- Mina Kim
- Yong Hee Kim
- Suzannah Kincannon
- Mariana Carreño King
- Jared Kirby
- Ted T. Kivitt
- Jenny Knott
- Christopher Konzelman
- Mary Kosut
- Susan Kouguell
- Robert Kozma
- Aaron Krach
- George P. Kraemer
- Basil Kreimendahl
- Julian Kreimer
- Jane Kromm
- Dane Laffrey
- Gari Laguardia
- Ralph Lalama
- Steven Lambert
- Keith Landa
- Susan Lauria
- Shirley C. Lavareda
- Andy LaVerne
- Lora LaVon
- Stephen Lee
- Yoon Lee
- Warren Lehrer
- Elise Lemire
- Arnold Levine
- Francesca Levine
- Amy Levine-Kennedy
- Ian Lewandowski
- Catherine Lewis
- Julia Lichten
- Daniel Lichtman
- Judy Lieff
- Cynthia Lin
- Sherry Llauger
- Connie Lobur
- Joshua Lutz
- Robin Lynch
- Martin Løfsnes
- Tim Mackabee
- Sara Magenheimer
- Tony Magner
- Stephen Maine
- Sakura Maku
- Joseph Malbrough
- Pete Malinverni
- Ed Malone
- Eric Mandelbaum
- Sarah Mantell
- Kerry Manzo
- Ana Margineanu
- Mary Ellen Marks
- Carrie Marten
- Beatriz Martin-Ruiz
- Edwin Martinez
- Ina Mayhew
- Rachel McCain
- Christopher McCann
- Mitchell McCoy
- Scott McCrea
- Henry McDaniel
- Maryann McEnroe
- Shaka McGlotten
- Lauren McIntyre
- Joseph McKay
- Barbara E. McMullen
- Katherine McQuillen
- Paul Megna
- James Mehiel
- Deborah Mesa-Pelly
- Paul Meyers
- Elizabeth Rose Middleton
- Johnny Milani
- Katherine Model
- Phil Moffa
- Lisa Jean Moore
- Richie Morales
- Adrian Morejon
- John Mitchell Morris
- John Mosca
- P.E Moskowitz
- Laura Moss
- Hugh Murphy
- Sarah Murray
- Kyung-Eun Na
- Gaura Narayan
- Heidi Neilson
- Phillip Nelson
- Djordje Nesic
- Rosalind Newman
- Kimie Nishikawa
- Melanie Noblit-Gambino
- Dolores Obuch
- Mehdi Tavana Okasi
- Ugonna Okegwo
- Elisabeth Oleksker
- Rebecca Albrecht Oling
- Hochi Ortega-Asiatico
- Jamilet Ortiz
- Ayako Oshima Neidich
- Paul Ostrovsky
- Sherry Overholt
- Rachel Owens
- Anna Ozbek
- Tara Helen O’Connor
- Gene O’Donovan
- Lawrence O’Neil
- Brian Paccione
- Nancy Palmatier
- Adam Pape
- Dennis Parichy
- Katherine Pearl
- Dan Peck
- Krystal Perkins
- Sarah Petersiel
- Liz Phillips
- Adam Pietrykowski
- Ted Piltzecker
- Jason A. Pine
- Lorraine Plourde
- Janine Polak
- Jesse Edward Poleshuck
- Peter Polinski
- Edward Pomerantz
- Aaron Poochigian
- Pamela Prather
- Naicy Pretill
- Milton Primer
- Cathryn Prince
- Gavin Pritchard
- Richard Quigley
- Barron Rachman
- Padma Rajendran
- Nandita Raman
- Andoveloniaina Rasolofo
- David Recca
- Ben Recher
- Dennis Hilton Reid
- Peter Reit
- Adam Resnick
- Laura Ricciardi
- Jonathan Riedel
- Patricia Rind
- Christopher Robbins
- Nicholas Roberts
- Kristen Robinson
- Mariel Rodney
- Jason Rodriguez
- Ligaiya Romero
- Megan Rossman
- Victoria Roth
- Charles Routhier
- Martha Lorena Rubi
- Gina Ruggeri
- Rachel Rumore
- Usha Reena Rungoo
- Mara Rupners
- Joseph Russo
- Yo-E Ryou
- Robert Sabo
- Naomi Safran-Hon
- Andrew Saito
- Peter James Saleh
- Andrew Salomon
- Sara Saltzman
- Timothy Samara
- Kamala Sankaram
- Benjamin Santiago
- Corinne Santiago
- Kaori Sato
- Emily Sausen
- Jack Schatz
- Marisa Scheinfeld
- Jordan Schildcrout
- Lee Schlesinger
- Elisa Schreiber
- Jennifer Schriever
- Mark Schwartz
- Kate Scorza Ingram
- Jeana Scotti
- Leonard Seastone
- Olga Seham
- Rosanna Seravalli
- Irina Shablinsky
- Susan Shopmaker
- Jordan Shue
- Zorawar Sidhu
- Paul Siegel
- Bettijane Sills
- Alexis M. Silver
- Charly Simpson
- Brooke Singer
- Karen Singer-Freeman
- Victor Sira
- Joseph Skrivanek
- Buzz Slutzky
- Travess Smalley
- Alan McIntyre Smith
- Gary Smulyan
- Darren Solomon
- Seth Soloway
- Gregory Spears
- Samuel Spillman
- James Spione
- Peter Sprague
- Peggy Stafford
- Courtney Stephens
- Matthew Stern
- Ronni Stewart
- Tom Sullivan
- Maggie Surovell
- Simon Surowicz
- Rob Swainston
- Joe Swatski
- Jack Tamburri
- Sayaka Tanikawa
- Michael Taub
- Aviva Taubenfeld
- Gregory Taylor
- Ryan W. Taylor
- Alina Tenser
- Amanda J. Thackray
- Paul Thayer
- Lamine Thiam
- Andrea Thome
- Melisa Tien
- Awoye Timpo
- Joshua Tonsfeldt
- Stephanie Tooman
- Hakan Topal
- Alba Torremocha
- Jacque Trussel
- Knarik Tunyan
- Mark Turner
- Lee Tusman
- Jennifer K. Uleman
- Michelle Thompson Ulerich
- Michael Umile
- Jennifer Undercofler
- Jason Urban
- Kristin Uscinski
- Ragnhild Utheim
- Caren Valente
- Rachel Vallarelli
- Nelly van Bommel
- Doug Varone
- Margaret Vignola
- Manuel Vignoulle
- Mark Viola
- Carina Vocisano
- Sloan Wainwright
- Sarah Walker
- Mary Waller
- Jo Ann Walters
- Kalin Wang
- Rob Ward
- Mikaila Ware
- Sarah Warren
- Kenny Washington
- Sam Wear
- Stephanie Weeks
- Sean Weiner
- Doug Weiss
- Lori R. Wekselblatt
- Les Wertheim
- Jonah Westerman
- Grant Wilcoxen
- Christopher Williams
- Megan Williams
- Rosalyn Coleman Williams
- Leslie Wilson
- Matthew Wilson
- Drew Wimmer
- Wallie Wolfgruber
- Audra Wolowiec
- Charlotte Woolf
- Amy Beth Wright
- Kevin Wynn
- Anita Yavich
- John G. Young
- David Yozzo
- Renqiu Yu
- Agustín Zarzosa
- Sharon Zechowski
- J.D. Zeik
- Chen Zhang
- Ling Zhang
- William Zimmerman
- Raphael Zollinger
- Carmit Rinehart Zori
Faculty Emeriti
- Miriam Arsham
- Karen L. Baird
- Sybil Barten
- Peter F. Bell
- Allyson Bellink
- Judith Bernstein
- Naomi Block
- Shirley Neilsen Blum
- Richard Cameron-Wolfe
- Marcia Cavell
- Michael J. Cesario
- Taina Chao
- Bell Chevigny
- Kimberly E. Christensen
- James Cookman
- Todd Coolman
- Elysse Craddock
- Nancy Davidson
- Donna Dennis
- Raymond Des Roches
- Jed Devine
- Leigh Dillon
- Dominic Donato
- Kenley R. Dove
- Thomas E. Dow Jr.
- Steven Dubin
- Lee Ehrman
- Frank B. Farrell
- Joseph Fashing
- Robert Fertitta
- Geoffrey G. Field
- Nancy Foner
- John Forrest
- Albert Fried
- Lana Fritz
- Maria Gagliardo
- Elaine Galen
- Hal Galper
- John S. Gitlitz
- Ronnie Halperin
- Frederic Hand
- John Handron
- Dennis Helmrich
- Naomi Holoch
- John R. Howard
- Alfred Hunt
- Thomasenia M. Hutchins
- Suzanne Kessler
- Marianna Khazanova-Salzman
- Lawrence Kornfeld
- Martin Lewinter
- Philip Listengart
- Steven Lubin
- Humbert Lucarelli
- Donald MacCourt
- Kathleen McCormick
- James McElwaine
- Wendy McKenna
- Jeanine Meyer
- Marjorie Miller
- Sandra Miller
- Doug Munro
- William Needham
- Anthony Newman
- Esther Newton
- Eulalie Noble
- Julius Novick
- David F. Ostwald
- Séamus O’Cléireacáin
- Gregorio Rosenblum
- Jon Rubin
- Ronnie Scharfman
- Peter Schwab
- Nathaniel H. Siegel
- Renneth Sorhaindo
- Mette Spaniardi
- Daphne Spottiswoode
- Richard Stack
- Sarah Stackhouse
- Leonard Stokes
- Nina Pelikan Straus
- Ken Strickland
- Wayne te Brake
- Joel Tenenbaum
- Joanne Kivela Tillotson
- Michael Torlen
- James Utter
- David Villecco
- Carol K. Walker
- Gary Waller
- Philippa Wehle
- Lynn Winters
- Louise Yelin
- Murray Zimiles
- Philip Zimmermann