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Alumni Arts Hall of Fame
The Alumni Arts Hall of Fame was created to honor and celebrate alumni who have contributed significantly to the arts, either as performing or practicing artists in individual disciplines.
Previous Recipients
Larry Lees ‘97
Assasins (2022): Musical Supervisor, Co-Recording Producer for the full orchestra recording of the Sondheim musical in conjunction with The MT Pit, Salt Lake City, UT
The Summer Club (2014 - 2022): An original cabaret nightclub show featuring a 17-piece band
Various venues in or near Philadelphia, Atlantic City and New Orleans.
Company (2020): Musical Supervisor, Co-Recording Producer for the full orchestra recording of the Sondheim musical in conjunction with The MT Pit, Salt Lake City, UT
City of Angels (2019): 11th Hour Theatre Company, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
Celebrating Sondheim (2019): Broadcast on PBS “Live from Lincoln Center”
Nothing But Nonsense (2019): Circus World Museum, Baraboo, WI
Cirque d’Hiver (2018): Paris, France
Into The Woods (2018): Instrumental recording with Grammy and Academy Award winning record-producer Dan Rudin
West Side Story (2017): Instrumental recording with Grammy and Academy Award winning record-producer Dan Rudin
The Secret Garden (2016): The Arden Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA
Into The Woods (2015): Instrumental Recording, Theater Horizon, Norristown, PA
Master Storyteller Award: Stephen Sondheim (2015): Arden Theater Company, Philadelphia, PA
Carole Bufford’s cabaret hit “Speak Easy” (2012): Featuring the Grammy Award-winning Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks. At several NYC venues, including 54 Below and The Metropolitan Room
Sweeney Todd (2012): Instrumental recording with Grammy and Academy Award winning record-producer Dan Rudin
We Tell the Story: The Songs of the Ahrens and Flaherty (2007)
Off-Broadway, Lucille Lortel Theater, New York, NY
Original Musicals
- Wonder Pig (2011) Workshop production, New York, NY
- 16 Days (2010) Studio Cast Recording produced in Nashville, TN and New York, NY
- Jonestown (2004)
- New York International Fringe Festival at Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University
Original Opera
- Obesa Cantavit (2011): The True Tale of a Music Legend and the Sandwich Who Loved Her
- Metropolis Opera Projects, Medicine Show Theatre, New York, NY
Original Incidental Music
- Circus Vargus (2011 - 2022)
- The Magic of Mrs. Crowling (Score nominated for 2007 Innovative Theater Award nomination)
- The Blood Brothers Present …. “An Evening of Grand Guignol” (2006)
- The Colonel’s Holiday (2005)
- The Birth, Adoption and Death of Dorothy Dutchess (2003)
- Original Scores/Resident Composer/Contributing Composer
- Venardos Circus Productions (2013 - 2020)
- Chuck Cooper’s “The Blues of Langston Hughes” (2014)
- Original Songs (2014): Composed for a well-known theme park that can’t be named!
- The World Christmas Circus (2019): original songs and materia
Performer
- Grey Gardens (2018), “George Gould Strong (1941)”
- The Proscenium Theater at The Drake, Philadelphia, PA
- Broadcast (2017), “Marconi”
- The Proscenium Theater at The Drake, Philadelphia, PA
- A New Brain (2016), “Dr. Jafar Berernstein”
- Theatre Horizon, Norristown, PA
- Pirates of Penzance (2016), Major General Stanley
- Randall Theater at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
- 1776 (2016), “Richard Henry Lee”
- The Media Theatre for the Performing Arts, Media, PA
- The Kiss of The Spider Woman (2015), “The Warden”
- 11th Hour Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA
- Big Fish (2016), “The Giant”
- 11th Hour Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA
- Passion (2015), “Lt. Torasso”
- Arden Theatre Company F. Otto Haas Stage, Philadelphia, PA
- A New Brain (2015)
- 11th Hour Theatre Company, Skybox at The Adrienne, Philadelphia, PA
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2018), “Lawrence”
- The Candlelight Theatre, Wilmington, DE
PROFESSIONAL
- Music Theater International, New York, NY, 2003 - 2022
- Director of Music & Materials, Music & Materials Development Supervisor / Concert Library Representative
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Adjunct Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 2018-2019
- Taught classes in Musical Theatre History and Musical Theatre Scene Study
- Guest Professor, University of the Arts, Philadelpia, PA 2016-2018
- Occasional substitute and/or “guest” professor for classes in Music Theory (for performance majors).
- Private Instructor, various locations in MI, NY, and PA 1999-2020
- One-on-one instruction in various disciplines, including Piano, Voice, Music Theory, and Orchestration
EDUCATION
University Liggett School, Class of 1997
- 1994: Little Shop of Horrors, Upper School Band, The Knights, The Players
- 1995: Once Upon a Mattress, SummerTree, Upper School Band, The Knights, The Players
- 1996: Radio Daze, Charley’s Aunt, Into the Woods (International Thespian Festival), Nunsense, Upper School Band, The Knights, The Players
- 1997: Bye Bye Birdie, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Beast of the Moon (International Thespian Festival), Upper School Band, The Knights, The Players, Yearbook
Ithaca College, Class of 2001
- B.S. Musical Theatre / Composition (cum laude)
- Music Theater International, New York, NY, 2003 - 2022
- Director of Music & Materials, Music & Materials Development Supervisor / Concert Library Representative
Larry Lees ‘97
Orchestrator, Conductor, Lyricist, Arranger
Justin Young '98
Musical Background
Justin has been entertaining and playing the saxophone professionally for almost 20 years and he frequently plays his jazz saxophone in clubs, at concerts and at jazz fests.
Discography
- Do You Hear What I Hear, 2020
- Blue Soul, 2017
- Home For The Holidays, 2009
- Nothin’ But Love, 2009
- On The Way, 2007
Podcast
Justin Young Audio Experience: Offering valuable tips on how to produce, write, record music from industry experts, producers, artists, musicians and engineers. We discuss new albums as well as the artists stories on how they have navigated the music industry to get their music to the masses
EDUCATION
University Liggett School, Class of 1998
- Upper School Band
- Varsity Baseball
Michigan State University, Class of 2002
- BA, Mechanical Engineering
The University of Oklahoma, Class of 2004
- Masters of Business Administration
Justin Young '98
Professional saxophonist
Georgia Shreve '65
WRITER/COMPOSER/IMAGIST
Georgia Shreve is a noted multimedia composer, fiction writer, playwright and poet. She holds degrees from Stanford, Brown, Columbia and The University of Pennsylvania. Her award-winning poetry and fiction have been published in numerous magazines and her plays and musicals have received countless readings, workshops and performances across New York. The New York Times praised her “expansive, psychologically pointed setting” of T.S. Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
MUSIC
Performed at Carnegie Hall
- Portraits of the 20th Century: Depression • War • Environment
- Piano Concerto and Fantasia on a Celtic Theme
- The Man with the Blue Guitar
- Dante’s Paradise
- The Little Prince
THEATER
Performed at National Sawdust
- LoveSick: A Rock Opera
- Dialogues of the Travelers
Upcoming Releases
- The Art of Being Oscar
- Voices of Silence
FICTION/POETRY
Published by:
- The New Yorker
- The New Criterion
- The Partisan Review
- The New Republic
- Poetry Magazine
Works in progress:
- Enigma Variations
- Mornings with Sydney
- Initiation
- My House is Not on Fire
- Bodies of Water
SCREENPLAYS
- Homes
- Western Waters
EDUCATION
GPUS Class of 1965
- Cum Laude Society
- Senior & Junior Year: Class Vice President
- Sophomore Year: Student Council
- Junior Prom Chairman
- Editor; Junior Editor: Periscript
- Detroit News Writing Awards: Two Keys (honorable mention) and Commendation
- Runner Up: Senior Short Story Contest
- Sophomore, Junior & Senior Year: JV Hockey
- Sophomore & Senior Year: All-Detroit Reserve Hockey
Stanford University: B.A., Philosophy
Brown University M.A., Creative Writing and English Literature
Columbia UniversityM.B.A., Business
University of Pennsylvania M.A., Positive Psychology
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
- Madison Council of The Library of Congress
- American Composers’ Orchestra
- The Juilliard Council
- Academy of American Poets
- The Dramatists’ Guild
Georgia Shreve '65 GPUS
Multi-passioned artist
Leonard Sullivan '97
THEATRICAL EXPERTISE
- Performing, singing, choreography and direction
RECENT PRODUCTIONS
- May 2016 – April 2020 - Book of Mormon (Jumamosi Company): Actor - full-time swing and understudy.
- Love and Southern Discomfort (Charleston Music Hall): Choreographer
- Broadway Bounty Hunter (NYC) written by Tony Nominee Joe Iconis: Assistant Director and Assistant Choreographer
- June 2019 – August 2019 - Hairspray, The Musical (Kalamazoo Civic Theater): Director
- March 2026 – May 2016 - Dreamgirls (Milwaukee Repertory Theater): Associate Choreographer and Dance Captain
- December 2014 – February 2015 - The Little Mermaid: Ensemble cast member
- July 2014 – August 2014 - The Color Purple the Musical: Milwaukee Repertory Theater
- August 2014 – November 2014 - Disney's High School Musical (directed by Tony winner Jeff Calhoun): Actor
- May 2007 - August 2008 - Hairspray, The Musical (Las Vegas): Actor, Director
- December 2005 – June 2006 - Hairspray, The Musical (US and Canadian Tour) directed and choreographed by Tony Award winners Jack O’Brien and Jerry Mitchell: Actor, Director(?)
- August 2003- May 2005 - Dual Belters a revue starring Jersey Boys star Courter Simmons (NYC): Director and Choreographer
- A Chorus Line (European Tour): Actor (“Richie”)
- Smokey Joe’s Café (European Tour): Actor (“Victor”)
- The Wiz (Jupiter, FL): Assistant Choreographer and Dance Captain
ADDITIONAL THEATER WORK/INVOLVEMENT
- Paper Mill Playhouse, Former Actor
- Goodspeed Opera House, (ROLE)
- Barrington Stage, (ROLE)
- Atlanta Theater of the Stars, (ROLE
- Stage St. Louis, Actor
- Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, (ROLE)
- Kalamazoo Civic Theater, Former Stage Director
- Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Former Performer and Dance Captain
- Maltz Jupiter Theater, Former Associate Choreographer
EDUCATION
University Liggett School, Class of 1997
- Choreographed, Co-directed, and starred in Ain’t Misbehavin’
- Directed and choreographed many other Upper School theater performances, including Nunsense, Bye Bye Birdie and Into The Woods
- Received a special yearbook dedication - from his own peers - for the huge impact he made to/on performing arts while at ULS as a student
Western Michigan University, Class of 2001
- Majored in Musical Theater Performance
- Performed at the Kalamazoo Civic Theater in:
Rags, Godspell and Company
- Worked at The Barn Theater and the Cherry County Playhouse
Leonard Sullivan '97
Broadway performer
Josh Moulton ’96
OWNER/OPERATOR/ARTIST
The Josh Moulton Fine Art Gallery
2218 N. Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
2011 – Present
GROUP SHOWS
- Featured Chicago Artist: Allison Victoria Interiors Launch Party @ A New Leaf, Chicago, IL, May 2009
- Junior League Club of Chicago: Show @ The East River Arts Center, Chicago, IL, November 2007
- “Art on Armitage” @ The Design Shoppe: Chicago, IL, June 2006
- Uncommon Ground: Chicago, IL, February 2006
- Guest Artist: Xclusive @ 4ArtInc. Gallery, Chicago, IL, November 2005
- “My Kind of Town” @ DvA: Chicago, IL, May 2005
- Curator & Exhibitor: Landmark Arts Gallery, Chicago, IL, March 2005
- “Chicago, Art in the City” @ Bell Studio: Chicago, IL, September 2002-October 2002
- Curator & Exhibitor: Chicago Friends of the Arts Holiday Show, Chicago, IL, December 2001
- Chicago Art Open Professional Show: Chicago, IL, October 2001
- Curator & Exhibitor: Chicago Friends of the Arts Member Show Chicago, IL, January 2001
COMMISSIONED WORK
- Silver Cross Hospital: New Lenox, IL, August 2011 (3 paintings)
- Deloitte & Touche: Corporate office in Chicago, IL, March 2005 (2 paintings)
- NMH Prentice Woman’s Hospital: August 2007 (2 paintings)
- Ms. Catriona Watt, Edinburg, Scotland, May 2004 (6 paintings, 2 drawings)
- Oncor International, Corporate Office in Chicago, IL, March 2003 (8 paintings)
PRESS/ARTICLES
- Sheridan Road Magazine: “Painting a Path”
- Daily Candy: Weekend Guide
- CS (Chicago Social) Magazine: “On the Radar Now”, August 2011; “Best of the City”, November 2008; “On the Radar Now”, November 2005
- SuchCoolStuff.com: “Josh Moulton Fine Art Gallery”, August 2011
- Art New England Magazine: “Josh Moulton”, July 2011
- Art World Chicago: July 2011
- Alliance of Artist Communities: “Artist Josh Moulton Selected for 2011 Conference”, June 2011
- Visit Clark Street: “Josh Moulton Fine Art Gallery”, 2011
- American Art Collector Magazine: February 2011
- Chicago Reader “Morning Art: Josh Moulton”, December 2010
- Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce 2013
- Art Business News: “Emerging Artists”, January 2009
- NBC Chicago: “Holiday Gift Ideas”, November 2008
- Professional Artist (formerly Art Calendar) Magazine: September 2008
- DailyCandy.com: July 2008
- ApartmentTheory.com: March 2008
- Art News Magazine: “Artist Directory”, December 2003
CORPORATE COLLECTORS
Deloitte & Touche ; Harbor Capital Advisors, Inc. ; The Law Firm of Caffarelli & Siegel; The Boston Options Exchange; McDonald’s Corporate Office, Oak Brook, IL; Price Waterhouse Coopers, Chicago, IL; Houston Methodist Walter Tower Hospital, Houston, TX; Green Thumb Industries, Chicago, IL; NMH Prentice Women’s Hospital; LifePoint Hospitals Inc.; Oncor International; Kiser Institutional Group, Chicago, IL ; Legacy Marketing Partners, Chicago, IL; Gogo Air, Chicago, IL; Quantum Polymers, Elmhurst, IL; Silver Cross Hospital, New Lenox, IL; KJ Investments, LLC , Chicago, IL; Law Firm of Carpenter, Lipps & Leland, LLP- Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
- University Liggett School, Class of 1996 (K-12: “Lifer”)
- Lake Forest College, Class of 2000 Major, Studio Art; Minor, History
- Deer Path Art League: 4-year scholarship recipient
Josh Moulton ’96
Painter
Cybelle Codish '94
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS
- 2013 “GRAB: the exhibition, selected works”, Fourth street gallery, Detroit MI
- 2011 “GRAB: the movie” documentary stills, SUNDANCE film festival, Park City, UT
- 2011 “GRAB: the exhibition”, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque NM
- 2011 “GRAB: the exhibition”, The National Geographic Museum, Washington DC
- 2011 “GRAB: the exhibition”, The Smithsonian Museum NMAI, New York NY
- 2009 “Static sound”, Manoogian Gallery, Grosse Pointe Michigan
- 2008 “Still music”, The Detroit School of Rock and Pop, Royal Oak MI
- 2007 “Detroit History of Music”, Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit, MI
- 2005 “Music Noir”, Art Space II Gallery, Birmingham MI
- 2005 “Bella-Isle”, Photography, The White Room Studio, Detroit, Michigan
- 2004 “Studio see”, Photography, Studio [c], Detroit Michigan
- 2004 “Depth of Feel”, Photography, Manoogian Gallery, Grosse Pointe MI
- 2003 Artist in Residence, University Liggett School, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI
GRANTS/AWARDS
- 2017 Feet in two worlds/Food in two worlds Journalism fellow, NYC
- 2016 Excellence in Journalism, Feature photography “Authentic artistry”, Society of Professional Journalists
- 2016 Excellence in Journalism, Feature story images “Oneita the Magnificent”, Society of Professional Journalists
- 2016 Excellence in Journalism, Cover design “The Food issue”, Society of Professional Journalists
- 2012 Nominee, CFSEM solar powered kayak launch feature, AAAS Kavli Science Journalism award, Washington D.C.
- 2011 1st place best investigative/Enterprise reporting feature, “The Detroit Berlin Connection”, The Associated Press of Michigan
- 2011 1st place series, “The Detroit Berlin Connection”, photo essay, Michigan Broadcasters Association
- 2010 1st place Feature Page Design: “Lust” cover photograph, Michigan Press Association, Metro Times, Detroit MI
- 2008 3rd Place Enterprise Reporting, “Nightmare on Highbury Court” Photographs, Michigan Press Association (Metro Times) Detroit MI
- 2008 3rd Place Feature Story, “Jesus of Suburbia” Photographs, Michigan Press Association (Metro Times) Detroit MI
- 2008 1st Place Photojournalist, Essay “Pain & Hope”, Michigan Press Association (Metro Times) Detroit MI
- 2007 Gold Record, Kem “Album II” album cover artwork, over 500,000 copies sold, Motown/Universal Music group, New York, NY
- 2007 Platinum Record, Bob Seger “Face the Promise” album cover/photography, over 1,000,000 copies sold, Capitol Records, Los Angeles CA
- 2007 Gold Record, Bob Seger “Face the Promise” album cover/photography, over 500,000 copies sold, Capitol Records, Los Angeles CA
- 2004 1st Place, Education “School of Life” Photographs, Alternative Weekly Award (Metro Times) Detroit MI
- 1994 Fuller Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
- 1994 Photography Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
- 1990 Ross Roy and Sally Memorial Art Scholarship, University of Liggett School, Grosse Pointe MI
PUBLICATION FEATURES & SPOTLIGHTS:
- 2018 University Press of Florida: Coconuts & Collards, featured photographer
- 2017 TASCHEN: Capital Music Group 75 years, feature photograph “KEM”
- 2016, WDET interview “Detroit photographer chronicles Standing Rock”
- 2015 ACCESS TO SUPERSTARS interview “Photographer Cybelle Codish”
- 2014, BLUE magazine feature “Family legacy: Photographer Cybelle Codish photographs her grandfather’s cabin and her grandmother’s recipes”
- 2011, HOUR magazine feature “Cybelle Codish takes her stills of Native Americans to the Smithsonian”
- 2011, WORLD OF WONDER artist spotlight interview, “Q&A with Cybelle Codish”
- 2011, Metro Times feature “Native American giving: Detroit photographer documents documentary”
- 2008, WDET interview “Behind the doors of Detroit Receiving hospital through the lens of Cybelle Codish”
- 2006, STRUT magazine feature, “Photographer to the stars”
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
- 2001-present: Owner/Chief photographer, Studio [c] photography, Detroit MI
- 2002-present: Current and/or past freelance photographer for these organizations and publications across the country:
- LIFESMART; PRI; Sojourners magazine, Next City, Michigan Opera Theatre, PRX, Sundance Institute, Shinola Detroit, Sticky-be Socks, Prima Civitas, Michigan Blue economy, Detroit Music Factory, St. Martin’s Press, Picador Books, Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Vegan Eats, Savory Food Creations, McLaren Macomb, UMICH Taubman College, Good Trade Records, The Forbes Company, World of Wonder productions, D Business, Schoolcraft College, WDET/NPR FM, Detroit Receiving Hospital, Capitol Records, Mack Avenue Records, Warner Brothers Records, Tour photographer, Bob Seger, Pure Barre, Wenha Music, Tour photographer, KEM, Hour Detroit Magazine, Ubiquity Records, Universal/Motown Records, Metro Times
EDUCATION
- 1994-1998 Photojournalism The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- 1990-1994 Fine Arts/photography University Liggett School
- 1982-1990 Fine Arts and Language Detroit Waldorf Sc
Cybelle Codish '94
Professional photographer
Michelle “Mitch” McCabe '89
Career and Film Work
Mitch is a writer, director, producer and award-winning filmmaker and artist whose work spans both documentary and narrative film.
Currently, she is working on a longitudinal documentary about American mental health treatment and the prescription drug epidemic with executive producer Jeff Kusama-Hinte (“The Kids Are All Right,” “Thirteen,” “Polanski: Wanted and Desired”), which has recently been awarded grants by Princess Grace Foundation, NYSCA, and was selected for IFP Week at Lincoln Center. She is also the Creative Director of the John Hopkins Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film & Media.
YOUTH KNOWS NO PAIN (2009): HBO Documentary that premiered at the Lincoln Center and was nominated for a WGA writing award at AFI-Silverdocs and screened at IDFA. Justin Chang from Variety called the film a "lively, candid and thoughtful piece, which avoids the fashionable alarmism of so many social-issue docs."
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN (2007) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
SEPTEMBER 5:10 PM (1999) and HIGHWAY 403, MILE 39 (2004) were both nominated for Student Academy Awards and premiered at the New York Film Festival; Highway 403, Mile 39 won an honorable mention at the Nashville Film Festival in
THIS CORROSION (2003) was an experimental featurette that premiered at the Norway Film Festival and Anthology Film Archive in New York, and played at several underground festivals
PLAYING THE PART (1995): Premiered at Sundance Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, winning a Student Academy Award. The New York Times calling it “enthralling” and Film Comment naming it “One of the Year’s Top 10 Short Films.”
Mitch has worked extensively as both a producer and cinematographer on TV shows for ABC, A&E, CBS, TNT, HBO, PBS and Discovery
A five-time fellow of the MacDowell Colony and a Rockefeller nominee, Mitch and her work have been supported by the following:
- Yaddo Colony
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
- The Djerassi Foundation
- The Jerome Foundation
- Princess Grace Foundation
- New York State Council on the Arts
- The LEF Foundation - As an educator, Mitch has taught courses, lectured as a visiting artist and held workshops and seminars at Harvard College, New York University, Whitman College, Sundance Institute/Echo Park Film Center, Bard College, Montclair State University, Detroit Free Press, University of Montana, University of Iowa, Sweetbriar College, Lafayette College, and Vassar College, among others.
Education
- University Liggett School
- Harvard College, BA
- New York University, MFA in film directing
Michelle “Mitch” McCabe '89
Documentary filmmaker
Gilda Radner '64 LIG
Career and Accomplishments:
- First major professional theatrical production: Godspell, Toronto, 1972. This legendary production included other soon-to-be-famous comedians such as Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas and Martin Short
- Second City Improvisational Theatre: Chicago and Toronto locations 1973-74
- Ensemble cast member of The National Lampoon Shows (The Road Show, The Radio Show, and Lampoon records) New Palladium Theatre, NYC, 1975
- In 1975 Gilda was the first person ever cast for Saturday Night Live and she remained on the show until 1980
- On SNL she created characters like Emily Litella, loudmouthed Roseanne Roseannadanna, nerd Lisa Loopner, and Baba Wawa, a talk show host with a speech impediment
- In 1979, starred on Broadway in a successful one-woman show entitled Gilda Radner - Live From New York
- Co-starred in the play, Lunch Hour, in 1980 with Sam Waterston that played on Broadway and also at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC
- Wrote her autobiography, It's Always Something, in 1989 about her battles with cancer
- Former Saturday Night Live head writer and player Tina Fey credits Gilda as the main reason she became a comedy writer
- Was a friend and mentor to Actress Catherine O'Hara
Awards & Accolades:
- She is the only female player from Saturday Night Live to win an Outstanding Performance Emmy (1977-78)
- Won a Posthumous Grammy for Best Spoken Word Or Non-Musical Recording in 1990
- Inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame for her achievements in arts and entertainment in 1992
- Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6801 Hollywood Blvd) in 2003
- Parts of West Houston Street in New York City, Lombard Street in Toronto, Kirk Road in Warminster, Pennsylvania and Chester Avenue in White Plains, New York have been renamed "Gilda Radner Way"
Gilda's Club was opened in New York, NY, in 1995 by Joanna Bull, Gilda Radner’s cancer psychotherapist, together with Gilda’s husband, Gene Wilder, with the help of film critic Joel Siegel, actor/singer Mandy Patinkin and several of Gilda’s friends. It was Gilda's wish that a place could be established where people of all ages diagnosed with cancer could come together and support one another through the illness. The centers are non-medical and very homey, with an art center, exercise facility, game rooms and a children's room called Noogieland (so-named for "noogies" - one of Gilda's comedic actions on SNL). Gilda's Club now has centers all over the US and Canada.
Education:
- The Liggett School, 1957-1964
- University Of Michigan
Gilda Radner '64 LIG
Actress and comedian
Julie Harris '44 CDS
AWARDS & HONORS
- Five-time Tony Award Winner
- Special Tony Award Winner for Lifetime Achievement, 2002
- Three-time Emmy Award Winner
- Grammy Award Winner 1977 for Best Spoken Word
- Academy Award Nominee, 1952
- BAFTA “Best Foreign Actress” Award, 1955
- National Medal of Arts Recipient, 1994
- Kennedy Center Honor Recipient, 2005
- One of the earliest members of Lee Strasberg’s Acting Studio
Friday, September 27, 2020
Julie Harris
Class of 1944 CDS
“One of the finest classical and
contemporary leading ladies
ever to grace the 20th century
American stage.”
On the day of her death in 2013, Broadway theaters
dimmed their lights for a one-minute tribute in honor
of the esteemed actress.
Julie Harris '44 CDS
Film and theater actressAll Alumni Arts Hall of Fame inductees are reviewed and selected by our Alumni Arts Hall of Fame Committee.
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