27 Notable alumni of
Cornish College of the Arts
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The Cornish College of the Arts is 1569th in the world, 548th in North America, and 515th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 27 notable alumni from the Cornish College of the Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Brendan Fraser
- Occupations
- film produceractorfilm actortelevision actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Brendan James Fraser is an American-Canadian actor. Fraser had his breakthrough in 1992 with the comedy Encino Man and the drama School Ties. He gained further prominence for his starring roles in the comedies With Honors (1994) and George of the Jungle (1997) and emerged as a star playing Rick O'Connell in The Mummy trilogy (1999–2008). He took on dramatic roles in Gods and Monsters (1998), The Quiet American (2002), and Crash (2004), and further fantasy roles in Bedazzled (2000) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008).
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Jinkx Monsoon
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- drag queenvoice actorsingeractor
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Hera Lilith Hoffer, best known by the stage name Jinkx Monsoon, is an American drag queen, actress, singer and comedienne, originally from the Pacific Northwest, and perhaps best-known for winning the fifth season (2013) of RuPaul's Drag Race. Nine years later, in 2022, she returned as part of an all-winners All Stars season, featuring a mixture of finalist queens from several seasons competing against one another for the title of "Queen of All Queens" and a $200,000 prize. Jinkx placed first here as well, becoming the first two-time winner of the show across its many global franchises. She made her Broadway debut in 2023.
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Reggie Watts
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- musiciantelevision presentersingervoice actorcomposer
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Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts is an American comedian, musician, beatboxer, and actor. His improvised musical sets are created using only his voice, a keyboard, and a looping machine. He refers to himself as a "disinformationist" who aims to disorient his audience in a comedic fashion. He was the regular house musician on the spoof IFC talk show Comedy Bang! Bang! and led the house band for The Late Late Show with James Corden from 2015 to 2023.
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Beatrice Straight
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Beatrice Whitney Straight was an American theatre, film, television and radio actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was both an Academy Award and Tony Award winner, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nominee.
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Merce Cunningham
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- authorchoreographerballet dancerdancerdraftsperson
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Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of American modern dance for more than 50 years. He frequently collaborated with artists of other disciplines, including musicians John Cage, David Tudor, Brian Eno, and graphic artists Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, and Jasper Johns; and fashion designer Rei Kawakubo. Works that he produced with these artists had a profound impact on avant-garde art beyond the world of dance.
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C. S. Lee
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- actorfilm actorstage actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Charlie Seunghee Lee is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing forensics analyst Vince Masuka on the Showtime drama series Dexter.
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Lena Raine
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- musiciancomposerDJ producervideo game developer
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Lena Raine, also known as Lena Chappelle or Kuraine, is an American and Canadian composer, producer, and video game developer. Raine is best known for her work on the soundtracks of Minecraft, Celeste, and Guild Wars 2. She has composed music for various other video games, including Deltarune and Chicory: A Colorful Tale.
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Mary Lambert
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- musiciansingerpoetwritercomposer
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Mary Danielle Lambert is an American singer, songwriter and spoken word artist. She worked with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis on a track on their album The Heist. Lambert is the featured artist of their LGBTQ rights single, "Same Love". Her contributions to "Same Love" draw upon her experiences as "a lesbian growing up in a tumultuous, Christian upbringing." Lambert took the content she created for "Same Love" and used it to develop the song "She Keeps Me Warm" which she released on July 30, 2013. A music video was released on Vevo on August 24.
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Josephine Hutchinson
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Josephine Hutchinson was an American actress. She acted in dozens of theater plays and dozens of films, including Son of Frankenstein and North by Northwest, as well as numerous television appearances as guest star in various series including The Twilight Zone.
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Chet Huntley
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- news presenterjournalisttelevision presenteractor
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Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley was an American television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC's evening news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, for 14 years beginning in 1956.
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Michael Wilton
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- musicianguitarist
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Michael F. Wilton also known as The Whip, for how fast his fingers "whip" around the guitar fretboard, is an American musician, best known for being a guitarist and songwriter in the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, which he co-founded in 1982.
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Patrick O'Hearn
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- composermusician
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Patrick John O'Hearn is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and recording artist.
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Rosie Thomas
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- songwriterpodcastersingercomedian
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Rosie Thomas is an American singer-songwriter and comedian, originally from Michigan.
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Eyvind Kang
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- composerjazz musicianviolinist
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Eyvindur Y. Kang is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. His primary instrument is viola, but has also performed on violin, tuba, keyboards and others.
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Charlotte Dean
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- illustrator
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Charlotte Dean is a writer, illustrator, and visual artist known for writing and co-directing the show Charlotte's Shorts, along with Emmy award writer, director, and producer Tracy Newman.
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David Schomer
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- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- military personnel
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David Schomer is a co-founder of Espresso Vivace. The Seattle Times said "Schomer is as influential in the gourmet coffee world as Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is in the mainstream coffee industry."
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H. L. Richardson
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- politician
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Hubert Leon "Bill" Richardson was an American gun rights activist and former politician who founded Gun Owners of America (GOA) in 1976 and served as a California state senator from 1966 to 1989.
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Heather Hart
- Enrolled in the Cornish College of the Arts
- Graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Heather T. Hart is an American visual artist who works in a variety of media including interactive and participatory Installation art, drawing, collage, and painting. She is a co-founder of the Black Lunch Table Project, which includes a Wikipedia initiative focused on addressing diversity representation in the arts on Wikipedia.
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Cole Weston
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- photographer
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Cole Weston was photographer Edward Weston's fourth and youngest son. Although Weston "was born into the tradition of craftsman-produced black-and-white art photography, he was to find his own photographic direction in colour.".
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Jesse Brune
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Jesse Brune is a celebrity chef, personal trainer and lifestyle coach. He is best known for his roles on the reality television series Work Out on Bravo, Private Chefs of Beverly Hills on the Food Network, and Home Made Simple on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). He is the co-founder and executive director of Project Service LA.
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Wolfe Bowart
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- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- playwrightactormime artist
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Wolfe Bowart is a physical comedian, actor, director and playwright. He is the creator and performer of the physical theatre productions LaLaLuna, Letter's End and The Man the Sea Saw. Bowart is the son of writer Walter Bowart and Linda Dugmore, and grandson of the abstract expressionist artist Edward Dugmore.
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Zack Davisson
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- social scientist
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Zack Davisson is an American writer, lecturer, and translator, especially known for translating the works of Shigeru Mizuki, Leiji Matsumoto, Go Nagai, Satoshi Kon, and Gou Tanabe. He is also well known for his works on Japanese folklore and ghosts.
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Kent Devereaux
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United States - Occupations
- composer
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Kent Devereaux is an American composer, director, academic administrator, and the 12th and current president of Goucher College. He was previously the president of the New Hampshire Institute of Art from 2015 to 2019.
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Brad Shepik
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- jazz guitaristmusician
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Brad Shepik, also known as Brad Schoeppach is an American jazz guitarist. He also plays the saz and tambura.
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Jeanette Williams
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- politicianhuman rights activist
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Alice Jeanette Williams, née Alice Jeanette Klemptner, was an American politician and human and women's rights activist from Seattle, Washington. She served on the Seattle City Council from 1969 to 1989. In 1962, she became the first woman to head the King County Democrats as well as any major political party in a large metropolitan area in the United States.
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Ria Brodell
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- visual artist
- Biography
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Ria Brodell is an American artist, educator and author based in Boston.
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Buddy Foley
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- musician
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Hubert Tibbles "Buddy" Foley is an American artist, musician, and video documentarist. He lives in Seattle.
