81 Notable alumni of
Ithaca College
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Ithaca College is 631st in the world, 234th in North America, and 215th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 81 notable alumni from Ithaca College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Bob Odenkirk
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm actorfilm producercomedianwriter
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Robert John Odenkirk is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is known for his role as Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad (2008–2013) and its spin-off Better Call Saul (2015–2022). For the latter, he has received six nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. As a producer on Better Call Saul since its premiere, he has also received six nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. He is also known for the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995–1998), which he co-created and co-starred in with fellow comic David Cross. In 2015, he and Cross reunited, along with the rest of the Mr. Show cast, for W/ Bob & David on Netflix.
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David Boreanaz
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- directortelevision actoractorfilm producervoice actor
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David Paul Boreanaz is an American actor, television producer, and director known for playing the roles of vampire-turned-private investigator Angel on The WB/UPN Buffy the Vampire Slayer supernatural drama (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004); FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, a homicide investigator, on the Fox television crime procedural comedy-drama series Bones (2005–2017); and United States Navy SEAL Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Jason Hayes in the CBS/Paramount+ military drama series SEAL Team (2017–present).
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Bob Iger
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- businesspersonbusiness executivefilm producerentrepreneur
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Robert Allen Iger is an American media business executive who serves as the chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company. He previously served as the President of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) between 1994 and 1995 and as president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, from 1995 until its acquisition by Disney in 1996. Iger was named president of Disney in 2000 and succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, until his contract expired in 2020. He then served as executive chairman until his retirement from the company on December 31, 2021. After his exit from the company, Iger served, at the company's request, as an advisor to his successor. Iger was awarded $2 million per year for such advice. However, at the request of Disney's board of directors, Iger returned to Disney as CEO on November 20, 2022, following the unscheduled and immediate dismissal of his appointed successor, Bob Chapek. In July 2023, Disney renewed Iger's contract until 2026.
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David Muir
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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David Jason Muir is an American journalist and the anchor of ABC World News Tonight and co-anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20, part of the news department of the ABC broadcast-television network, based in New York City. Muir previously served as the weekend anchor and primary substitute anchor on ABC's World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer succeeding her on September 1, 2014. At ABC News, Muir has won multiple Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards for his national and international journalism.
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Aaron Tveit
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actorsinger
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Aaron Kyle Tveit is an American actor and tenor singer.
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Ricki Lake
- Occupations
- television actortelevision presenterfilm actorfilm producertelevision producer
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Ricki Pamela Lake is an American television host and actress. She is known for her lead role as Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 film Hairspray, for which she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. She is also known for her talk show, Ricki Lake, which was broadcast internationally from September 1993 until May 2004. When the show debuted, Lake was 24 and credited as being the youngest person to host a syndicated talk show at the time. In late 2012, Lake began hosting a second syndicated talk show, The Ricki Lake Show. The series was canceled in 2013 after a single season, but Lake won her first Daytime Emmy Award for the project.
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Ben Feldman
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- actorvoice actor
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Ben Feldman is an American actor and producer. Throughout his career, Feldman has undertaken roles on stage, including the Broadway play The Graduate along with more prominent roles in television series such as his role as Jonah Simms in the NBC sitcom Superstore, Michael Ginsberg in Mad Men and Ron LaFlamme in Silicon Valley. He has also played lead characters in films including The Perfect Man with Hilary Duff.
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CCH Pounder
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- television actorfilm actoractorvoice actorcharacter actor
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Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder is a Guyanese-born American actress. She is known for her roles as Mo'at in the Avatar franchise, as Amanda Waller in various DC media, and as Captain Claudette Wyms in the FX police drama series The Shield (2002–2008). She has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her roles in The X-Files, ER, The Shield, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
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Gavin MacLeod
- Enrolled in Ithaca College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Gavin MacLeod was an American actor best known for his roles as news writer Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ship's captain Merrill Stubing on ABC's The Love Boat. After growing up Catholic, MacLeod became an evangelical Christian in 1984. His career, which spanned six decades, included work as a Christian television host, author, and guest on several talk, variety, and religious programs.
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Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
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- mythographerwriterufologist
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Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is a Swiss-born writer, and television presenter and producer. He is a ufologist and a promoter of the pseudoscientific ancient astronauts hypothesis. He is best known for his appearances on Ancient Aliens, a History channel series of which he is also producer.
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Gavin DeGraw
- Occupations
- pianistsinger-songwritermusicianguitarist
- Biography
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Gavin Shane DeGraw is an American singer-songwriter. DeGraw rose to fame with his song "I Don't Want to Be" from his debut album Chariot (2003); the song became the main theme song for The WB/CW drama series One Tree Hill. Other notable singles from his debut album were the title track and "Follow Through".
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Jharrel Jerome
- Occupations
- film actorrappertelevision actor
- Biography
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Jharrel Jerome is an American actor. He made his on screen film debut in Barry Jenkins's drama film Moonlight (2016) which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and gained prominence for his portrayal of Korey Wise in Ava DuVernay's Netflix miniseries When They See Us (2019), which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. In 2023, he starred in the lead role of Cootie in Boots Riley's limited series I'm a Virgo.
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Gorilla Monsoon
- Occupations
- professional wrestleractor
- Biography
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Robert James Marella, better known by his ring name of Gorilla Monsoon, was an American professional wrestler, play-by-play commentator, and booker.
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Jeremy Jordan
- Enrolled in Ithaca College
- In 2007 graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theater
- Occupations
- songwritertelevision actoractormusical theatre actorstage actor
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Jeremy Michael Jordan is an American actor and singer. He has performed on Broadway, in television and film, in concert, as well as in other theatrical productions.
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Charlie Schlatter
- Occupations
- television actorvoice actordub actorfilm actor
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Charlie Schlatter is an American actor who has appeared in several films and television series. He is best known for his role as Dr. Jesse Travis, the resident student of Dr. Mark Sloan (played by Dick Van Dyke) on the CBS series Diagnosis: Murder. Since the 1990s, he has continued to work mainly as a voice actor, with roles such as the Flash in various media, the titular character on Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil and Wonder-Red in The Wonderful 101.
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Alan Colmes
- Occupations
- radio personalityjournalist
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Alan Samuel Colmes was an American radio and television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger. He was the host of The Alan Colmes Show, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show distributed by Fox News Radio that was broadcast throughout the United States on Fox News Talk on Sirius and XM. From 1996 to 2009, Colmes served as the co-host of Hannity & Colmes, a nightly political debate show on Fox News Channel. Beginning in 2015, Colmes supplied the voice of The Liberal Panel on Fox News Channel's The Greg Gutfeld Show.
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Rick Beato
- Occupations
- guitaristYouTuberrecord producersession musicianaudio engineer
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Richard John Beato is an American YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, music producer and educator. Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer, and has lectured on music at several universities. Based in Black Dog Sound Studios in Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, he has produced for and worked with bands such as Needtobreathe, Parmalee, and Shinedown. He is now known for his YouTube channel on which he covers different aspects of rock, jazz, blues, techno, rap and popular music, and interviews well-known musicians and producers.
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Joe Pera
- Enrolled in Ithaca College
- Studied in 2010
- Occupations
- television actorexecutive producerscreenwritercomedian
- Biography
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Joseph Pera is an American comedian, writer and actor. He is best known as the creator and star of Adult Swim's Joe Pera Talks with You, which entered development following the success of the 2016 specials Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep, and ran for three seasons.
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Andrew Daly
- Occupations
- television actorscreenwritercomedianactor
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Andrew Daly is an American actor, comedian and writer. He starred as Forrest MacNeil on the Comedy Central series Review, and had a supporting role in the HBO comedy series Eastbound & Down as Terrence Cutler. He has also made recurring appearances on television programs such as Silicon Valley, Veep, Modern Family, Black-ish, Trial & Error, the Netflix series The Who Was? Show, Reno 911!, and Comedy Bang! Bang!, as well as animated shows such as Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites, Bob's Burgers, Adventure Time, and Harley Quinn.
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Natasha Rothwell
- Occupations
- writerscreenwritercomedianactor
- Biography
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Natasha Rothwell is an American writer, actress, and comedian. She is known for working on the HBO television series Insecure as a writer, series regular, and supervising producer. She is also known for her work in HBO's The White Lotus, which earned her a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
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Amanda Setton
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Amanda Setton is an American actress. She is known for her recurring role as Penelope Shafai on The CW's teen drama Gossip Girl (2008–2012), for her role as Kimberly Andrews on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (2009–2011) and as Brook Lynn Quartermaine on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. She made her Off-Broadway debut in the comedy play Love, Loss, and What I Wore in late 2011 and was on the first half of season one of the Fox comedy The Mindy Project.
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Maureen Tucker
- Occupations
- percussionistguitaristcomposermusiciansinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Maureen Ann "Moe" Tucker is an American musician and singer-songwriter who was the drummer for the New York City-based rock band the Velvet Underground. After they disbanded in the early 1970s, she left the music industry for a while, though her music career restarted in the 1980s, and continued into the 1990s. She has released four solo albums, where she played most of the instruments herself (though with frequent guest appearances by her former Velvet Underground bandmates and others), and has periodically toured. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of the Velvet Underground.
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Mark Romanek
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- film directorwriterscreenwritertheatrical director
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Mark Lee Romanek is an American filmmaker and photographer.
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Kerry Butler
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- stage actorfilm actorrecording artistvoice actoractor
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Kerry Butler is an American actress and singer known primarily for her work in theater. She is best known for originating the roles of Barbara Maitland in Beetlejuice, Penny Pingleton in Hairspray, and Clio/Kira in Xanadu, the latter of which earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical.
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Mike Mitchell
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- television actorpodcasterscreenwriteractorcomedian
- Biography
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Michael Donovan Mitchell is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known as a member of The Birthday Boys sketch comedy group. He is also known for his role as Randy Monahan on the Netflix series Love, and Cowan in the Amazon Prime Video film The Tomorrow War. He currently co-hosts the podcast Doughboys (with comedian and writer Nick Wiger), which reviews and discusses chain restaurants.
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Doug Tracht
- Occupations
- disc jockey
- Biography
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Doug Tracht is an American radio, television, and movie personality. He is nicknamed "The Greaseman".
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J. Christopher Burch
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- businessperson
- Biography
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J. Christopher Burch is the founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital, a firm based in New York City that manages venture investments and brand development, and co-founder of Tory Burch LLC. He has been an entrepreneur and active investor across fashion, hospitality, and technology industries for nearly forty years. Since establishing his initial venture, Eagle Eye, he has contributed to the rise of multiple brands, including STAUD, BaubleBar, NIHI Sumba, Guggenheim Partners, Tory Burch, Voss Water, Win Brands, Rappi, Danielle Guizio, Solid & Striped, Urbanic, Thursday Boots, SuperOrdinary, Barber Surgeon Guild, Faena Hotel + Universe, Jawbone, Poppin, among many others.
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Ruth Underwood
- Occupations
- percussionistvibraphonistxylophonistmarimba player
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Ruth Underwood is an American musician best known for playing xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, and other percussion instruments in Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. She collaborated with the Mothers of Invention from 1968 to 1977.
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Ilene Graff
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- television actorstage actorsingerfilm actoractor
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Ilene Susan Graff is an American actress and singer.
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Peter Hooten
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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John Peter Hooten is an American actor. He is best known for playing the title character in the television film Dr. Strange (1978).
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Tim Locastro
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Timothy Donald Locastro is an American professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Yankees, and New York Mets. He holds the MLB record for most consecutive successful stolen bases to start a career, with 29.
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Karl Ravech
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Karl Ravech is an American journalist who works as the primary play by play commentator for Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN.
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Liz Tigelaar
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- writernovelistscreenwritertelevision producershowrunner
- Biography
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Rachel Elizabeth Tigelaar is an American television writer, producer, and author.
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Eileen Filler-Corn
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- politicianlawyer
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Eileen Robin Filler-Corn is an American lawyer and politician who served as the Minority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates from January to April 2022, a position she previously held from 2019 to 2020. She previously served as the 56th Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2020 to 2022. Since 2010 she has served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 41st district in the Fairfax County suburbs of Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is also the first woman and Jew to serve as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates.
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Brendan Burke
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Brendan Matthew Burke is an American sportscaster for MSG Networks, the New York Islanders, NBC Sports and TNT Sports.
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Alan Krashesky
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- news presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Alan Krashesky is a former American news anchor. He was the principal news anchor for WLS-TV, an American Broadcasting Company-owned and operated television station in Chicago, Illinois.
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Zachary James
- Occupations
- actorsingeropera singer
- Biography
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Zachary "Zach" James is an American actor, singer, recording artist and 2022 Grammy Award winner. He is known for creating the role of Lurch in The Addams Family on Broadway, Abraham Lincoln in the world premiere Philip Glass opera, The Perfect American, Amenhotep III in the Olivier and Grammy Award-winning production of Akhnaten and for appearances on the television shows, 30 Rock, Murphy Brown, Law & Order: Organized Crime and The Blacklist. Since February 10th, 2024, he has starred as Hades in the West End production of Hadestown at the Lyric Theatre in London. Zachary was named the Most Innovative Opera Singer of 2019 by The Classical Post, Breakout Opera Artist of 2019 by Verismo Magazine and was identified as an industry leader and invited to be an official ambassador for Opera America. He has sung with some of the world's top opera companies and orchestras including English National Opera, LA Opera, Teatro Real, The New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia and NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2019 in Akhnaten. His debut visual album, Call Out, has played 31 film festivals worldwide and received the highly commended designation from London’s Classical Music Digital Awards. His solo show, On Broadway, won him BroadwayWorld’s Vocalist of the Decade and Performer of the Decade awards for the years 2010-2020. The show was filmed live at Chris’s Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia, produced by Des Moines Metro Opera, and released as an album in 2021. Zachary is the host and creator of the comedy talkshow, What Happened Was... which aired every Friday on TDO Network, 2021 thru 2023, produced by Dallas Opera.
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Ben Walsh
- Biography
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Benjamin Walsh is an American politician currently serving as the 54th Mayor of Syracuse, New York. Walsh assumed office on January 1, 2018 as the first independent mayor of Syracuse and the second without major party support since Louis Will in 1913.
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Cindy Bradley
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- jazz musiciancomposer
- Biography
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Cindy Lynn Bradley is an American smooth jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player and composer.
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Kristen Britain
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Kristen Britain is an American author. She wrote Green Rider (which was nominated for the Crawford Award), First Rider's Call, The High King's Tomb, Blackveil (which was nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award), and Mirror Sight. The sixth book in the Green Rider series, Firebrand, was released February 28, 2017. The seventh book "Winterlight" was released September 2021.
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Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Julia Spencer-Fleming is an American novelist of Mystery fiction. She has won the Agatha Award, Anthony Award, Macavity Awards, Dilys Award, Barry Award (for crime novels), the Nero Award, and Gumshoe Awards. She has also been a finalist for the Edgar Award. Her books feature Clare Fergusson, a retired helicopter pilot turned Episcopal priest and Russ Van Alstyne, a police chief. They are set in Millers Kill, a fictional town in upstate New York.
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Mike Royce
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm actoractortelevision producershowrunner
- Biography
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Mike Royce is an American screenwriter and television producer.
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Brian Herzlinger
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Brian Scott Herzlinger is an American film director who directed and starred in My Date with Drew, a documentary released in 2005. Herzlinger graduated from Ithaca College (NY) with a film degree in 1997.
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Lanny Frattare
- Occupations
- athlete
- Biography
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Lanny Lawrence Frattare is an American semi-retired sportscaster. For 33 years he was a play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates, the longest such tenure in the team's history. In 2008, he was nominated for the Ford Frick Award, which is given by the Baseball Hall of Fame for broadcasting excellence.
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David Brody
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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David Philip Brody is an American commentator for the Christian Broadcasting Network. Brody is also known for his vocal support of Donald Trump.
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Big Dipper
- Occupations
- musicianrapperpodcaster
- Biography
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Dan Stermer is an American rapper and podcaster known professionally as Big Dipper.
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Tom Nugent
- Occupations
- athletics competitorhead coach
- Biography
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Thomas N. Nugent was an American college football coach and innovator, sportscaster, public relations man. He served as the head football coach at the Virginia Military Institute, Florida State University, and the University of Maryland. His career record was 89–80–3. Nugent is credited with the development of the I formation.
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Nick Brignola
- Occupations
- jazz musiciansaxophonist
- Biography
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Nicholas Thomas "Nick" Brignola was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.
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Adam B. Ellick
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Adam B. Ellick is a correspondent for The New York Times.
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Loni Hancock
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Loni Hancock is an American politician and a former member of the California State Senate. A Democrat, she represented the 9th Senate District, which encompasses the northern East Bay.
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Jane Corwin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jane Lewis Corwin is an American politician and businesswoman who currently serves a Commissioner of the International Joint Commission for United States and Canada. She previously served as a Republican Party member of the New York State Assembly from 2009 to 2016. She represented the 144th Assembly District which covers parts of Erie and Niagara counties. Corwin was also the Republican Party nominee in the special election held on May 24, 2011, to fill Western New York's 26th district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives previously held by Republican Chris Lee. She faced three other candidates in the election; losing to Democrat Kathy Hochul 47 percent to 42 percent.
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Steven Van Slyke
- Occupations
- chemistengineer
- Biography
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Steven Van Slyke is an American chemist, best known for his co-invention of the Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) and his contributions to the commercial development of OLED displays. Van Slyke is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Kateeva, Inc. Prior to joining Kateeva, he held various positions at Eastman Kodak and was involved in all aspects of OLED technology, from basic materials development to implementation of full-color OLED display manufacturing.
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Giselle Donnelly
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Giselle Donnelly is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). Donnelly is a writer, an analyst of military affairs and defense, national security and foreign policy and the author of AEI's National Security Outlook. She has been a director at the Lockheed Martin Corporation on strategic communications and initiatives since 2002. She was deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) from 1999 to 2002.
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Eddie Sawyer
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Edwin Milby Sawyer was an American manager and scout in Major League Baseball. As a manager, he led the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies — the "Whiz Kids", as the youthful club was known — to the second National League championship in team history.
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Shelly Bond
- Occupations
- editor
- Biography
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Shelly Bond is an American comic book editor, known for her two decades at DC Comics' Vertigo (DC Comics) imprint, for which she was executive editor from 2013 to 2016.
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Harold Betters
- Occupations
- jazz musician
- Biography
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Harold Betters was an American jazz trombone player.
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Bora Yoon
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Bora Yoon is a Korean-American experimental electroacoustic composer and musician known for her use of unconventional instruments and musical technology in her music. An interdisciplinary sound artist, vocalist and TED2014 Fellow, she gathers and uses instruments and timbres from various centuries and cultures, to create immersive audiovisual experiences, with architecture, and acoustics. As of 2023, she is an Assistant Professor of Music at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
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Robert E. Brown
- Years
- 1927-2005 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- musicologistpercussionistuniversity teacherethnomusicologist
- Biography
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Robert Edward "Bob" Brown was an American ethnomusicologist who is credited with coining the term "world music". He was also well known for his recordings of music from Indonesia. Many of these recordings, among the first widely distributed and commercially available in the United States, inspired a generation of musicians to study and perform Indonesian gamelan music.
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Mitchell S. Goldberg
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Mitchell S. Goldberg is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Marc Hodosh
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Marc Hodosh is an American entrepreneur who formerly owned, co-created and hosted the TEDMED conference. In September 2019, Marc Hodosh and Dr. Sanjay Gupta (CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent) announced a new event called Life Itself, set to launch in 2021 in partnership with CNN. Both Gupta and Hodosh will serve as hosts and organizers.
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Paul Jeffrey
- Occupations
- saxophonistoboistuniversity teacherjazz musician
- Biography
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Paul Jeffrey was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and educator. He was a member of Thelonious Monk's regular group from 1970–1975, and also worked extensively with other musicians such as Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Lionel Hampton and B.B. King.
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Tish Rabe
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- writerscreenwriterrecord producercomposerpublisher
- Biography
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Tish Rabe is a children's book author who lives in New York City, New York and Mystic, Connecticut. and has written or adapted more than 40 Dr. Seuss books since Seuss's death.
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Steve Owens
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Stephen Owens is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights baseball team. He has held that position since prior to the 2020 season.
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Bill Roorbach
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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William Roorbach is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic. He has authored fiction and nonfiction works including Big Bend, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and the O. Henry Prize. Roorbach's memoir in nature, Temple Stream, won the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction, 2005. His novel, Life Among Giants, won the 2013 Maine Literary Award for Fiction. And The Remedy for Love, also a novel, was one of six finalists for the 2014 Kirkus Fiction Prize.. His latest book, The Girl of the Lake, is a short story collection published in June 2017. His novel in progress is Lucky Turtle.
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Robert Bluey
- Occupations
- journalistnewspaper editorblogger
- Biography
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Robert B. Bluey is an American conservative blogger and journalist. He is executive editor of The Heritage Foundation's The Daily Signal, a multimedia news organization. Bluey is a former editor of Human Events. He has written for The Daily Caller, RedState, Andrew Breitbart's Big Government and the Washington Examiner.
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Julie Spira
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Julie Spira is an author and media personality on the subjects of online dating, social media, mobile dating, and netiquette. She wrote The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online. Spira has written about the intersection of love and technology for numerous publications.
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Christopher Bateman
- Enrolled in Ithaca College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher "Kip" Bateman is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey Senate from 2008 to 2022, representing the 16th Legislative District. He previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1994 to 2008, also in the 16th district.
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Rebecca Spencer
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- singeropera singerstage actor
- Biography
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Rebecca Spencer is an American singer and actress, known for her roles in musicals and cabaret productions. Over the course of her career, Spencer has performed principal roles in over 50 opera, national tour, regional and Off-Broadway productions, including co-starring in Hollywood Bowl's 2019 production of Into the Woods (in the role of Jack's Mother). She created the role of Lisa Carew in the world premiere of Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll and Hyde at the Alley Theatre, opposite Linda Eder and Chuck Wagner, and premiered the role of Madame Giry in the $35 million production of Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular, under the direction of Harold Prince.
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Alex Westerman
- Occupations
- creative director
- Biography
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Alexander Westerman is an American creative director based in Los Angeles.
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Edward A. Diana
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Edward A. Diana is an American educator, politician and former County Executive of Orange County, New York. Prior to being elected County Executive, he served for twelve years as County Legislator. He resides in Wallkill, New York.
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Jeanne Mackin
- Occupations
- writernovelistuniversity teacherediting staffopinion journalist
- Biography
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Jeanne Mackin is an American author and a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. Her published novels include A Lady of Good Family, The Beautiful American, The Sweet By and By, Dreams of Empire, The Queen's War and The Frenchwoman. She published a trilogy of mysteries with New American Library, writing as Anna Maclean. The mysteries were also translated and published in Japan. She has authored several non-fiction books and written creative nonfiction and feature articles for The New York Times, Americana, Fiberarts and other national publications. Working with Finger Lakes Productions, she helped develop, write and edit scripts for nationally broadcast radio programs including Nature Watch and the Ocean Report with Sylvia Earle.
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Barry Mendelson
- Occupations
- television producer
- Biography
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Barry Mendelson is an American television producer and CEO of Mendelson Entertainment Group LLC.
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Jesse Zook Mann
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- film directordocumentary filmmaker
- Biography
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Jesse Zook Mann is an American documentary producer and director best known for Punk Jews and My First Time. His work has appeared on NBC, VICE, MTV, Al Jazeera, and The Science Channel. Mann concentrates on subjects revolving around subcultures, outsiders, and activism. Mann currently lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Daniel Cordaro
- Enrolled in Ithaca College
- 2003-2007 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- researcherbusiness executivepsychologist
- Biography
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Daniel Cordaro is an American research scientist and psychologist who specializes in emotion psychology and human wellbeing. As a former faculty member at Yale University, Cordaro is best-known for his research in human emotion and positive psychology. Formerly the director of the Universal Expression Project at the University of California, Berkeley, Cordaro has conducted various worldwide studies on human emotional expression.
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Geoffrey Kleinman
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Geoffrey Kleinman is an American writer. He is the founder of Kleinman.com the company which started and ultimately sold DVD Talk and which runs DrinkSpirits.com.
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Todd Bernstein
- Biography
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Todd Bernstein is the founder and director of the annual Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service.
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Marty Ashby
- Occupations
- record producerjazz guitarist
- Biography
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Marty Ashby is a music producer, concert organizer, and jazz guitarist. Since 1987 he has been the executive producer of MCG Jazz, a program of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, where he has produced more than 2,000 concerts and 40 recordings on the MCG Jazz label, including five Grammy Award winners. He has also performed with a number of jazz groups and is an adjunct professor at Oberlin College.
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Margaret Daum
- Years
- 1906-1977 (aged 71)
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Margaret Daum was an American classical soprano.
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Frederick Shehadi III
- Occupations
- guitaristsinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Freddi Shehadi is an American guitarist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He began his musical career in the early 1980s in New York City and quickly ascended to writing and producing music for pop music artists, movies and major television networks including NBC, CBS and ABC.
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Judy Byron
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- visual artist
- Biography
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Judy Byron is a multimedia artist and activist based in Washington, D.C. Her work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
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Michael A. Battle
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Michael A. Battle is an American attorney who served as the director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys in the United States Department of Justice until he resigned, effective March 16, 2007. He was the person who informed seven United States Attorneys on December 7, 2006 that they were being dismissed.
