New York's Creative Core - Real People-Real Creative People

Creative Core - Real Creative People

Real Creative People

The Creative Core has been home to hundreds of well-known artists, writers, musicians, and leaders of the entertainment industry, including legends: Gustav Stickley, Adelaine Alsop Robineau, L. Frank Baum, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Camille Anna Paglia, Tony Trischka, Libba Cotton, Jimmy Van Heusen, Lou Reed, Maya Deren and Rod Serling.

Actors

Dylan Baker – actor
The Baldwin brothers: Alec, Billy, Daniel, and Steven Baldwin - actors
Darryl Bell - Actor

Rory Cochrane - actor
Jackie Coogan - Child Actor (Addams Family - Uncle Fester)

Tom Cruise - actor
Taye Diggs - actor

Peter Falk - Actor

Vera Farmiga - Actress The Departed

Richard Gere - actor

Elizabeth Hendrickson - Actress

Miriam Hopkins - Actress

Grace Jones - model, actress, singer

Miss Jones - Radio DJ and Singer

Joe Lamachia - Voice Actor

Frank Langella - Actor

Riki Lindhome - Actress

Neal McDonough - Actor, "Band of Brothers", "Tin Man", "Timeline"

Johnny Messner - Actor

Patti Murin - Broadway actress ("Xanadu")

Eliza Orlins - Survivor: Vanuatu contestant (4th Place); Survivor: Micronesia—Fans Vs. Favorites contestant (10th place)

Suzanne Pleshette - Actress, The Bob Newhart Show

Tiffany Pollard - TV Personality (Flavor of Love & I Love New York), and Actress

Kevin Michael Richardson - Actor, Star of ABC's "Knights of Prosperity."

Rod Serling - writer, actor

Frank Whaley – actor

Vanessa Williams - former Miss America, singer, actress

Artists

Robb Armstrong - cartoonist of the comic strip Jump Start.

Candace Bahouth - American needelpoint designer and tapestry weaver

Donato Giancola - fantasy artist

Warren Kimble - folk artist

Joseph S. Kozlowski, portrait artist.
Barbara Kruger - collage artist

David Krutz - Author

Sol LeWitt - Sculptor

Mark Lombardi - Abstract painter
Scott McCloud - cartoonist and comics theorist

Adelaine Alsop Robineau –Painter and potter

Bill Viola - Video Artist

Chris Wedge – media and special effects

Athletes

Carmelo Anthony- NBA player for Denver Nuggets
Tim Green - author, formerNFL linebacker, FOX NFL commentator

Comedians

Jeff Altman – comedian
J.Son Dinant - Comedian, Actor and TV personality. Known for MTV's Fear
Bobcat Goldthwait - actor,comedian

Tom Kenny - comedian, voice of SpongeBob SquarePants

Lisa Lampanelli - Comedian

Rick March - Stand Up Comedian

Designers

Thom Filicia - interior designer, regular on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Henry Grethel - fashion designer

Betsey Johnson - fashion designer

Musicians

Little Anthony- recording artist- Little Anthony and the Imperials ("Tears on my Pillow")
Joey Belladonna - lead singer of Anthrax
Ben Berrios - former founder/lead rapper for TECHWON Productions
Felix Cavaliere - musician, The Young Rascals

Jimmy Cavallo - saxophonist ("Do the Hucklebuck")
Libba Cotton – blues legend
Earth Crisis - straight edge hardcore punk band
Rick Cua - bassist, producer
Priscilla Chan - Singer inHong Kong

Nicholas Galluzzo-Case a.k.a. DeCoY - award winning singer

Ronnie James Dio - musician

David N. Johnson - American composer, organist, and professor

Gary Dunes - radio personality, entertainer,musician, singer
Joe English - drummer, producer
Carlisle Floyd - Critically acclaimed opera composer

Judy Freudberg - Writer- Sesame Street , "An American Tale" and "The Land Before Time"

Kim Gannon- (composer) wrote the Christmas song "I’ll be home for Christmas".

Carl Gottlieb - Screenwriter (Jaws) and vice-president of the Writers Guild of America, West

Jeremy Harris - musician/rapper ("JHarris")Odessa - recording artist [1]

Kristopher R. Heels - Guitarist/Multi-instrumentalist/Vocalist

Chris Krupa - lead singer of rock band supergush
Donald Martino - Pulitzer Prize winning Composer

Sterling Morrison - Musician Lou Reed - former frontman of The Velvet Underground, singer, guitarist

Martin Sexton - musician,singer, songwriter

Kyle Shapiro - Lead singer of Heavy Metal band Scars of Life

Tony Trischka - banjoist,composer

Jimmy Van Heusen - composer

Pete Yorn - singer, guitarist

Howard Wyeth - Drummer and pianist

Writers

Hervey Allen, author of best-selling Anthony Adverse, which became a film.
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, author of The Perfect Tribute and other works.

L. Frank Baum, author the Oz books , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Matthew Berry - Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Married with Children

Tim Calpin - Screenwriter

Eric Carle- author of children's books
Warren Casey - Co-writer of the book, lyrics, and music for Grease

Wendy Coakley-Thompson - Writer

Bruce Coville - children's author and playwright
Stephen Crane - Novelist, Red Badge of Courage

Adam Davies - Novelist

Aleš Debeljak - Poet, Essayist and Sociologist

Stephen Dunn - Poet

Walter Farley - author of The Black Stallion
David B. Feinberg - writer and AIDS activist

Clement Greenberg - art critic

Shirley Jackson - Novelist

John D. MacDonald - Novelist

Don Maloney - Japanophile author

Jerre Mangione‎ novelist, and scholar of the Italian-American experience

Robert Mankoff - cartoonist and Editor of The New Yorker

Darin Morgan - screenwriter

Jonathan Murray - reality TV producer, Bunim/Murray Productions

Jay McInerney - Novelist

Joyce Carol Oates - Novelist

Robert O'Connor - Novelist

Camille Paglia - social critic, author

Tom Perrotta - American novelist and screenwriter

Salvador Plascencia - Novelist

Mary Jo Putney - romance novelist

William Safire - Pulitzer Prize winning commentator and former NY Times Columnist

George Saunders - Acclaimed American writer of short stories

George Schuyler - Black author and writer known for having a conservative viewpoint

Craig Shirley - author and political consultant

Alice Sebold – novelist, The Lovely Bones

Laurie Gwen Shapiro – Novelist, Independent Spirit Award-Keep the River on Your Right

William Tester - American writer of short stories

John A. Williams (author) - Novelist

Chris Wedge – producer of Ice Age and writer/illustrator of Tron, other sci-fi

Others

Lynn Ahrens - American musical theatre lyricist

Martin Bandier - Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, EMI Music Publishing
Dick Clark - TV personality, former American Bandstand host

Maya Deren - filmmaker

Richard Dobbis - Former President, Sony Music International

Robert F. Engle - Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Economics

Peter Guber - Former Studio Head, Columbia Pictures, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment

Morton Janklow - preeminent literary agent

Hilton Kramer - Critic, "The Revenge of the Philistines"

Rob Light - Managing Partner/Head of Music, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)

Frank Marion - Motion picture pioneer

Christopher McGurk - Frmr. V. Chairman,COO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc (MGM)
David Ross - Nationally renowned museum director