Alumni News

Harper’s Bazaar published an open letter to Ivanka Trump written by Isabel Rose MFA ’97. In it, she shares the story of her transgender daughter, Sadie, and urges the first daughter to consider from her perspective the issue of transgender students being allowed to use the bathroom of their choice. 

Actor Tim Daly ’79 will star alongside his sister, Tyne Daly, in the world premiere of playwright Theresa Rebeck’s new drama, Downstairs, which will open the Dorset Theatre Festival’s 2017-18 season. 

The Bennington Banner this week featured a story on Sam Clement ’08, a Maine native who stayed local to Bennington after graduating and has since been volunteering his time and music to the community.

A dance, music, and theater performance produced by Ruth Bauer Neustadter '66 in celebration of Women’s History Month will take place at the Ceres Gallery in New York City on Wednesday, March 15, at 7:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public. 

The New York Times examined the "oddball trove" of manuscripts, notes, letters, and other personal artifacts that novelist Jonathan Lethem '86 recently sold to Yale University for inclusion in its American literature collection—which also houses materials by Walt Whitman, Sinclair Lewis, James Baldwin and Marilynne Robinson, among others.