our Alumni

Our City-As-School alumni define success each in their own unique way. Several have notable achievements like painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, the Beastie Boy’s Adam Horovitz, musician Patty Smyth. Consortium Schools like City-As-School “boast graduation, college-going, and college retention rates that routinely top city, state, and national averages,” according to The Village Voice.

Our alumni include:

• Sunny Bak (born 1958) – commercial photographer and celebrity

• Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) – graffiti artist, film director

• Michael Dominic (born 1970) – award-winning documentary filmmaker and photojournalist

• Julia Fox (actress) born 1989/90 – actress

• Adam Horovitz (Ad-rock) of the Beastie Boys (born 1966) – musician/rapper, son of playwright Israel Horovitz

• Zachary Throne (born 1967) – actor, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist

• Timothy Hunter (born 1972) – singer/dancer, appeared on Broadway

• Ephrem Lopez (DJ Enuff) (born 1969) – DJ and radio personality

• Ayodele Maakheru – musician, composer, and bandleader, winner of the ASCAP songwriter award (2004)

• Franck de Las Mercedes (born 1972) – visual artist

• Mekhi Phifer (born 1974) – film actor

• Victor Rasuk: (born 1984) – actor, winner, Independent Spirit Award (2002)

• Ryder Ripps (born 1986) – conceptual artist

• Seth Zvi Rosenfeld (born 1961) – playwright and screenwriter

• Dante Terrell Smith (Mos Def) (born 1973) – musician and actor

• Patty Smyth (born 1957) – rock musician

• Vincent Spano (born 1962) – television and film actor

• Mia Tyler (born 1978) – Plus-size model, daughter of Aerosmith lead singer, Steven Tyler

• Charles Malik Whitfield (born 1970) – film and television actor

• Bob Woodruff (singer) (born 1961) - Singer, songwriter, musician

• Malik Yoba (born 1967) – film and television actor