Renowned American theatre director, producer, and drama critic Harold Clurman was also a beloved and influential Hunter College faculty member from 1967 to 1980. During his tenure at Hunter, Clurman brought colleagues like Arthur Miller and Walter Kerr to teach Hunter students as visiting faculty.

Actress Ellen Barkin is known for her powerful performances and versatile roles on both stage and screen. Born and raised in the Bronx, Barkin grew up in a middle-class Jewish family, where her passion for acting developed at a young age. She actively pursued theater while attending Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts, then enrolling at Hunter College, where she graduated with a double major in drama and history.

An esteemed director, educator, and actor—and one of the most important figures in American theatre during the latter half of the 20th century—Lloyd Richards was also a beloved Hunter College professor. A committed acting coach, he was instrumental in the careers and lives of countless students, including actress and Hunter graduate Ruby Dee, a student and collaborator.

Award-winning film producer, actor, writer, and director Sam Feuer got his start when he was discovered by Steven Spielberg and cast in the Oscar nominated film Munich (2005). Before arriving in Hollywood in 2002, Feuer lived in New York City and graduated from Hunter College with honors after studying theater and film.

Award-winning visual artist and filmmaker Sasha Wortzel is a graduate of the Integrated Media Arts program at Hunter College. Her work explores the archival and the imaginary, and Wortzel specifically attends to sites and stories systematically erased or ignored. Raised in South Florida and based in Miami and New York City, she uses film, sculpture, and installation to investigate how structures of power shape our lives around race, gender, desire, and landscape.

Annie Berman is a New York-based media artist whose films, videos, performances, and installations have been shown internationally in cinemas, festivals, galleries, universities, and conferences, including the MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Le FIFA International Festival of Films on Art, Camden International Film Festival, DocPoint Helsinki, Rooftop Films, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger Berlin, and Kassel Hauptbahnhof.

Filmmaker and visual journalist Nathan Fitch has had his award winning work published and broadcast by The New York Times Op Docs, Time magazine, The New Yorker, PBS, and NPR. A graduate of the Integrated Media Arts Program at Hunter College, Fitch had considered graduate school for some time, but was nervous about the prospect of taking on debt for another degree.

Socially engaged multimedia artist Betty Yu’s artistic practice integrates documentary film and new media platforms with community-infused activism and education. Born and raised in New York City to Chinese Immigrant parents, Yu co-founded Chinatown Art Brigade in 2015, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-gentrification organizing.

Jeremy S. Levine is an award-winning filmmaker exploring themes of race, class, and trauma—unearthing the buried tragedies of a society in active denial of its own past. Levine earned an MFA from the Integrated Media Arts program at Hunter College in 2020, and taught as an adjunct professor at Hunter as well.

A writer, producer, and director whose work in film, radio, and television production spans over two decades, Deepak Rauniyar earned his MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College in 2021, while teaching film studies. He came to Hunter already having debuted two feature films at top international film festivals.