Camille A. Brown is a dancer, choreographer, director and dance educator. She is the Founder & Artistic Director of Camille A. Brown & Dancers, and has congruently choreographed commissioned pieces for dance companies, Broadway shows, and universities. Brown started her career as a dancer in Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, A Dance Company, and was a guest artist with

Rennie Harris Lorenzo Harris (born January 28, 1964) is a dancer, choreographer, artistic director and professor of hip-hop dance. Harris formed the first and longest running hip-hop dance touring company, Rennie Harris Puremovement in 1992. In 2007, he conceiv ...

Puremovement, and

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) is a modern dance company based in New York City. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey. It is made up of 32 dancers, led by artistic director Robert Battle and associate a ...

(2008 and 2011). Brown has choreographed major Broadway shows such as

Choir Boy ''Choir Boy'' is a coming-of-age play by American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney. The play premiered in September 2012 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, before going on to play productions at New York City Center, Alliance Theatre, Geffe ...

Once on This Island ''Once on This Island'' is a coming-of-age one-act stage musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. It is based on the 1985 novel ''My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl'' by Rosa Guy, a Caribbean-set retelling ...

and

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that aired on NBC. Brown also teaches dance and gives lectures to audiences at various universities such as

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and ACDFA (

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), among others. Camille A. Brown & Dancers partnered with Google Arts & Culture on a project for

Black History Month Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. It has received official recognition from governments in the United States and Canada, and more recently ...

exploring the story of Black history and culture through dance where "ink" was highlighted and filmed at

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. Brown has received awards and accolades including being a five-time

Princess Grace Award The Princess Grace Foundation – USA is a charity organization named after Princess Grace of Monaco, which supports emerging performers in theater, dance, and film in the form of awards, grants, scholarships, and fellowships. The Foundation hol ...

recipient,

Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual cer ...

Nominee for best Choreography for

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Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

Doris Duke Performing Artist Award The Doris Duke Artist Award is undertaken by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and designed to "empower, invest in and celebrate artists by offering multi-year, unrestricted funding as a response to financial and funding challenges both unique t ...

Obie Award The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by ''The Village Voice'' newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City. In September 2014, the awards were jointly presented and administered with the A ...

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Award Honoree, USA Jay Franke & David Herro Fellow, and a

Bessie Award The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists presenting their work in New York City. The broad categories of the awards are: choreography, ...

. She has been featured on the cover of

(April 2018) and Dance Teacher Magazine (August 2015). Brown has performed at the 2018 and 2015

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Conference in Vancouver, Canada and given talks at both TEDxBeaconStreet and TEDx Estée Lauder Companies. Camille A. Brown is the Choreographer for Roundabout Theater’s Toni Stone, Much Ado About Nothing- directed by

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, Once The Musical, and will make her

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debut as Choreographer for

Porgy & Bess ''Porgy and Bess'' () is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play '' Porgy'', it ...

. Brown made her directorial debut with the Broadway revival of for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, and Fire Shut Up In My Bones for The Metropolitan Opera (co-directed with James Robinson). Ms. Brown made her Broadway Directorial Debut for the Broadway revival of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf making her the first Black woman to Direct and Choreograph a Broadway show in 67 years. The production received 7 Tony Award nominations including Best Direction of a Play and Best Choreography, 3 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations including Outstanding Director of a Play and Outstanding Choreography, 3 Drama League Award nominations including Outstanding Direction of a Play, 3 Chita Rivera Award nominations including Outstanding Choreography in a Broadway Show, and 2 Drama Desk Award nominations and The New York Times proclaimed the production "Triumphant" and "a Broadway homecoming celebration that you will not want to miss."

Dance training

As a child, Brown trained at The Bernice Johnson Dance Center and The Carolyn DeVore Dance Center. She continued her training in high school at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts while simultaneously attending The Ailey School on scholarship. Brown earned a B.F.A. from the

University of North Carolina School of the Arts The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) is an arts school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It grants high school, undergraduate, and graduate degrees. Founded in 1963 as the North Carolina School of the Arts by then-Governo ...

and went on to dance as a member of Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, A Dance Company, and was a guest artist with Rennie Harris Puremovement and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Brown's company, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, debuted in 2006. Reviewing their debut, The New York Times said Brown's "personal physical style, with its focused bursts of energy and frozen positions that explode into motion, colors her group works very differently." Camille A. Brown & Dancers has performed works such as ''ink'',

winning ''Mr. TOL E. RAncE'',

nominated ''BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, City of Rain, Good & Grown'', and ''The Groove to Nobody’s Business'', among others. The company has performed these works in national and international venues, including The

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, The

Joyce Theater The Joyce Theater (“The Joyce") is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The building opened in 1941 as the Elgin Theater, a movie house, and was gut-renovated and reconfigured in 1981-82 to re ...

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Fall for Dance Festival Fall for Dance is an annual dance festival presented by New York City Center New York City Center (previously known as the Mecca Temple, City Center of Music and Drama,. The name "City Center for Music and Drama Inc." is the organizational par ...

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 millio ...

Jacob’s Pillow Jacob's Pillow is a dance center, school and performance space located in Becket, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. The organization is known for a Summer dance festival. The facility also includes a professional school and extensive archives a ...

Dance Festival,

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, The Yard, White Bird, REDCAT, and

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, among others.

Choreography

Informed by her music background as a clarinetist, Brown creates choreography that utilizes musical composition as storytelling. Brown has choreographed for various commercial and theater projects including

Once On This Island ''Once on This Island'' is a coming-of-age one-act stage musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. It is based on the 1985 novel ''My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl'' by Rosa Guy, a Caribbean-set retelling ...

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, '' BELLA: An American Tall Tale'' (Director: Kirsten Childs), Cabin in the Sky (musical) (Director: Ruben Santiago-Hudson), and Broadway's

A Streetcar Named Desire ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of pers ...

. Dance companies that have commissioned her work include:

Philadanco The Philadelphia Dance Company (also known as Philadanco) is a professional dance company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that specializes in contemporary dance. The organization was founded in 1970 by Artistic Director Joan Myers Brown. The ...

Urban Bush Women Urban Bush Women (UBW), founded in 1984 by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, is a Brooklyn, New York-based non-profit dance company and the only professional African-American women's dance company. The ensemble performs choreography by Zollar and a number ...

, Complexions, Ailey II, and Ballet Memphis. Her works have been performed at

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Apollo Theatre The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster, in central London.

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, and

. She also was the

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for Saverio Palatella's line, Wholegarment 3D, for

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in 2008. In 2019, she was nominated for a

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for Best Choreography.

Community engagement

In 2014, Brown founded two initiatives: The Gathering, an annual open forum for intergenerational Black female artists to advocate for greater cultural equity and acknowledgement in the dance world; and BLACK GIRL SPECTRUM (BGS), a community engagement initiative. On June 4, 2016, BGS had its inaugural symposium with the theme “Social Dance for Social Change” at Dr.

Barbara Ann Teer Barbara Ann Teer (June 18, 1937 – July 21, 2008) was an American writer, producer, teacher, actress and social visionary. In 1968, she founded Harlem's National Black Theatre, the first revenue-generating black theater arts complex in the U.S. ...

’s

National Black Theatre The National Black Theatre is a non-profit cultural and educational corporation, and community-based theatre company located on 5th Avenue in Harlem, New York. History The National Black Theatre (NBT) is a non-profit cultural and educational ...

in Harlem, NY. In 2018, Brown created a community engagement platform, Every Body Move (EBM), to serve as the umbrella for all initiatives that bring the artistic rigor of Camille A. Brown & Dancers’ beyond the stage and into communities. Every Body Move works to cultivate the creative capacity of its participants through workshops, summer intensives, artistic encounters, educational experiences, public actions, and celebrations for people of diverse abilities, identities, and ages. The initiative includes: Black Girl Spectrum (BGS); Black Men Moving (BMM); The Gathering; Creative Action Lab; Every Body Move Celebration.

Choreographed works

*2002 Awakened in Slumber (Hubbard Street 2) *2004 Demetia’s Serenity (Camille A. Brown) *2005 More Time Than Anybody (Camille A. Brown & Dancers) *2005 Shelter of Presence (Camille A. Brown) *2005 Nahum (Ailey II) *2006 Afro Blue (Reflections Dance Company) *2006 New Second Line (Reflections Dance Company) *2006 More Time Than Anybody (Camille A. Brown & Dancers) *2007 The Evolution of a Secured Feminine (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) *2007 Here We Go…Again?! (Urban Bush Women) *2007 The Groove To Nobody’s Business (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) *2008 Saverio Palatella’s line – Wholegarment 3D (New York Fashion Week) *2008 Un Festin Divin (Ballet Memphis) *2008 Matchstick (Camille A. Brown & Dancers) *2009 The Groove To Nobody’s Business (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) *2009 The Blues On Beale (Ballet Memphis) *2009 Good Times, Ha! (The Youth American Grand Prix) *2009 Those Who See Light (Philadelphia Dance Company – Philadanco!) *2010 Our Honeymoon Is Over (Dallas Black Dance Theater) *2010 Been There, Done That (Camille A. Brown & Dancers) *2010 City of Rain (Camille A. Brown & Dancers) *2010 By Way of East (Kyle Abraham & Camille A. Brown) *2010 The Evolution of a Secured Feminine (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) *2012 Strum (Toni Pierce Sands and Uri Sands Dance (TU Dance)) *2012 One Second Past the Future (Camille A. Brown & Dancers) *2012 Memories (Complexions Contemporary Ballet) *2012 Bind (The

Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City. Established in 1905, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the most el ...

) *2012 Pins & Needles: FUREE (Director Ken Rus Schmoll) *2012 HOUSE (Director Saheem Ali) *2012 Fortress of Solitude (Director Daniel Aukin) *2012

(Director Emily Mann) *2013 William Shakespeare’s

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(Director Rebecca Taichman) *2013 MR. TOL. E R''A''nc''E'' (Camille A. Brown & Dancers) *2014 The Box: A Black Comedy (Director: Seth Bockley) *2014 tick, tick...BOOM! (Director: Oliver Butler) *2014 GALOIS (Director: Victor Maog) *2014 '' The Fortress of Solitude'' (

The Public Theater The Public Theater is a New York City arts organization founded as the Shakespeare Workshop in 1954 by Joseph Papp, with the intention of showcasing the works of up-and-coming playwrights and performers.Epstein, Helen. ''Joe Papp: An American Li ...

) *2015 Blood Quilt (Director: Kamilah Forbes) *2015 Stagger Lee (Director: Patricia McGregor) *2015 Cabin in the Sky (musical) (Director: Ruben Santiago-Hudson) *2015 BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play (Camille A. Brown & Dancers) *2016 BELLA: An American Tall Tale (Director: Robert O'Hara) *2016

Web Commercial with Russell Westbrook *2017 ink (Camille A. Brown & Dancers) *2017

Revival *2018

on NBC *2019

, Broadway *2019 Toni Stone (

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, Director:

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) *2019 Much Ado About Nothing (

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, Director:

) *2019 Once (

Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (Pittsburgh CLO) is a nonprofit professional theater company based in the Cultural District of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Despite its name, the organization presents musical theatre classics rather t ...

, Director: J. Michael Zygo) *2019

(

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, Director: James Robinson) *2019 for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (

, Director: Leah C. Gardiner) *2020 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) *2021 Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous (Spotlight On Plays) *2021

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(

) *2021 Toni Stone (Arena Stage) *2022 Harlem (Amazon Prime Video) *2022 for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (Broadway, The Booth Theatre)

Honors

*1997 - The Helen Tamiris Award – Performance *1997 - Young Artist’s Award – Performance *1997 - Presidential Scholar of the Arts Award – Dance Performance; Young Artist’s Award – Performance; The Helen Tamiris Award – Performance *2006 - Project Next Generation Award – Urban Bush Women *2006 - Princess Grace Award – Choreography; Project Next Generation Award – Urban Bush Women *2006 - Best Choreography Nomination – Black Theater Arts Alliance – The Groove To Nobody’s Business – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, USA Artist Award Nomination *2011 -

Bessie Awards The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists presenting their work in New York City. The broad categories of the awards are: choreography, ...

Nomination – Outstanding Performance (The Evolution of A Secured Feminine) *2012 - The New York City College Women and Culture Award *2012 - Mariam McGlone Emerging Choreographer Award (Wesleyan University); The New York City College Women and Culture Award; USA Artist Award Nomination *2013 - The Founder’s Award – International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) *2013 - Princess Grace Works in Progress Residency *2014 -

– Outstanding Performance – MR. TOL. E R''A''nc''E'' *2015 -

Lucille Lortel Awards The Lucille Lortel Awards recognize excellence in New York Off-Broadway theatre. The Awards are named for Lucille Lortel, an actress and theater producer, and have been awarded since 1986. They are produced by the League of Off-Broadway Theatre ...

Nomination - Outstanding Choreographer (Fortress of Solitude) *2015 - USA Jay Franke & David Herro Fellow *2015 -

*2015 -

*2016 -

Nomination - Outstanding Performance - BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play *2016 - Princess Grace Choreographic Mentorship Co-Commission Award *2016 -

Jacob's Pillow Dance Jacob's Pillow is a dance center, school and performance space located in Becket, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. The organization is known for a Summer dance festival. The facility also includes a professional school and extensive archives a ...

Award *2016 -

*2016 -

Princess Grace Foundation-USA The Princess Grace Foundation – USA is a charity organization named after Princess Grace of Monaco, which supports emerging performers in theater, dance, and film in the form of awards, grants, scholarships, and fellowships. The Foundation ho ...

Statue Award *2017 -

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Art of Change Fellow *2017 - Irma P. Hall Black Theater Nomination (BELLA: An American Tall Tale) *2017 -

Audelco Award AUDELCO, the Audience Development Committee, Inc., was established in 1973 by Vivian Robinson to honor excellence in African American theatre in New York City. AUDELCO presents the Vivian Robinson/AUDELCO Recognition Awards (also known as Viv awar ...

- Best Choreography (BELLA: An American Tall Tale) *2017 - Black Woman Scholar Warrior Award (

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) *2018 - Cover Girl of

(April) *2018 -

Nomination - Outstanding Choreographer (BELLA: An American Tall Tale) *2018 -

Outer Critics Circle Award The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. They are presented by the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of New York theater writers for out-of-town newspa ...

Nomination - Outstanding Choreographer (Once On This Island) *2018 - Drama Desk LaDuca Award Nomination - Outstanding Choreographer (Once On This Island) *2018 -

Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography The Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography (previously titled the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards) celebrate outstanding dance and choreography in theatre, both on Broadway and Off-Broadway and in film at an annual ceremony in New York City ...

Nomination - Outstanding Choreographer (Once On This Island) *2019 -

Drama Desk Award The Drama Desk Award is an annual prize recognizing excellence in New York theatre. First bestowed in 1955 as the Vernon Rice Award, the prize initially honored Off-Broadway productions, as well as Off-off-Broadway, and those in the vicinity. Fo ...

Nominee for Outstanding Choreography for

*2019 -

Nominee for Best Choreography for

*2019 - Choreography Mentorship Co-Commission (CMCC) Award (

) *2019 -

Nominee for Choreography (Much Ado About Nothing) *2019 -

Nominee for Choreography (Toni Stone) *2019 -

Winner for Choreography (Much Ado About Nothing) *2019 - SDCF

Callaway Award The Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage is presented annually by The Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest. The Callaway Award "recognizes individuals who take a public stance to advance truth and justice, at some personal risk". T ...

Finalist (Much Ado About Nothing) *2020 -

Lucille Lortel Award The Lucille Lortel Awards recognize excellence in New York Off-Broadway theatre. The Awards are named for Lucille Lortel, an actress and theater producer, and have been awarded since 1986. They are produced by the League of Off-Broadway Theatre ...

Nominee for Outstanding Choreographer (Toni Stone) *2020 -

Nominee for Outstanding Choreographer (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf) *2020 -

Nominee for Outstanding Choreography (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf) *2020 - Antonyo Award Nominee for Best Choreography (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf) *2020 - Antonyo Award Nominee for Best Quarantine Content (Social Dance for Social Distance) *2020 - Antonyo Award Winner for Best Choreography (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf) *2020 -

Winner for Sustained Excellence in Choreography *2020 -

Award Honoree *2020 - Emerson Collective Fellow *2021 - ISPA Distinguished Artist Award *2022- Kennedy Center Next 50 *2022- Chita Rivera Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreography in a Broadway Show (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf) *2022- Drama League Award Nominee for Outstanding Direction of a Play (''for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)'' *2022- Outer Critics Circle Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreography (''for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)'' *2022- Outer Critics Circle Award Nominee for Outstanding Director of a Play (''for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)'' *2022- Tony Award Nominee for Best Choreography (''for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)'' *2022- Tony Award Nominee for Best Direction of a Play (''for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)'' *2022- Antonyo Award Nominee for Best Direction (Broadway) ''(for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)'' *2022- Bessie Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator (''Fire Shut Up in My Bones'') *2023- The Award (Formerly Known as the "Antonyo Award") for Best Direction of a Play on Broadway (''for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf'')

References

External links

Archival footage of Camille A. Brown performing her work The Evolution of a Secured Feminine at Jacob's Pillow in 2010Archival footage of Camille A. Brown and Kyle Abraham performing in their work ''How We Process'' Jacob's Pillow in 2011Archival footage of Camille A. Brown & Dancers performing ''BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play'' in 2017 at Jacob's PillowCamille A. Brown
on the

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's documentary series "Working in the Theatre" on

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in 2016. {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Camille A. Living people 1979 births University of North Carolina School of the Arts alumni American female dancers American dancers Modern dancers American choreographers African-American female dancers African-American dancers African-American choreographers Princess Grace Awards winners Barnard College faculty Bessie Award winners Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni