of Fame Oren Moverman (B.A. 1992), Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Larry Namer (B.A. 1971), founder of E! Entertainment TV Network Barry Oringer (B.A. 1958), prolific producer and screenwriter Eric Overmyer (M.F.A. 1982), television writer and producer; The Wire Gil Portes (M.S. 1971), award-winning Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter Richard Portnow (B.A. 1967), actor, known for recurring role in The Sopranos Dennis Prager (B.A. 1970), syndicated radio talk show host, columnist, author, ethicist, and public speaker, founder of PragerU. Brian "Q" Quinn, comedian, stars in the popular TV show Impractical Jokers Mark Rappaport (B.A. 1964), independent/underground film director David Rayfiel (B.A. 1947), screenwriter, frequent collaborator of director Sydney Pollack Richard Reicheg (B.A. 1962, MA 1973), actor, folk singer, and songwriter, known for the song "Looking for an Echo" Jason Reischel (M.A. 2016), singer-songwriter who sometimes goes by the stage name My Cousin, The Emperor. Howard Rosenman (B.A. 1965), producer and motion picture executive Marc Salem (B.A. 1975), mentalist and mind reader George Schindler (B.A. 1952), stage magician, magic consultant, and ventriloquist, "lifetime dean" of the Society of American Magicians Steve Schirripa (B.A. 1980), actor known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on the HBO TV series The Sopranos Citizen Kafka (Richard Shulberg), (B.A. 1969), radio personality and folk musician Roger S. H. Schulman (B.A. 1980), film and television writer and producer, co-wrote the animated feature Shrek Stuart Seide (B.A. 1967), artistic director of the Théâtre du Nord in Lille, France, and the first American to direct the Comédie-Française Jimmy Smits (B.A. 1980), actor, NYPD Blue and L.A. Law; won Emmy Award in 1990 Frank Tarloff (B.A. 1936), blacklisted American screenwriter who won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Father Goose Elliot Tiber (attended, but did not graduate), screenwriter, "saved" Woodstock Festival Adrianne Tolsch (B.A. 1961), comedian long associated with Catch a Rising Star Frank P. Tomasulo, PhD (B.A. 1967), award-winning film and media professor, noted journal editor and critic Tom Topor (B.A. 1961), playwright, screenwriter, and novelist Adam Wade (M.A. '87), singer, drummer, and television actor, noted for his stint as the host of the 1975 CBS game show Musical Chairs, which made him the first African-American game show host Naren Weiss (M.F.A. 2015), actor, playwright, and model Andrew D. Weyman (B.A. 1973), television director and producer Fawn Yacker (B.A. 1973), founding member of The Nuclear Beauty Parlor, filmmaker, producer and cinematographer, known for her 2009 documentary Training