Tina Ramirez
Tina Ramirez combined her artistic vision with years of performance and teaching experience to create and sustain the nation’s preeminent Hispanic-American dance company and school, Ballet Hispanico.
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Mary Verdi-Fletcher
Dancer Mary Verdi-Fletcher founded Cleveland-based Dancing Wheels in 1980 as the US’s first professional dance company to include dancers with and without disabilities.
Larissa Behrendt
Indigenous Australian activist, filmmaker, academic, lawyer and writer
Thoko Ntshinga
For South African actress Thoko Ntshinga, her art and her community are inseparable.
Marilyn Rowe
Australian ballet dancer, teacher and artistic director.
Elia Vargas Sastré
Mexican playwright
Antoinette Quinby Scudder
Antoinette Quinby Scudder (1888-1958) purchased a paper mill in 1934, and later transformed this into the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn.
Dawn Porter
Despite having directed or produced more than a dozen documentaries, Dawn Porter did not begin her career thinking she’d end up in film.
Aditi Kapil
This actor, playwright and director is also an amalgam of several disparate cultures.
Dolly Jacobs
Known as the “Queen of the Air,” Dolly Jacobs is a world-renowned circus aerialist as well as a dedicated teacher, sharing the tradition of circus arts through teaching and performance at her organization, the Circus Arts Conservatory.