Ninette de Valois
Irish ballerina, choreographer, and founder of the Royal Ballet
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Margaret Anglin
American actress, director and producer
Assia Djebar
Best known by her pen name Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen was an Algerian feminist novelist, translator and filmmaker, considered one of North Africa’s most influential writers.
Nola Leigh Millar
First director of the New Zealand Drama School
Daisy Bannard Cogley
Irish theatre director and producer, actor and singer
Kathleen O’Brien
For most of the 1950s Kathleen O’Brien was the only woman directing films in New Zealand.
Catherine Duncan
Catherine Duncan was an actor, playwright, film-maker and author who became the first woman credited as director in an Australian film since the McDonagh sisters in the 1930s.
Paulette McDonagh
In 1926, three remarkable sisters made history by becoming the first Australian women to own and run a film production company. They were also among the first to produce a talkie in Australia.
Dorothy Daniels
One of New Zealand’s leading teachers of ballet.
Peggy van Praagh
In 1962, she was invited to become the first artistic director of the Australian Ballet. She was to hold the position until retirement in 1974, returning for a year in 1978.