Eleanor Antin
Artist Eleanor Antin’s work questions the role of women and artists in society, the different identities everyone maintains, and the histories and legacies of contrasting artistic traditions.
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Sara Allgood
Irish actress
Jackie “Moms” Mabley
African-American stand-up comic and actor who was active in stage, television and films from the 1910s to 1970s. She was also one of the 20th century’s first openly queer comedians, coming out as a lesbian in 1921.
Elizabeth Robins
American-Anglo stage actress
Catherine Johnson
British author and screenwriter.
Audrie Alspaugh
Early film critic
Esther Eng
Early Chinese-American filmmaker
Helen Wang
Early Chinese film producer, editor and director
Pu Shunqing
China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband
Xie Caizhen
Caizhen Xie is regarded by several existing sources as the first female director of Chinese cinema who worked in China.