Beatrice Burton
Author, film writer, and actress during the early 20th century
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Pearl Bailey
African-American actress, singer, comedian and author.
Larissa Behrendt
Indigenous Australian activist, filmmaker, academic, lawyer and writer
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks was the first Aboriginal female movie star, alongside being an advocate for her community.
Susan Myrick
Despite a journalism career with the Macon Telegraph that spanned half a century, Susan Myrick is best known as the technical advisor for the film Gone With the Wind (1939). She also held many other titles in her long and colorful life—educator, soil conservation advocate, civic leader, amateur theater doyenne, and painter.
Una Troy
Irish writer
Paola Velasco
Essayist, storyteller, translator, poet, editor, screenwriter and Mexican cultural promoter
Itzel Lara
Mexican playwright and screenwriter
Susana Wein
Hungarian-Mexican screenwriter, storyteller, playwright and theatre director.
Minnie Gentry
“The First Lady” of Karamu Theater, this critically acclaimed artist received a Tony nomination in 1972 and the Outstanding Pioneer Award for her contributions to Black theater in 1985.