Effie Ellsler
Actress known as “Cleveland’s Sweetheart” from the 1870s to 1900s
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Camila Villegas Amtmann
Mexican playwright
Itzel Lara
Mexican playwright and screenwriter
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.
Rousara Joyce Whitley
Architect, city planner, and writer, served as chief planner for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1967-68).
Luz Emilia Aguilar Zinser
Mexican theatre critic and researcher
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.
Helen Haiman Joseph
The “grandmother of American puppetry” because of her practical and scholarly knowledge of marionettes.
Tiffany Sturdivant
Executive director of Appalshop arts center