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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

For most of her film career, McQueen was typecast as a servant, but when those roles became scant in Hollywood during the 1950s, she pursued jobs in musical theater, television, and radio. She won the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Award in 1975 and an Emmy Award for her role in the children’s television special The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody (1979).