Irene Dorner

Irene Mitchell Dorner (born 5 December 1954) was the former president, CEO and managing director of HSBC North America Holdings Inc. and HSBC USA. In 2014, she retired from her 32-year career at HSBC. A qualified barrister at law, during her career Dorner worked in a range of roles in the United Kingdom and internationally. She was the first woman CEO of HSBC, Malaysia.
As well as being chairman of Control Risks, she is a non-executive director of Rolls Royce and AXA
Education and career.
Dorner attended St Anne's College, Oxford and received an MA in Jurisprudence in 1973. She was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1977. She is an Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
Dorner began her career in 1982 as an in-house lawyer at the merchant banking arm of Midland Bank, which was later acquired by HSBC. At HSBC, she was also the chief operating officer of treasury and capital markets and general manager of marketing and human resources. In 2007, she was appointed deputy chairman and CEO HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad. In 2011, Dorner was appointed to run the US operations of HSBC. At the helm of HSBC during 2013's money laundering scandal, she's said "One of the things that I am trying to get through to our entire bank is I would rather you walked away from a piece of business that has a question mark next to it than do it in order to boost your bottom line. I am looking for sustainability." Dorner retired from HSBC in 2014.
In 2012, she was named the Most Powerful Woman in Banking by American Banker. In 2013, she was named as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women On Wall Street by Business Insider.
While she is now a vocal advocate for advancing women in business and finance, she recognizes that this advocacy could have begun earlier. “I only realized what was happening when I was 50, because there I was, making my way in the unconscious rules,” Ms. Dorner said. “I really do think the next push has got to come from the senior middle-management women who must stand up and be counted on this earlier than I did.”
Dorner suffered from ovarian cancer, but after six months of chemotherapy and surgery she became cancer free in 2012.
She took over as Chairwoman of Virgin Money UK on 31 March 2018. This appointment created the first all-female leadership team at a major British bank, with Jayne-Anne Gadhia acting as chief executive officer.
In July 2019, it was announced Dorner will succeed Kevin Beeston as non-executive chair of Taylor Wimpey from 26 February 2020.


Paola Lattus

Paola Andrea Lattus Ramos (born 19 August 1980) is a Chilean film, theater, and television actress, known for appearing in films such as "Tony Manero" (2008) by Pablo Larraín and "Optical Illusions" (2009) by Cristián Jiménez.
Biography.
The daughter of distinguished theater actors Ángel Lattus and Teresa Ramos, Paola Lattus began to develop her theatrical career at age 11 in the Theater Company of the University of Antofagasta, participating in a dozen plays, in addition to the Harlequin Theater Company, founded by her own mother in the same city.
In 2000 she entered the Fernando González Acting School. After graduating, she organized summer workshops for teenagers at the Harlequin Theater Company, in which she tried to convey the importance of theater as a reflection on the social environment. She has also conducted acting classes at the University of Chile and University UCINF, among others.
She began her film career in 2008 in the Pablo Larraín drama "Tony Manero". The following year, she received an Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in "Optical Illusions" (2009) by Cristián Jiménez. She was also nominated for a Pedro Sienna Award for the same film.
In 2011 she received the Best Actress award at the for "" by Jairo Boisier.


Amina Al Rustamani

Amina Al Rustamani is a businesswoman in the United Arab Emirates and currently the director of family business AW Rostamani Group. She ranked number 9 in the CEO Middle East's fifth annual list of the world's most powerful Arab women in 2015. She was picked as the Advertising Person of the Year by Dubai Lynx for 2015.
Al Rustamani started her career in Dubai in 2001 as an electrical engineer with TECOM Investments (now TECOM Group), becoming one of few women in the Middle East to enter the profession. She received her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from The George Washington University in 1993, 1996, and 2001, respectively. More recently, Amina was involved in the development of Dubai Design District and Dubai Wholesale City.
Al Rustamani left TECOM Group in February 2018 to take up the reins in her family business.


Geetha Gopi

Geetha Gopi (born 30 May 1973) is a Communist Party of India politician from Thrissur and Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly from Nattika Assembly Constituency. She started her Political career in the year 1995. She was the Chairperson of Guruvayur Municipality in 2004 and 2009 and Deputy Chairperson of the same in 2011. She was born in Punnayurkulam on 30 May 1973.
On 15 June 2017, the CPI issued a warning to Gopi for attending her daughter's lavish wedding.


Tabitha Denholm

Tabitha Denholm (born 14 January 1975) is a British director of music videos, documentary shorts and commercials. Denholm was a member of DJ duo Queens of Noize and later became art director for Florence and the Machine. Her work has been nominated for MTV Video Music Awards. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Life and career.
At age 14, Denholm signed with Storm Model Management. As a model, she appeared in videos by Pulp and Ace of Base. Denholm later got a degree in cultural studies from the University of North London.
After meeting DJ Mairead Nash at a party, Denholm formed the DJ duo Queens of Noize and, with Nash, presented on MTV2 and BBC 6 Music and worked with The Libertines. After Queens of Noize disbanded, Mairead Nash became the manager for Florence and the Machine and Denholm became art director, after meeting vocalist Florence Welch and booking her for Queens of Noize's Christmas party. Denholm co-directed with Tom Beard several singles from "Lungs" including "Dog Days Are Over," "Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)" and "You've Got the Love." These videos were nominated for several 2009 VMAs. She has since directed videos for artists including Haim, Julia Michaels, Of Monsters and Men and Ladyhawke. In 2015, Denholm's video for Jennifer Hudson's "I Still Love You" was nominated for the Video with a Social Message VMA.
In 2016, after watching a documentary about director and screenwriter Frances Marion, Denholm started the Women Under The Influence collective to support female directors.
Personal life.
Denholm dated Pete Doherty during the Libertines' early years.


Anita Klemensen

Anita Klemensen (born 1977) is a Danish chef, who held a Michelin star at New Nordic cuisine restaurant Den Røde Cottage, which she also co-owned. She was the first female Danish chef to win a star. After eight years Klemensen closed the restaurant at the end of 2017. In 2018 the restaurant re-opened under new management.
Career.
Anita Klemensen was born in 1977, and grew up in North Jutland County. She wanted to become a chef, so one day offered to work for free at the restaurant Søllerød Kro, where she was offered an apprenticeship. She trained under pastry chef Markus Grigogav and head chef Casper Vedel.
Klemensen opened the restaurant Den Røde Cottage, and the cafe Den Gule Cottage in 2010, at Cottageparken located around ten miles away from Copenhagen. She had previously worked as head chef in central Copenhagen.
At Den Røde Cottage, Klemensen served New Nordic cuisine. This means that all of the elements served are sourced from in the local area, with a few exceptions which are sourced from elsewhere in Denmark. The restaurant itself is within a forest, which offers a plentiful supply of herbs during warmer months. She kept to a seasonal menu, featuring dishes such as Onions, Onions, Onions which had onions served in four different ways during the winter. She took British chef Rick Stein foraging while he was researching his book "Rick Stein's Long Weekends".
When she was told that she had won a Michelin star at the restaurant, she did not believe it. The first she heard of it was when a friend telephoned her with congratulations. She knew that the restaurant had been visited on three occasions by the inspectors prior to the 2012 guide, but did not anticipate winning a star. When it was awarded, Klemensen became the first Danish woman to win the accolade.
Klemensen wanted to take some time off and closed down Den Røde Cottage as well as Den Gule Cottage just before Christmas 2017.


Asatu Bah Kenneth

Asatu Bah Kenneth is a Liberian activist, former Deputy Inspector General of the Liberian police and founder of the Liberian Muslim Women's Organization whose protests helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
Biography.
Asatu Bah Kenneth is an anti-war activist who organised Muslim women protests calling an end to the Liberian civil war. She teamed up with fellow Liberian peace activist Leymah Roberta Gbowee, founder of a women's peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace. Her protests, mostly involving women clad in white, included sex strikes and sit-ins that successfully engendered ceasefire negotiations resulting to the exile and subsequent trial of Charles Taylor at the Hague for crimes against humanity.
Asatu Bah Kenneth was a founding chief of the Liberal National Party of Queensland's (LNP) Women and Children Protection Act Section 2005. She was a police officer since 1985 and was appointed by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to replaced Munah Sieh in 2005, who as head of police at the time was under investigation for police uniforms' procurement malpractice.
Together with Beatrice Munah Sieh and Vera Manly, Asatu was among three key female figures who helped to shape NLP's "gender sensitive" reforms.


Carola, wife of Obelerio degli Antenori

Carola (fl. 811) was the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Obelerio degli Antenori (r. 804-811). She was politically active and exerted influence over the affairs of state. She was the first consort of a Venetian doge with the title and position of dogaressa of Venice.
Life.
Carola was originally a Frankish countess and a lady-in-waiting to the empress of Charles the Great. She met Obelerio when he and his brother Beato visited the court of Charles in Aix-La-Chapelle. Charles gave his blessing to the union and declared it to be a political alliance and gave his protection to Venice. Carola was described as strong-willed, energetic and with an ability to create respect and obedience. She was somewhat disliked for the perceived Frankish influence she represented.
Carola participated in an legendary intrigue constructed by her brother-in-law Beato. According to legend, Beato married the Byzantine Princess Cassandra in order to replace Doge Obelerio and Dogaressa Carola with himself and Cassandra by support of the Byzantines. Upon the arrival of Cassandra to Venice, however, Carola destroyed the alliance between Beato and Cassandra by convincing Cassandra to engage in adultery with her youngest brother-in-law, Valentino. She did succeed, but reportedly fell in love with Valentino herself in the process. When a Byzantine fleet was sighted in the Adriatic Sea, the Doge felt threatened enough to send for Frankish assistance. His appeal to the Franks, however, insulted the Byzantines, which lead to the capture of Obelario and Carola as well as Beato and Cassandra, which were all imprisoned in Constantinople.


May Adrales

May Adrales, whose full name is Jocelyn May Divinagracia Adrales, is a Filipina American theatre director and teacher in New York City.
Early life.
May Adrales was born in Covington, Virginia to Filipino immigrant parents. Her mother was a nurse, her father was a general surgeon, and both moved from medical training and residencies in New York to rural Virginia to fill a need for medical professionals. When she was younger, she loved to run, and she still continues this hobby today. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Modern Studies from University of Virginia, and her Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the Yale School of Drama.
Career.
When asked what inspired her to go into directing, she said, "Be the change you wish to see in the world. I took that adage pretty seriously. I wanted to figure out how to make the world a more joyous, more democratic, and more beautiful place -– a world that embraces complexity, creativity and diversity on every level". She originally wanted to go into law, but eventually found theatre. Even then, though, she was faced with a challenge of access; when she first moved to New York, she had no formal training nor contacts in the business. Additionally, in her words, "For the most part there weren’t stories that reflected my experience or people on stage that looked like me. Theater felt impenetrable". Eventually, in part with the support of a community and a mentor, she became an award-winning professional director, teacher, and artist.
Reception.
Vietgone.
In 2016, Adrales directed "Vietgone", by Qui Nguyen, at the Manhattan Theatre Club. The show features two Vietnamese refugees who meet in America in 1975, during the fall of Saigon. The production was well-received, earning three Lucille Lortel Award nominations, as well as several rave reviews. The New Yorker mentioned "its resourceful director, May Adrales," in talking about the "gleefully salacious quasi-musical". The Los Angeles Times said that the show was "directed with controlled spunk by May Adrales". Time Out New York, a city-culture promotion website, said, "May Adrales’s high-octane staging moves so swiftly and surely, you may not initially appreciate the buckets of stagecraft she and Nguyen throw at us scene after scene".
Chinglish.
In early 2014, Adrales directed "Chinglish", a comedy about cross-cultural communication (or lack thereof) at the Portland Center Stage. This too was well-received. The Oregon Artswatch says, "The show, directed by May Adrales, is as smooth as its revolving scene changes, capturing a brittle and deftly timed presentational comic edge in its performances and navigating the tricky shoals of its bilingual text (about a quarter of the dialogue is in Mandarin, with English supertitles) without an apparent hitch".


Rita Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy

Rita Margaret Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy, CBE, FRSA (born 9 October 1944) is a British university administrator, trade unionist and Labour life peer in the House of Lords.
A graduate of the University of Durham, Donaghy worked at the Institute of Education, University of London, as an Assistant Registrar and later as Permanent Secretary to the Students' Union. She became active in the trade union NALGO, becoming a member of its National Executive by 1973 and serving as President for 1989/90. She was a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1989 - representing NALGO, which merged to become UNISON in 1993 - and was made TUC President in 2000.
In October 2000 she left her trade union positions on being appointed as Chair of the industrial conciliation service ACAS, a post she held until 2007. She served on the Committee on Standards in Public Life (Nolan Committee) from 2001 until 2007, briefly as Chair after Sir Alistair Graham's three-year term ended.
She was a member of the Low Pay Commission and the Employment Tribunal Taskforce
and chaired the TUC Disabilities Forum. In 2009, Donaghy was invited to chair an enquiry into work-related deaths in the construction industry, whose report published in 2010 contained many recommendations for improving safety in the industry.
She is Chair of the Diffuse Mesothelioma Oversight Committee and a member of the Birmingham University Business Advisory Group.
Honours.
Donaghy was awarded the OBE in 1998 for services to industrial relations, and CBE in 2005 for services to employment relations.
She has Honorary Doctorates from the Open University (2003),
Keele University (2004) and the University of Greenwich (2005). In 2003 she was awarded a Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, followed in 2004 by Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
Her life peerage was announced in the 2010 Dissolution Honours List. She was created Baroness Donaghy, "of Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark", on 26 June 2010.


Maggie Brown

Maggie Brown (born 1948) is an American playwright, director and actress.
Education.
Maggie Brown was raised in Independence, Missouri, and graduated from Southwest Missouri State University. After moving to New York City, she worked in theater as a performer with Time & Space, Ltd. theatre company, and as Director of Children's Theatre at the Manhattan Theatre Club. As an acting teacher, she taught at the New York Association for the Blind, where she directed several Lighthouse Players productions, including "The Little Foxes".
Work.
On television, she performed guest roles on series including "Barney Miller", "Dallas", "Highway to Heaven" and "Little House on the Prairie", and appeared in more than 250 television commercials.
Her first script, "Sophisticated Nuts and Dried Fruit" (1982), was produced in Los Angeles as three one-act plays, and staged in 2001 at Eastern Connecticut State University. Kenn Salmon and herself are co-authors of plays: "Pat the Cat's Last Fling" (1990) and "Country Songbird with Wife".
As of 2011 and since writing "Twelve Angry Jurors", Brown has performed with The Old Pros Theatre Group, a troupe of retired actors, musicians and dancers who stage productions for the Laguna Woods Village retirement community in Laguna Woods, California.


Susan Davis (politician)

Susan Carol Alpert Davis (born April 13, 1944) is a former American politician who served as the U.S. Representative for for ten terms from 2001 to 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Her district included central and eastern portions of the city of San Diego, as well as eastern suburbs such as El Cajon, La Mesa, Spring Valley, and Lemon Grove.
Early life, education and career.
Davis was born Susan Carol Alpert in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Dorothy M. "Dora" (née Wexler) and Dr. George R. Alpert. All of her grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. She has spent most of her life in California. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley where she was a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. She earned a master's degree in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her husband Steve Davis was a doctor in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. After returning to California, she became a social worker in San Diego.
Early political career.
Davis became active in politics through her membership in the local branch of the League of Women Voters, of which she became president in 1977. She was elected to the San Diego School Board in 1983. She served there until 1992, including two years as president of the body.
In 1994, she was elected to the California State Assembly, and was reelected in 1996 and 1998. In the Assembly, Davis chaired the Committee on Consumer Protection, Government Efficiency and Economic Development. She authored a state law giving women direct access to their OB/Gyn doctors without requiring a referral from their primary care physicians. Other legislation she authored established the right of a patient to obtain a second medical opinion and allowed frail senior citizens to remain in their homes while receiving state-funded nursing care. She introduced laws to reward high-achieving teachers and to establish after-school programs at public schools.
U.S. House of Representatives.
In 2000, Davis challenged three-term Republican incumbent Brian Bilbray in what was then the 49th District, winning with 50 percent of the vote. Her district was renumbered the 53rd District after the 2000 Census redistricting and made somewhat more Democratic than its predecessor. Following the redistricting, she was reelected eight times without much difficulty. She is the first Democrat to represent what is now the 53rd district for more than one term in over half a century. The only other Democrat to represent this district since the Harry Truman administration, Lynn Schenk, was toppled by Bilbray in the 1994 Republican wave.
Davis introduced a federal version of the California OB/Gyn law she authored at the start of every Congress from 2001 to 2009. Provisions of her OB/Gyn bill were included in the health care reform bill enacted into law.
In 2011, Davis voted for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 as part of a controversial provision that allows the government and the military to indefinitely detain American citizens and others without trial.
Davis was a member of the New Democrat Coalition and she portrayed herself as someone who was willing to work across party lines. She served on the House Armed Services Committee. She also served on the Education and Workforce Committee, where she was the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development.
In 2012, Davis filed a lawsuit to recover over $150,000 in campaign funds from her former campaign treasurer, Kinde Durkee. Durkee was later sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud after pleading guilty to stealing seven million dollars from more than fifty people.
On September 4, 2019, Davis announced that she would not seek re-election in 2020.


Jean Erdman

Jean Erdman (February 20, 1916 – May 4, 2020) was an American dancer and choreographer of modern dance as well as an avant-garde theater director.
Biography.
Early years and background.
Erdman was born in Honolulu. Erdman's father, John Piney Erdman, a doctor of divinity and missionary from New England, settled in Honolulu as a minister at the non-denominational Protestant Church of the Crossroads where he preached, in both English and Japanese, to a multi-ethnic congregation. Her mother, Marion Dillingham Erdman, was a member of one of the founding industrialist families of Hawaii.
Erdman's earliest dance experience was the hula. She attended the Punahou School in Honolulu where she learned, as a form of physical education, Isadora Duncan interpretive dance. Reflecting on her early dance training Erdman said these two influences taught her that dancing is an "expression of something meaningful to the dancer, not a mere series of lively steps."
From Hawaii, Erdman went to Miss Hall's School for Girls in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from which she graduated in 1934. She was troubled by the attitude towards dancing that caused her to be disciplined for teaching the hula to her classmates. Later, at Sarah Lawrence College, which she attended from 1934 to 1937, she was able to explore more freely her multiple interests in theater, dance, and aesthetic philosophy.
At Sarah Lawrence she encountered her two greatest influences: Joseph Campbell and Martha Graham. Campbell, a professor of comparative literature who later became an authority on mythology, was her tutorial advisor. This began a dialogue about the process of individual psycho-spiritual transformation and the nature of art that was to continue throughout their lives. Erdman was also interested in the modern dance technique she learned in Martha Graham's classes at Sarah Lawrence and at the Bennington College Summer School of Dance that she attended during the summers of 1935–44.
In 1937 Erdman joined her parents and younger sister on a trip around the world during which she saw the traditional dance and theater of many countries including Bali, Java and India. Speaking of her experiences on this trip and of her later study of world dance cultures inspired by it Erdman said, "by studying and analyzing the traditional dance styles of the world, I discovered that the particular dance of each culture is the perfect expression of that culture's world view and is achieved by deliberate choices drawn from the unlimited possibilities of movement". Shortly after Erdman returned to New York, she married Campbell on May 5, 1938, and following a brief honeymoon began rehearsal as a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Career.
Erdman distinguished herself as a principal dancer in Graham's company in solo roles such as the Ideal Spectator in "Every Soul is a Circus", the Speaking Fate in "Punch and the Judy" and the One Who Speaks in "Letter to the World", Graham's ode to the American poet, Emily Dickinson. Dance critic Margaret Lloyd of "The Christian Science Monitor" praised the "felicitous humor" Erdman brought to her role as the Speaking Fate and called her "irreplaceable" in the 1941 revival of Letter to the World.
Working with Graham, Erdman had re-shaped the role, originally played by actress Margaret Meredith, from that of a static seated figure to a moving, integrated element in the groundbreaking dance-theater work. In "The Complete Guide to Modern Dance", historian Don McDonagh writes of the "profound effect" that these speaking roles had on Erdman. He attributes her many explorations of the dynamic between word and movement to these early experiences.
As all female Graham dancers of the period Erdman was required to study choreography with Louis Horst, Graham's musical director. Horst presented lecture-demonstrations on his principles in pre-classic dance forms, and his students demonstrated his ideas through their own compositions. Her first solo, "The Transformations of Medusa", which premiered at the Bennington College's Summer Festival of the Arts in 1942, began as an assignment for his class. The final version, with a commissioned score by Horst, remained in her repertory through the 1990s. Erdman's performance of this dance was the subject of Maya Deren's unfinished 1949 film, "Medusa".
Originally an exploration of primitive style or archaic style, "The Transformations of Medusa" developed from a short study of the two-dimensional form into a complete dance of three sections. Erdman described the year long evolution of the piece as the process through which she came to understand that every posture contains "a whole state of being or attitude toward life." The dance evolved as she attuned herself to the physical sensations of the stylized positions and followed where they led her. It was Campbell, informed by his deep well of mythological imagery, who identified the dance character in the first short study as Medusa, the beautiful Greek priestess of Athena who became the hideous snake-headed gorgon. Erdman developed the second and third sections following the development of the mythological archetype.
In 1943, at the urging of Campbell and composer, John Cage, Erdman and fellow Graham Company member, Merce Cunningham, presented a joint concert sponsored by the Arts Club of Chicago. Cunningham's solos included "Totem Ancestor", "In the Name of the Holocaust", and "Shimmera", all with scores by Cage.
The two collaborative duets were, "Credo in US", a dramatic dance with a text by Cunningham and a commissioned score by Cage, and "Ad Lib" with a commissioned score by Gregory Tucker. According to Erdman, "Ad Lib" "was considered rather shocking because it incorporated improvisations. At that time it was not considered acceptable to perform improvs in public. That was for the privacy of your studio."
Erdman's other important works of the 1940s were "Daughters of the Lonesome Isle" (1945) and "Ophelia" (1946) with commissioned scores by John Cage on prepared and standard piano respectively, "Passage" (1946), "Hamadryad" (1948) to Debussy's "Syrinx", "The Perilous Chapel" (1949), and "Solstice" (1950), both with commissioned scores by Lou Harrison. Of "The Perilous Chapel" which featured a moving sculptural set by Carlus Dyer and was selected as one of the Best New Works of the Season by "Dance Magazine", Doris Hering wrote, "When the dance was over one realized that by means of purely physical and visual elements, Miss Erdman had succeeded in giving a moving picture of the experience of an artist through phases of isolation and realization."
Other dance critics of the time noted her unique approach to dance making. "New York Times" dance critic John Martin remarked, "that Erdman's movement is perhaps as near to being non-associative as movement can be, yet it is freely creative. The method of composition, though naturally without story content, avoids any connotation of being merely decorative, much as non-objective painting avoids it, and manages to be just as strongly evocative."
Reporting on a group concert at the 92nd St YM/YWHA in which Erdman participated Edwin Denby wrote in the "New York Herald Tribune", "Miss Erdman's (approach) is a more original and refreshing one to encounter. There was a lightness in the rhythm, a quality of generosity and spaciousness in the movement that struck me as a dance should, as a poetic presence." Walter Terry also writing for the "Tribune" commented, "(Her dance) attracts through rare beauty of pattern, through gently shaded dynamics and through that intangible essence we call quality. It does not appeal directly to the intellect nor to the emotions, but rather it seems to carry its message on its own short-wave system to the senses themselves."
From 1950-54, she toured the US annually with her company. From 1954-55 she toured India and Japan as a solo artist, the first dancer to do so since World War II. The report she filed with U.S. State Department helped initiate cultural exchange programs with India and many countries in the Far East.
From 1955-60, she toured extensively as a solo artist throughout the U.S. Notable works from her repertory of that period include "Portrait of a Lady" created to jazz recordings that were layered by John Cage into his eight-track commissioned score, "Dawn Song", a lyrical solo with commissioned score by Alan Hovhaness, "Fearful Symmetry" (1956; an allegory in six visions inspired by William Blake's poem, "The Tyger") to Ezra Laderman's "Sonata for Violoncello", in which Erdman emerged from and interacted with a metal sculpture by Carlus Dyer, and "Four Portraits" from Duke Ellington's "Shakespeare Album" (1958), a suite of comic portrayals of Shakespearean heroines.
In 1960, Erdman reorganized and renamed her dance company to reflect her explorations of the inter-relationship of movement, music, visual arts and spoken text. As noted above this interest began much earlier for Erdman. As early as 1946, John Martin noted, "She is keenly alert to modern experiments in the other arts music, poetry, visual design and employs them freely."
Her musical collaborations with composer Ezra Laderman which had begun in 1956 with "Duet for Flute and Dancer", inspired by Erdman's interpretation of Debussy's solo flute composition "Syrinx" in her 1948 solo "Hamadryad" and culminating in the 1957 group work "Harlequinade", featuring dancer Donald McKayle, were the subject of a feature story in "Time" magazine in April 1957.
In the theater Erdman had choreographed a production of Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Flies" (1947) for the Vassar Experimental Theatre, the Broadway production of Jean Giraudoux's "The Enchanted" (1950) and collaborating with writer William Saroyan and composer Alan Hovhaness, she directed and choreographed "Otherman or The Beginning of a New Nation" (1954) at Bard College. The newly named Jean Erdman Theater of Dance toured the U.S. and gave concerts in New York City. Among the notable works of this period are "Twenty Poems" (1960), a cycle of E. E. Cummings's poems for eight dancers and one actor with a commissioned score by Teiji Ito, performed in the round at the Circle in the Square Theatre in Greenwich Village and "The Castle", an exploration of improvised and structured movement with jazz clarinetist-saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (1970).
In 1962 with the aid of a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Erdman began what was to become her best-known work, "The Coach with the Six Insides", an adaptation of James Joyce's, "Finnegans Wake". The title is a line from the text found in episode 11.3.359. She became acquainted with the novel during the four and a half year period that her husband collaborated with Henry Morton Robinson to write "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" (1944).
While Joyce's story is told from the perspective of the male barkeeper Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Erdman's work a combination of dance, mime, and Joycean stream of consciousness language focuses on the female psyche, as seen through the many incarnations of the main female character Anna Livia Plurabelle. She danced all the aspects of Anna Livia from young woman, to old crone, to the rain itself that becomes the River Liffey flowing through the heart of Dublin. Teiji Ito was the musical director and composed the musical score on a vast array of instruments from around the world including among others, Japanese bass drums, Tibetan cymbals, a violin and an accordion.
"The Coach with the Six Insides" premiered at the Village South Theatre in Greenwich Village on November 26, 1962. It ran for 114 performances and received the Obie and Vernon Rice Awards for Outstanding Achievement in theater. Following the first New York season it began a world tour including engagements in Spoleto, Paris, Dublin and Tokyo. Three other North American tours as well as another New York season in 1967 followed. In 1964 the work was featured on the CBS's "Camera Three" series and in 1966 WNET Channel 13 produced an interview with both Erdman and Campbell, "A Viewer's Guide to the Coach with the Six Insides". Many dance historians continue to regard "The Coach with the Six Insides" as "the most successful—and celebrated—attempt to unite dance and words."
Other theater productions Erdman choreographed during this period include the Helen Hayes Repertory production of "Hamlet" (1964), the Lincoln Center Repertory production of Federico García Lorca's "Yerma" (1962) and the New York Shakespeare Festival production of the rock-opera "Two Gentlemen of Verona" (1971–72), which ran on Broadway for two years and for which Erdman received the Drama Desk Award and a Tony nomination.
Erdman was an active teacher throughout her career. In 1948 she opened her own studio where she taught a style-neutral, concept-based technique she developed by combining her study of world dance with anatomical principles. She described it as, "a basic dance training that would, in its most elementary form give the novice an essential experience of the art form, and in more complex variations create a professional dance artist with a completely articulate instrument capable of responding in movement to any choreographic impulse."
From 1949-51 she directed the modern dance department at Teachers College of Columbia University. In the summers from 1949 to 1955 she was the artist in residence and head of the dance department at the University of Colorado in Boulder. From 1954–57 she was the chairman of the dance department at Bard College. She was founding director of the dance program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and taught there from 1966-71.
In the 1980s, Erdman began reviving her early dance repertory and presenting it annually at The Open Eye. These performances culminated in the NEA-funded Jean Erdman Retrospective at the Hunter Playhouse in 1985, New York City. "New York Times" dance critic Anna Kisselgoff wrote, "anyone wishing to know something about where modern dance is today can find the roots in this retrospective." From 1987–93, Erdman served as artistic director of an NEA funded project to create a three volume video archive of these early dance works, "Dance and Myth: The World of Jean Erdman".
Personal life.
Erdman and Campbell had no children. For most of their forty-nine years of marriage they shared a two-room apartment in Greenwich Village in New York City. In the 1980s they also purchased an apartment in Honolulu and divided their time between the two cities. Campbell died in 1987. In 1990, Erdman became the founding president of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and continued as its president emerita until her death. Since 1995 Erdman had lived exclusively in Hawaii.
Erdman died at the age of 104 in a nursing facility in Honolulu on May 4, 2020.
Awards and nominations.
Nominations


Lucy Bailey

Lucy Bailey is a British theatre director, known for productions such as "Baby Doll" at Britain's National Theatre
and a notorious "Titus Andronicus" which had many members of the audience fainting. Bailey founded the Gogmagogs theatre-music group (1995–2006) and was Artistic Director and joint founder of the Print Room theatre in West London (2010-2012). She has worked extensively with Bunny Christie and other leading stage designers, including her husband William Dudley.
Biography.
Bailey was born in Butleigh, Somerset, England. She has stated that her favourite films include anything by Pasolini. As a teenager Bailey studied the flute but finally gave up music to concentrate on theatre. Bailey studied English at St Peter's College, Oxford. She and her husband William Dudley have two sons.
Career.
Lucy Bailey became interested in theatre when she worked as a telephonist at Glyndebourne at the age of 17. As a university student aged 20 she had her first breakthrough when she wrote to Samuel Beckett requesting permission to stage his short story, "Lessness". Beckett agreed to meet, and she showed him her design for a production. Although he said she had got it completely wrong, he gave her permission to stage it, which she did at The Oxford Playhouse in February 1982.
Bailey started her professional life as an assistant director at the Royal National Theatre, Glyndebourne Opera and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Bailey co-founded the Gogmagogs music theatre company in 1995, with Nell Catchpole and six other string players. Her return to straight theatre came when she was invited by Mark Rylance, then artistic director of the Globe Theatre, to direct there in the late 1990s, and her work there has included productions of "Titus Andronicus" and "Macbeth". Bailey has also directed Shakespeare productions at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, including "The Taming of the Shrew", "A Winter's Tale" and "Julius Caesar", with Greg Hicks in the title role.
Artistic Director.
Lucy Bailey co-founded the 80-seat London venue Print Room, which opened on 10 November 2010,
and along with the producer Anda Winters was Artistic Director there until 2012.
At the Print Room, Bailey directed productions such as "Fabrication" by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alan Ayckbourn’s "Snake in the Grass", Tennessee Williams’ "Kingdom of Earth"
and Chekhov’s "Uncle Vanya" with Iain Glen in the title role.
Bailey and her producer renovated a 1950s warehouse into the theatre, situated just off Westbourne Grove, aiming to show challenging or unknown plays as well as classics. Bailey and Winters say that they first conceived the Print Room over a large glass of wine at the National Theatre. After Lucy Bailey's departure, Anda Winters moved the theatre to the Coronet Cinema.


Iona Brown

Iona Brown, OBE, (7 January 19415 June 2004) was a British violinist and conductor.
Early life and education.
Elizabeth Iona Brown was born in Salisbury and was educated at Cranborne Chase School, Dorset. Her parents, Antony and Fiona, were both musicians. Her brother Timothy has been principal horn of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, her other brother Ian is a pianist and her sister Sally plays viola in the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Career.
From 1963 to 1966, Brown played violin in the Philharmonia Orchestra. In 1964, she joined the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, working her way up through the ranks to become leader, solo violinist and director in 1974. She formally left the Academy in 1980, but continued to work with them for the rest of her life.
In 1981, she was appointed artistic director of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. King Olav V of Norway later awarded her the accolade Knight of First Class Order of Merit for her success with the NCO. She directed the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from 1987 to 1992. She was dismissed as conductor because of an inability to commit to more than six weeks per season with the orchestra due to her other posts, a decision she protested. Brown ultimately returned as the orchestra's principal conductor from 1995 to 1997 following a change in the orchestra's leadership. From 1985 to 1989, she was guest director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. As her health declined and her arthritis progressed, she shifted her focus from the violin to conducting, ending her violin career in 1998. In her last years, she was chief conductor of the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra of Denmark.
From 1968 to 2004, Brown's principal residence was in the Wiltshire village of Bowerchalke. When she took part in the BBC Radio 4 programme "Kaleidoscope", explaining how hard it was to play her signature piece "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, she said that the singing of larks she heard during long walks on nearby Marleycombe Down influenced the way she played it.
Honours.
She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1986, and in June 2003 was made an honorary Doctor of the University by the Open University.
Death.
She died of cancer in 2004 at age 63 in Salisbury. She was married twice, and was survived by her second husband, Bjorn Arnils.


Megan Pullum

Megan Michelle Elaine Pullum, QC (born 1971) is a British-born lawyer practising in Guernsey who has been HM Procureur and Receiver General (Attorney-General) on the island since 2016.
Career.
Pullum was born in the United Kingdom in 1971, the daughter of Dr Geoffrey Pullum and his wife Anne, "née" Steer. She was educated at Hertfordshire and Essex High School for Girls, before attending the University of Nantes in France, which awarded her a "Diplôme d'études universitaires générales" in 1992. The following year, she graduated with a law degree (LLB) in Law and French from the University of Wales College of Cardiff. After studying at the College of Law in York, in 1996 she was admitted a solicitor. She completed a master's degree in law (LLM) at the University of Glamorgan in 2000 and five years later, the University of Caen awarded her a "Certificat d’études juridiques françaises et normandes".
In 2006, Pullum was called to the Guernsey Bar and six years later she was appointed Queen's Counsel in the Bailiwick. In 2012, she replaced Richard McMahon as HM Comptroller of Guernsey after he became Deputy Bailiff in place of Richard Collas, who became Bailiff. She was the first woman to hold a Crown officer's position on the island. In 2016, she replaced Howard Roberts as HM Procureur and Receiver General for Guernsey.


Lou Leon Guerrero

Lourdes Aflague "Lou" Leon Guerrero (born November 8, 1950) is an American politician, nurse, and businesswoman serving as the 9th Governor of Guam since 2019. Leon Guerrero served 5 terms as a senator in the Guam Legislature from 1995 to 2007 and served for 14 years as President and CEO of the Bank of Guam.
Leon Guerrero grew up in Guam, earned a BS in Nursing from California State University in 1973 and an MPH from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1979.
After working as a nurse in California and the Guam Memorial Hospital for several years, Leon Guerrero worked for Family Health Plan clinic and became its Director of Operations before her entry into public service. Leon Guerrero served as Senator in 5 separate legislative terms from 1995 to 2007. She was Senator [Tom Ada|Thomas C. Ada]'s running mate during the 1998 Democratic gubernatorial primary against the incumbent Gutierrez-Bordallo ticket.
Leon Guerrero left public service in 2007 to serve as President and CEO of the Bank of Guam until 2017, when she began her successful campaign for Governor of Guam with running mate Josh Tenorio. Leon Guerrero has served as Governor since her inauguration in 2019.
Life Before Public Service.
Early Life and Education.
Born in Guam, Lou Leon Guerrero is the daughter of Jesus Sablan Leon Guerrero (1927–2002), founder of the Bank of Guam, and Eugenia Calvo Aflague Leon Guerrero. She has two brothers, Jesse and Anthony (1952–2005). She attended the Academy of Our Lady of Guam High School and then moved to the U.S. mainland to study and work in Southern California. Leon Guerrero earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at California State University, Los Angeles in 1973. She attained a Master of Public Health and at University of California, Los Angeles in 1979. In 2009, she went back to school in Seattle, Washington to receive a masters degree from Pacific Coast Banking School.
Career.
Lou Leon Guerrero worked as a staff nurse at Santa Monica Hospital in Santa Monica, California, US before returning to Guam in 1980. She worked at Guam Memorial Hospital in 1980, eventually becoming the hospital's assistant nursing director. She then went to work at the Family Health Plan clinic and served as Director of Operations (1990–1994).
In 1989, Lou Leon Guerrero, as the president of the Guam Nurses Association, provided the sole testimony from a Chamoru woman against Bill 848, a legislative measure intended to outlaw abortion on the island. In politics, Leon Guerrero served as a senator of the 23rd, 24th, 26th, 27th, and the 28th Guam Legislatures.
Legislative Career.
Entry to the Guam Legislature (1995-1999).
23rd Guam Legislature.
Lou Leon Guerrero first ran to become senator in the Guam Legislature in 1994. Leon Guerrero advanced to the general election after having placed 9th, with 10,611 votes, in a field of 30 candidates in the Democratic Party of Guam's legislative primary election held on September 3, 1994. Leon Guerrero won election, receiving 20,168 votes and placing 9th in the general election on November 8, 1994. Leon Guerrero was inaugurated to serve in the 23rd Guam Legislature on Monday, January 2, 1995. During her first term in the Guam Legislature, Leon Guerrero was in the majority and sponsored or co-sponsored 18 public laws.
24th Guam Legislature.
Lou Leon Guerrero ran for reelection into the 24th Guam Legislature in 1996. Leon Guerrero advanced to the general election after having placed 12th, with 10,185 votes, in a field of 31 candidates in the democratic primary election of September 7, 1996. She won reelection, receiving 20,050 votes and placing 8th in the general election on November 5, 1996. As a minority member of the 24th Guam Legislature, Leon Guerrero sponsored or cosponsored 6 public laws.
Return to the Guam Legislature (2001-2007).
26th Guam Legislature.
Lou Leon Guerrero returned to public service in 2000, when she ran for a seat in the 26th Guam Legislature. The legislative primary election was cancelled that year, so Leon Guerrero automatically advanced to the general election held on November 7, 2000. She secured a seat in the legislature by placing 5th in the legislative general election with 18,748 votes. As a minority member of the 26th Guam Legislature, Leon Guerrero sponsored 5 public laws.
27th Guam Legislature.
Lou Leon Guerrero stood for election in the 27th Guam Legislature in 2002. Leon Guerrero advanced to the general election after placing 3rd in the Democratic primary election on September 7, 2002 with 14,112 votes. Leon Guerrero placed 5th in the general election on November 5, 2002 with 23,651 votes. As a majority member of the 27th Guam Legislature, Leon Guerrero sponsored 21 public laws.
28th Guam Legislature.
Lou Leon Guerrero ran for re-election into the 28th Guam Legislature in 2004. After placing fourth in the Democratic primary election on September 7, 2004 with 7,983 votes, Leon Guerrero advanced to the general election. Leon Guerrero was elected into the 28th Guam Legislature, placing 14th and garnering 14,853 votes in the general election on November 2, 2004. During this term she authored 27 bills, 9 of which became public laws. As a senator in the 28th Guam Legislature.
Legislative Accomplishments.
Lou Leon Guerrero authored the public law which created the Healthy Futures Fund, which currently funds medical care and cancer research in Guam. In addition, she introduced and secured the passage of the Natasha Protection Act, which regulates public smoking.
Business career.
In 2007, Leon Guerrero was honored as Guam's Small Business Administration's Women in Business Champion. She then attended Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington, graduating from its program in 2009. Succeeding her father and her brother, Leon Guerrero is the Chairwoman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Bank of Guam. In August 2011, she was appointed director of the BankGuam Holding Company, and is also a director at Teleguam Holdings, LLC. Leon Guerrero was deemed Guam’s 2010 Executive of the Year by Guam Business Magazine.
Involvement in Non-Profit Activity.
Since its founding in 2009, Lou Leon Guerrero has served as Board Chair for Guampedia.
Leon Guerrero was a founding member and served as the first President of the Guam Women's Chamber of Commerce.
Gubernatorial Campaigns.
Ada-Leon Guerrero Ticket.
Incumbent Governor Carl T.C. Gutierrez and Lieutenant Governor Madeleine Z. Bordallo had two Democratic primary election challenges for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Guam in 1998. Lou Leon Guerrero was chosen as the running mate of Senator Thomas C. Ada, and Senator Angel L.G. Santos ran with Mayor Jose "Pedo" Terlaje. The "Tom and Lou" ticket placed 2nd in the Democratic gubernatorial primary on September 5, 1998 with 9,788 votes.
Leon Guerrero-Tenorio Ticket.
In February 2017, former senator Leon Guerrero officially announced her bid to be the next Governor of Guam. The Bank of Guam President selected Joshua Tenorio, Vice President of Guam Auto Spot, to be her running mate in the upcoming Democratic primaries. The Leon Guerrero/Tenorio ticket faced-off with 3 other Democratic tickets: the Aguon/Limtiaco ticket, the Gutierrez/Bordallo ticket, and the Rodriguez/Cruz ticket. They emerged victorious with 32% of the primary vote. Leon Guerrero was elected as Guam's first female governor after defeating the Tenorio/Ada Ticket in the general election with 50.7% of the vote.
Governor of Guam (2019-present).
Lou Leon Guerrero was inaugurated on January 7, 2019, as the 9th Governor of Guam at the University of Guam Calvo Field House in Mangilao.
Policy Initiatives.
Responsibly Raising the Minimum Wage.
Leon Guerrero expressed her support for a proposal to raise Guam's minimum wage to $9.25 in September 2019. She signed the bill increasing in the minimum wage in stages in October 2019. The first stage, increasing the minimum wage to $8.75 per hour went into effect in March 2020.A bill has since been passed and signed into law by Governor Guerrero delaying the increase in the minimum wage by 6 months, to reduce its impact to businesses during the Covid-19 Pandemic. However, the minimum wage is still set to reach $9.25 per hour in September 2021.
War Claims Advance Payments to World War II Survivors.
Speaker Tina Rose Muña Barnes introduced a bill to expedite the payment of war claims to survivors of atrocities committed on Guam during World War II in July 2019. In October 2019, the Lieutenant Governor Josh Tenorio and Chief of Staff Tony Babauta visited Washington, D.C., to lobby for war claims, among other administration initiatives. Congressman Michael San Nicolas claimed that the local bill to pay war claims was a sham.
Leon Guerrero signed the war claims bill into law on January 3, 2020. The first war claims checks were distributed at a ceremony on January 29, 2020. By February, hundreds of Guam World War II survivors received their compensation through the local advance payment system.
Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Guam.
"Path to Half" Vaccination Campaign.
Leon Guerrero announced an ambitious "Path to Half" vaccination campaign at a press conference on March 15, 2021. She set the goal of vaccinating half of Guam's adult population by May 1. The Path to Half benchmark was met 3 days ahead of the deadline of May 1.
Personal life.
Guerrero married attorney Jeff Cook. She has two children, Joaquin and Mariana, and seven grandchildren.
Bibliography.


Joyce Mhango-Chavula

Joyce Mhango-Chavula is a Malawian actress, filmmaker, theatre director, and Arts trainer.
Life.
Joyce Mhango-Chavula started acting while at secondary school, through the Association for Teaching English in Malawi. She later joined a local drama group called Reformation Theayre and worked with the Alabama Theatre. Inspired by the example of Gertrude Kamkwatira, Chavula quit her job as a media sales and marketing supervisor in 2009, and launched her own theatre company, Rising Choreos Theatre Company. "The Return" (2011) brought together a Nigerian and Malawian cast, including Patience Ozokwor, and toured all three regions of Malawi.
Chavula's first feature film, "No More Tears" (2013), was shot in Lilongwe and on the beach of Lake Malawi in Salima District. It told the story of a 20-year-old girl who needs to take care of her father after losing her mother to AIDS. After her father dies his brothers claim his property, leaving the girl destitute.
Her 2015 film "Lilongwe" won Best Movie from Southern Africa in the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards.
"Nyasaland" (2016) received a nomination for the 2018 Africa Movie Academy Awards for Best Film in an African Language. The film had its US premiere at the 2018 Silicon Valley African Film Festival.
Chavula is currently the vice president of Film Association of Malawi and also served as vice president of the National Theatre Association of Malawi (NTAM) for three years, and is now a NTAM board member.she is an Ambassador for The African film festival (TAFF) and a member of the Oscars Malawi committee.
Films.
. FATSANI, Actress, 2019


Caroline Martyn

Caroline Eliza Derecourt Martyn (3 May 1867 – 23 July 1896), sometimes known as Carrie Martyn, was an English Christian socialist and an early organiser of trade unions in the United Kingdom.
Early life.
Martyn was born in Lincoln, the eldest child of Superintendent James William Martyn, who later became Deputy Chief Constable of Lincolnshire, and his wife Kate Eleanor (née Hewitt). Her parents were devout high Anglicans and active in the Conservative Party. She was educated at Beaumont House School in the city and at the age of eighteen began work as a governess.
Keir Hardie wrote that she was the leading socialist of her day.
Political development.
Martyn first joined the Conservative Primrose League, but while working in Reading she lodged with her maternal aunt, Mrs Bailey, who held pronounced left-wing views. She briefly became a radical and then a socialist. In 1891, she was appointed a governess at the Royal Orphanage Asylum in Wandsworth, London, and joined the London Fabian Society. The following year, ill-health forced her to give up work and she began to devote herself full-time to the socialist cause. However, this was tempered by the devout religious views she had inherited from her parents, and she strongly disagreed with the Marxist principles of many of her contemporaries. For a while, in 1893, she was a subeditor on the "Christian Weekly".
Suffrage and women's rights.
In August 1894 the suffragist newspaper "The Woman's Signal" reported Martyn as having given an address on "'The Position of Women,'" in which she "advocated the rearing and education of children of both sexes on equal terms, and said that while girls and women were bound to domestic duties ... there was little hope for their intellectual advancement and their being placed on an equal footing with man."
Although she had many articles published in journals, Martyn was predominantly known as a lecturer. She became nationally recognised and large crowds turned up to hear her speak as she travelled round the country. In 1896, she was elected to the National Administrative Council of the Independent Labour Party and became editor of "Fraternity", the journal of the International Society for the Brotherhood of Man, and ILP trades union organiser for the north of Scotland.
Personal life.
Martyn did not marry, and noted that, "I count my escape from marriage as one of my greatest blessings, but for that I could never have done my work; probably could never have opened my eyes to see that it needed to be done."
Although she habitually dressed plainly, she cut a distinctive figure in the long black cloak which she wore while travelling, which was apt to draw "many curious eyes".
Death and memorial.
In July 1896, Martyn travelled to Dundee to speak to female workers, to encourage them to join the Dundee Textile Workers Union. Her work and travel, however, had undermined her already-fragile health, and she contracted pneumonia while in Dundee. She died on 23 July 1896 at the age of 29. Her mother had travelled from Lincoln to be at her bedside, and her family purchased a plot in Balgay Cemetery in the city, where she was buried 24 hours later. Ceremonies were held at St Paul's Episcopal Church and at the graveside, and wreaths were placed at her grave by Emily Thomson and Ethel Moorhead, Edwin Scrymgeour and the local branch of the Independent Labour Party.
The Dundee branch of the Independent Labour Party and the Dundee Textile Workers' Union collected subscriptions for a memorial to be placed at her grave.  The inscription reads: "A token of esteem to the memory of Caroline E D Martyn, born at Lincoln 3rd May 1867, died at Dundee 23rdJuly 1896.  A devoted worker in the cause of humanity. Erected by Socialist comrades and Dundee Textile Workers Union."
By 2010, the memorial had fallen into disrepair. At the instigation of Dundee Trades Council, the grave was tidied and the granite column restored.  A service of commemoration was held at the graveside, followed by a civic reception in Dundee City Chambers. Among the guests were Dundee Provost John Letford and Martyn's great niece, Vivienne Flowers. The ceremony closed with a rendition of the Jute Mill Song by Mary Brooksbank.


Karen Malpede

Karen Malpede is an American playwright and director whose work reflects an ongoing interest in social justice issues. She is a co-founder of the Theater Three Collaborative in New York City, and teaches theater and environmental justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is also the editor of the notable anthology, "Women in Theater: Compassion and Hope" (1984).
Early life.
Karen Malpede was born, a fraternal twin, in 1945, on Sheppard Air Force Base, in Wichita Falls, TX, to a Jewish mother and an Italian-American father. Both of her parents were from Chicago, and she and her brother were raised on Chicago’s North Shore, in Evanston and Wilmette, IL.
She graduated from New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, IL. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors at the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Theater at the Columbia University School of the Arts.
She holds a Clinical Training Certificate from the International Trauma Studies Program, and for many years was a member of Robert Jay Lifton’s Center on Violence and Human Survival.
Career.
Playwright.
Because of her dual background, Malpede has said, she never quite fit in with any one group, and that has had a freeing effect on her as a dramatist.
Malpede's first play, "A Lament for Three Women", was published in "A Century of Plays by American Women," edited by Rachel France. (Richards Rosen Press, 1979). and she has been writing and producing plays ever since.
She was a cofounder of the Women’s Salon for Literature, a monthly event featuring the leading writers of the feminist movement, and where her second play "Rebecca" received its first public reading, and has had 22 plays produced as of 2020.
"Prophecy," produced in 2008 in London and 2010 in New York, starring Kathleen Chalfant, is a memory play about an enduring but tumultuous marriage, marked by significant infidelities, and of the acting teacher whose life was impacted by the murder of an antiwar lover, by his commanding officer, in Vietnam and now by a talented Iraq-war veteran student who takes his own life (written and produced at a time when little attention was being paid to veteran suicides.)
"Another Life" is a surreal yet factual critique of the U.S. government torture program, starring a mogul named Handel, who prefigures and bears striking resemblance to Donald J. Trump. Premiered on September 11, 2011, to commemorate the decade since the attacks of September 2001, the play had four subsequent productions. Each production was accompanied by a Festival of Conscience, in which major writers on torture and lawyers for Guantanamo detainees, held conversations with the audiences.
Her next play "Extreme Whether", depicts the struggle of scientists to tell the truth about climate change in the face of opposition from the fossil fuel industry. The play, which premiered at Theater for the New City in New York in 2014, was also presented as a staged reading in French and English as part of ArtCop21, in Paris, 2015, during the negotiation of the Paris Climate Agreement, and restaged in 2018 at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in New York City Prominent climate scientists, James Hansen and Jennifer Francis and environmental activists spoke with the audience after the production.
Her most recently produced play "Other Than We," is a utopic-dystopic cli-fi fantasy. Produced at LaMama in November 2019, it was live streamed by the Columbia Earth Institute in the summer of 2020, and is published by Laertes Books.
Malpede's one-man play, "I Will Bear Witness", is co-adapted with George Bartenieff from the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German Jew who documented the persecution of Jews in Dresden between 1933 and 1945. The production, which she directed, won Obie Awards for acting for Bartenieff and set design.
In May, 2021, Theater Three Collaborative will present the world premiere of Malpede's play "Blue Valiant," outdoors at Farm Arts Collective, among the first American theaters to come out of pandemic lockdown with a live performance. "Blue Valiant" was written for and stars Kathleen Chalfant and George Bartenieff, with Millie Ortiz and Arthur Rosen playing the horse on piano. The play is about grief and renewal.
Artistic Director.
In 1977, Malpede co-founded New Cycle Theater, with Burl Hash, a free, loft theater in Park Slope, Brooklyn, which later became affiliated with the early Arts at St. Ann’s. Her plays, “The End of War,” “Making Peace: A Fantasy,” “A Monster Has Stolen the Sun,” “Sappho & Aphrodite,” were produced in the loft theater and at St. Ann’s.
In 1995, she co-founded the Theater Three Collaborative with her husband, George Bartenieff, and the late Lee Nagrin, both actors. The purpose was to enable them "to produce plays that could not be produced elsewhere" because of their social justice themes and poetic character-driven, sometimes, surreal, and epic styles. Theatre Three Collaborative has
Their premiere production in New York in 1995, and at the Dionysia Festival for Contemporary Drama in Veroli, Italy, was "T he Beekeeper’s Daughter," a play inspired both by the life of poet Robert Graves and by the plight of a victim of a Bosnian rape camp.
Books, stories, articles, and reviews.
Her first book, "People’s Theater in Amerika", a history of radical theater in the United States from 1929 to 1972, was a seminal study and brought her into contact with people who become mentors and early supporters of her plays, Joseph Chaikin, founder of the Open Theater, and Julian Beck and Judith Malina, co-founders of The Living Theatre, and lifelong friends.
Her second book, "Three Works by the Open Theater," a collaboration with Chakin, published in 1974, was a seminal study of the influential, experimental theater company.
Malpede's short stories, reviews, and other writings on the torture program, climate change and feminism have been published in "New Theatre Quarterly", the "Women's Review of Books", the "Kenyon Review", and other periodicals; and in anthologies such as Helen Barolini's "The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women" (1985) and Roberta Mock’s "Performing Processes" (2000).
She has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, and her productions are regularly reviewed in periodicals such as "American Theatre" and the "New York Times"
Activism.
Malpede is a lifelong peace and social justice activist. Among the historic marches and protests of which she has been a part: The 1967 March on the Pentagon, The 1970 New Haven Rally Protesting the Trial of Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, The 1979, Washington Lawn Eleven, for which she was arrested, tried and found guilty, alongside writer Grace Paley, photographer Karl Bissinger and eight others. The Women’s Peace Encampment at Seneca Falls and Women’s Pentagon Action, and the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter marches on Dekalb Ave., Brooklyn, during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
In 2004, to protest the Iraq war, she co-created an outdoor public ritual to coincide with the Republican National Convention re-nominating George W. Bush. Called “Iraq: Naming the Dead” the event took place each night of the convention, outdoors, in the graveyard of the historic St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, involving Arab-American, black, white and brown readers of the names of the Iraqi and American dead (a 15-to-1 ratio).
Several months later, she presented the rewritten and expanded indoor documentary-ritual theater performance piece “I raq:Speaking of War” at the CUNY Graduate Center Prozansky Auditorium, on the eve of a massive anti-war march in New York; the piece was later presented at the Culture Project.
In the summer of 2018, she joined with playwrights Naomi Wallace and Kia Corthron to co-produce at the Signature Theater on 42nd St., Imagine: Yemen, an evening of eight short plays about the war in Yemen.
She is currently at work on an international collaboration with Persona Theater, Athens, for the YouTube staging of her short play "Troy Too" about Covid-19, the Climate Crisis and Racism; the script will be published in the forthcoming "Staging 21st Century Tragedies".
Personal life.
Malpede is the mother of a daughter, Carrie Sophia, and the grandmother of two.
Her twin brother, John Malpede, also a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the founder and artistic director of the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), a 30-year-old theater and arts group working with the residents of Skid Row.


Esther Pugh

Esther Pugh (August 31, 1834 – March 29, 1908) was an American temperance reformer from Ohio. She served as Treasurer of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), a Trustee of Earlham College, as well as editor and publisher of the monthly temperance journal, "Our Union". She died in Philadelphia in 1908.
Early life and education.
Esther Pugh, daughter of Achilles and Anna Maria Pugh, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 31, 1834. Her parents were Quakers. For many years, the father was a journalist in Cincinnati, and publisher of the "Chronicle". Pugh received a good education.
Career.
Early on, Pugh became interested in moral reforms, and soon became prominent in the temperance movement. She was one of the leaders in the movement, joining the WCTU during its first meetings. She served as Treasurer of the National WCTU for 15 years, and her management style repeatedly aided the national order in passing through financial difficulties. Considered to be a clear and forcible orator, she traveled for temperance work throughout the United States and Canada, lecturing and organizing unions. Pugh's association with Frances E. Willard was enduring.
Succeeding Mary Towne Burt, Pugh served as publisher and editor of the monthly temperance journal, "Our Union", for years. According to Gifford (1995), Pugh, Frances H. Rastall and Caroline Buell used the "Union Signal" (the paper's name after its merger with "The Signal") to promote their private businesses. Because of her journalistic experience, Pugh was called upon to provide guidance for the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church's periodical, "Woman's Home Missions", regarding typeset and how to make up a "dummy".
Pugh's work in the WCTU, beginning in Cincinnati, caused her residence at different times to be in Columbus, Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, Brooklyn, New York, and Chicago, Illinois, though made her home is in Evanston, Illinois. She served an Elder in the Friends church. She was appointed a Trustee of Earlham College by Indiana Yearly Meeting, and held that position until failing health made it necessary for her to resign.
Death.
Pugh died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1908. The funeral service was held at the home of her sister, Mary T. Wildman, in Philadelphia. Pugh was buried in Waynesville, Ohio.


Cordell Jackson

Cordell Jackson (July 15, 1923 – October 14, 2004) was an American guitarist thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label.
Early life.
She was born Cordell Miller in Pontotoc, Mississippi, where her father led a string band, the Pontotoc Ridge Runners. As a child she learned guitar, piano, and double bass, and soon began performing in her father's band and on radio in Tupelo. She married William Jackson in 1943, and settled in Memphis, Tennessee, where she joined the Fisher Air Craft Band and wrote songs. After installing recording equipment in her home, she recorded demo records for Sam Phillips before he set up Sun Records.
Career.
Jackson founded the Moon Records label in Memphis in 1956. Unable to break into the Sun label's stable of male artists, she received the advice and assistance of RCA Records' Chet Atkins in forming this new label to release her music. She began releasing and promoting on the label singles she recorded in her home studio, serving as engineer, producer and arranger. The artists recorded included her and a small family of early rock and roll, rockabilly, and country music performers she recruited from several Southern states.
Tav Falco's Panther Burns and Alex Chilton helped create new interest in her career in the 1980s when they began covering some of her Moon label's old singles such as "Dateless Night", a song she originally wrote in the 1950s for Florida artist Allen Page. Jackson then began playing occasional shows in the 1980s with her signature red Hagstrom electric guitar as a solo artist in Memphis, Hoboken, New York, and Chicago nightclubs. She recorded new material on her label with Memphis musicians Colonel Robert Morris and Bob Holden, becoming known as a "rock-and-roll granny" solo guitar instrumentalist. She appeared in 1991 and 1992 on national talk shows like "Late Night with David Letterman" and in a television commercial duelling with rockabilly artist Brian Setzer on guitar.
In the late 1990s, Cordell co-wrote and played with the Rockabilly icon, Colonel Robert Morris in Memphis. Colonel Robert also helped edit the book based on her life and career.
Her Moon Records label was the oldest continuously operating label in Memphis at the time of her death in 2004. "The 50s Rock on the Moon of Memphis, Tennessee + an Oddity", a compilation album of the label's 1950s singles, was released on vinyl in the early 1980s and was later sold on compact disc until her death in 2004. The original 1950s vinyl singles compiled on that album have been displayed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. She also released video singles through her label in the 1990s, including "Football Widow" and filmmaker Dan Rose's production of "The Split." Her marketing of her own video singles, as opposed to marketing them in multiple-song video collections, is reputed to be another first in her innovative lifetime of doing things her own way, bucking the trends of standard industry practice.
Jackson's only solo full-length album to date, "Cordell Jackson — Live in Chicago" was released on Bughouse Records in 1997. Information and memorabilia about Jackson is included in the Memphis Rock N' Soul Museum in Memphis.
Death.
She died in Memphis in 2004, aged 81.


Sara Jobin

Sara Jobin ['JOHBIHN] (born October 26, 1970) is an American conductor. She is currently the principal conductor of the Center for Contemporary Opera.
Early life and education.
Jobin was born in Norwood, Massachusetts and grew up in various suburbs of Boston and New York. At age 16, she was accepted into Harvard College where she attended from 1987 to 1992 and earned a bachelor's degree in Music and Women's Studies. During her time at Harvard, she would take private piano lessons with Patricia Zander, a faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music. Between 1992-1996, Sara studied at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine with Charles Bruck during the summer.
Early career.
Unlike many conductors, Jobin has always pursued operatic and symphonic engagements simultaneously. In 1992, Sara moved to San Francisco where she soon gained the position of assistant conductor with the Palo Alto Philharmonic. In 1995, she also became the assistant conductor of Opera San Jose, a position she held until 1999. In 1996, she won the job of assistant conductor of the Peninsula Symphony. In 1998, she left the Peninsula Symphony to become the Founding Music Director of the Tassajara Symphony Orchestra. In 1999 she joined the music staff of the San Francisco Opera as a prompter and quickly became a rehearsal conductor and then Staff Conductor.
Career.
In 2004, Jobin made her debut with the San Francisco Opera and became the first woman to conduct mainstage subscription performances in the War Memorial Opera House. She returned three times to the main stage in the next few years and also led two productions in Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley in conjunction with Cal Performances. In 2006, Jobin was the first woman to conduct the Arizona Opera. In 2010, her first opera recording, Volpone by John Musto was nominated for a Grammy. In 2011, she became the Chief Conductor for the Center for Contemporary Opera. Between 2015 and 2018, she was the Resident Conductor of the Toledo Symphony and Associate Conductor for the Toledo Opera.
Guest conducting engagements have included the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Alberta Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Livermore Valley Opera, the San Francisco Opera Center, The Women's Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Tacoma Opera, Arizona Opera, Berkeley Opera, West Bay Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Symphony Silicon Valley, Anchorage Opera, Dayton Philharmonic, New York Shakespeare Festival, Greater Grand Forks Symphony, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Bochumer Symphoniker, Opera Idaho, Musiqa Houston, The Little Orchestra Society, Opera Santa Barbara, Pittsburgh Opera, Toledo Opera, Syracuse Society for New Music, Albany Pro Musica, Lenape Center, American Opera Projects, Opera America New Works Showcase, Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic and OperaDelaware.
Personal life.
Jobin is a judo black belt and international competitor, having won national championships for Ju-no-Kata in both 1998 and 2006. From 2001-2009, Jobin sang with the Glide Ensemble, the gospel choir featured in the movie The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith
Sara also enjoys studying the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan on mysticism and music.


Propoetides

In Greco-Roman mythology, the Propoetides (Ancient Greek: Προποιτίδες) are the daughters of Propoetus from the city of Amathus on the island of Cyprus. In Roman literature, they are treated by Ovid in his "Metamorphoses" (book 10.238 ff.):
Nevertheless, the immoral Propoetides dared to deny that Venus was the goddess. For this, because of her divine anger, they are said to have been the first to prostitute their bodies and their reputations in public, and, losing all sense of shame, they lost the power to blush, as the blood hardened in their cheeks, and only a small change turned them into hard flints.
The story of Venus and her vengeance on the Propoetides for failing to worship her properly is a common theme in a number of stories and poems written about the goddess.
According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides prostituting themselves, Pygmalion determined that he was "not interested in women". This drove him to create a woman of his own in statue form, with whom he then fell in love.


Rebecca Miano

Rebecca Miano, is a Kenyan lawyer and corporate executive, who, since November 2017, has served as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of KenGen Plc., the largest producer of electricity in the East African region. She was confirmed on 1 November 2017, having served in acting capacity since 25 August 2015.
Background and education.
She holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Nairobi and attended the Advocates Training Programme at the Kenya School of Law She also holds a Master of Laws in Comparative Law, awarded by the University of Australia.
Career.
Rebecca Miano first worked at a Nairobi-based law firm, "Musyoka Annan & Company Advocates". Later, she worked at "Slater and Gordon", a law firm in Queensland, Australia. In 1998, she joined Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), as a senior legal officer. Over time, she rose in rank to become assistant company secretary. At the time of her promotion to Acting Managing Director, in August 2017, she was the Director of Legal Affairs and Company Secretary at KenGen, serving n both roles since 2008.
In November 2017, she beat 90 other applicants and was appointed to her current position, replacing "Albert Mugo", who retired after attaining the mandatory retirement age of 60 years.
Other considerations.
Miano is the first female chief executive at KenGen. As of November 2017, she is one of the only two women in Kenya who lead a parastatal company, the only other woman being MaryJane Mwangi, the CEO of National Oil Corporation of Kenya. She is a member of the Law Society of Kenya, and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya. In 2010, she was decorated with the Order of the Grand Warrior of Kenya (OGW), in recognition of her body of work.


Renee V. H. Simons

Renee V.H. Simons (b. 1949) is a former Fortune 500 executive and the president of SANS Sag Harbor, an award-winning nonprofit organization that successfully organized and advocated for the New York State and National Register of Historic Places registration of the historically Black beachfront enclaves in the Sag Harbor communities of Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah Subdivisions.
Education.
Simons holds a Master's degree in Education Planning from Fordham University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Her BA is from Hunter College.
Career.
Simons began her career in 1978 as an assistant brand manager with General Foods Corp. She also worked as a brand manager for Dixie/Northern Products at James River Co., then as a brand manager for Seven-Up Co., for 7-Up and Diet 7-UP. She then became a group director for Phillip Morris and several brands of cigarettes. Simons was then promoted to director of sales promotion for all Philip Morris USA cigarette brands in August, 1991.
Another opportunity followed with a senior vice presidency at JPMorgan Chase. Simons exercised roles at Fortune 500 companies engaging in advertising, marketing, corporate communications, technology and media management and Banking. She achieved professional recognition and held executive level positions at The Advertising Club of NY, Covenant House-New York, and held board membership positions at various corporations. She was president of the Harley Simons Group (a New York Domestic Business Corporation) and a director of the Taproot Foundation. After retiring from professional life, she volunteered at the Sag Harbor Partnership, where she is on the board of directors, and is currently President of SANS Sag Harbor, the non-profit that operates the Eastville Historical society.
SANS.
On July 10, 2019, the National Park Service officially added SANS (the Sag Harbor communities of Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah Subdivisions) to the National Register of Historic Places.
"The East Hampton Star" reports that Simons, as president of SANS Sag Harbor, a nonprofit that advocated for the historic designation, called the designation an "honor," and recounted the history of the subdivisions: "The SANS communities were created to provide privately-owned, safe, and nurturing neighborhoods for family resort recreation and a sense of extended families. During this initial period, African-Americans were excluded by covenants and practice from most public recreation locations in the greater New York areas."
"Newsday" reports that Simons successfully led the effort to have SANS listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places in March 2019, and that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) advocated for the inclusion of the community on the National Register of Historic Places, stating, "As one of the last remaining African American beachfront communities in the country, the SANS Historic District holds important historic value that must be protected." When the New York State Board for Historic Preservation nominated SANS for the national register, Simons stated, "Today's efforts once again underscore . . . the existence of African-American contributions in the long history of America." In March 2019, Simons told "The Wall Street Journal", "There’s a lot of pride to be recognized this way" and "It codifies the history. I thought it was very important to establish the importance of the area versus being a footnote."
Sandra E. Garcia, writing for " The New York Times Style Magazine" in October 2020, recounts a history of the SANS community and reports that Simons, who has a home in Sag Harbor Hills, helped lead fundraising efforts for the national and state landmark applications. Garcia also writes, "there are 195 buildings in the subdivisions — which, alongside several other sites and structures, collectively go by the acronym SANS — all erected before circa 1977 across the 154 acres that lie north of Sag Harbor village’s Hampton Street, which still divides the predominantly white community from the historic Black one."
"The Sag Harbor Express" reports that Simons promoted the landmark application effort through meetings, fundraising and petition drives, and she reached out to the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) for help with the process, which sent 25 volunteers. "The Montauk Sun" reports that the organizing efforts included obtaining a grant from The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation and conducting an Intensive Cultural Resource Survey to produce the required documentation for the applications. Simons discussed the efforts with "The Wall Street Journal" in 2017, stating, "If we don’t say anything we’ll lose the essence of this neighborhood," and "Children won’t remember what it took to be here."


Etel Billig

Etel Billig (December 16, 1932 – March 28, 2012) was an American actress and director; her career spanned more than 60 years. She founded Illinois Theatre Center (ITC) in 1976 with her husband, Steven.
For more than three decades she appeared in or directed over 120 productions at ITC. Her other Chicago-area theatre credits included roles at The Goodman, Wisdom Bridge, Court, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Candlelight, Forum and Body Politic Theatres. She was also active in film and TV work, and taught theatre at Prairie State College. She served as the President of the Southland Regional Arts Council and as a member of the Theatre Advisory Panel of the Illinois Arts Council. She received numerous awards for her contributions to the arts".
Death.
She died at age 79 after being stricken with a brain aneurysm while at her theater.


Ann Allebach

Ann Jemima Allebach (May 8, 1874 – April 27, 1918) was an American minister, educator and suffragette. She was the first woman ordained as a Mennonite minister in North America, on January 15, 1911. There was not another Mennonite woman ordained until 1973.
Allebach was the first woman ever chosen from Kings County, New York, to be a delegate to a national political convention. She was chosen for the 1912 Republican National Convention held in Chicago but was not allowed to attend. She was a delegate from the Eighteenth Assembly District of the State Convention of the Progressive Party at Syracuse.
Early life and education.
Ann Jemima Allebach was born on May 8, 1874 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and grew up near Schwenksville. Her parents were Sarah Markley Allebach and Jacob R. Allebach, who was a banker and postmaster. As a child, she founded a chapter of Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour in her hometown. In 1893, she became a principal of a school in East Orange, New Jersey, and began her college studies. She studied at Ursinus College, New York University, Columbia University, and Union Theological Seminary.
Career.
Following her studies, she taught at Perkiomen Seminary in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania.
Ordination.
She requested ordination from the minister of her home church and a minister in Philadelphia. They agreed to her request, though the culture in that part of Pennsylvania would remain generally opposed to women ministers for several decades. She was ordained on 15 January 1911 at the First Mennonite Church in Philadelphia. Following her ordination, she returned to New York City, living in Brooklyn.
In June 1913 she said:—
Right to preach and suffrage.
After returning to New York City, she spoke out about women's right to preach, and was also outspoken in supporting women's right to vote. In Brooklyn, she preached at the Marcy Avenue Baptist Church from 1913–1915. She also ministered to the poor, and was asked by the Mayor of New York to organize a conference on home religion and social services. She was frequently invited back to Pennsylvania to preach. In 1916, she was called to be the minister for the Sunnyside Reformed Church on Long Island.
Death and legacy.
On April 27, 1918, she died of a heart attack. She was the first ordained female Mennonite minister in North America.