Nobu McCarthy
Actress and artistic director of East West Players.
Actress and artistic director of East West Players.
Mexican poet and storyteller.
Argentine storyteller who became a Mexican citizen, playwright, theater director, musician, and professor of literature and acting at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL)
Yolande Moreau is a Belgian comedian, actress and director.
Tracy Rector is a storyteller, educator, filmmaker, coordinator, co-founder of Longhouse Media non-profit organization, multi-media artist, and a 2016 Stranger Genius.
American musician, actress, writer, director, and comedian
Mexican playwright
A 2020 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant winner, Nanfu Wang uses film to explore the relationship between individuals and governments. Like a rigorous investigative journalist, Wang employs immersive, vivid storytelling and a first-person narrative structure in her documentary films to examine the ideas of responsibility and freedom, particularly in her native China.
Although she did not pick up a camera until she was thirty-two, Ava DuVernay has made history as a writer, director, and producer. She was the first African American woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival, be nominated for a Best Director Golden Globe, direct a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, and direct a film with a budget over $100 million.
Mexican playwright, director and screenwriter