Director Archives - Page 5 of 7

Bernie Dwyer

Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist

Ninette de Valois

Irish ballerina, choreographer, and founder of the Royal Ballet

Margaret Anglin

American actress, director and producer

Assia Djebar

Best known by her pen name Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen was an Algerian feminist novelist, translator and filmmaker, considered one of North Africa’s most influential writers.

Nola Leigh Millar

First director of the New Zealand Drama School

Daisy Bannard Cogley

Irish theatre director and producer, actor and singer

Kathleen O’Brien

For most of the 1950s Kathleen O’Brien was the only woman directing films in New Zealand.

Catherine Duncan

Catherine Duncan was an actor, playwright, film-maker and author who became the first woman credited as director in an Australian film since the McDonagh sisters in the 1930s.

Paulette McDonagh

In 1926, three remarkable sisters made history by becoming the first Australian women to own and run a film production company. They were also among the first to produce a talkie in Australia.

Dorothy Daniels

One of New Zealand’s leading teachers of ballet.