Leah Carrey
Born Leyke Post, Leah Carrey (1908-2005) performed at the old Boston Opera House, the Shawmut Theater, and the Franklin Park Theater, working with some of the greatest stars of the Yiddish stage.
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Julia Cross
American performer, teacher, and writer
Hallie Flanagan
Hallie Flanagan (1890–1969) was sworn in as director of the Federal Theatre Project on August 29, 1935.
Florence Klotz
Klotz’s most noteworthy costume design credits were for productions by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Stephen Sondheim, and 16 prodcutions with director Harold (Hal) Prince, including Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993), Show Boat (1994), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Pacific Overtures (1976), Grind (1985), and On the Twentieth Century (1978).
Elizabeth Montgomery
Theatrical designer
Dorothy Heyward
American playwright
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Harlem Renaissance poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor
Ruth Roman
20th century American actor
Pauline Frederick
American actress
Pauline Hopkins
Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904; her goal was to publish a journal devoted to “the development of Afro-American art and literature.”