THEATER, MOVIE, PLAY (International)

Question 1

Producer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Book of Mormon and Leopoldstadt

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Sonia Friedman

Question 2

Was named producer of the Year three times at The Stage Awards, becoming the first person
to do so

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Sonia Friedman

Question 3

first black British female playwright to have a play staged in the West End with Nine Night in
2018

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Natasha Gordon

Question 4

This film director often explores the lives of Indians living in England, specifically of women and how they must reconcile their converging traditional and modern cultures.

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. Gurinder Chadha

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Her movie, Bend it Like Beckham, is the highest grossing British-financed sports film

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Gurinder Chadha

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‘the godmother of black British playwrights’

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Winsome Pinnock

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she was the first black British female writer to have a play produced by the Royal National
Theatre

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Winsome Pinnock

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founded the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre with the mission to “celebrate the artistic
expressiveness of Asian and American theatre artists under the highest standards of
professional theatre and professional productions.”

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Tisa Chang

Question 9

made her Broadway debut in 1970 in the show Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen

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Tisa Chang

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One of the early female leaders in the American Regional Theatre movement

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Nina Vance

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In 1947 she started the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas with $2.14 in her pocket

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Nina Vance

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Susan of God and A Little Journey

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Rachel Crothers

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The New York Times wrote of her: “She was as skillful as she was prolific; when she was at her
best, she was the season’s toast.”

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Rachel Crothers

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At the age of 12 she wrote a five-act play called Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining, or The Ruined
Merchant, which was performed in a friend’s living room.

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Rachel Crothers

Question 15

During World War I, Crothers founded the Stage Women’s War Relief with seven other women. The organization raised more than $7,000,000, and they sewed clothing for the troops

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Rachel Crothers

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won the 1971 Drama Desk Award for her first major play, Black Girl

Question 17

Her love of stories began in childhood, and she wrote whenever she
could. She would hold on to every writing utensil and tablet she could get her hands on, since
money was not available for supplies and she would write everywhere: on the sidewalk, on
paper bags and napkins, on boxes

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first play, A First Step to Freedom

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J.E. Franklin

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mother of American feminist drama

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Megan Terry

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encompasses more than 60 plays, musicals, and theatre pieces, explored feminist issues and
contained a range of strong female characters from battered women to prisoners

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Megan Terry

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pioneered a postmodern technique called “transformational drama

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Megan Terry

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was first interested in film but her parents introduced her to thetre

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Megan Terry

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developed a theatre group called The Cornish Player

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Megan Terry

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Won 1983 Dramatists Guild Award, ATA Silver Medal for “distinguished contributions to, and
service in, the American theatre”

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Megan Terry

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presentied more than 3,000 productions, all low budget and experimental

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Ellen Stewar

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During World War II she worked as a riveter in a defense plant in Chicago

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Ellen Stewar

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is now given out to “an individual theatre artist or theatre company whose work promotes social change and community participation with a particular focus on the engagement of young people.”

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Ellen Stewar

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founded the pan-African satellite network EbonyLife TV

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Mo Abudu

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EbonyLife was the first African company to sign a multifilm and TV deal with Netflix

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Mo Abudu

Question 30

MeToo shook the foundation of the global entertainment business, a trans-forma-tion that Bauer says “was long overdue,” issues of gender equality and diversity “remain at the forefront of my decision-making both professionally and personally.”

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Rola Bauer

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Oversees all of the U.K. public broadcaster’s TV, radio, sports, education and children’s content and has championed the BBC’s drive fo incresed diversity

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Charlotte Moore

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head of Fremantle, by some measures the world’s largest independent TV production outfi

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Jennifer Mullin

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She might just be the Peggy Olson of the Japanese anime world

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Emiko Iijima

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began her career in the secretarial pool at Tokyo anime studio Pierrot, the creator of several world-famous anime series like Naruto

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Emiko Iijima

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Demon Slayer: The Movie pulled in $447 million in 2020) and the soaring prices the streamers are willing to pay for the most pedigreed series.

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Emiko Iijima

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CEO of WarnerMedia

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Ann Sarnoff

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CEO of Fox News, launching a 24/7 weather streaming service

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Suzanne Scott

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The Chairman of Entertainment at Walt Disney Television

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Dana Walden

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first African American woman to be nominated for Best Director at both the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards

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Ava DuVernay

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In 1963, Elizabeth Taylor became the first woman to make $1 million for a lead role in a film after her iconic turn in ‘Cleopatra”

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Elizabeth Taylor

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married eight times

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Elizabeth Taylor

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a fierce advocate for HIV/AIDS research in the 1980s

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Elizabeth Taylor

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the first woman to run a major production company and is frequently credited with pioneering the practice of television syndication

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Lucille Ball

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the first woman to wear pants on film

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Marlene Dietrich

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first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director for her 2008 film “The Hurt Locker”

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Kathryn Bigelow

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first-ever female recipient of the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award”

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Bette Davis

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“Big,” which earned Marshall the distinction of being the first woman to direct a film that
grossed over $100 million

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Penny Marshall

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first African-American actress to earn what is called the “Triple Crown of Acting.”

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Viola Davisthe

Question 49

an outspoken feminist and social justice advocate, and she has worked on philanthropic
campaigns to combat childhood hunger and poverty

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Viola Davisthe

Question 50

the most groundbreaking woman in comedy

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Carol Burnett

Question 51

The first woman to host a popular variety show with the debut of the “The Carol Burnett Show” in 1967

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Carol Burnett

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the first Latina actress to command a $1 million salary per film

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Jennifer Lopez

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an actress and civil rights activist who refused to perform in front of crowds that were
segregated by race

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Josephine Baker

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(2017, movie based on a book w/ the same title)

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“Hidden Figures”

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tells the true story of three brilliant Black female mathematicians — Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) — who use their intellect to supersede both segregation and sexism at NASA and propel the United States in the Space Race that dominated the 1960s.

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“Hidden Figures”

Question 56

a telling and motivating movie for anyone to watch in honor of Black History Month

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“Hidden Figures”

Question 57

The film, directed by Theodore Melfi, is loosely based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s novel by the same name

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“Hidden Figures”