#esther lee jones

[mia-seth-adventures]

Baby Esther née Esther Lee Jones - The Original 'Betty Boop'. At Wikipedia

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Esther Lee Jones (aka Little Esther) was a popular African American performer who toured the world in the early part of the 20th Century.

When interviewed in Rio de Janeiro, a reporter asked how she had avoided the racists who lynched and burned black people in Texas and Alabama. Esther replied that she had so far escaped their wrath by staying out of the South.

[nickysfacts]

Baby Esther “boop boop a doop” herself to stardom!💄

🎶👩🏾‍🦱🎶

[sharkasstronaut]

Betty Boop in my style because I felt like it. And she's black because she was inspired by Esther Lee Jones or "Baby Esther" who initially came up with the "boop boop bee doop" type of flair in the singing. I got this info from @upturninginkpots my friend, credit where credit is due.

[show-us-kaidenshenandoah]

a loved one of mine sent me this post back in June, but i was immediately afraid of being a party-pooper so i didnt post my reply publicly but, now, ive had more than enough emotional distance from the knee-jerk anxiety of "oh no what if i correct people and everyone sends me hate and doxxes me" that im like "oh yeah i should post that" lmao (if i already did this: sorry, chronic memory loss stinks. i dont remember having done this before lmao)

if you dont like reading a long thing of text to get information btw, totally get it, here is a video link to Jessica Vill's video about the topic which will walk you through identical information if that is your preferred way to process/learn

also: you can easily google and wiki my sources, these arent hard things to verify once you know to look them up to begin with. but i did include screenshots below as my various sources; as well as evidence of "yeah, it would be super easy to fact-check me about this if you feel so inclined" [transcripts of images will be my reblog of this post under a read more, bc tumblr kept throwing a fit otherwise if i did it here] nonetheless, never blame people for not knowing what they didnt know. the misconception is absolutely the fault of PBS (for not fact-checking the author of that article pre-publication if nothing else) for publishing an article preying on the Black community's pre-existing attachment to Betty Boop for clicks. i wont be going into that article itself that had so terribly misreported, esp since PBS already apologized, im just reporting the information i know

i will add the following corrections to what i said in that DM:

i do not "blame" anyone above for the misinformation. if i "blame" anyone, it is PBS for claiming Fleischer consciously based Betty Boop's personality and design on Esther Jones, which you can see in the screenshot above; where BlackHistory.com cites and quotes that said misreported article. thats who i was groaning about in my DM, the PBS article; i was not nor was i ever attributing misinformation to come from @rikareena or @lveshae, but especially not @rikareena who fact-checked and was lied to by (a) said misinformation and (b) there not being an editorial within the snippet SAYING "oh btw sorry, our source we mentioned was bad actually. PBS apologized for the misinformation and not fact-checking it and we should too for spreading it without fact-checking our source ourselves". you should always google your facts and that is exactly what @rikareena did. it was not anybody in this post's fault that these sources were based on misinformation. do NOT blame or send negative attention to any tumblr-user/individual person within this post or outside of this post, istg, demand better of these website-sources instead (esp to have fact-checking teams themselves) and not individual people omfg

we do have few photos of Little Esther (you can see all of them in Jessica Vill's video), not just one. but they all are of her as a child. we have NO confirmed photos of her as an adult. also, to clarify, Little Esther was who i was talking about in regards to lost media, we have VERY little records of her performances (to which im glad people HAVE been looking into her and finding more about her that we can confirm is definitely her through this misreport. i love that she is re-gaining fans and her story is being shared, very big silver lining of this whole thing. if you're into uncovering lost media, please do look into her and help find more about her) also, she goes by "Baby Esther" and "Little Esther" as well as her name of Esther Jones/Esther Lee Jones

the photo i said was maybe her as an adult was incorrect. you'll see it below, it's the "Do Tell by James Van Der Zee, circa 1930" portrait that has oft been misattributed to Esther Jones. we do not know who this woman modeling for him had been

the cosplayer in question i mentioned was specifically Olya Gussy. she dressed up as Betty Boop and was photographed in 2008 by Retro Atelier. she is often misattributed as being an adult Esther Jones, which she is not

part of why i can never remember Betty Boop's primary "original" voice-actress is because Betty Boop has had SO MANY, even in just "classic Betty years". but i was specifically thinking of Mae Questel. the main three classic 1930s Betty Boop voices were Mae Questel, Mary Hines, and Bonnie Poe, but there were also several others in the 30s alone. but, yeah, when i was trying to talk about Betty Boop's voice-actress, it was Questel specifically who was in my head

i got my information wrong about the Betty Boop musical "Boop!". i got confused; i blame my chronic memory loss, but still my bad. anyway. it has so far ONLY been OFF-Broadway and is DUE to be ON Broadway in 2025 (get hyped!!! im so excited!!). off of Broadway, it has so far only been in Chicago according to the Wikipedia. and though it only had a had a short run in Chicago overall, the entire time it WAS in Chicago, Betty Boop was played by a Black musical actress: Jasmine Amy Rogers. love her, go support her!!

here are various screenshots with more information. feel free to look into them and/or the court-case on your own time. this is just "yep, shallow 2+2=4 levels of using google/wiki to fact-fact" on myself (which, to reiterate: is NOT a diss on anyone who didnt know what they didnt know, outside of this post or within it, idgaf, i do not tolerate trolls and dickheads being mean and utalizing me/my posts as a weapon to do that with) and show my sources in a more visual way

so yeah!! Betty Boop absolutely should be claimed by Black people since she has so many connections to Black American art within her performance, and Betty should 100% be drawn as a Black woman by any and everybody who wants to depict her that way

but also dont give Fleischer Studios credit for things they didnt do. they did not utalize Ether Jones in their initial conception of Betty in any purposeful or concious way; they did not design a Black animated female character in the 1930s. do not give them that credit that they have not earned. Fleischer Studios only utalized Esther Jones to get out of a court-case they had with Helen Kane. them accidentally creating a character whose performance is heavily in connection with Black American artists, like Esther Jones, is VERY DIFFERENT than them basing a character off of Esther Jones or being inspired by her in of by itself. do not give them flowers for making a Black female character star in her own shorts (and then rescind said flowers-that-they-didnt-earn for how she then "became white-washed" like that PBS article misreported) when they just?? didnt do any of that?

(also this is mostly unrelated but bc it is tangentially related to "dont give Fleischer Studios credit for things they didnt do" thing: if you know me, youll see me specifically crack jokes about Betty Boop being wlw and/or about her "he/him butch girlfriend, Freddie". im talking about her canon boyfriend, Fred or Fearless Fred, who is a human (unlike her also once-canon boyfriend of Bimbo, the anthropomorphic dog). do not take me making jokes about headcanons and how "Fred's design is too sapphic to be a cis man" as legitimate fact. youll see the internet jokes of a similar vein sometimes, im definitely not the originator of that joke)

Betty Boop is for everybody in the same way as youve likely seen that Hatsune Miku trend where everyone is making a cultural Miku re-design to their specific ethnicity or way of life; we've seen Betty Boop be flexibly "for everyone" tons of times, even outside of her being a nostalgic tribute to the flapper girl era (a cultural niche in which women of ALL backgrounds took part). in classic Betty Boop cartoons alone, we've seen:

Betty Boop as white/white-passing (especially any time they copied Helen Kane which Fleischer Studios did OFTEN and didn't even HIDE until it became a legal issue; but also Helen Kane wasn't even being that original. baby voices like Betty Boop's was a common gimmick of actresses then and Helen Kane's catch-phrase wasn't even her own. i still personally think Fleischer was copying Kane, but also it makes 100% sense why she lost that lawsuit),

we have had Betty Boop be Jewish (the most obvious being parents in some shorts speaking with thick Yiddish accents, implying she is the daughter of immigrant parents, most famously in the "Minnie the Moocher" short as part of the set-up before any music even began to play),

we've had her be rotoscoped dancing using Indigenous Hawaiian dancers, in their regalia, and given a tan (multiple times but my favorite is "Bamboo Isle" for sure),

we've had her collab with Cab Calloway (a famous Black jazz musician for anyone who doesn' recognize the name) along with others and had Betty Boop's catchphrase ultimately come from Baby Esther's scatting, along with other instances of Betty Boop's performances having connection to Black American performance-art

and, hell, you could even make arguments about Betty Boop as a cowgirl in her "Nan McGrew" parodies. cowgirls and cowboys were a largely queer and/or POC group, paid very little but allowed a lot of freedom of expression and welcomed isolation, until America cinema and the like white-washed cowboys to hell and back. you could see Betty Boop as anyone of any identity, really, but especially as being of the marginalized in that vein

Fleischer Studios did definitely (accidentally popularize infantalization in animated women woah who said that, who brought up my special-interest) only announce that they used an alagamation of flapper women in their design to better shoot down Helen Kane, but that doesn't mean it wasn't true. Betty Boop IS the 1930s tribute to the flapper era of the 20s and all the women from there, of all skin-colors and ways of life. anybody can cosplay or draw Betty Boop. but Black people especially do have a special connection to Betty Boop that cannot be denied and is v beautiful

(i could talk for a few hours about Betty Boop, and i will be the first to admit this isn't even her first "well, originally..." debate concerning her as a character, much less the breadth of her impact OR all aspects of her history. there's all the ways she did steal/borrow from Helen Kane, at least in my opinion; her impact of infantalization in animated women's designs; her hyper-sexualization and how theater at the time functioned (in a sexual way*) and her specific "gags in the margins"(*×2) animators would make; her almost movie about her and her father that a lot of Betty Boop fans have dug up and shared the conceptual work of around; and even the debate of her age as that is constantly in flux depending on where you look and at what time of history (*×3). all of which i mention in an "if you liked learning about Betty, there is a lot more to look into learning about her" way rather than an "ask me, ask me, ask me" way)

(said * clarifactions will be with the aforementioned reblog to not make this post even LONGER than it already is lmao)

anyway. again: A++ art though, absolutely love it ♡

boop-boop-a-doop

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Drama Filmhouse...House Of Cards (1993) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #drama #houseofcards #kathleenturner #TommyLeeJones #ashamenina #parkoverall #ShilohStrong #EstherRolle #NickSearcy #90s #dvd #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsasdramafilmhouse

[normcore-tertiary-character]

May has the tiniest little silent film starlet mouth. I bet she's small spoon gang

[enlightenedrobot]

Other Characters you can legally use for your Mickey Mouse project

Mickey Mouse is in the public domain, as is Minnie Mouse and Peg-leg Pete. There's some caveats to that, and I talk about that more in this other post, but for now, let's talk about other characters who you can also use to fill out the cast.

These characters should all be in the public domain, though some characters still have treademarks. I'll get into how to use them safely as we go. Anyways, let's start.

Other Disney Characters

Disney obvciously doesn't advertise this, but there's actually quite a few Disney originals who've actually been in the public domain for a while.

The Mad Doctor never had it's copyright renewed, and so it's very technically the first Mickey Mouse cartoon to enter the public domain. Keep in mind, the version of Pluto featured in the short isn't in the domain just yet, but the Doctor himself is free to use.

What's funny is that Disney would later use a version of Doctor for Epic Mickey. Obviously don't use that version of the character.

Aside from the Mad Doctor, we also have Oswald and Ortensia

Yeah, as it turns out, Oswald's been in the public domain for quite a while, but he's still trademarked by Disney. Easy recommendation... use the original "fat" design of the character and have him go by Lucky.

But before Oswald, we have the Alice Comedies

Everything about the Alice Comedies is Public Domain for a long time, and the Disney corporation very rarely acknowlege these characters existence. Which is a shame because These shorts were some of the first shorts Walt ever produced, and they have the unique gimmick of featuring a live action girl in an animated world.

Everybody already knows about Oswald, but nobody talks about Oswald and Mickey's older brother from these shorts, Julius the Cat

Like... yeah no, it didn't all start with a mouse. Or a rabbit. It started with a cat.

Foxy and Milton Mouse

Both Foxy (top) and Milton (bottom, pictured with his girlfriend Rita Mouse) were characters created by Warner Brothers and Van Beuren respectively to cash in on Mickey's success, and both characters are also in the public domain.

In fact, all Van Beuren cartoons are apparently in the public domain, and I encourage you to find their cartoons and use them as you please.

Fleischer Characters

Betty Boop is probably in the Public Domain, but there's a few caveats with this. From what I can tell, the name Betty Boop is trademarked, but the character herself isn't. Most of the old Betty Cartoons are free to use, but newer incarnations, including the versions used in 1985's The Romance of Betty Boop and 1989's The Betty Boop Movie Mystery are still very much under copyright.

To avoid any legal trouble, I have two big recommendations. Although everybody remembers Betty as having Black hair, in one of the few early instances of Betty being shown in color, she's actually depicted as Redhead.

This is Betty Boop in 1934's Poor Cinderella, and her hair color is pretty clearly red.

The other option is to just make her black.

Though there's been some debate as to whether Betty Boop was intentionally modeled after Esther Lee Jones or not, there's still no denying the influence of Jazz on the character. Betty Boop is a Jazz singer and is often depicted dancing to Cab Calloway. Hell, the Betty Boop musical features Jasmine Amy Rogers as the titular character.

Betty Boop aside, there's an entire world of defunct Betty Boop characters who are definately public domain, including Bimbo and Koko the Clown.

Next year, Popeye's also gonna enter the Domain. So keep an eye out for him too.

Anyways, these are my picks, but obviously this list isn't meant to be comprehensive. There's a ton of old cartoon characters out there who can be freely reinterpreted into newer works. Feel free to add your own favorite public domain cartoon to the list.

[nocturnalazure]

A-Z Challenge: List your sims in order, trying to complete the alphabet (1)

Thanks for tagging me, @wannabecatwriter!

Here is the veeeery long list of all of my Sims (318 in total). Keep in mind that I've started playing the game in 2009, and that the story has properly started in 2012. I've got the whole alphabet. ;)

It's so long that Tumblr refused to save my post and I have to do it in 2 parts...

This is A to L.

Abigail (Abby) Golzine Adam Jamsheed Adeline Moya Adonis Golzine Adrian Savigny Agnès Sorel Aiden Fangmann Alain Sedat Alan Blake Aleksander Pedersen Alesha Drudge Alex Cooper Amber Fangmann Amelia Leneuf Amina Nagi Andrew Lee Ange Golzine Anh Wong Anna Daumillier Annabelle Duval Annette Babin Araime Nugtyub Ashley Blake Aymen Chaumier Babeth Lauper Bao Hei Basil Lazlo Beau Merrick Belinda Angelista Benedict Murdoch Benjamin Duval Béranger Golzine Bindweed Startree Bjorn Carlsen Blaise Collinson Bonehilda Bouchra Zayat Brianna Drudge Buttercup Icewitch Cain Simson Candice Hamming Carmen Benavides Caroline Duval Cash Cedric Corcoran Céleste Duval Charlene Scott Charlie Chester Crewe Chikage Umeda Chloe Savigny Chris Daumillier Christine Crastaing Claire Jamsheed Clara Randall Clemence Blake Cordelia Savigny Daisy Fleury Daniel Simson Darrick Bohn Deirdre Macmullen Devon Lucas Devon Murray Dorothea Heilmann Dot Dounia Zayat Drake Striker Ebenezer Clavier Ed Grant Edwin Macmullen Elaine West Eleanore Ngoyta Elias Alverstoke Elie Abebah Elizabeth Ellingford Ella Macmullen Elliott Granger Eloise Simson Elsie Elvira Slayer Emilia Ferguson Emily Golzine Emmy Sedat Enrico Pinero Erik Zay Esther Atkins Eton Jamsheed Eugene Dodds Eva Drudge Eve Fangmann Evelyn Parsons Evelyne Cornel Ezra Murray Faith Blake Fanglin Wong Feather Willowglitter Fei Wong Felipe Benavides Fidget Peppertree Filiberto Moya Finn Lucas Frank Parsons Frederick Golzine Gabriel Leneuf Georgia Pastorini Gilles De Rais Gina Ashford Giselle Blake Gladys Moon Evendale Gloria Deville Grace Moya Hasan Badr Al-Din Hector Parsons Hector Zayat Helena Wong Henry Cornel Henry Tartleton Holly Huey Huaixin Wong Hugo de Lalaing Ian Strickland Irma Parsons Ivy Brooks Jacob Golzine James Parsons Jamie Steel Jeong Sen Myung Jeremy Simson Jessica Lazlo Jessie Cooper Jezebel Jie Lan Jim Parsons Joakim Ferguson Johan Blake Jonathan (Jay) Leneuf José Luis Simson Joshua Deville Juan Salas Julia Layton Julian Blake Juliet Striker Juniper Catfrost Karen Ferguson Karl Leneuf Karolina Drudge Katelyn Missoni Katherine Golzine Keith Blake Kelly Frazier Ken Takemura Kendra Deville Khadija Rkha Khari Simson Kheops Zayat Kojub Iowal Kyle Delmott Kylian Lazlo Lance Terrell Laura Leneuf Lauren Nettles Lawrence (Laurie) Golzine Layla Lazlo Lea Daumillier Leona Ferguson Leonard Heilmann Li Wong Liang Wong Lilian Drudge Lilith Ellingford Lisa Simson Liu Lu Logan Jones Louis Simson Louise Heilmann-Cooper Luca Pastorini Lucas Blake Lucille Daumilllier Lucy Blake Ludo Golzine Luisa Guerrini Lulu Dia Luna Golzine

[thebugthatruinsyourpicnic]

lijst van starkid/tcb karakters die ik denk dat de mol zouden kunnen zijn

Owen Carvour (duh)

MISS HOLLOWAY

Xander Lee

Wilbur Cross

Joe Walker Voldemort maar hij zou er wel fucking slecht in zijn

Esther Backpack-Blueglasses

The Old Snatch

Junior Spaceclaw (zou er ook fucking slecht in zijn)

Taz zou de mol niet zijn maar ze zou fucking winnen

Sweet Tooth

Alfred

Bug (hij is al een insect die zich verstopt onder de mensen HALLO)

Ja'far

Aladdin maar alleen de 'in your reflection' kant

Slippery When Wet Dikrats

Cornwallis

General Store Guy

McDoon (Cletus Jones zou in dit geval de eerste afvaller zijn)

Titty Mitty zou finalist zijn

Van Ani weet ik oprecht niet of er een de mol zou zijn

Ghosts of Christmas Present en Future

Emily Cratchit

Infected Charlotte

Zoey

Sherman Young

Linda Monroe

Pokotho

Bliklotep

T'Noy Karaxis

Nibblenephim

Wiggog Y'Wrath (ik heb van alle LiB geen idee hoe goed ze zouden zij maar oke)

Webby

Sylvia (van Forever and Always)

Alice Woodward?

Hidgens, hij zou zo fucking dramatisch doen dar niemand hem verdenkt omdat hij zo obvious is

Emdroid

Paul 23

Peter Spankoffski (Ruth en Richie zouden NIET ver komen, Steph zou als laatste/een-na-laatste afvallen)

Solomon Lauter

Sheila Young

Roman Murray

Rose

Ezekiel

KUT IK WAS CYNTHIA HOUSTON VERGETEN

Sergio Santos

Tatiana Slozhno (zou alle widmblr gays verblinden, we zouden haar zo niet verdenken)

[hotvintagepoll]

Is it possible to submit Esther Lee Jones aka L'il Esther, original boop-oop-a-doop girl, as a scrungly? I can't find any of her performances :(

I don’t think so because from what I could find, she didn’t have much of a movie career—looks like she was more of a stage performer, and was a minor for much of that career as well. In general I won’t include someone if there’s no feature footage that proves their scrungly prowess.

[dickfuckk]

A list of season 2 cast and crew members, confirmed and speculated

I will try and keep this updated

Not counting the obvious ones

Please note that this is a list of both cast and crew members, so PAs and such are also included and not just actors

Also if you're interested: on my bts instagram I only follow people who have worked on season 1, and people I suspect worked on season 2. So feel free to go through the list of people I follow if you're into that

A

Aaron Morton (Camera) - he’s listed on the very last picture as the camera-man

Adam Stein(Writer)

Alan F. (English solider)

Alexandria S.

Alison Telford (Casting)

Alistair Gregory - from this tweet so uncertain, but followed me back on my bts instagram account so seems to have some interest in ofmd

Amy Barber (Sound department)

Amy Tunnicliffe

Amanda Grace Leo

Amanda M. (Wedding guest)

Andrea Basile (Costume)

Andres Gomez Zamora (Visual effects)

Andrew DeYoung (Director) - I don’t remember if there was any other reason than the fact that he was in Aotearoa during filming

Andy McLaren (senior art director)

Andy Rydzewksi (Cinematographer)

Angelina Faulkner (Sound department)

B

Blair Nicholson (Camera)

Blair Teesdale (Camera)

Brad Coleman (Visual effects)

Brad McLeod (Special effects)

Brian Badie (Hairstylist)

Bronson Pinchot (“Torturer”)

Bryn Seager - I don’t remember why but I follow him

Bryony Matthew (Food stylist)

C

Caleb Staines (Camera)

Chantel Partamian (Visual effects)

Colin Elms (Art department)

Colin Rogers (Sound department)

Cora Montalban (Makeup and/or hairstylist) - I believe she was tagged in an instagram story once, and she’s followed by a ton of cast and crew members

Corrin Ellingford (Sound department)

Corey Moana (Camera)

Corry Greig (Art department)

Coti Herrera (Prosthetics/Makeup)

D

Damian Del Borrello (Sound department)

Daniel Fernandez (Spanish priest)

Danica Duan (Assistan accountant)

David Boden (production manager)

David G. (Stand in)

David Rowell (Financial controller)

David Van Dyke (Visual effects)

Dennis Bailey (Hairstylist)- Leslie revealed that he’s there.

Dion Anderson (Rescue diver)

Don A. (Swampy Town folk)

Donna Pearman (Assistant accountant)

Donna Marinkovich (set decorator)

Doug McFarlene (Pirate)

Duncan Nairn (Visual effects)

E

Eliza Cossio (Writer)

Erroll Shand (Prince Ricky)

Esther Mitchell (Camera)

F

Fernando Frias (Director)

G

Gareth Van Niekerk (Sound department)

Gary Archer (dental prosthetics)

Gemma Campbell (Visual effects)

Grant Lobban

Greg Sager (Safety manager)

Gregor Harris (Camera)

Gregory J. Pawlik Jr. (AD)

Gypsy Taylor (Costume designer)

H

Haroun Barazanchi (Set designer)

Harry Ashby (AD)

Helene Wong (Voice work)

I-J

Jacob Tomuri (Stunts)

Jaden McLeod

James Crosthwaite (Set decorator)

Jamie Couper (Camera)

Jason Samoa, possibly spotted on location

Jemaine Clement, pretty sure this is only based on his friendship with Rhys and Taika tbh

Jes Tom (Writer)

Jessica Lee Hunt (Makeup artist) - followed by a ton of crew and cast members and I believe she’s been tagged in instagram stories and such

John Mahone (Writer)

Jonathan Bruce (Sound department)

Jono Capel-Baker (Groom)

Jonno Roberts didn’t get the role from his audition, but could still have gotten a different role - hung out with Ruibo

Judah Getz (Sound department)

Julia Huberman (Sound department)

Julia Thompson (Costume)

Justin Benn (Republic of Pirates Town)

K

Karl L. (Action extra)

Kate Fu

Kate Leonard (Casting)

Kathleen Zyka Smith (“Red Flag”)

Kosuke Iijima (Fabricator/Sculptor?) - due to interaction on this post

Kris Gillan (Fabricator/Sculptor)

Kura Forrester - followed by quite a few cast and crew members, but I don’t remember if there was anything else to it

L

Laura Stables (SFX makeup artist)

Leanne Evans (Art department)

Lee Tuson

Leslie Jones (Spanish Jackie) - she’s spoiled this so many times, but gjfhdks

Leyla - followed by a lot of cast and crew members, don’t remember if there was more to it than that

Lindsey Cantrell (Set decorator)

Louis Flavell Birch (Blue coat)

Luke V. (Stand in)

[lboogie1906]

The Negro Ensemble Company was founded in New York City, under the direction of actor Robert Hooks, actor, playwright, and director Douglas Turner Ward, and producer, and director Gerald Krone. NEC was criticized for its integrated administration (Krone was white), its grant from the Ford Foundation, its location in Greenwich Village, and its first season’s bill.

The genesis of the NEC can be traced to 1965 with the production of two one-act plays by Douglas Turner Ward, Happy Ending and Day of Absence, both satires.

The success of the plays prompted the New York Times to ask Ward to write an article on the Afro-Americans in the theatre titled “American Theatre: For Whites Only?” In the article published on August 14, 1966, Ward stressed the need for an established Black theatre by African American playwrights with an unfettered, imaginative Negro angle of vision. He targeted Blacks as the primary audience, but he wanted to attract an informed white audience that shared common experiences to readily understand, and debate the playwrights’ explorations. Ward’s Times article attracted the attention of W. McNeil Lowrey at the Ford Foundation which asked him to apply for a grant for such a theatre. The Ford Foundation awarded Ward a $434,000 grant to establish the NEC. Teaming with Robert Hooks, who brought to the NEC his three-year-old Group Theater Workshop, they made the St. Marks’ Playhouse, the permanent home of NEC since it had been the site of Ward’s successful playwriting debut. A defined policy established the company as a Black-oriented, Black-controlled theatre of high professional standards with an extensive training program in all facets of theatre, from acting to backstage crafts.

The NEC launched or boosted the careers of numerous African American actors including Moses Gunn, Francis Foster, Adolph Caesar, Denise Nicholas, Roxie Roker, Esther Rolle, Rosalind Cash, David Downing, Judyann Elder, Arthur French, Hattie Winston, Clarice Taylor, Allie Woods, and Ron O’Neal. Others who performed with NEC included Stephanie Mills, Cleavon Little, Richard Roundtree, Lauren Jones, and Roscoe Lee Browne. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[dear-indies]

hello cat and mouse! could you please give me some female actresses (and singers) that would work as a college student (aged between 21-32) that have folksinger vibes, please? thank you so much in advance 🍉

Camryn Grimes (1990)

Tanaya Beatty (1991) Da’naxda’xw / Himalayan.

Poppy Drayton (1991)

Bonnie Wright (1991) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Rose Matafeo (1992) Samoan / White - has spoken up for Palestine!

Ayça Ayşin Turan (1992) Turkish.

Kiana Madeira (1992) Black Canadian, Unspecified First Nations, White.

Lydia West (1993) Afro Montserratian / White.

Clark Backo (1993) Black Canadian.

Aisha Dee (1993) African Australian / White.

Lily Mae Harrington (1993)

Yalitza Aparicio (1993) Mexican of Mixtec and Triqui descent.

Tuğçe Açıkgöz (1993) Turkish.

Lee You Mi (1994) Korean.

Aimee Lou Wood (1994) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Özge Özacar (1995) Turkish.

Asia Jackson (1994) Ibaloi Filipino and African American - has spoken up for Palestine!

Esther Yu (1995) Chinese.

Lucy Dacus (1995) - is queer - has spoken up for Palestine!

Kahara Hodges (1995) Navajo, African-American, Mexican, English.

Katherine McNamara (1995)

Jessie Mei Li (1995) Hongkonger / White - is a gender non-conforming woman who uses she/they - has spoken up for Palestine!

Luca Hollestelle (1996)

Grace Van Dien (1996) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Josefine Frida Pettersen (1996) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Brittany O'Grady (1996) Louisiana Creole [African, French] / White.

Kwon Young-Eun (1997) Korean.

Kiera Allen (1997) - is paraplegic.

Morgan Holmstrom (1997) Metis of Cree descent, Ilocano and Sambal Filipino, possibly Tagalog Filipino.

Fiona Palomo (1998) Mexican.

Ethel Cain (1998) - is a trans bisexual woman - has spoken up for Palestine!

Daisy Edgar-Jones (1998)

Ella Hunt (1998) - is queer.

Bailee Madison (1999)

Hey anon! Admittedly, I don't know much about folk music but I think these all work?

[best-d20-character]

Your NPC Candidates!

The top five most submitted, in order:

Ayda Aguefort

Gilear Faeth

Garthy O’Brien

Wuvvy

Jawbone O’Shaughnessey

The rest of the 149 candidates, grouped by season:

Esme

Scratch

Viscountess Grabalba

Wannessa

Captain Gorebladder

Princess Suntar

Philippa “Peep” Featherfowl

Scorple

Sir Keradin Deeproot

The Sugar Plum Fairy

Manta Ray Jack

Stilton Curdeau

Cinnamon

Gooey

Swifty

Peppermint Preston

Duchess Primsy Coldbottle

Annabelle Cheddar

Queen Caramelinda of House Rocks

Sprinkle

Lord Calroy Cruller

Limon Longhalls

Senator Augustus Ciabatta

Spearia Mentha

Pontifex Belizabeth Brassica

Viscount Thaddeus Strongpit

The Junkmother

Aurora Nebbins

Plug

Princeps Zorch

Loose Duke

Barry Nyne

Raymond Zam

Lucienne Rex

King Prilbus

Plinth

Natalia Cicero Connie Lee Carter Bajar

Bambi Leroux

Hyacinth Khrome

Stacks McFadden

Rising Bubbles from a Deep Volcanic Vent Many Fathoms Below Us

Veep 909

Zvoon

Drago

Jessa

Avanash

John Feathers

J'er'em'ih

Percival son of Paraval (Stalker)

Ol' Pickering

Bad Henry

Master Ipskix

Drova Longfoot

Galfast Hamhead

Olag

Telmeir the Calm

The Cubbies

Ragh Barkrock

Zayn Darkshadow

arthur aguefort

Tracker O'Shaughnessey

Sandra Lynn Faeth

Gorthalax the Insatiable

The Hangman

Cathilda Ceíli

Aelwyn Abernant

Bogariel “Boggy the Froggy” Frogariel

Zelda Donovan

Alistair Ash

Biz Glitterdew

YES! (the deity)

“Baby” Wretchrot

Jamina Joy

Baron from the Baronies

Chungledown Bimothy

Madam Silvaine

Little Gilear

Telemaine Lomenelda

Craig

Rawlins

Laertes Astrindarius

Karl Cleaver

Gelgador

Talura

Athena Jones

Preston

Holly

Koda the bear

Lucia Wallace

Lysander Higgins

Starforge

Taffodil

Bill Seacaster

Sklonda Gukgak

Digby & Wilma Thistlespring

Zaphriel “the Hangvan”

Nonna Wallace

Kalvaxas “Goldenhoard”

Pok Gukgak

Matila Molesly

Alphonse

Senator!

Little Miss Muffet

Scheherazade

Princess Elody of Greenleigh

The Stepmother

Lord Bandlebridge

Stephan

the Dish

Mayor Harold Hopps

Mira (the Little Mermaid)

Rapunzel

Cinderella

Candlewick

the Big Bad Wolf

Il Terribile Pescecane

Peter (the Baron of Bricks)

Nod

Stephen Sondheim

Dale Lee

Jackson Wei

The Questing Blade

Wally Kugrich

David Kugrich

Willy

Em

Lowell Masters

Esther Sinclair

Alejandro Ortiz

La Gran Gata

Liz Herrera

53\/3N

Perry the Pigeon

Pizza Rat

Don Confetti

Dr. Lugash Primjitzski

Yagdash Scrovich

Ronaldo Manticaster

Dylan

The Incredible Dantes

Speck

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Mwf that you’d like to see around?

ready with this !

honestly , i'd love to see anyone you'd love to bring as having muse is the most important . i always check out the gif pack tag to see what resources are out there and pick who gives me a muse idea ! however , here are some suggestions ! joy , irene , gemma chan , shuhua , yuqi , joy sunday , jordan alexander , jessica aleander , ming xi , esther yu , halle bailey , zion moreno , seo jihye , angelica ross , simone ashley , ryan destiny , coco jones , hwang yeji , lia ( choi jisu ) , ozge yagiz , araian debose , precious lee , lashana lynch , jessica chastain , ayo adebiri , ara snook , florence pugh , chuu , margot robbie , havanna rose liu , michaela jaé rodriguez , nakamura yurika , shay mitchell , ambika mod , renée rapp, bebe wood, avantika vandanapu, lily rose depp , rachel sennott , cchristina ricci , cierra ramirez , hunter shafer , josie totah , freema agyeman , melanie lynskey , nicole maines , riele downs , priscilla quintana , salma hayek , michelle pfeiffer , jennifer aniston , madelyn cline , zoe soul , maddison bailey , cho miyeon , song yuqi , wawwa nicha , jihane almira chedid , courtney eaton , michelle yeoh , lucy liu , charithra chandran , zendaya , wakeema hollis , jung hoyeon , park minyoung , mookda narinrak , anya taylor - joy , annabelle wallis , shay mitchell , brenda song , jasmine tookes , han sohee , lisa yamada , nadine lustre , lee dahee , kylie verzosa , ni ni , yang hyeji , angela yeung win , poorna jagannathan , kiki layne & namtan tipnaree ! we'll love any face claim u choose !