CREATOR, DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER Lliane Clarke
Lliane is a writer, editor, publisher, director/producer and created and has directed Voices of Women with live and filmed events since 2018. She is a senior journalist, public relations professional and published author with over 25 years in the publishing and communications industry in both Australia and the UK. She has extensive experience in creative community engagement, inclusion, marketing and communications, recently at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). She directed Clearway (2020), Created and Co-Directed Entanglement (2022) and shorts Our Mob, Sun in My Bones, The Dress and Invisibility.
CO-DIRECTOR AND CO-PRODUCER Kaye Tuckerman
Kaye Tuckerman is an actor, director and educator. Originally from Sydney, Australia, Kaye is based in New York City, and continues to work throughout the USA, Canada, London, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, South Africa, and Kenya. Kaye was Creative Director for Inglot NYC directing and designing multiple photo shoots, and fashion events, Casting Associate for Disney’s The Lion King (Australia), and Casting Director for Sydney Dance Company. She has directed multiple theater productions throughout Australia and Asia, and has directed the short films: Fragile, Black Canvas, Permission, Still Here, Trumped, Nana’s Room, Coping, The Last Queen, Soul Shaman, Choice, Famousland, On my Shoulder, JOE, Nil by Mouth. For Entanglement Kaye directed On Being Twelve, Body and Breath, Now You See Me, Isolation in Lockdown, Trap Musik, Fully Present, Queens Bessie’s Gal. Kaye is a graduate of Australia’s two most prestigious arts institutions: WAAPA – Bachelor of Arts Music Theatre and NIDA – Post Graduate Diploma Directing.
CO-DIRECTOR AND CO-PRODUCER Otgadahe Whitman Fox
Otgadahe Whitman-Fox is a board member at The New Mexico Women in Film. Otgadahe works in front of and behind the camera as an actress and producer. She has worked with many film festivals in New Mexico and has accompanied The Women in Film & Television International to the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 & 2019. Otgadahe Whitman-Fox is Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara from The Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota and advocates to tell the real storylines for Natives in the film industry. She is wrote, directed and starred in the short film We Are Still Here.
CO-PRODUCER Laura Patinkin
Laura Patinkin is a New York-based actor, director and teaching artist. She has appeared on Broadway (Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof with Topol); Off Broadway (Beau Jest, The Education of Hyman Kaplan directed by Lonny Price, Godspell, Esther in Esther by Liz Swados); on National Tour (South Pacific with Robert Goulet); and in numerous regional theatres around the country. Most recently, Laura appeared in two Broadway Labs: Wallenberg, directed by Martin Charnin and The Trouble With Doug, directed by Victoria Clark. She appeared in the film Bad Education, starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janey. Laura holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She is proud to be a co-creator, curator, director and actor for Over & Above: Women Over 55 Speak, an evening of monologues highlighting and uplifting women writers and actors.
CO-PRODUCER Sally Paridis
Sally Paridis has been a Global Ambassador for Advance in New York for 12 years. From Sydney Australia, she has experience in coordinating expert panels in the philanthropic, charitable and environmental sectors to inform the Australian diaspora in New York of front-line and creative issues. Prior to leaving for New York in 1993 Sally worked in theater in Sydney, appearing as Corrie in Barefoot in the Park directed by Hayes Gordon, Abigail in The Crucible at the Independent Theater, in the film Rebel alongside Debbie Byrne and Mat Dillion and numerous local television series.
