Remarkable Women Stories
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Jane Applegate has produced a variety of feature films and documentaries, including ones for NBC and Discovery. Applegate is an executive producer of a global TV series about remarkable women. Applegate is the co-founder of the Remarkable Women Project, a non-profit educational organization.

Jill Doyle serves on the Remarkable Women Project advisory board. Jill is the founder and a director of The National Performing Arts School which was established 30 years ago in Dublin. Jill has appeared in films including: The Country Girls by Edna O Brien, Da by Hugh Leonard and The Van by Roddy Doyle. Her theatrical roles include Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers and Sean O Casey’s Shadow of a Gunman, Sarcophagus, All The Way Back at the Abbey Theatre and many more TV roles.

Judy Guillermo Newton is on the Remarkable Women Project board of directors. For over 40 years, she worked as an organizational development consultant for private, non-profit and public organizations. Before joining the Montecito Bank & Trust as Senior Vice President, Judy worked with leaders in the academic, administrative, and student service divisions at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A licensed marriage and family therapist, Judy is currently working as an Executive/Organizational Coach and consultant helping organizations develop their strategic plans to meet their goals.

Angie Becerra is a Life and Family Coach. She provides skilled support to help cope with change. For the past 15 years, she has used mediation and coaching to bridge the gap between families in conflict as well as coaching individuals struggling to be understood in life situations. Her goal is to empower you to find a way to reach your goals.

Alice Look is a former journalist and television production executive. She has developed and managed episodic series, documentaries, and short form content for A&E, History, Lifetime, and fyi networks. Alice is the author of Remarkable Women: Reclaiming Their Stories, the RW Project’s first book about 23 women to be featured in the upcoming TV series.

Nuala O’Connor lives in County Galway, Ireland. Her poetry and fiction have been widely published, anthologised, and won many literary awards. Her sixth novel Seaborne, about Irish-born pirate Anne Bonny, is nominated for the Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for Eason Novel of the Year at the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards. Her novel Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce was a Top 10 historical novel in the New York Times. She won Irish Short Story of the Year at the 2022 An Post Irish Book Awards. Her fifth poetry collection, Menagerie, is published by Arlen House in spring 2025.

Jane Applegate has produced a variety of feature films and documentaries, including ones for NBC and Discovery. Applegate is an executive producer of a global TV series about remarkable women. Applegate is the co-founder of the Remarkable Women Project, a non-profit educational organization.

Mary's stage performances have toured Europe, China and the United States. She received Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards with MAMCA, The First Irish Theatre Festival in New York. She has over 60 screen credits. She was nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the Irish Film and Television Awards for her role as Janet in Love Hate. Other notable productions include Valhalla, Penny Dreadful, Adam and Paul, The Magdalene Sisters, Dead Still and Let the Wrong One In. She voiced numerous animations and radio plays and she’s the recipient of the Best Actress Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2023 for her performance in the Pride of Parnell Street, produced by Fishamble Theatre Company. Mary is the director of Visions Drama School in Dublin.

Amy is an established Irish Actress and Writer. She plays the lead role of Aoife Regan in TV series BORDERLINE (Shinawil / MGM+). Other notable TV/Film roles include Sanctuary: A Witches Tale (AMC), Blackshore (RTE/BBC), Apocalypse Clown (Fastnet Films), Line of Duty (BBC) and Small Things Like These (Big Things Films). She has written and performed six different one woman shows internationally and to critical acclaim. Her last theatre show “I See You” was based on the life of a forgotten woman of Irish history, Lady Mary Heath and was inspired by the Herstory Ireland movement.

Sheila Flitton has been featured in a vast range of Irish and international film and TV productions, including Academy Award-nominated The Banshees of Inisherin. She has been, for many years, a council member of the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters' Guild, and a member of the Writers' Union. She has been a Committee member of Irish P.E.N. and a member of the Actors' Council of Irish Actors' Equity.

Sheena Lambert left the glamour of a career in industrial waste management behind when her first novel The Lake was published by HarperCollins in 2015. She is now a fulltime screenwriter, playwright and novelist, writing in both the Irish and English languages. Sheena’s debut feature film, Báite, an adaptation of The Lake, is due for release in 2025. Sheena’s romantic comedy feature Who Do You Think You Are? is in pre-production and her comedy drama feature The Blue Girl is in development with Bend It Films (UK) and Port Pictures (Irl) with Gurinder Chadha attached to direct. Following a hugely successful, sold-out and extended run in 2024, Sheena’s stage play Cosima, based on her Screen Ireland supported feature screenplay of the same name, is scheduled for a 2025 Irish tour with Breda Cashe Productions.

Ringsend Glee was piloted in the Spring of 2023 and was a comeback project for Liza Caulfield, award winning singer, teacher and producer after overcoming an illness.  Initially the program was set up for kids, however some of the neighbourhood ladies approached Liza and asked if she'd considered doing something similar for them, so she did.  The pilots lasted 6 weeks and after a successful run, Glee Ringsend was established and officially launched in September 2023.