Solution: Old-time actress Le Gallienne - NYT Crossword

Hi, kids! Even if you’ve never heard of the actress EVA Le Gallienne, you should know about her because she was a badass. Born in the U.K. in 1899, she liked to say that she was “a century ahead of her time.” According to Playbill.com, “she poured her savings into the Civic Repertory Theater, where she performed the almost unbelievable feat of functioning as leading actor, director and producer. She introduced American audiences to Chekhov and Ibsen; was the Camille, Juliet, Masha and Hedda of her generation; and was the first Peter Pan to fly out over the audience. With the Civic, Le Gallienne laid the groundwork for Off Broadway and the regional theater movement and proved that a subsidized, nonprofit repertory theater playing at low prices could flourish.” In addition, she was part of the infamous and influential “sewing circles” of L.G.B.T.Q. actors in early 20th-century theater and Hollywood.