Black Cowgirl

Nancy Holley Hughes is an award winning writer, producer and teacher who is proud to call Santa Fe home. She has devoted much of her professional life to researching and writing the many untold stories that focus on Black women in America. As a teacher, Ms. Hughes has created curricula both for high schools and colleges that focus on anti-racism, social justice and women’s issues. In 1993, she was a co-producer and organizer for one of the largest global spirituality conferences for women in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1997, Nancy worked in collaboration with other writers for Disney Imagineering on a project called "The California Story." That same year, she worked as a writer and consultant for Disney Education where she wrote interactive projects for Whoopi Goldberg. In 2003, Nancy wrote and produced an original screenplay entitled: "The Wright Brother’s Revenge" to celebrate Orville and Wilbur Wright’s one-hundred year anniversary of flight. This screenplay was performed at the Boston Copley Library. She is a founding member of the Women's Theological Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Nancy has performed her published stories "The Merlee Tales" throughout the country, which also exists on CD. Nancy is a recent recipient of Governor Richardson’s New Visions Film Award for her feature length screenplay "The Resurrection of Honore Page: Black Cowgirl." Nancy received her MDiv and MTS from Harvard University.

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Eileen Olivieri Torpey is an award winning producer and visual artist. Her artwork is exhibited and screened both nationally and internationally. In 2005 Ms. Torpey collaborated with Emmy Award winning cinematographer, Douglas Crawford to produce, direct and co-edit a documentary entitled, "Santa Fe Watershed: Lessons from the Genius of Place." In 2001 she received a grant from the US Embassy to install a site installation in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland and is a two-time recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation artist grant. In 1999 Ms. Torpey performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Ms. Torpey is the founder and curator of the annual exhibition DRIFT. This experimental show includes more than 50 emerging artists and travels to a new location every year. In 2007 she worked as U.S. producer for MTV3 "Turismo" in Albuquerque and produced two staged script readings of the narrative feature film "Honore Page." Currently, she is working as the senior producer for "Honore Page" and is a recent recipient of Governor Richardson's New Visions Film Award for the State of New Mexico. Ms. Torpey received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

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