Bertha Morley (1878–1973) was an American missionary from Mentor, Ohio. She first went to the Ottoman Empire in 1911 and began teaching music at Marsovan College in 1913. In 1915 she witnessed the genocide of Ottoman Armenians.
BIANCA BAGATOURIAN is an experimental playwright who easily switches between genres. She is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Brooklyn College with lifetime Obie award-winning playwright, Mac Wellman. Her play, The Time of Our Lies, a play about the life of historian Howard Zinn, co-produced by Viggo Mortensen, and supported by Tim Robbins, Eddie Vedder, and Tom Shadyac, was nominated for the Amnesty Int. Freedom of Expression Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2014. Her latest play, "The Gratitude Prayer," tackles the necessary dehumanization universal to all genocides. Bianca is also the founder and president of the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance since 2005, a non-profit which administers the $10,000 William Saroyan Human Rights Playwriting Award. She also produces theater and film.
