Remarkable Women Project Co-Founders

  • Co-Founder

    Jane Applegate has produced a variety of feature films and documentaries, including To Keep the Light, a period drama set in Jonesport, Maine in the 1860’s and health docs for NBC and Discovery Health. She teaches the business of film course at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College. Applegate is the author of five books on business success and the co-founder of Showbizing.com, a company offering entertainment career guidance and production consulting.

  • Co-Founder

    Alice Look is a veteran television production executive. At A&E, she managed an in-house production team that created a variety of programming, including episodic series, documentaries and short form content for History, Lifetime and fyi. She oversaw the process from concept pitch, rights, script, edit, music and delivery for domestic and global distribution. 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. She will also write and produce episodes for the series.

Remarkable Women Project Advisory Committee

  • Sweta Keswani

    Sweta Keswani is an actor, writer, producer and social media consultant on the Remarkable Women Project. After starring in several critically acclaimed and hugely popular prime time television series in India for over two decades, Sweta Keswani moved to New York from Mumbai in 2010. She had a recurring role on New Amsterdam with Ryan Eggold, AMC’s Supernatural thriller Nos4a2 and on The Blacklist with James Spader. She also appeared on Apple TV Plus’s new dark anthology series called Roar and in Mayim Bialik’s first directorial feature As Sick as They Made Us with Dustin Hoffman and Candice Bergen. She appears in The Beanie Bubble due out this summer, starring Elizabeth Banks and Zach Galifianakis. She is currently writing a screenplay and developing an episode for the Remarkable Women Project.

  • Hillary Cutter

    As the founder and executive producer of NYC-based Cutter Entertainment, Hillary is an industry leader in long-form content creation and storytelling, as well as a fierce champion for the inclusion of women in entertainment. Cutter’s most recent film project, the six-time award-winning Tribeca Studios documentary "The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion", made history by hiring a 90% female crew to produce this story about the intersection between hip hop and fashion, and the female trailblazers who designed these show-stopping looks.

  • Linda Denny

    Linda Denny became President Emeritus of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council upon her retirement in 2011.
    WBENC provides a national “gold standard” third party certification that a woman’s business is at least 51 percent woman owned, operated, managed, and controlled.
    During her presidency, Linda assisted the National Gay Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), Disability:IN, and the National Veteran Owned Business Association (NaVOBA) in creating their third-party business certification programs.
    Prior to joining WBENC, she spent 23 years in insurance and financial services industry, advancing from agent to corporate vice president of New York Life Insurance Company and other firms. She has served on many boards including: Washington DC’s National Women’s History Museum and the Women’s Leadership Board of the Kennedy School at Harvard University.

  • Jill Doyle

    Jill Doyle started her career as an actress before establishing Ireland’s premier performing arts school and a talent agency. Jill has produced and directed many stage shows in addition to acting in, producing and casting film, TV & commercials.
    Jill is the founder and a director at The National Performing Arts school which established 30 years ago in Dublin.
    National Performing Arts School opened its doors at The Factory on Barrow Street in Dublin’s Docklands in September, 1994.
    The NPAS Agency represents young actors in film, theatre, television and all the performing arts. NPAS tudents have worked on many productions over the last 30 years, most recently on films including: The Wonder ( Element Pictures 2022), Nocebo and My Sailor, My Love (2022).
    Doyle 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 roles in 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.

Remarkable Women Project Board

  • Jane Applegate

    PRESIDENT

    Jane Applegate has produced a variety of feature films and documentaries, including To Keep the Light, a period drama set in Jonesport, Maine in the 1860’s and health docs for NBC and Discovery Health. She teaches the business of film course at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College. Applegate is the executive producer of Remarkable Women: Out of the Shadows, five episodes funded by Creative Europe for the EU market. She is the co-founder of Showbizing.com, a company offering entertainment career guidance and production consulting.

  • Alice Look

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Alice Look is a veteran television production executive. At A&E, she managed an in-house production team that created a variety of programming, including episodic series, documentaries and short form content for History, Lifetime and fyi. She oversaw the process from concept pitch, rights, script, edit, music and delivery for domestic and global distribution. Alice is the author of our first book: Remarkable Women: Reclaiming Their Stories featuring 23 profiles of remarkable women to be featured in the U.S. television series. She will write other books and produce episodes for the series.

  • Joe D. Applegate

    SECRETARY

    Joe Applegate enjoyed two different careers before his retirement in 2020. A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, he worked as a journalist and editor for the San Diego Reader, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Syndicate, Newsweek among other publications. About 10 years ago, he became a certified English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher at a Catholic community center in Brooklyn, NY. Joe spends his free time woodworking and reading books in French. He lives in the lower Hudson Valley with his wife, Jane Applegate, and their grown children.

  • Leslie Grossman

    MEMBER

    Leslie Grossman is a Senior Fellow and Faculty Director of Executive Women’s Leadership at The George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, and founder of the Her Circle Leadership training program. A leading global expert in women’s leadership, she is an executive coach, author, sought-after speaker, and former serial entrepreneur. Leslie founded the Women’s Leadership Exchange, a national conference program impacting the careers and businesses of women from 2002 – 20012. In addition to the work she does at GWU leading the Executive Women’s Leadership Program, and the Women Leaders on the Rise program, Leslie recently founded Circle Leadership Coaching, which trains coaches, consultants and trainers in a specialized program to develop women executives to their full potential as leaders and address workplace challenges and self-limiting beliefs.

  • Judy Guillermo Newton

    MEMBER

    Judy Guillermo Newton worked for over 40 years as an organizational development consultant for private, non-profit and public organizations before joining Montecito Bank & Trust as Senior Vice President and Director of Organizational Development and Human Resources. Before joining the bank, Judy worked with leaders in the academic, administrative, and student service divisions at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She served as the Campus Ombudsman, working with UCSB community members, including faculty, staff, and students, who sought guidance with the resolution of problems, complaints, conflicts and other issues. She was a licensed marriage & family therapist for over 30 years. Judy is currently working as an Executive/Organizational Coach and consultant helping organizations develop their strategic plans and meet their goals.