leading character
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“The Great Jheri Curl Debate” presented a new challenge: writing a leading character outside her own race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
Tina Huang, who plays the leading character Kat Chan, pointed out how a majority of the people on and off stage for the production identify as Asian American or Pacific Islander.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
“It was a very sweet leading character to play, because the character doesn’t know what’s going on and I didn’t either.”
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
As the leading character in a musical, Caroline is unique: Titanically dour, she seeks to repel all sympathy her circumstances might invite.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
This Book may, therefore, be called Nausicaa's Book, as she is the leading character in it, imparting to it a marvelous mood of idyllic beauty and womanly purity.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
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