Pioneer Woman Statue & Museum

Pioneer Woman Statue & Museum Preserving the legacy of women from all races, creeds, and nationalities who have contributed to the history of Oklahoma.

Opened September 16, 1958, the Pioneer Woman Museum stands as a tribute to the courage and spirit of the women who settled Oklahoma. The museum is 10,000 square feet, located on 14 acres in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Two galleries share the legacy of the pioneering women who helped settle the plains as well as the stories of more recent pioneering women in areas of hard and social sciences. Displays, p

rograms and exhibits change periodically. Please check with the museum for current schedules. Current staff:
Jennifer Lynch, Director
Keith Fagan, Historical Interpreter


Admission Cost-
Adult: $7
Senior: $5 (62+)
Child/Student: $4
Ponca City Resident: $2
Family (up to 6 People): $18
Oklahoma Historical Society Member: Free
Veteran/Active Service: Free


Tours can be booked ahead of time for groups of 10 or more people. The tour guide can tailor the talk to whatever your focus may be, if specified ahead of time. Group pricing is as follows-
Adult: $5
Senior: $4
Child/Student: $3
The group coordinator and bus driver are free. The Pioneer Woman Museum, Meeting Room, and Outdoor Area offer a great space for meetings, receptions, and other special events. Maximum Number of People Permitted for Outdoor Events: 500
Maximum Number of People Permitted for Indoor Events: 150
Capacity of Meeting Room: 44

Deposits are Not Required. Museum Hours are 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Tuesday through Saturday. Events can be booked during non-operational hours for an additional fee. Amenities- Kitchenette with Sink, Refrigerator, Microwave, Coffee Pot, Tea/Hot Water Pot, Tables and Chairs, Flat Screen Television and DVD Player, Outdoor Function Area, Handicapped Accessible, Wireless Internet/Wi-Fi. Rental Cost-
$50 per Event During Operational Hours
$250 per Hour During Non-Operational Hours
$50 per Extra Hour During Non-Operational Hours
Non-Profit Groups Sliding Scale Donation

08/19/2026

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Pioneer Woman Museum will be closed Thursday, August 27th through Thursday, September 3rd, and we will reopen Friday, September 4th. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for understanding.

Queen Of Cuisine: Siddika Kabir- Oklahoma women can be found far and wide, both nationally and internationally, and some...
08/12/2026

Queen Of Cuisine: Siddika Kabir-
Oklahoma women can be found far and wide, both nationally and internationally, and some come from far and wide as well. The state leaves an indelible impact upon all who spend time here.

Siddika Kabir was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh (then British-ruled Bengal, India) in 1931, the second of 6 children of Sayeeda Hasina Khatun and Maulvi Ahmadullah. At that time, most every Bangladeshi girl and woman cooked for their family, be it basic subsistence meals or fine dining. Her father died when she was just 17, but she persevered, taking on the responsibility of looking after her siblings. She earned a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from the University of Dhaka. In 1957, she gained employment as a math teacher for Viquarunnisa School & College before transitioning to Eden Girl’s College in Azimpur, Bangladesh (then Pakistan). Her second Master’s Degree, in Food, Nutrition, and Institutional Administration, was obtained through a grant from the Ford Foundation, allowing her to attend Oklahoma State University (OSU) from 1961-1963. OSU has long offered an acclaimed nutrition program. Upon her return from Oklahoma she joined the nutrition department of the College of Home Economics in Azimpur, eventually becoming Principal before she retired in 1993.

She worked as a Pakistani Radio presenter while going to college for her first degree. Siddika starred on Pakistan Television in her first TV cooking show, Ghare Baire, in 1965, the first in what would become many subsequent shows as star, host, presenter, or guest often on the NTV Network. Her goal was to aid in eradicating malnourishment in her country. She wrote numerous cookbooks, her first being Ranna Khaddya Pushti (Cooking, Food, Nutrition). Publishers had no interest when she first offered it to them, necessitating Siddika to publish it entirely by herself at full cost in 1978. It was her attempt to expose Bangladeshi women to the cuisines of the world and was written in native Bangla for that reason. It won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award in 2011.

Her second book, Bangladesh Curry Cookbook, was written in English and sought to expose the world to Bangladeshi cuisine, and was the first of her works to gain significant international recognition. She also wrote a column in the daily Janakantha that would eventually be published in book form as Rasna in 1997. Her skill and stardom garnered the attentions of many major foreign and domestic food companies like Dano, Nestle, and Radhuni for whom she consulted. Siddika genuinely loved to cook, particularly trying foods from other cultures. She tried to incorporate nutritional value into every meal. Siddika advocated not eating indiscriminately after age 20 and maintaining a diet routine after age 40. She herself preferred less spicy food than much of what can be found on the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. She approached recipes like equations, working on them repeatedly until she reached what she felt was perfection. Her family often got her failures as their snacks, but seldom complained.

She made contributions in the field of children’s literature as well and was an active women’s rights activist. In her personal life, her adopted daughter described her as “balanced,” having the ability to be simultaneously modern and traditional while juggling her professional and home life. Siddika married Journalist and Bangladesh Bank Deputy Governor Syed Kabir and with him came his daughter Zarina, whose mother had died in childbirth in 1964. He said that having her in his life was the best thing that ever happened to him and together they had 3 children- Sakhawat Ahmed, Shahanaz Ahmed Chandana, and Ahmed Saad. Zarina is a Karolinska Institute researcher and writer in Stockholm, Sweden. Siddika’s niece, Sara Zaker, is a Bangladeshi theatre and TV actor and personality, director, business entrepreneur, and social activist. She and Syed maintained a home environment where the search for knowledge was considered both natural and infinite. Syed was openly affectionate with his wife, and for her birthday once hid several Saris about the house where she would likely encounter them throughout her day. Every time she found one she changed into it, cherishing them all afterwards. Siddika won the Anannya Top Ten Award dedicated to women who made major contributions from many different fields in 2004 and the Shelltech Award in 2009. Syed died in 2000, Siddika died of old age in 2012, age 80.

Pioneer Poet: Zoe Tilghman-Zoe Agnes Stratton was born in Greenwood County, Kansas to homemaker Agnes and rancher Mayo S...
08/05/2026

Pioneer Poet: Zoe Tilghman-
Zoe Agnes Stratton was born in Greenwood County, Kansas to homemaker Agnes and rancher Mayo Stratton in 1880. When she was 7 they moved to Osage County, Kansas before relocating to the newly-opened Cherokee Outlet, Oklahoma Territory in 1893. She grew up becoming very familiar with the region’s indigenous wildlife and often rode with her father’s cowhands. Although mostly schooled at home by her mother, Zoe did attend public school in Arkansas City and went on to the University of Oklahoma’s Preparatory School for 1 ½ years before being admitted to the University itself in 1897. There she became the literary editor of the school’s Umpire Magazine and began to write poetry herself.

Zoe first met William “Bill” Tilghman, a friend of her father, in 1900. They courted via letter while she attended university, and he proposed in 1902. They wed in 1903 and she moved into the home he still shared with his previous wife, Flora, and their 3 children. The children did not think much of her, leading to a tense relationship between them. She produced 3 sons (Richard, Tench, and Woodrow) herself and worked as a schoolteacher, writing in her spare time. She wrote a biography of his life and sued a newspaper that called him a coward. He died in 1924.

She worked at Harlow’s Weekly in Oklahoma City as literary editor from 1925-1934, was involved in the YWCA, Oklahoma Federation of Women’s Clubs and became President of the Oklahoma Writer’s Club. In 1934 she organized a poetry society. Her first book, 1925’s The Dugout, became an approved textbook in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas. Her works have been criticized for depicting “officers of the law” and Native Americans in unflattering, negative, and stereotypical ways, but it should be noted that unlike many writers of her time, she did not erase Natives nor their cultures from her historical narratives. Her biography of Comanche leader Quanah Parker was also very favorable. Zoe wrote numerous poems, articles, and children’s books in addition to her more scholarly works.

In 1935 she became the Assistant Director of the Federal Writers’ Project in Oklahoma and through them published Oklahoma: A Guide To The Sooner State. She was responsible for editing and correcting submissions from the project’s researchers. Project Director William Cunningham, a poet, had communist leanings and the FWP became the center of controversy regarding whether communists had infiltrated the government. She invited US Senator Martian Dies, who chaired the Dies Committee (later known as the House Un-American Activities Committee), to see for himself. Cunningham resigned in 1938 and was replaced by Jim Thompson. A year later Oklahoma’s FWP was temporarily suspended, and when it was restarted, Tilghman was no longer employed.

She received a bachelor of arts degree in education from Central State College (now University of Central Oklahoma), Edmond, in 1947. After publishing the biography of her husband, Marshall of the Last Frontier, in 1949, Zoe was contacted by a movie producer who wanted to use a scene from the book. She appeared in the television series Death Valley Days and worked as a consultant on Western movies, spending the rest of her life as a writer.

Zoe Tilghman died of cancer in Oklahoma City in 1964, aged 83, and was buried next to her husband and son Richard in Chandler.

It's Back To School time once again, teachers, and it should be known that the Pioneer Woman Museum can provide the foll...
08/03/2026

It's Back To School time once again, teachers, and it should be known that the Pioneer Woman Museum can provide the following-

Guided Tours- Guided Tours are available at a rate of $7.00 per adult and $4.00 per child. Groups should have at least one adult present for every 10 children.
• Statue Tour- Students are taken to the Pioneer Woman Statue outside to learn about the history of the statue, it’s purpose, development, and 1930 dedication. Statue Tours typically last 15-20 minutes.
• Museum Tour- Students are taken on a tour of our main gallery to learn about the items on display. Talks can be tailored to the pioneer woman experience or Oklahoman women’s history. Tours can also include a demonstration of our weaving looms upon request. Museum Tours typically last for 30-45 minutes, but can be tailored to suit individual needs.
• Scavenger Hunt- Scavenger hunts appropriate for third-twelfth graders can be provided for groups that plan to spend more time at the museum.

Educational Trunk and Self-Guided Activities- Classes that may not be able to come to the museum can still check out our educational trunk for an in-classroom experience, free-of-charge. The trunk is full of replica items that the kids can freely touch, and comes with an educational resource guide and guidebook on the history of women in Oklahoma.
• Self-Guided Activity binders are also available for teachers on the subjects of Learning About the Land Run and Pioneer Life Through Primary Sources and the Photographs of Dorothea Lange who documented Oklahoma life during the Dust Bowl and Depression.

Frying High Now- While frybread is often thought of as a Native American recipe and is frequently sold at Pow Wows and o...
07/31/2026

Frying High Now-

While frybread is often thought of as a Native American recipe and is frequently sold at Pow Wows and other events, it has a far more complicated history. It is composed of white wheat flour, water, salt, and sometimes baking soda, covered and allowed to rise for 30 minutes before being shaped into balls. From there the balls are pressed into flat discs and fried in lard fat or deep-fried in cooking oil. It can be eaten as is as a side to dishes like stews or roasts, topped with sugar, honey or jam as a confection, or as the bread component of more taco-like meals. The kind often sold at Pow Wows is also known as the Navajo Taco and topped with lettuce, beans and/or corn, shredded cheese, and often sour cream.

The Navajo are also sometimes credited for its development in 1864 as a consequence of the “Long Walk.” Having interacted with the Spanish for many decades, they were likely already familiar with the Mexican tortilla and adapted it into something more filling using the rations they were given. The Maori of New Zealand and Romani (derisively called “Gypsies”) of Europe, no strangers to oppression and displacement themselves, also developed similar breads, as have the Russians, Hungarians, and Punjabi of India.

Made from simple ingredients, let’s not deny that within North America it was developed by tribal nations in order to make the best use of the ingredients provided to them by the US government in order to stave off the serious risk of starvation after they were forcibly removed from lands where they could grow and forage for traditional foods to less productive or familiar regions where they could not. It was developed out of survival, not cultural tastes, and is of comparatively recent origin, displacing millennia-old recipes. African American soul food has similar connotations, the enslaved having to adapt what they were given or could forage, which was often not the healthiest fare.

Activist Suzan Harjo stated that frybread was “emblematic of the long trails from home and freedom to confinement and rations...the connecting dot between healthy children and obesity, Hypertension, Diabetes, dialysis, blindness, amputations, and slow death.” Hopi filmmaker Patty Talahongva referred to it as “Die Bread” and linked it to the widespread diseases of Native American peoples like Diabetes and Gallbladder Disease by replacing healthier native crops with high-fat, starch-rich meals. Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman simply called it everything that Native American food isn’t.

Although inextricably linked to colonialism, it remains an indelible link in the chains of tribal histories, passed down from generation to generation. Many see it as a symbol of resilience, perseverance, and ingenuity as well. The Indigenous Cultures Institute lists 10 recipe variations from tribes such as the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, Osage, Navajo, and Blackfeet. Among the First Nations of North America it has been incorporated, either from necessity or diversity, from Alaska and Canada to the remaining tribes of the Northeast and Southeast United States. There is also a subtle irony in frybread being as sought after as it is by non-Native festival-goers who may be the oblivious descendants of their most ardent oppressors.

And popular it is, with frybread being named the official state bread of South Dakota in 2005 and the Phoenix, Arizona restaurant Fry Bread House being named an American classic by the James Beard Foundation in 2012. Pawhuska, Oklahoma is home to the annual National Indian Taco Championship. Fry Bread House owner Sandra Miller compare frybread styles in America to how pizza varies from New York to Chicago and California and differs significantly from old world Italian traditions. Frybread is perhaps best thought of today as a part of broader American cuisine, the result of the “melting pot” of traditional cuisines from natives and immigrants alike, often born out of pain and hardship, be that in emigration to a new land to escape the difficulties of their homelands or in forced displacement and exile to new lands not of their choosing. All have their place at the modern American table.

Crazy Crow Trading Post, which published a very inclusive history of frybread (https://www.crazycrow.com/site/indian-fry-bread-history/), offers the following recipe-

3 cups All-Purpose Flour
1 ½ teaspoons Baking Powder
½ teaspoon Salt (optional)
1 ½ cups Warm Water

Cooking Instructions: Heat shallow pan on medium.
Fill pan halfway with oil. Fry until golden brown.

Food Preservation: Loretta Barrett Oden- Loretta Barrett Oden was born into the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Shawnee, Ok...
07/29/2026

Food Preservation: Loretta Barrett Oden-

Loretta Barrett Oden was born into the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Shawnee, Oklahoma in the 1940s. Growing up, she often assisted her mother, grandmothers, and aunts in cooking traditional dishes. She refers to Oklahoma as a melting pot owing to the surprising level of diversity within the state owing to the 39 recognized tribes and 39 unrecognized tribes and the immigrant settlers from places as far away as Japan, Vietnam, and as close as Mexico, Texas, and California. As an adult, Loretta spent 3 years traveling the country to learn recipes from many different Native American tribes. She recognized the potential opportunity to educate the public about Native American history and culture through Native cuisine, spending over 30 years, researching, preserving, adapting, and teaching traditional recipes to a wide audience.

Loretta’s first husband was Jerry Vandergrift, whose father founded Oklahoma’s oldest single family-owned barbecue restaurant, Van’s Pig Stand. She has 2 sons and 2 daughters from her second marriage. In the early 1990s, together with her son, the now late chef Clayton Oden, she opened the Corn Dance Café in Santa Fe, New Mexico that specialized in Native American cuisine, the first of its kind. It closed in 2003 and she moved back to Oklahoma where she would eventually become the chef consultant for the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City and its 39 Restaurant in 2021. Loretta is a founding member of the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance dedicated to securing food security for Native peoples and continuing traditional food production and preparation. She is developing an elder meals program for AARP called Native Origins, writes a column for Native Peoples Magazine called Spirit of the Harvest, and published a cookbook, Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine, in 2023. She is perhaps best known for her 5-part PBS television series, Seasoned With Spirit: A Native Cook’s Journey, for which she won a New England Emmy.

Food For Thought: Genevieve Wehba Thomas-Genevieve Wehba was born in 1932 in Archer City, Texas to Fred and Paulina Wehb...
07/22/2026

Food For Thought: Genevieve Wehba Thomas-

Genevieve Wehba was born in 1932 in Archer City, Texas to Fred and Paulina Wehba. As their eldest child, she helped shape her siblings and integrate them into a tight-knit family dedicated to hospitality, hard work, and pride in their Lebanese heritage. A longstanding passion for cooking led to her working for Baptist Integris Hospital and Mercy Hospital, improving hospital dining to unprecedented levels for that era. Genevieve firmly believed that nourishment should engage both body and spirit. Always driving herself to improve, this resulted in her becoming a Certified Pastry Chef and Culinary Educator, making her the first woman from Oklahoma to become a Certified Executive Chef. As a member of the Oklahoma Chefs Association, she served as its Apprenticeship and Certification Director. She was employed by the Casady School for 20 years creating family-style dining experiences to bring students together and catered a myriad of educational and community events.

Multicultural celebrations featured high on Genevieve’s activities as she hoped to expand her students’ global understanding. Food, she felt, should educate, inspire, comfort, and build communities. She was genuinely interested in everyone she met, believing that every person deserves dignity, respect, and kindness.. Differences in ethnicity, faith, politics, or life experiences should never stand in the way of compassion. Family members relate how she once spent an hour talking to a wrong number on the phone, turning a simple mistake into meaningful conversation.

Genevieve volunteered for numerous charitable causes, among them the Red Andrews Christmas Dinner, OK Kids Korral, Salvation Army, and the preparation of meals for search-and-rescue workers following the Oklahoma City bombing. She also served for many years as a food judge at the Oklahoma State Fair.

Genevieve married Rodney Thomas in 1955 and together they had 2 daughters, Cecilia and Renee. Sometime after Rodney’s passing in 1989, she married Dr. Neil Woodward, Jr. He died in 2017. Genevieve was inducted into the American Academy of Chefs in 1993 and was awarded Chef of the Year by the Culinary Arts of Oklahoma several times. She died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on July 17, 2026.

From June of 1941 until April 15, 1944, the Darr School of Aeronautics operated out of the Ponca City Municipal Airport ...
07/17/2026

From June of 1941 until April 15, 1944, the Darr School of Aeronautics operated out of the Ponca City Municipal Airport as the 323rd Flying Training Detachment of the 31st Flying Training Wing of the US Army Air Forces (AAF). It was one of the six British Flying Training Schools (BFTS) operated within the United States, and one of two in Oklahoma, the other being in Miami.

Hal Darr founded the Ponca City school, which was overseen by British Royal Air Force (RAF) officers but employed American civilian flight instructors, including several women. Due to the sensitive nature of their occupation, flight instructors like Lillian Taylor held Top Secret “For Your Eyes Only” military clearance and flew Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplanes or Fairchild PT-19 Trainer Aircraft. Over 4,000 British cadets and hundreds of American pilots trained in Ponca City and Miami.

If you or anyone you know have a connection to the women of the Darr School or hold any objects, papers, materials, etc. associated with the school, we would very much be interested in hearing from you.

Additionally, if you know any women from the Kay County area involved in the armed forces during the Second World War, please reach out.

You can contact the museum at (580) 765-6108 or email us at [email protected]

Have Patience: Patience Sewell Latting- Patience Francella Sewell was born in Texhoma, Oklahoma in 1918 to Leila Yates a...
07/15/2026

Have Patience: Patience Sewell Latting-

Patience Francella Sewell was born in Texhoma, Oklahoma in 1918 to Leila Yates and Frank Sewell. She attended Classen High School in Oklahoma City, followed by the University of Oklahoma, graduating in 1938 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics. In 1939 she achieved her Master’s Degree in Economics and Statistics from Columbia University in New York City. Afterwards she worked for Chase Manhattan Bank as a researcher. In 1941 she returned to her home state and married lawyer and oilman Trimble Latting, begetting 4 children.

Patience Latting joined the Parent Teacher Association and the League of Women Voters and became quite active within both. Through her role as legislative Chair of the Oklahoma Congress of Parents and Teachers, she frequently traveled to the state capital and interacted with legislators. She came to understand that rural interests carried far more weight than those of more populated urban regions owing to there never having been any redistricting since statehood in 1907. In 1964, Latting testified before a federal court investigating the legality of that year’s election and this led to her involvement in finally drawing up new boundary lines for state House and Senate districts that provided for more representation to urban areas.

In 1967, Latting became the first woman to serve on the Oklahoma City Council, when she was elected to represent Ward 2 in part on the efforts of the Association for Responsible Government. She advocated for stricter housing and building codes and more African American representation in government. In 1971 she ran for Mayor of Oklahoma City, believing that incumbent city officials were abusing their power and mishandling funds. although a Democrat, she campaigned without party affiliation and in a runoff defeated her opponent Bill Bishop, who had been endorsed by outgoing Mayor James Norick, by 10,000 votes. When she was sworn in days later, she became the first woman to serve as OKC Mayor as well as the first to lead the government of an American city with a population greater than 350,000.

Latting's faced fierce opposition within city government as City Council struck down many of her reforms during her first year in office. At one point, they negated all her appointments and nominations to city boards and commissions while she was out of town. This overreach proved so unpopular with Oklahoma City citizens that her allies won a majority of the seats on the Council in the next election. She held office from 1971 to 1983, during which OKC adopted a new master development plan in 1977 that raised hundreds of old, low-rise buildings downtown in favor of more modern structures and skyscrapers. At the same time she opened the Neighborhood Development and Conservation Center and many neighborhood associations to combat crime and correct poor zoning. Nercy and Baptist medical centers expanded and the city attracted companies such as Xerox and General Motors. Several new parks like Myriad Gardens were dedicated. Latting dealt with a police strike in 1975 and an investigation discovered fraud within the electrical inspection division. Oklahoma City won the All-American City Award presented by the National Municipal League in 1978. In 1980 Latting was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.

Latting declined a fourth term and retired from public life in 1983, but continued her work with state charitable, cultural, and civic organizations such as the Oklahoma Heritage Association, Support Center of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma City Beautiful. Theta Sigma Phi declared her Woman of the Year in Civic Work in 1961, Soroptimists the Outstanding Woman of Oklahoma in 1969, Phi Beta Kappa the Outstanding Oklahoman in 1976, and was the 1995 recipient of the Constitution Award from Rogers State College. In 2001 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame for City and Town Officials. A bust of Latting was dedicated in Oklahoma City Hall outside the mayor's office in 2005. A branch of the OKC public library was named the Patience Latting Library in 2011. She died in 2012, becoming the first Mayor to ever be laid in state at Oklahoma City Hall surrounded by an honor guard of police officers and firefighters.

Enabled: Alyson Mackenzie Stroker-Ali Stroker may not be an Oklahoman Woman, but she’s best known for playing one, and h...
07/08/2026

Enabled: Alyson Mackenzie Stroker-

Ali Stroker may not be an Oklahoman Woman, but she’s best known for playing one, and her career serves to highlight Disability Awareness Month this July, so we’ll grant her honorary status. Notable Oklahoman disabled women include Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller who suffered a near-fatal car crash in 1979 and a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy, and Journalist and longtime friend of the Museum Pam Henry, the last poster child for the March of Dimes, who was born with Multiple Sclerosis. Both have been showcased here before.

Alyson Mackenzie Stroker was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey to Jody Schleicher and Jim Stroker. When she was just 2 years old, Ali and her brother were involved in a car accident that paralyzed her from the waist down. Despite her disability, she was Senior Class President at Ridgewood High School and starred in several school musicals. She would go on to train with the Summer Theater Conservatory program at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Milburn, New Jersey. She became the first wheelchair-bound actor to achieve a degree from New York University Tisch School of the Arts (for Fine Arts).

In 2007, Ali performed in Mrs. Sharp alongside Alex Brightman and Scott Evans at New York University. She starred in the Paper Mill Playhouse's production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a role she later reprised at Philadelphia Theatre Company. That performance earned her a Barrymore Award nomination. In 2012, she was cast for The Glee Project, making it to the final episode and placing second, earning a guest role on Glee as Betty Pillsbury. 2014 saw her in the film Cotton and as Wendy in the MTV series Faking It. Ali became the first actor in a wheelchair to appear on Broadway as Anna in Deaf West Theatre’s revival of Spring Awakening in 2015. Further career credits include the ABC show Ten Days In The Valley (2017), Lethal Weapon (2018), Drunk History (2018), Charmed (2019), Christmas Ever After (2020), BoJack Horseman (2020), Blue Bloods (2021), Only Murders In The Building (2021), Ozark (2022), and theatre performances of Richard III (2022), and Babbitt (2024), but her greatest success came in 2018 when she played Ado Annie in St. Ann’s Warehouse’s production of Oklahoma! Ali earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress In A Musical, making her the first person with a disability to not only receive the award, but simply be nominated.

Ali sang the American National Anthem at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France. She is a founding member of Be More Heroic, an anti-bullying campaign which tours the country, has held theater classes and workshops for women and children with AIDS in South Africa, and in 2016 co-chaired an awards luncheon for Women Who Care to support United Cerebral Palsy. She is a founding director of ATTENTION Theatre alongside her now husband, actor/director David Perlow. She gave birth to a child in 2022.

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701 Monument Road
Ponca City, OK
74604

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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