The BOP Mission also endorsed and supported by one hundred of the world’s foremost artists including:
Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Barbra Streisand, Mike Leigh, Stephen Sondheim, Costa-Gavras (President of the Cinémathèque français), Sir Richard Eyre (former artistic director Royal National Theatre), Octavia Spencer, Rufus Norris (current artistic director Royal National Theatre), Clarke Peters, Salma Hayek, Viola Davis, Imelda Staunton, Dame Vanessa Redgrave, Armando Iannucci, Sharon D, Clarke, Sir Mark Rylance (first artistic director Shakespeare’s Globe theatre London), Jeremy Irons, Robert Lepage (founder and artistic director of Ex Machina Canada), Sir Lenworth (Lenny) Henry, Kwame Kwei-Armah (current artistic director Young Vic), Michael Sheen, Angela Bassett, Indira Etwaroo, Mathew Rhys, Katie Mitchell (former associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court theatre and Royal National theatre), Steve Coogan, Toby Jones, Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, Nadia Fall (current artistic director Stratford East theatre London), George C. Wolfe, Ruth Negga, Orlando Bloom, Colman Domingo, Claire Foy, Dominic Cooke (former artistic director Royal Court theatre London), Carey Mulligan, Sterling K. Brown, Edward Norton, Fiona Shaw, Patrick Chamoiseau (Prix Goncourt), Marianne Elliott (director War Horse etc), Sanaa Lathan, Vanessa Williams, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Tracy Letts, Euzhan Palcy (director A Dry White Season etc), Rebecca Hall, Lesley Manville, Kenny Leon, Lily Tomlin, Daniel Craig, Josette Bushell-Mingo (Principal Royal Central School of Speech and Drama), Dame Helen Mirren, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Paapa Essiedu, Mark Dornford-May (artistic director of the Isango Ensemble Cape Town SA), Alfre Woodard, Sir Jonathan Pryce, Keith David, and Ken Loach.
