Libby Skala in "LiLiA!" (The Lion)

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Excerpt of Libby Skala's one-woman show "Lilia!" about the life of her grandmother Lilia Skala, the first female architect in Austria, who fled the Nazis, immigrated to New York and worked her way out of a zipper factory to a career on Broadway, television and film. Lilia Skala eventually won an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Mother Superior opposite Sidney Poitier in "Lilies of the Field". The story records the journey of a remarkable woman and the connection between two ...