Susan Bay Nimoy

In 1979 Bay and other members of the Original Six a group of women directors created the Womens Steering Committee of the Directors Guild of America to protest against gender discrimination in Hollywood and support female employment on film and television sets at the directing level Bay is a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for National Progress which publishes the magazine Mother Jones In 2007 Bay directed the American premiere of Shakespeares Will a solo play by Vern Thiessen that featured Jeanmarie Simpson as Anne Hathaway She acted in the 2009 film Mother and Child Bay is a cousin to Rabbi John Rosove of Temple Israel of Hollywood7 as well as film director Michael Bay Bay married actor John Schuck and together they had a son named Aaron The couple divorced in 1983 In 1987 Sandra Zober and Leonard Nimoy were divorced and over a year later he married Bay In 1999 Bay and Nimoy made a 100000 donation to the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles MOCA so it could purchase The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin In 2007 they financially supported WACK Art and the Feminist Revolution an art exhibition at the MOCA In 2008 they made a 1 million donation to The Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater at Griffith Observatory Bay appeared as a model in Nimoys Shekhina which is a book of monochrome nude photography of women representing Shekhinah the presence of God in Judaism She and Nimoy were together until his death in February 2015 in California