***Our plays are loosely based on their historical counterparts.***
If you would like more information specifically about producing one of our plays, please email 365womenayear@gmail.com with the historical woman and the playwright in the subject line or the body of the email.
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Mabel Loomis Todd “The Women of Amherst” (109 pages) Playwright Tom Noe (2018)
Mabel Dodge Luhan- “Mabel”(10 pages)/Playwright: Tina Esper (2017)
Mabel Loomis Todd-“Tell It Slant”(21 pgs)/playwright Marilyn Clarke (2016)
Mabel Walker Willebrandt-“Goodnight, Washington” (5 pages)/Playwright: Patricia Middleton (2015)
Madame Jeanne Campan – “Madame Campan’s Academy” (96 pages)/ Playwright: Lynn Marie Macy (2018)
Madame Heger- “Charlotte’s Letters” (95 pages)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady (2016)
Madeleine L’Engle – “On Water” (three pages)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee (2018)
Madonna- “The Allegory of Love”(16 pages)/Playwright: Abby Rosebrock (2014)
Madres de Mayo/ “Madres de Mayo” (26 pages.) /Playwright: Nadia Rosero (2018.)
Mae C. Jemison- “Science of Motion Sickness”(11 pages)/Playwright: Asia Nichols (2015)
Mae West- “Between Us Gals”(7 pages)/Playwright: Sue Yocum (2018)
Magdalena Abakanowicz-“Fourteen New Brilliant Colors of Magdalena Abakanowicz” (19 pages)/Playwright: Merridawn Duckler (2017)
Maggie Lena Walker- “BELONGING” (17 pages)/Playwright: Rachel Dickson (2018)
Mali Spighel “Founder; Philanthropist”(8 pages)/Playwright: Judy Meiksin (2017)
Malwida von Meysenbug – “All Too Human” (76 pages)/playwright: Rosemary Zibart (2016)
Mama Bett Hemings- “Bett Hemings” (19 pages)/Playwright: Elsa Real (2014)
Mami Wata “Wata Daughters” (9 pages)/Playwright: Asia Nichols (2017)
Mamie Smith- “BELONGING” (17 pages)/Playwright: Rachel Dickson (2018)/Mamie Smith- “Shoutin’ Blues” (40 pages)/Playwright: Kim Louise Whiteside (2018)
Mamie ‘Peanut’ Johnson-“Over the Line” (7 pages)/Playwright: Cindy Cooper (2016)
Mananowe- “Who Was Charles Oakes Ermatinger?”(8 pages)/Playwright: Wendy Hamilton (2015)
Manuelita Saenz- “Libertadora”(25 pages)/Playwright: Diana Burbano (2014)
Mao Hengfeng- ”Disturbing Social Order” (7 pages)/Playwright: Rachel Baird Rudisill (2015)
Marcia Lewinsky- “Marvel(ous) Monica” (23 pages)/Playwright: Sarah Tuft (2015)
Marie Tussaud – “Faces of the Revolution” (20 pages)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett (2019)
Margaret of Anjou – “Poor Painted Queen” (67 pages)/Playwright: Catriona Scott (2018)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (16 pages)/Playwright: DS Magid (2016)
Margaret Clitherow- “The Trial of Margaret Clitherow”(23 pages)/Playwright: Judy Meiksin (2016)
Margaret Elphinstone de Flahaut- “Happiness in Palaces” (39 pages)/Playwright: Christine Caccipuoti (2017)
Margaret Bourke-White – “That Sunny April Afternoon” (10 pages)/Playwright: Paul Calandrino (2018)
Margaret of Provence- “Margaret and Beatrice” (3W, 7 pages)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg (2018)
Margaret Askew Fell Fox- “Battleground Negative” (3 pages)/Playwright: Jessie Salsbury (2016)
Margaret E. Knight- “Margaret Knight’s Battle Rap; 1871” (10 pages)/Playwright: Anne Flanagan (2016)
Margaret Lyon- “A Colonial Devotion” (76 pages)/ Playwright: Susan Battye (2018)
Margaret (“Maggie”) Maher-“Emily’s Room” (17 pages)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady (2018)
Margaret More Roper- “Dead to Rites” (25 pages)/Playwright: Sheila Rinear (2014)
Margaret Sanger- “The Pill”(8 pages)/Playwright: Jenny Seidelman (2014)/Margaret Sanger: A Woman Rebel”(52 pages)/Playwright: Jessica Feder-Birnbaum (2018)/Margaret Sanger- “Between Us Gals”(7 pages)/Playwright: Sue Yocum (2018)
Margaret Chase Smith–“Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington” (15 pages)/Playwright Linda Britt (2015)
Margaret Thatcher- “Margaret Thatcher Changes the World” (25 pages)/Playwright: Rex McGregor (2016)
Margaretta Forten: Sarah’s Poem (ten pages)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee (2016)
Margery Jourdemayne – “Queen, Next Westminster”(10 pages)/Connie Bennett (2016)
Margery Kempe- “The Visions of Margery Kempe” (89 pages)/Playwright: Rachael Goddard-Rebstein (2018)
Margot Fonteyn-“Forsaking all Others”(55 pages)/Playwright: Heather Dunmore(2016)
Margot Wölk- “The Food Tasters of the Wolf’s Lair”(Die Vorkoster der Wolfsschanze) (4 pages)/Playwright: Jaclyn Perlmutter (2015)
Marguerite Duras/ Duras (15 pages)/ Playwright Eva Hibernia (2016)
MARIA OF ALANIA, “Anna K. and the Alexiad” (57 pages) Playwright: Toby Engelberg (2016)
MARIA OF BULGARIA, “Anna K. and the Alexiad” (57 pages) Playwright: Toby Engelberg (2016)
Maria the Jewess – “Alchemy”(11 pages)/Playwright: David Marrs (2016)
Maria Blanchard- “La Petite Blanchard” (15 pages)/Playwright: Inge Martin San Juan (2014)
Maria Luisa Bombal- “Los Ultimas Dias” (27 pages)/Playwright: Begoña Ugalde (2014)
Maria Estuardo (Queen of Scots)- “Ternura Negra” (17 pages)/Playwright: Denise Despeyroux (2014)
María Félix “María Untamed” (9 pages)/Playwright: Dorothy Velasco (2019)
Maria Gebbie- “A Colonial Devotion” (76 pages)/ Playwright: Susan Battye (2018)
María Rosa Luna Henson or “Lola Rosa” – “Comfort Women” (79 pages)/Playwright: Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen (2018)
Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos – “Hear Me: The Horrible Tale of Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos”(49 pages)/Playwright: Julie Lyn Barber (2018)
Maria Sibylla Merian- “Maria Sibylla Merian Draws Jasmine”(28 pages)/Playwright: Arlene Hutton (2015)
Maria Meyn- “The Past is Still Ahead” (55 pages)/Playwright: Sophia Romma (2014)
Maria Mitchell- “Absolute Magnitude”(60 pages)/Playwright: Melody Cooper (2014)/Maria Mitchell- “Miss Mitchell’s Comet”(43 pages)/Playwright: Dwayne Yancey (2018)
Maria Montessori—“Maria” (10 pages) Playwright: Susan Shafer (2016)
Maria Nikolaievna -“Tchekov at The House of Special Purpose” (56 pages) Playwright:R.Johns (2017)
Maria Tallchief- “Firebird” (30 pages)/Playwright: Merridawn Duckler (2014)
Marian Anderson- “Beauford Delaney Paints Marian Anderson” (22 pages)/Playwright: Arden Kass (2014)
Mariana la Loca – “La Profetisa” (38 pages)/Playwright Beth Kander (2016)
Mariah Vance- “The Baptism of Abraham Lincoln”(16 pages)/Playwright: Elizabeth Orndorff (2014)
Marie Antoinette- “The Widow Capet”(12 pages)/Playwright: Susan Apker (2014)/Marie-Antoinette/ “The Chamber of Beheaded Queens” (42 pages)/ Playwright: KT Parker (2017)
Marie de Chevreuse- “One Night in the Garden” (65 pages)/Playwright: Carol M. Rice (2014)
Marie Christine Chilver (aka Agent Fifi) – “The Honeytrap” (8 pages) / Playwright: Carol M. Rice (2018)
Marie Colvin- “Badass” (12 pp.)/ Playwright: Glenda Frank (2017)
Marie Curie – “Burn Out” (5 pages)/Playwright: Naomi Elster (2016)
Marie Catherine Laveau- “Vodou Queen of New Orleans,” (38 pages)/Playwright: Carolyn Nur Wistrand (2017)
Marie Danforth Page-“The Muses” (42 pages)/Playwright: Rena Tobey (2018)
Marie Bjelke Petersen- “Hollywood in Tasmania” ( 30 pages) Playwright: Laurel A. Lockhart (2017)
Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier – “Mother of Chemistry”(9 pages)/Playwright: Rex McGregor (2017)
Marie-Angelique Memmie LeBlar- “Beautiful Savage”(44 pages)/Playwright: Kathleen McDonnell (2014)
Marie-Anne Lenormand – “Mother of Chemistry”(9 pages)/Playwright: Rex McGregor (2017)
Marie Villers- “The Mystery of Young Woman Drawing”(15 pages,Musical)/Playwright: Deborah Savadge/Sheilah Rae (2014)
Marie-Therese Walter – GIRL BEFORE A MIRROR (11 pages)/Playwright: Martha Patterson (2019)
Marilyn Monroe- “Something’s Got to Give”(27 pages)/Playwright: Sandra de Helen (2014)/Marilyn Monroe- “Marilyn Monroe in the Desert” (83 pages)/Playwright: Barbara Blatner (2018)
Marina Tsvetaeva- “The Past is Still Ahead”(50 pages)/Playwright: Sophia Romma (2014)
Marion Davies-”Not So Dumb” (12 pages)/Playwright: Lucy Wang (2015)
Marion Harris- “Paradise Blues” (18 pages)/Playwright: Julie Lyn Barber (2016)
Marion Pritchard – “Huiza Netherlands 1942″(8 Pages)/Playwright: Jessie Salsbury (2019)
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas- “Will You Dance On?”(2 pages)/Playwright: Robin Rice (2014)/Marjory Stoneman Douglas – “Walking Florida Now” (8 pages)/Playwright: Connie Bennett (2018)/Marjory Stoneman Douglas/ “School The Unknown” (10 pages)/Playwright: Cindy Cooper (2018)
Marlene Dietrich- “Allein in Einer Grossen Stadt (Alone in a Big City)”(5 pages)/Playwright: Talia Pura (2016)
Marsha P Johnson- “Pay It No Mind” (13 pages)/Playwright: Monique Hebert(2017)
Martha of Bethany (sister of Lazarus) – “MARY – A MUSICAL” (79 pages)/Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard (2016)
Marthe Cohn “My World War Too” (75 pages or 95 pages)/Playwright: Susan Hansell (2017)
Martha “Patsy” Henry “Liberty” (96 pages)/ Playwright: Sarah Lawrence (2018)
Martha Stewart- “Save the Turkey!”(9 pages)/Playwright: Robin Rice (2014)
Martha Washington-“Absconded and Much Freckled” (24 pages)/Playwright: Donna Latham (2015)
Martine Rothblatt- “The Autobiography of Martine Rothblatt”(11 pages)/Playwright: Kat Mustatea (2015)
Marty Mann – “Easter Sunday” (40 pages)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage (2018)
Maruja Mallo- “O Retrato Da Sabila” (8 pages)/Playwright: Vanesa Sotelo (2014)
Mary of the United Kingdom (Princess) “The Subject” (84 pages)/Playwright: Carolyn Kras (2017)
Mary *Real Name Unknown* “Elizabeth” (65 pages)/Playwright: Sara Lyons (2017)
Mary Haskell- “The Higher Love”(50 pages)/Playwright: Germaine Shames (2019)
Mary- “In Passing” (11 pages)/Playwright: Lisa Nicoll (2014)
Mary I- “The King’s Legacy”(110 pages)/Playwright: Michael Radi (2018)
Mary, Lady Bankes née Hawtry/ “Brave Dame Mary” (4 pages so far, more to come)/ Playwright: KT Parker (2016)
Mary Louise Smith “Winning” (10 pages)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady (2019)
Mary Mother of Jesus – “MARY – A MUSICAL” (79 pages)/Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard (2016)
Mary of Bethany (sister of Lazarus) – “MARY – A MUSICAL” (79 pages)/Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard (2016)
Mary of Guelders- “Ravenscraig”(25 pages)/Playwright: Catriona Scott (2017)
Mary Austin – The Stir (10 pages)/Playwright: Evelyn Jean Pine (2017)
Mary Kay Ash- “We Did it For You”(34 pages,Musical)/Playwright: Thea Iberall (2014)
Mary Astor-“Mary’s Diaries” (12 pages)/Playwright: Susan Shafer (2017)
Mary Barnes- “Panic in Connecticut; Accused Witches Have Their Say” (11 pages)/Playwright: Virginia Woolf (2014)
Mary Bensell – “Not Like the Others”(2 pages)/Connie Bennett (2016)
Mary McLeod Bethune – “Lunch for the Queen” (9 pages)/Playwright: Lawrence Kessenich (2015)
Mary Boleyn- “The King’s Legacy”(110 pages)/Playwright: Michael Radi (2018)
Mary Bowser- “Mason-Dixon”/Playwright: Carolyn Gage (2014)
Mary Marvin Breckinridge “Marvin” (10 pages)/Playwright: Angelé Sionna (2016)
Mary Oliver -“This One Wild And Precious Life” (58 pages)/Playwright: Micki Shelton (2019)
Mary Whiton Calkins “In Your Dreams” (2 pages)/Playwright: Sarah Tuft (2016)
Mary Ann Shadd Cary–“Figures of Speech” (14 pages)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee (2017)
Mary Cassatt- ”No Rules” (12 pages)/Playwright: Patricia Wakely Wolf (2015)
Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter- “Angels and Hermits and Phantoms” (10 pages)/Playwright: Emily Ball Cicchini (2014)/Mary Jane Elizabeth Colter -“Fred and Mary: An Unconventional Romance” (102 pages)/Playwright: Micki Shelton (2018)/Mary Jane Elizabeth Colter – “La Posada”(95 pages)/Playwright: Micki Shelton (2018)
Mary Ann Cotton – “Cottonmouth” (7 pages)/Playwright: Lindsay Adams (2017)
Mary Anne Duignan aka Chicago May–“Changed Utterly”(54pp)/Playwright: Joan Bryans (2018)
Mary Dyer – “The Joy”(76 pages)/Playwright: Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop (2017)
Mary Elizabeth Fairless – “The Past Past” (16 Pages)/Playwright:Mandy Carpenter (2016)
Mary Fields- “Stagecoach Mary (or “Fuck You All”) (10 pages)/Playwright: Melody Cooper (2014)
Mary Ann Girling – “Children of God”(62 pages)/Playwright: Benjamin Peel (2019)
Mary Katharine Goddard – “What’s In A Name?” (20 pages)/Playwright: Kay Ellen Bullard (2017)
Mary Hamilton- “More than Need”(x pages)/Playwright: Jenna Schlags (2017)
Mary, Lady Bankes née Hawtry/ “Brave Dame Mary” (4 pages so far, more to come)/ Playwright: KT Parker (2016)
Mary Sydney Herbert- “A Rose By Any Other Name” (45 Pages)/Playwright: Lou Beckett (2014)
Mary Jemison- “Two Falling Voices”(51 pages)/Playwright: Teresa Stankiewicz (2014)
Mary John Sr- “When Women Cry Bloody Murder” (7 pages)/Playwright: Sheree Bradford-Lea (2015)
Mary Lou Kownacki – “Unter Investigation” (10 pages)/Playwright: Nancy Hopps (2017)
Mary Kubicek- “HeLa” (25 pages)/Playwright: Jessie Salsbury (2014)
Mary Leakey-”In Her Footprints”(10 pages)/Playwright: Connie Bennett (2015)
Mary Todd Lincoln- “Lunatic: The Haunted Widow Lincoln”(53 pages)/Playwright: Donna Latham (2014)
Mary Magdalene – “MARY – A MUSICAL” (79 pages)/Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard (2016)
Mary Mallon- “Cookin’ With Typhoid Mary”(40 pages)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage (2014)
Mary McGee- “Blood Sisters”(15 pages)/Playwright: Robin Rice (2015)
Mary McIlraith-“A Colonial Devotion” (76 pages)/ Playwright: Susan Battye (2018)
Mary Millicent Garretson Miller “The Lady Steamboatman”(7 pages)/Playwright:Nancy Gall-Clayton (2018)
Mary Young Pickersgill- “We Did it For You”(34 pages,Musical)/Playwright: Thea Iberall (2014)
Mary Read- “The Trial of Mary Reed” (12 pages)/Playwright: Joan Kane (2014)/Mary Read- “Mates”(12 pages)/Playwright: Sue Yocum (2018)
Mary Rowlandson- “Succotash”(15 pages)/Playwright: Lydia Williams (2017)
Mary Shelley- “Making Frankenstein”(10 pages)/Playwright: Natalie Osborne (2014)
Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch- “Sunshine in Every Window”(29 pages)/Playwright: Rex McGregor (2017)
Mary Rozet Smith- “Jane Addams and the Devil Baby” (12 pages)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage (2014)
Mary Staples- “Panic in Connecticut; Accused Witches Have Their Say” (11 pages)/Playwright: Virginia Woolf (2014)
Mary Stuart/ “The Chamber of Beheaded Queens” (42 pages)/ Playwright: KT Parker (2017)
Mary Tape- “Unbinding Our Lives”(15 pages)/Playwright: Geralyn “G.L.” Horton (2015)
Mary Edwards Walker-“I’m Wearing My Own Clothes”(76pages)/Playwright: Nancy Gall-Clayton (2017)
Mary Ware Dennett-“The Road to Woman’s Suffrage” (30 pages)/Playwright: Lisa K. Winkler (2019)
Mary Williams -“A Colonial Devotion” (76 pages)/ Playwright: Susan Battye (2018)
Mary Lou Williams- “The Blindfold Test”(17 pages)/Playwright: Mora V. Harris (2015)
Mary Wollstonecraft- “We Did it For You”(34 pages,Musical)/Playwright: Thea Iberall (2014)
Mary Wraight- “A Colonial Devotion” (76 pages)/ Playwright: Susan Battye (2018)
Marzieh- “Marizeh” (3 page monologue) Playwright:J.Lois Diamond (2016)
Mata Hari- “Mata Hari:eroticism & espionage” (60 pages)/Playwright: Talia Pura (2014)/Mata Hari — “Mata H.” (27 pages / Playwright: Angela J. Davis (2018)
Matilda – Empress, Queen of England usurped by her cousin Stephen (70 pages) /Playwright: Lucy Flannery [2018]
Matilda Joslyn Gage- “The Gage & Mr. Comstock”(10 pages)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage (2014)
Matilda Hays- “Oh, to Be Lesbians in the 19th Century”/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg (2014)
Maud Karpeles- “I’ll Sing On” (17 pages)/Playwright: Grace Ellis (2014)
Maud le Vavasour- “Maid Maud”(10 pages)/Connie Bennett (2016)
Maxine Hong Kingston- “Two Women” (10 pages)/Playwright: Kaela Garvin (2014)
May Sarton- “May SartonDreams Deep” (10 pages)/Playwright: Deborah Magid (2014)
May Sinclair- “The Divine Fire” (31 pages)/Playwright: Leslie McMurtry (2016)
Medea–“Medea’s Ghost”(73 pages)/Playwright: Micki Shelton (2018)/Medea – “ The More Things Stay the Same” (7 pages) / Playwright: DS Magid (2018)
Melania Trump- “The Tower”(8 pages)/Playwright: Diana Burbano (2017)
Melba Liston- “A Life’s Work”(14 pages)/Playwright: Jennifer L. Hayes (2015)
Melba Roy Mouton- “Absolute Magnitude”(60 pages)/Playwright: Melody Cooper (2014)
Memphis Minnie – “Guitar Lady” (7 pages)/Playwright: Karen Callwood (2017)
Mercedes Jellinek “The Best of Nothing”/Playwright: Karen Jeynes (2014)
Mercedes Cordoba Carles Matter: LITTLE IMAGES/(89 pp.)/ Playwright:
Glenda Frank (2017)
Mercy Brown- “MERCY” (121 pages)/Playwright: J.S. Puller (2017)
Mercy Disbrough- “Panic in Connecticut; Accused Witches Have Their Say” (11 pages)/Playwright: Virginia Woolf (2014)
Mercy Otis Warren – “The Fairer Sex: The Life, Times and Plays of Mercy Otis Warren” (95 pages)/Playwright: Stephen Cedars (2017)
Merinedd ferch Gruffudd , Princess- “Gwenllian, Part I”(57 pages)/Playwright: Tierra Bonser (2015)
Merle Oberon- “You Need Me to Be” (4 pages)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg (2016)
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller- “No Title” (38 pages)/Playwright: Michael Angel Johnson (2014)
MFK Fisher – “ Sea Change” (1 page) / Playwright: DS Magid (2018)
Michelle Obama- “Tradition of the First Lady” (4 pages)/Playwright:Jessie Salsbury (2014)
Mildred Bailey “At Home with Mrs. Swing”(14 pages)/Playwright: Dorothy Velasco (2015)
Mildred Dresselhaus- “Millie Dresselhaus: Beer Stew, Breaking Bonds”(7 pages)/Playwright: C.J. Ehrlich (2017)/Mildred Dresselhaus- “Moonshot”(24 pages)/Playwright: Judy Meiksin (2018)
Millicent Garrett Fawcett-“Law Makers” (9pages)/ Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky (2017)
Ming-Na Wen-“Heart” (11 pages)/Playwright: Sarah Bewley (2014)
Minnie Cox—“Return to Sender” (10 pages)/Playwright: Rita Anderson (2016)
Minnie Harvey Huckel-“Fred and Mary: An Unconventional Romance” (102 pages)/Playwright: Micki Shelton (2018)
Mirabi- “MIRA: A Legend in Music and Dance” (70 pages) / Playwright: MJ Kami (2018)
Misty Copeland- “Mistyfied” (33 pages)/Playwright: Lucy Wang (2016)
Molly Picon- “Mit a Fiddle in the Middle”(16 pages)/Playwright: C.J. Ehrlich (2016)
Moms Mabley-”Don’t Know No Jokes” (6 pages) Playwright: Annie Wood (2015)
Mona Lisa Giacondi- “The Sitting”(8 pages)/Playwright: Susan Apker (2014)
Mo’ne Davis (11 pages) / Playwright: Carol M. Rice (2016)
Monica Lewinsky- “Marvel(ous) Monica” (23 pages)/Playwright: Sarah Tuft (2015)
Mother of disciple James* – “MARY – A MUSICAL” (79 pages)/Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard (2016)
Mother Francesca Xavier Cabrini-“Mother Cabrini’s Mission to America” (14 pages)/ Playwright: Joan Albarella (2018)/Mother (Frances Xavier) Cabrini “Mother Cabrini Saint of the Immigrants” (7 pages) /Playwright: LuLu LoLo (2018)
Mother Amadeus Dunne-”My Recollect Time” (52 pages)/Playwright: Jamie Greenblatt(2015)
Mother Jones aka Mary Harris Jones-“An Apple for a Telegram” (9 pages)/Playwright: Samantha Vakiener (2015)
Murasaki Shikibu – “Genji/Murasaki” (60 pages) / Playwright: Darian Lindle (2016)
Muriel Lillie- “Mad Lady Peel: The Funniest Woman in the World” (46 pages)/Playwright Kirsten Van Ritzen (2013)
Myrtis- “Myrtis”(8 pages)/Playwright: Diana Burbano (2016)
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Nadia Boulanger- “Le Grand Silence”(10 pages)/Playwright: Lily Meyer (2015)
Nadia Murad – “Justice for Nadia” (12 pages)/Playwright: Lynda Crawford (2017)
Naishi- “The Color of This Flower”(56 pages)/Playwright: Velina Hasu Houston (2015)
Nakşidil Sultan- “Harem”( 78 pages)/Playwright: Jen Ferro (2017)
Nance O’Neill- “The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived”(30 pages)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage (2014)
Nancy Cunard-“NASTY: The Lives of Peggy Guggenheim,Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Nancy Cunard”(40pages)Playwright: Germaine Shames (2017)
Nancy Morgan Hart- “The Tale of Nancy Hart” (6 pages)/Playwright: Gyda Arber (2015)
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet- “Shadow”(10 pages)/Playwright: Michael angel Johnson (2015)
Nancy Lane Smith- “Familiar Stranger: Nancy Lane Smith” (21 pages)/Playwright: Lynda Crawford (2014)
Nancy Roman- “Star Lady”(14 pages)/Playwright: J.Lois Diamond (2019)
Nancy Wake- “White Mouse” (17 pages)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky (2014)/Nancy Wake- “Once A Spy”(96 pages)/Playwright: Rachel Bublitz (2018)
Natalia Levi Ginzberg “Parabola” (9 pages)/Playwright: Shellen Lubin (2016)
Natalia Peshkova- ”Heartbeats” (8 pages)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky (2015)
Natalia Ponce de Leòn – “Fénix”(3 pages)/Playwright: Diana Burbano (2017)
Natalia Revuelta- ”My Dearest Fidel, Forever Yours Naty” (1 page)/Playwright:Stephanie Swirsky (2015)
Natalie Clifford Barney- “Muse of the Violets”/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg (2014)
Natalie Wood – “Best Actress 1962” (10 pages) / Playwright: Allie Costa (2016)
Natalya Meklin – “Taman” (78 pages)/Playwright: Marlo Kern
Natan- “Libertadoras” (25 pages)/Playwright: Diana Burbano (2014)
NeNe Leakes – “NeNe Leakes: Special Edition” (5 pages)/Playwright: Nomfanelo Moloi (2017)
Nefertiti – “The Horizon of the Sun” / Playwright: Beatriz Cabur (2014)
Nekojiru (Chiyomi Hashiguchi)- “where has all the cat soup gone: a monologue ”(3 pages)/Playwright: Emmy Kuperschmid (2017)
Nell Gwynne- “Nell!” (35 pages)/Playwright: by LA Green (2017)/Nell Gwyn – “Counting Cupids” (105 pages)/ Playwright: Nicole Heneveld (2018)
Nellie Bly: “Women of Unsound Mind” (94 pages/14 characters)/Playwright: Grace Ivana Carroll (2016)/Nellie Bly – “Above the Fold” (28 pages)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett (2018)
Nellie T. Bush- “Admiral of the Arizona Navy”(19 pages)/Playwright: James E. Burnside (2014)
Nellie McClung – “Not A “Nice” Woman”(14 pages)/Playwright: Catherine Frid (2017)
Nichelle Nichols- “A Human Interest Piece”(16 pages)/Playwright: Asia Nichols (2015)
Nieves Fernandez- “Nieves and Senzina”(10 pages)/Playwright: Amanda Andrei (2016)
Nina Simone-“Hello Ocean” (21 pages) Playwright:J.Lois Diamond (2016)
Nina Ulyanenko – “Taman” (78 pages)/Playwright: Marlo Kern
Ninon de l’Enclos- “Irreconcilable Passions”(24 pages)/Playwright: Julie Lyn Barber (2017)
Nola Jane Gentry: “I’ll Sing On”/(17 pages)/Playwright: Grace Ellis (2014)
NORA BARNACLE JOYCE – James Joyce muse/Molly Bloom model (34 pages) Playwright: Jack Gilhooley (2017)
Norma Lee Dean – “Thistlepatch” (62 pages)/Playwright: Catherine Frid (2016)
Norma Millay – “Jump the Bright Line: The Trial of Edna St. Vincent Millay” (101 pages)/ Playwright: Karen Ackerman (2018)
Norma Shearer- “Never Closer Than Three Feet/ (10 pages)/Lee Richard Lawing (2019)
Ntozake Shange- “Her Own Things”(5 pages)/Playwright: Amissa Miller (2015)
Queen Nyabinghi—“Inheritance” (23 pages)/Playwright: Kim Louise (2017)
Nzinga Mbande-”The Missing Chair” (5 pages)/Playwright: Eugenie Carabatsos(2015)
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Octavia: “Triumvir” (7 pages)/ Playwright: Nicole Heneveld (2017)
Octavia Estelle Butler- “OCTAVIA”(27 pages)/Playwright: Holli Harms (2015) AND “How to Write a Science Fiction Story, by Octavia E. Butler” (23 pages)/Alyson Mead (2016)
Octaviana Trujillo- “Lady Chief 2000” (9 pages)/Playwright: Linda Evans (2014)
Ola, Choctaw princess—“Return to Sender” (10 pages)/Playwright: Rita Anderson (2016)
Olga Spessitzeva – “Doppelganger” (8 pages)/Playwright: Christine Emmert (2018)
Dr. Olivia J.Hooker- “Olivia Makes Waves” (10 pages)/ Playwright: Nina Howes (2017)
Olivia Soulouque- ”Madame” (8 pages)/Playwright: Kendra Augustin (2015)
Olga of Kiev “Fuel for the Fire” (56 pgs) / Playwright: Elliot D Huxtable (2016)
Olga Watkins Gmoser- ”Proof of Influence” (5 pages)/Playwright: Patricia Watkins (2015)
Olga Romanova – “The Czar’s Daughters” (15 pages) / Playwright: Angela J. Davis (2017)
Olive Byrne – “Wonder Women” (25 pages) / Playwright: Ashley Lara (2016)
Olympe de Gouges: “Guillotined”(67 pages)/ Playwright: L.D. Goodisman (2019)
Olympia Brown- “Make My Match”(13 pages)/Playwright: Nancy West (2015)
Ona Judge-“Absconded and Much Freckled” (24 pages)/Playwright: Donna Latham (2015)
Ono No Komachi- “The Color of This Flower”(56 pages)/Playwright: Velina Hasu Houston (2015)
Ophelia DeVore “Opposing Ophelia” (23 pages)/Playwright: Deneen Reynolds-Knott (2016)
Oprah Winfrey- “Oprah”(5 pages)/Playwright: Karina Cochran (2015)
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Paola Levi-Montalcini- “Lady of the Cells” (17 pages)/ Playwright:J.Lois Diamond (2018)
Parveen Shakir- “What Will Happen To The Flowers? Looking For Parveen”(18 pages)/Playwright: Melissa Nussbaum Freeman (2015)
Patricia Hill Collins – “What Does the Flag Mean to You?: A Lesson for Patricia Hill Collins:” (8 pages)/Playwright: Ivan Faute (2016)
Patricia Grimes- “But Elvis, We’re Dead”/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg (2014)
Patsy Southgate- “The Plant in Your Life”(14 pages)/Playwright: Lylanne Musselman (2015)
Patti Smith- “Smith” (17 pages)/Playwright: Sarah Tuft (2015)
Patty Jenkins- “Angry Woman’s Audible Book Club”(5 pages)/Playwright: Jessie Salsbury (2018)
Paula Mondersohn-Becker- “Self-Portrait” (6 pages)/Playwright: Ian Low (2018)
Paula Hernandez-“La Doña of Santa Cruz”(8 pages)/Playwright: Melissa Nussbaum Freeman (2014)
Paula Snelling- “Lillian, Paula. Carson.” (3 characters, 85 pages)/Playwright: John Barrow (2017)
Paula Zahn-”The Nest” (13 pages)/Playwright: Robin Rice (2015)
Pauline Thompson- “Knowing Women” (66 pages)/Playwright: Suzanne Logan (2019)
Pauli Murray- “We Did it For You”(34 pages,Musical)/Playwright: Thea Iberall (2014)/Pauli Murray – “In Bed with Eleanor” (12 pages)/Playwright: Lolly Ward (2018)/Pauli Murray- “Tea With Elanor Roosevelt” (7 pages)/Playwright: Michael angel Johnson (2018)
Pauline Cushman – “In the Matter of Stickler v Legacy”(103 pages)/Playwright: Karen Rousso (2018)
Pearl Bailey – “Pearlie Mae” (10 pages)/Playwright: Sandra de Helen (2016)
Pearl Eileen Primus- “No Stranger to Fruit”(9 pages)/Playwright: Cesi Davidson (2015)
Peg Holmes – “In Bed with Eleanor” (12 pages)/Playwright: Lolly Ward (2018)
Peggy Guggenheim-“NASTY: The Lives of Peggy Guggenheim,Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Nancy Cunard”(40pages)Playwright: Germaine Shames (2017)
Peggy Lee-” Is That All There Is”(3 pages)/Playwright: Lylanne Musselman (2015)
Peggy Schuyler – “And Peggy” (8 pages) / Playwright: Allie Costa (2017)
Penthesileia- “Penthesileia” (49 pages)/Playwright: Robert F. Bradford (2015)
Petra Kelly- “Petra Kelly Speaks to Power” (111 pages)/Playwright: Daniel M. Kinch (2016)
Phillis Wheatley-”Phillis Wheatley: Twas Mercy Brought Me…” (40 pages)/Playwright: Paula J Sanders (2015)
Phoebe Cary- “Advanced Women” (87 pages)/ Playwright: Michele Aldin Kushner (2017)
Phoebe Francaus- “Missing Daughter”(12 pages)/Playwright: Michelle A. Patrick (2014)
Phoebe Pearl — “Shut Up And Dance” (22 pages)/Playwright: Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich (2017)
Phyllis Schlafly – “Phyllis Schlafly And The Imaginary Television Show” (12 pages)/Playwright: Jo Brisbane (2016)
Pingyang- “The Army of the Lady” (8 pages)/Natalie Osborne (2017)
Pocahontas-”Pocahontas”(7 pages)/Playwright:Pat Cheshire Jennings (2015)
Policarpa Salavarietta “Policarpa”(57 pages)/Playwright: Diana Burbano (2016)
Polly Bemis- “Unbinding Our Lives”(15 pages)/Playwright: Geralyn “G.L.” Horton (2015)
Poohlan Devi- “Two to the Body”/Playwright: Sara Kaye Larson (2014)
Porcia Catonis- “Classic Portia” (23 pages) Playwright: Mora V. Harris (2016)
Princess Iwa- ”In Her Voice” (11 pages)/Playwright: Ilana Turner (2015)
Princess Victoria Ka’iulani- ”Horizons” (10 pages)/Playwright: Trish Ayers (2015)
Pupul Jayakar- “Indira” ( 113 pages) Playwright: J.Lois Diamond (2016)
365 Women A Year: a playwriting project 