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.
***Our plays are loosely based on their historical counterparts.***
Activism
Alice Paul (Women rights,Suffragist)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Ana Garrido (whistleblower at Gurtel case)/Playwright: Pilar G. Almansa
Angela Davis (Political Activist,Writer)/Playwright: Sandra de Helen
Angustias de la Guerra (Historian,California Missions, Mexican War)/Playwright: Jennie Webb
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (Activist,Abolitionist,Orator)/Playwright: Gabrielle Sinclair
Annie Besant-(Activist- Speaker-Political Leader)/Playwright Susan Merson
Assata Shakur (Activist,Black Panther,On the run)/Playwright: Renee Rankin
Aurelia Browder (Civil Rights Activist)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (author, human rights advocate)/Playwright Robert Brophy
Barbara Demick, war correspondent, author, Beijing bureau chief for
L.A.Times, author, professor/Playwright: Glenda Frank.
Begum Hazrat Mahal (Rebel, 1857 rebellion)/Playwright: Julie Lyn Barber
Berta Cáceres (environmental activist, leader of the Lenca people, Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras )/Playwright: Sarah Tuft (2016)
Bertha Von Suttner, (née Countess Kinsky) (Peace Activist/Author/Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)/Playwright:Tee Schneider
Bettina Aptheker (Professor, political theorist, social change maker) Playwright: Roberta D’Alois
Bree Newsome (Activist, Filmmaker)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Bridget Moran (Social Worker, Author, First Nations)/Playwright: Sheree Bradford-Lea
Caroline Branham (Activist,Liberator,Enslaved to First Lady)/Playwright: Lisa Mammel
Caroline Elizabeth (Thomas) Merrick (Pioneer, Suffragette, Temperance, Women’s Rights, New Orleans)/Playwright: Charlene A. Donaghy
Carrie Chapman Catt (suffragist, educator, founder of League of Women Voters)/Playwright: Lisa K. Winkler
Carrie (Carry) Nation (Temperance Activism,Hatcheting Bars)/Playwright: Trish Ayers
Catharine MacKinnon (Radical Feminist, Lawyer, Legal Scholar, anti-pornography activist)/Playwright: Katherine Glover
Charlotte Delbo (Writer, Activist, WWII Partisan, Concentration Camp survivor)/Playwright: Susan Hansell
Clara Barton (Founder of the Red Cross)/Playwright: Cindy Cooper
Clara Brown (pioneer, businesswoman, community leader)/Playwright: Judy Meiksin
Clara Lemlich (union organizer)/Playwright: Susan Shafer
Claudette Colvin (Civil Rights Activist)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Concepcion’Connie’Picciott(Activist,Protester)/Playwright:J.Sanders-Nelson
Constance Markievicz (Irish rebel, socialist, politician)/Playwright: Joan Bryans
Cornelia Sorabji (Lawyer, women’s rights activist)/Playwright; Christina Hamlett
Corrie Ten Boom (Protected Jewish people during Holocaust)/Playwright: Linda Evans
Countess Markiewics(Revolutionary Nationalist,Freedom Fighter)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Delia Larkin (Irish trade union organiser, journalist,actress)/Playwright: Joan Bryans (2018)
Dolores Huerta (Civil Rights,Labor Leader)/Playwright: Jennie Webb
Dorothy Day (Social Activist, Journalist, Novelist, Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement)/Playwright: Nancy Irene Kelly
Elizabeth Keckley (Civil activist,Author,Confidant to First Lady)/Playwright: Donna Latham
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Suffragist)/Playwright: Nancy Gall-Clayton
Ella Baker (Civil Rights Activist)/Playwright: Sandra de Helen
Ellen Craft (Escaped enslavement, Underground Railroad, Activist)/Playwright: Paula Cizmar
Ellen Gates Starr- (Activist,Social Reformer)/Playwright: Rebecca Burroughs
Emily Pankhurst -(Political Activist/Suffragette)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Emma Goldman (Anarchist,Activist,Speeches)/Playwright: Liza Case
Emma González (Activist, Mass shooting survivor)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Emma Willard (Education Activist)/Playwright: Emily Ball Cicchini
Emmeline Pankhurst (Political Activist, Suffragette)/Playwright: Ian Low
Esther Roper (Social Reformer)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Ethel Smyth (Composer, Suffragette)/Playwright: Ian Low
Fannie Lou Hamer (Activist)/Playwright: Shellen Lubin
Fannie Sellins (Labor Leader)/Playwright: Kathleen E, Downey
Florence Kelley ( translator, crusader, consumer advocate) Playwright Amy Merrill
Frances Harper (Abolitionist, Suffragist, Poet)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Freddie Oversteegen (Revolutionary, Activist, Resistance Fighter)/Playwright: Mora V. Harris
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Political activist,Educator,Black Nigerian feminist nationalist)/Playwright: Peggy Jones
Gerda Taro (Photo Journalist, Activist)/Playwright: Susan Hansell
Gisa Peiper Konopka (Resistance Fighter)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Godiva, Countess of Mercia (Activist, Humanitarian)/Playwright: Rex McGregor
Golda Meir (Activist, Politician)/ Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Graceanna Lewis (Underground Railroad, Quaker, Abolitionist)/Playwright: Paula Cizmar
Gracia Mendes Nasi (Network to help Jews escape)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Haifaa Nour (Women’s Rights Activist) Playwright: Lisa H Jayne
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (Suffragette and Irish Nationalist)/Playwright: Treasa Nealon
Hannie Schaft (Revolutionary, Activist, Resistance Fighter)/Playwright: Mora V. Harris
Harriett Forten (Purvis)– (abolitionist, suffragist)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Harriet Hanson Robinson (Activist, Child, Factory Worker)/Playwright: Caroline Turner Cole
Harriet Stanton Blatch (suffragist)/Playwright: Lisa K. Winkler
Harriet Tubman (Resistance Fighter,Underground Railroad)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Helen Hunt Jackson (Writer, Activist for Native American rights)
Helen Jones (Co-Founder Stoney Creek Society)/Playwright: Sheree Bradford-Lea
Helena Molony (Irish Republican,about activist) /Playwright: Joan Bryans
Henrietta Vinton Davis (actress, international activist/organizer) / Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Huma Abedin (political aide,journalist)/Playwright Robert Brophy
Ida Nudel (Former Refusenik and Activist)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Ida B. Wells (Justice Crusader Against lynching)/Playwright: Leah Halper
Indira Gandhi (freedom fighter, the only female Prime Minister of India) Playwright: J.Lois Diamond
Inez Milholland-(Suffragist, Attorney)/Playwright: Jill Maynard
Jan Ruth O’Herne (former Japanese Comfort Woman, Dutch Australian human rights activist)/Playwright: Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen
Jane Addams (Social reformer,Nobel Prize)/Playwright: Rebecca Burroughs
Jean Devente(Lesbian/Gay Rights Advocate)/Playwright: Carol Polcovar
Jeanne Cordova (LGBT activist)/Playwright: Elise J. Geither
Juliette Hampton Morgan (civil rights activist, librarian)/Playwright: J.Lois Diamond
Kamala Nehru (mother of Indira Gandhi, freedom fighter, women’s rights activist) Playwright:J.Lois Diamond
Kasturba Gandhi (Freedom fighter,Social Worker)/Playwright: Hemavathy Guha
Kate Kelly-(Sister Ned Kelly/Fighter against injustice/ Performer) /Playwright: R.Johns
Kathleen Brown (Suffragette)/Playwright: Rex McGregor
Katoucha Niane (Model, Activist against female circumcision)/Playwright: LuLu LoLo
Kim Hak-sun (former Japanese Comfort Women & Korean Human rights activist)/Playwright: Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen
Lakshmi Bai (Freedom Fighter, India)/Playwright: Cindy Cooper
Lakshmi Pandit (Indian diplomat and politician, sister of Jawarhala Nehru and Indira Gandhi’s aunt) Playwright:J.Lois Diamond
Laura Pitter, war correspondent, human rights activist, senior advisor
to Human Rights Watch, lawyer/Playwright: Glenda Frank.
Lee Yong-soo (former Japanese Comfort Woman and activist)/Playwright: Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen
Lily Ledbetter (Activist,Speaker)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Liu-Wang Liming (Feminist, activist, journalist, educator)/Playwright: Glenda Frank
Louise Day Hicks (Boston Anti-busing Spokeswoman, Lawyer, Mother, Congresswoman, Politician)/Playwright: Nancy Brewka-Clark
Lucy Parsons (Anarchist, Labor Organizer, Orator, Writer)/ Playwright: Barbara Corrado Pope
Lucy Stone (Abolitionist, Suffragist, Orator)/Playwright: Nancy West
Luisa Capetillo (Labor activist)/Playwright; Christina Hamlett
Madres de Mayo (Madres Plaza de Mayo Asociación Argentina Madres Plaza de Mayo fundada en 1977)/playwright: Nadia Rosero
Manuelita Saenz (Revolutionary,Liberator)/Playwright: Diana Burbano
Mao Hengfeng (women’s rights, workers’ rights)/Playwright: Rachel Baird Rudisill
Margaret More Roper (Women’s Education, Stood up to Henry VIII)/Playwright: Sheila Rinear
Margaret Sanger (Sex educator,Suffragist)/Playwright: Jenny Seidelman
Margaretta Forten– (abolitionist, suffragist, teacher, poet)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Marsha P Johnson (Gay rights activist, social justice advocate)/Playwright: Monique Hebert
Marty Mann (Founder National Council on Alcoholism, early Alcoholics Anonymous pioneer)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Mary Louise Smith (Civil Rights Activist)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Mary McLeod Bethune (Educator, Civil Rights Activist)/Playwright: Lawrence Kessenich
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (Abolitionist, Suffragist, Educator, Editor, Journalist, Lawyer)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Mary Anne Duignan aka Chicago May (“The Queen of Crooks”)/Playwright: Joan Bryans (2018)
Mary Tape (Civil Rights Activist)/Playwright: Geralyn “G.L.” Horton
Mary Edwards Walker (Surgeon for Union Army, Dress Reformer, Suffragist, Abolitionist)/Playwright: Nancy Gall-Clayton
Mary Ware Dennett (suffragist)/Playwright: Lisa K. Winkler
Matilda Joslyn Gage(Suffragist)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Millicent Garrett Fawcett- (Political Activist/Suffragette)/ Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Mother Jones aka Mary Harris Jones (School teacher, dressmaker, labor leader, civil rights activist)/Playwright: Samantha Vakiener
Nancy Cunard (Publisher, Activist, Writer)/Playwright: Germaine Shames
Natalia Ponce de Leòn – (Human Rights activist)/Playwright: Diana Burbano
Nellie McClung (Suffragist, Feminist, Author, Politician, Social Activist, Canada, Alberta, Manitoba)/Playwright: Catherine Frid
Olympia Brown (Abolitionist, Suffragist, Minister)/Playwright: Nancy West
Ona Judge (Enslaved, escaped)/Playwright: Donna Latham
Ophelia DeVore (Entrepreneur, Activist, Modeling Agent)/Playwright: Deneen Reynolds-Knott
Pauli Murray (Activist, Episcopalian Priest)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Peg Holmes (Camp Counselor, Activist)/Playwright: Lolly Ward
Petra Kelly- (Activist, Feminist)/Playwright: Daniel M. Kinch
Phoebe Fraunces (Spy, Innkeeper)/Playwright: Michelle A. Patrick
Phoebe Pearl (Rockette, Political Activist, Women’s Rights) Playwright: Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich
Policarpa Salavarietta (Revolutionary, spy, seamstress)/Playwright: Diana Burbano
Pupul Jayakar( Indian cultural activist and writer) Playwright:J.Lois Diamond
Rani Lakshmibai (Revolutionary)/Playwright: Lauren Ferebee
Rosa Parks (Activist)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Rose Schneiderman (Union Leader, Activist)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Ruth Batson (Boston Civil Rights Activist, Mother, Feminist, Political Candidate, NAACP Official)/Playwright: Nancy Brewka-Clark
Samantha Power (Journalist, American Ambassador to the U.N. “moral
compass of American diplomacy,” Diplomat, Human Rights Activist,
Academic, Author /Playwright: Glenda Frank.
Sampat Pal Devi (Vigilanti,Activist,Gulabi Gang)/Playwright: Lynn Marie Macy
Sarah Forten– (abolitionist, suffragist, teacher, poet)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Sarah Grimke (Abolitionist,Suffragist)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Sarah Parker Remond (Abolitionist, Suffragist, Physician)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Sarah Winnemucca (Paiute activist, educator)/Playwright: Dorothy Velasco
Sarojini Naidu (Freedom fighter, activist)/Playwright: Julie Lyn Barber
Sigridur Tomasdottir (Activist, Environmentalist)/Playwright: Natalie Osborne
Simone Weil (Author, Philosopher, Activist)/Playwright: Susan Hansell
Sojourner Truth (Abolitionist, Activist,Former slave)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Sophie Scholl (Student, Political Activist in Nazi Germany)/Playwright: Lisa Jayne
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Women’s Education Advocate)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Susan B. Anthony (Activist, Suffragist)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Susie McDonald (Civil Rights Activist)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Tennessee Claflin (Suffragette)/Playwright: Geralyn Horton
Tess Ashplund (Activist) Playwright: Jessie Salsbury
Tien Fu Wu (Activist)/Playwright: Geralyn “G.L.” Horton
Truus Oversteegen (Revolutionary, Activist, Resistance Fighter)/Playwright: Mora V. Harris
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Nan), (activist, sister of Jawarhalal Nehru)Playwright:J.Lois Diamond
365 Women A Year: a playwriting project 