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.***
Nuns/Religious Figures
St. Agnes of Rome(Martyr,#MeToo,Courage,Activism,Politics,Religion)/Playwright: Micki Shelton
Aimee Semple McPherson (Evangelist, Church Founder-Pastor, Radio Station owner, Producer)/ Playwright: Lyndol Michael
Akka Mahadevi (Hindu saint; Mystic; Poet; Emancipation of women)/Playwright: Paula Cizmar
Amma (Spiritual Master, Hugger)/Playwright: Yolanda Dorado
Ann Lee (Founder of the Shaker community)/Playwright: Benjamin Peel
Anne Vaux – (Catholic Recusant,sheltered Jesuit priests in the 1590’s and the run up to the 1605 Gunpowder Plot)/Playwright: Benjamin Peel
Benedetto Carlini (Lesbian Nun)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Bridget, St. (Saint)/Playwright: Coni Ciongoli Koepfinger
Cecilia, St. (Patron Saint of Music)/Playwright: Ash Sanborn
Christina The Astonishing (Saint)/Playwright: Kendra Augustin
Devorah (Judge of Israel, Biblical character)/Playwright Deborah Magid
Dymphna (Patron Saint of Mental Illness and Nervous Disorders)/Playwright: Kendra Augustin
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Theosophist, Spirit Medium, Religious Leader, Occultist, Spiritualist, Theologian)/Playwright: Ivan Faute
Helen Eaglesome (Immigrant/Bride/Christian)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Heloise (Philosopher, Abbess)/Playwright: Lorraine Liscio
Hilda of Whitby (Abbess, Saint)/Playwright: Ian low
Hildegard of Bingen (Prophetess,Healer,Musician)/Playwright: Coni Ciongoli Koepfinger
Ignacia del Espíritu Santo (Nun)/Playwright: Marina Castiñeira Ezquerra
Jane Mooney (Activists, nuns)/Playwright: Robin Rice
Jemima Wilkinson (Prophet, Preacher)/Playwright: Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
Kateri Tekakwitha (First Aboriginal Saint)/Playwright: Heather Forgie/Kateri Tekakwitha (Native American Catholic saint)/ Playwright: Matthew Weaver
Kathryn Kuhlman (Evangelist, Healer, TV personality, Author)/ Playwright: Lyndol Michael
Leah (Biblical Figure)/Playwright: Shellen Lubin
Lingzhao- “Chop Water”(Buddhist Sutras, Daughter of Chinese Buddhist Layman P’Ang)/Playwright: Merridawn Duckler
Lucy Thurston (Religion/American missionary in Hawaii)/ Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Mami Wata (African diaspora, water goddess, mermaid)/Playwright: Asia Nichols
Mariana la Loca (False prophet, religious leader, cult leader)/Playwright: Beth Kander
Margaret Clitherow (English saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church)/Playwright: Judy Meiksin
Margaret Askew Fell Fox (Quaker, Founder Religious Society of Friends)/Playwright: Jessie Salsbury
Martha of Bethany (sister of Lazarus, single Jewish woman, disciple of Jesus)/Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Mary Mother of Jesus (Jewish housewife, disciple of Jesus, mother)/Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Mary of Bethany (sister of Lazarus, single Jewish woman, disciple of Jesus)/Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Mary Dyer (Quaker Martyr, Feminist)/Playwright: Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop
Mary Ann Girling (Founder of the Children of God sect)/Playwright: Benjamin Peel
Mary Lou Kownacki (Benedictine Nun, Author, Peace Activist)/Playwright: Nancy Hopps
Mary Magdalene (businesswoman, prostitute, disciple of Jesus, leader of early Christianity)/Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Mary McGee (Activists, nuns)/Playwright: Robin Rice
Mother of disciple James* (mother, disciple of Jesus)/Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Mother Cabrini (First American Saint, Patron of Immigrants, Founder of Missionary Sisters of Sacred Heart of Jesus)/Playwright: Joan Albarella
Mother Amadeus Dunne(Ursuline Mother Superior, foundress of Montana Missions)/Playwright: Jamie Greenblatt
Olga of Kiev (Saint, Queen Regent) / Playwright: Elliot D Huxtable
Rachel (Biblical Figure)/Playwright: Shellen Lubin
Richardis von Stade (Nun, Abbess, Illuminator)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Saint Monica (Mother, Saint)/Playwright: Erin Moughon
Salomé* (disciple of Jesus)/Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Santa Teresa de Jesus (Saint, Mystic)/Playwright: Amaranta Osorio
St. Teresa of Calcutta (Catholic Nun and Founder of the Missionaries of Charity)/Playwright: Gloria Schramm
Soeur Leonide (French nun and prison attendant) / Playwright: Angela J. Davis
Wilhelmina Heintz (Activists, nuns)/Playwright: Robin Rice
Spirituality
Eusapia Palladino (Conjurer, “Medium”)/Playwright: Rex McGregor
Accused of Witchcraft
Judith Vavlet (Accused & Acquitted of Witchcraft)/Playwright: Virginia Woolf
Leonora Dori Galigai (Accused, Burnt at Stake, Princess, Epilepsy)/Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Lydia Gilbert (Accused & Hanged for Witchcraft)/Playwright: Virginia Woolf
Mary Barnes (Accused & Hanged)/Playwright: Virginia Woolf
Mary Staples (Accused)/Playwright: Virginia Woolf
Mercy Brown (Vampire, Urban Legend)/Playwright: J.S. Puller
Mercy Disbrough (Accused and Acquitted)/Playwright: Virginia Woolf
Witchcraft
Eleanor Cobham (sorceress, Duchess of Gloucester)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Grace Sherwood (Witch Of Pungo, Executed Witch, Midwife, Healer, Abortionist)/Playwright: Donna Latham
Margery Jourdemayne (witch, aka “the Witch of Eye Next Westminster”)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Marie-Anne Lenormand (Fortune-Teller)/Playwright: Rex McGregor
Marie Catherine Laveau- (Vodou Queen, Healer)/Playwright: Carolyn Nur Wistrand
Medea (Herbalist, Healer, Sorceress, 1/4-Goddess)/Playwright: DS Magid
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