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.***
Aviation/Boats
Amelia Earhart (Aviator,Author)/Playwright: Kathleen Warnock
Anne Bonny (Pirate)/Playwright: Eva Montealegre
Bessie Coleman (Aviator)/Playwright: Renee Lucas Wayne
Carlett Angianlee Brown/ (Sailor, Model, Intersex) /Playwright: Kat Mustatea
Cheng Shih (Pirate)/Playwright: TD Mitchell
Harriet Quimby (American aviatrix)/Playwright; Christina Hamlett
Hazel Ying Lee (WWII Pilot)/Playwright: Annette Lee
Jeanne de Clisson (Pirate)/Playwright: Eva C. Schegulla
Lady Mary Killigrew (Pirate)/Playwright: Jean Reynolds
Lotfia El Nadi (Aviatrix)/Playwright: Laura Shamas
Mary Millicent Garretson Miller (SteamboatCaptain,SteamboatMaster)/Playwright: Nancy Gall-Clayton
Mary Read (Pirate)/Playwright: Joan Kane
Exploration
Adeline Hornbek (Homesteader, Western Pioneer)/Playwright: Jason Rainey
Alexandrine Tinné (Dutch Explorer)/Playwright:Karin Diann Williams
Alice Chase (early American pioneer)/Playwright: Robin Rice
Alice Huyler Ramsey (Explorer/Pioneer/First Woman to Drive Across the USA)/Playwright: Uma Incrocci
Celia Morgan (pioneer)/Playwright Sarah Lawrence
Emily West (aka Emily Morgan) (Pioneer, musician, indentured servant)/Playwright Sarah Lawrence
Fanny Bullock Workman (Explorer/Travel Writer)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Gertrude Bell (British Adventurer, writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist)/Playwright: David Marrs
Ida Pfeiffer (Explorer/Travel Writer)/Playwright; Christina Hamlett
Isadora Elman Lubin (Immigrant, Adventurer)/Playwright: Shellen Lubin
Jane Deans (Pioneer/Community Leader/Farmer/Conservationist/Church of Scotland)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Joanne Kittel (Public Trail Creator)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Margaret Lyon (Pioneer /Wife / Christian)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Maria Gebbie (Pioneer/Wife/Farmer/Christian)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Mary McIlraith (Farmer/ Christian)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Mary Williams (Pioneer/ Housekeeper/ Christian)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Mary Wraight (Pioneer/ Housekeeper/Widow/Christian)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Polly Bemis (Pioneer)/Playwright: Geralyn “G.L.” Horton
Law/Crime
Belle Starr (Outlaw, Thief, Bandit)/Playwright: Jennifer Bradley
Digna Ochoa (Mexican, human rights, attorney)/ Playwright: Patricia Davis
Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (lawyer,civil rights advocate,human rights activist)/Playwright: Peggy Jones
Isabella Goodwin (Detective, Policewoman)/Playwright: Cindy Cooper
Kate Warne (First female Pinkerton detective)/Playwright: Eva Schegulla
Kathleen Neal Cleaver (law professor, Black Panther Party Member)/Playwright: Jessie Salsbury
Olga Watkins Gmoser (Lawyer)/Playwright: Patricia Watkins
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Supreme Court Justice) /Playwright: Jessica Feder-Birnbaum
Military/War/Holocaust
Amy Elizabeth Thorpe (Spy, Femme Fatale)/Playwright: Laurel Wetzork
Andree Borrel-(Spy)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Anna Mac Clarke (Army, Commanding officer)/Playwright: Nancy Gall-Clayton
Anne Bailey (Soldier, Scout)/Playwright: Patricia Middleton
Boadicea (Celtic Tribe Battle Leader, Queen)/Playwright: Suzanne Wingrove
Buffalo Calf Road (Saved brother,Fought in battle)/Playwright: Earl T. Roske
Catalina de Erauso (Lieutenant,Dressed as man,Nun)/Playwright: Rita Kniess Barkey
Cathay Williams (Soldier, Posed as man)/Playwright: Amina McIntyre
Charlotte Corday (assassin of Jean-Pau Marat; French Revolution) / Playwright: Angela J. Davis
Clara Joseph(refugee from Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Clare Hollingworth (war correspondent, journalist)/Playwright : J.Lois Diamond
Deborah Samson Gannett (Revolutionary War,Disguised as man)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Denise Bloch – (Spy, SOE, Special Operations Executive Agent)/Playwright: Libby Mitchell
Eileen Nearne (WWII UK Special Ops)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Elizabeth Jackson Sands (American Revolutionary War Spy, Smuggler)/Playwright: Sara Lyons
Elizabeth Van Lew (Spy)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Ellen van der Ploeg (former Japanese Comfort Woman)/Playwright: Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen
Elsie Parmann (underground journalist during Nazi occupation)/Playwright: Rachael Carnes
Eva Braun (longtime mistress of Adolf Hitler)/Playwright: James Colgan
Eva TOREN (Survivor from the getto in Warsaw, who had memories about Lidia ZAMENHOF)/Playwright: Luiza Carol
Ewa Rechtman (Social worker, Warsaw Ghetto, Jewish)/Playwright: Heather L. Lee
Fanny Kaplan (Attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin)/Playwright: Kat Meads
Grace Hopper (U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, Computer Programmer/Inventor, Math Professor)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Hangaku Gozen (Samurai)/Playwright: Gyda Arber
Hannah Stochel (Seamstress,baker, grandmother, Holocaust survivor)/Playwright: Amy Oestreicher
Hannah Szenes (Senesh)- (WWII Special Ops Paratrooper, Poet)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Hao Yuelian (former Japanese Comfort Woman)/Playwright: Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen
Huan Youliang (former Japanese Comfort Woman, China’s last Comfort Woman)/Playwright: Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen
Irena Sendler (Social worker, Poland, Warsaw Ghetto)/Playwright: Heather L. Lee
Irma Grese ( World War Two, SS Guard, The Holocaust)/ Playwright: Ian Low
Janina Grabowska (courier, Poland, Warsaw Ghetto)/Playwright: Heather L. Lee
Janina Kryezanowska (mother/Poland)/Playwright: Heather L. Lee
Jennie Hodgers aka Albert D.J. Cashier (Civil War Soldier/Trans) Playwright: LuLu LoLo
Jonatas (Calvary Soldier)/Playwright: Diana Burbano
Juana Azurduy (Guerrilla Military Leader)/Playwright: Laura Derpic
Khutulun (Wrestler, Princess)/Playwright: Natalie Osborne
Laskarina Bouboulina (Admiral Imperial Russian Navy)/Playwright: Francesca Peppiatt
Lebensborn women (Pregnant women in Nazi program)/Playwright: Teresa Stankiewicz
Lidia ZAMENHOF (Writer in Esperanto and Polish languages, translator, teacher, murdered in Treblinka. Father was Ludoviko ZAMENHOF, creator of the Esperanto language.)/Playwright: Luiza Carol
Lilian Rolfe -(Spy, Special Operations Executive Agent)/Playwright: Libby Mitchell
Lise de Baissac- (Spy)/ Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Lozen (Apache Warrior)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Luísa Mahin (Revolutionary/Abolitionist)/Playwright: Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen
Margaret Bourke-White – (Photographer,War Correspondent,Author)/Playwright: Paul Calandrino
Margot Wölk (Food Taster for Hitler, Nazi Germany)/Playwright: Jaclyn Perlmutter
Marie Christine Chilver (aka Agent Fifi) (World War II Spy)/Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Marthe Cohn (WWII Spy for the Allies, Author)/Playwright: Susan Hansell
Mary Bowser (Spy)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Mary, Lady Bankes née Hawtry (Commander and Defender of Corfe Castle)/ Playwright: KT Parker
Nancy Morgan Hart (American Revolutionary War Heroine)/Playwright: Gyda Arber
Nancy Wake (British Secret Agent WWII)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Natalia Peshkova (Russian War Hero)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Natalya Meklin (WWII pilot)/Playwright: Marlo Kern
Natan (Calvary Soldier)/Playwright: Diana Burbano
Nieves Fernandez (Schoolteacher,Guerilla Captain,WWII Leader)/Playwright: Amanda Andrei
Nina Ulyanenko (WWII pilot)/Playwright: Marlo Kern
Pauline Cushman (Actress, Spy for the Civil War Union States)/Playwright: Karen Rousso
Peggy Schuyler (U.S. Revolutionary War) / Playwright: Allie Costa
Pingyang (Warrior, Princess)/Playwright: Natalie Osborne
Sala Garncarz (Nazi Slave Labour Camp Survivor)/Playwright: Arlene Hutton
Sarah Emma Edmonds (Civil War Soldier, Spy, Author) Playwright: Bonnie Milne Gardner
Simone Segouin – (Resistance Fighter/Nurse)/Playwright: Ian Low
Simonne Erard (French Revolution)/Playwright: Angela J. Davis
Sookie Hart- (Daughter of Revolutionary War Heroine)/Playwright: Gyda Arber
Susie King Taylor (Army Nurse,Teacher)/Playwright: Vickie L. Williams
Sybil Ludington (Revolutionary War)/Playwright; Christina Hamlett
Tomoe Gozen (Samurai)/Playwright: D.L. Siegal
Vera Atkins- (British Intelligence Officer, SOE, Special Operations Executive)/Playwright: Libby Mitchell
Vera Bjelik (WWII navigator)/Playwright: Marlo Kern
Violet Gibson (Attempted assassin of Mussolini)/Playwright: Kat Meads
Violette Szabo – (Spy, SOE, Special Operations Executive Agent)/Playwright: Libby Mitchell
Virginia Hall (Spy, Explorer, WWII Resistance)/Playwright: Rachel Handler
Yevdokia Bershanskaya (WWII pilot and commander)/Playwright: Marlo Kern
Zhang Xiantu (former Japanese Comfort Woman)/Playwright: Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen
Zivia Lubetkin (Leader of the Jewish Underground)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union (awarded posthumously)/Playwright: David Marrs
Sports/Outdoors
Alice Woods(Footballer, Dick, Kerr’s Ladies, St Helens)/Playwright: Benjamin Peel
Althea Gibson (Tennis,Golf)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Anne Pashley (Sprinter/Opera Singer)/Playwright: Benjamin Peel
Annie Londonderry (Bicyclist/Adventurer)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Babe Didrikson (Golf,Basketball,Track)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Billie Jean King (Tennis)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Caster Semenya (Runner)/Playwright: Kat Mustatea
Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby (Maine Guide)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Diana Nyad (Distance Swimmer, Marathon Swimmer)/Playwright: Lolly Ward
Effa Manley (Baseball manager) / Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Eleanor Randolph Sears (Equestrian)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Fabulous Moolah (Wrestler)/Playwright: Olga Humphrey
Gertrude Ederle (Swimmer)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Gretel Bergmann (Track)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Helen Shaw Fowler (Environmentalist/Farmer/Floral Botanist/Businesswoman/Painter)/Playwright: Kitty Felde
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Track)/Playwright Heather Meyer
Jackie Mitchell (baseball, pitcher) / Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Jane Cannary (Cowgirl)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Jeanne Baret (Botanist/Explorer)/Playwright; Christina Hamlett
Jessie Bates (Smuggler,Food Vendor,Cave Excavator)/Playwright: Paul Antokolsky
Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp (Wild West, Gunfights) / Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Katerina Witt (Olympic figure skating champion)/Playwright: Deanne Stillman
Lily Parr (Footballer, Nurse, Dick, Kerr’s Ladies, St Helens)/Playwright: Benjamin Peel
Mo’ne Davis (Little League, baseball) / Playwright: Carol M. Rice
P.T. Usha (Sprint Athlete)/Playwright: Hemavathy Guha
Rosa María Hinojosa de Ballí (Rancher)/Playwright: Susan Long Haga
Sakakawea- (Liaison for Lewis and Clark expedition)/Playwright: Kathleen Coudle King
Sonia Henie (Ice-skater)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Toni Stone (Baseball)/Playwright: Andrea Lepcio
Wilma Rudolph (Track)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Yushra Mardini (Refugee, Olympian)/ Playwright: Jessie Salsbury
365 Women A Year: a playwriting project 