If you would like more information specifically about producing one of our plays, please email 365womenayear@gmail.com with the historical woman in the body of the email and the playwright in the subject line.
***Our plays are loosely based on their historical counterparts.***
Women are listed in the century they were BORN.
1500s
Anne Boleyn (c1501-1536)/ Playwright: KT Parker
Anne of Cleves- (1515-1557)/Playwright: Michael Radi
Anne Hathaway (1566-1623)/Playwright: Kenneth Robbins
Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Anne Vaux (1562-1637)/Playwright: Benjamin Peel
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Benedetta Carlini (1591–1661)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650)/Playwright: Rita Kniess Barkey
Catherine/Katherine Howard (c1525-1541)/ Playwright: KT Parker
Catherine de Medici (1519-1589)/Playwright: Aspen Mock
Eleanor Brooksby(1559-?)/Playwright: Benjamin Peel
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)/Playwright: Carolyn Kras
Elizabeth Bathory (1560-1614)/Playwright: Anne Flanagan, Genny Yosco
Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510-1569)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Hwang Jini (1506-1560)/Playwright: Erin Marshall
La Malinche (1501-1529)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Lady Mary Killigrew (1525-1582) Playwright: Jean Reynolds
Lavinia Fontana ( 1552 – 1614 )/Playwright: Eva C. Schegulla
Leonora Dori Galigai (1571-1617)/Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Louise of Lorraine (1553-1601)/Playwright: Aspen Mock
Margaret Clitherow (1556 – 25 March 1586)/Playwright: Judy Meiksin
Margaret More Roper (1505-1544)/Playwright: Sheila Rinear
Maria Estuardo, Queen of Scots (1542-1587)/Playwright: Denise Despeyroux
Mary I- (1516-1558)/Playwright: Michael Radi
Mary Sydney Herbert (1561-1621)/Playwright: Lou Beckett
Mary, Lady Bankes née Hawtry (1598-1666)/ Playwright: KT Parker
Mary Stuart (1542-1587)/ Playwright: KT Parker
Nzinga Mbande (1583-1663)/Playwright: Eugenie Carabatsos
Pocahontas (1595-1617)/Playwright:Pat Cheshire Jennings
Santa Teresa de Jesus (1515-1582))/Playwright: Amaranta Osorio
Shim Saimdang (1504-1551)/Playwright: Lisa A. Wilde
1600s
Anne of Austria (1601-1666)/Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)/Playwright: Gabriella Oldham
Anne Marshall (c.1650-c.1682) / Playwright: Nicole Heneveld
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)/Playwright: Erin Moughon
Arcangela Tarabotti (aka Elana Cassandra Tarabotti and Galerana Baratotti) (1604-1652)/Playwright: DS Magid
Barbara Villiers Palmer (1640-1709) / Playwright: Nicole Heneveld
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1687)/Playwright: Deborah Magid
Queen Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) / Playwright: Nicole Heneveld
Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)/Playwright: Wim Coleman
Elisabeth of Bohemia (29 March 1667 – 11 February 1680)/Playwright: Erin Moughon
Elizabeth Abbott (died 1624) / Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Giulia Tofana (163?-1709)/Playwright: Eva C. Schegulla
Goody Ann Glover (b.?-1688)/Playwright: Aspen Mock
Grace Sherwood (1660-1740)/Playwright: Donna Latham
Henrietta Maria (1609-1669)/Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Ignacia del Espíritu Santo (1663-1748)/Playwright: Marina Castiñeira Ezquerra
Jeanne de Verneville (1600s)/Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Julie D/Aubigny- (1670-1707)/Playwright: Thea Rodgers
Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680)/Playwright: Heather Forgie
Louise de La Fayette (1618-1665)/Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (c. 1623-1673)/Playwright: DS Magid
Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1614-1702)/Playwright: Jessie Salsbury
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)/Playwright: Arlene Hutton
Marie de Chevreuse (1600-1679)/Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Mary Dyer (1611-1660)/Playwright: Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop
Mary Read (1685-1721)/Playwright: Joan Kane
Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711)/Playwright: Lydia Williams
Nell Gwynne (1650 to 1687)/Playwright: by LA Green
Ninon de l’Enclos (1620-1705)/Playwright: Julie Lyn Barber
Queen Aliquippa (17th century)/Playwright: Jennifer Schaupp
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Weetamoo (?-1676)/Playwright: Lydia Williams
Wootonekanuske (1600s)/Playwright: Lydia Williams
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