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 body of the email.
***Our plays are loosely based on their historical counterparts.***
Women are listed in the century they were BORN.
1800s
Abigail Alcott (1840-1879)/Playwright: Donna Latham
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)/Playwright: Sara Cowley
Adelaide Herrmann (1853–1932)/Playwright: Pauline David-Sax
Adeline Hornbek (1833-1905)/Playwright: Jason Rainey
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)/ Playwright: Lyndol Michael
A’Lelia Walker (1885-1931)/Playwright: A’Lelia Bundles
Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952)/ Playwright: Barbara Corrado Pope
Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969)/Playwright: Deborah Magid
Alexandra Feodorovna, ( 1872-1918)/Playwright: R. Johns
Alexandrine Tinné (1835-1869)/Playwright:Karin Diann Williams
Alice Austen (1866-1952)/Playwright: Robin Rice
Alice Augusta Ball (1892 – 1916)/ Playwright: Ian Low
Alice Cary (1820-1871) / Playwright: Michele Aldin Kushner
Alice Hamilton (1869)/Playwright: Heide Arbitter
Alice Liddell (1852-1934)/Playwright: Allie Costa
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)/Playwright: Kitty Felde
Alice Paul (1885-1977)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Alice Huyler Ramsey (1886 -1983)/Playwright: Uma Incrocci
Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967)/Playwright: Lynne S Brandon
Alice Woods (1899-1991) Playwright: Benjamin Peel
Alla Nazimova (1879-1945)/Playwright: Barbara Kahn
Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881-1968)/Playwright: Hilary Kaiser
Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891 – 1978) / Playwright: Amy Gijsbers van Wijk
Alva Vanderbilt (1853-1933)//Playwright: Beth Blatt
Amanda DeCuis (1800s)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)/Playwright: Kathleen Warnock
Ana Roque De Duprey (1853-1933)/Playwright: Karina Richardson
Angelina Weld Grimkè (1880-1958)/Playwright: Asia Nichols
Angustias de la Guerra (1815-1890)/Playwright: Jennie Webb
Anita Loos (1889-1981)/Playwright: Sheree Bradford-Lea
Anita Pollitzer (1894-1975)/Playwright: Susan Shafer
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)/Playwright: Lynda Crawford
Anna Alcott (1831-1893)/Playwright: Donna Latham
Anna Fischer (Late 19th Century)/Playwright: Suzanne Logan
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1942)/Playwright: Gabrielle Sinclair
Anna Coleman Ladd (Sculptor)/Playwright: Patti Cassidy
Anna Christina Olson (1893-1968)/Playwright: Allie Costa
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)/Playwright: Allie Costa
Anne Bronte (1820-1849)/Playwright: N.G. McCLernan
Anne Sullivan (1866-1936)/Playwright: Julie Riggs
Annie Montague Alexander- (1867-1950)/Playwright: Kate Busselle
Annie Besant (1847-1933) Playwright Susan Merson
Annie Londonderry (1870-1947)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941)/Playwright: Lisa Jayne
Annie Turnbo Malone (1869-1957)/Playwright: Asia Nichols
Annie E. A. Walker – (1855-1929)/playwright: Michael angel Johnson
Anzia Yezierska (1880-1970)/Playwright: Ellen W. Kaplan
Audrey Munson (1891-1996)/Playwright: L.A. Green
Augusta Savage (1892-1962) Playwright: Michael angel Johnson
Ava Lowle Wiling Astor (1868-1958)/Playwright: Rex McGregor
Beatrice Alexander (1895-1990)/Playwright: K.A. Brokaw
Beatrice Lillie (1894-1989)/Playwright: Sheree Bradford-Lea
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)/Playwright: D Lee Miller
Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820-1879)/Playwright: Julie Lyn Barber
Belle Cora (1827-1862)/Playwright: CJ Verburg
Belle Gunness- (1800s)/Playwright: Kate Busselle
Belle Starr (1848)/Playwright: Jennifer Bradley
Bertha Honoré Palmer (1849-1918)/Playwright Nancy Gall-Clayton
Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936)/Playwright: Paul Pasulka
Bertha Von Suttner, (née Countess Kinsky) (1843-1914)/Playwright: Tee Schneider
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)/Playwright: Deborah Magid
Bessie Coleman (1892-1926)/Playwright: Renee Lucas Wayne
Bessie Smith – (1894-1837)/Playwright: Julie Lyn Barber
Bridget “Biddy” Mason (1818-1891)/Playwright: Monique N. Simpson
Broncia Koller-Pinell (1863-1934)/Playwright: Rex McGregor
Buffalo Calf Road (1850s-1878)/Playwright: Earl T. Roske
C.J. Walker (1867-1919)/Playwright: A’Lelia Bundles
Camille Claudel (1864-1943) Playwright: J.Lois Diamond
Caroline Elizabeth (Thomas) Merrick (1825-1908)/Playwright: Charlene A. Donaghy
Caroline Norton (1808-1877)/ Playwright: KT Parker
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)/ Playwright: Lisa K. Winkler
Carrie MacDonald (Late 19th Century)/Playwright: Suzanne Logan
Carrie (Carry) Nation (1846-1911)/Playwright: Trish Ayers
Catharine Danenhold Melcher (1817?-1874?)/Playwright: Nancy Gall-Clayton
Catherine “Kate” Dickens (1815-1879)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Cathay Williams (1844-1892)/Playwright: Amina McIntyre
Celia (1836-1855)/Playwright: Cari A. Hopson
Charley Parkhurst (1812 – 1879)/Playwright: Jayne B. Stearns
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)/Playwright: N.G. McCLernan
Charlotte Cushman (1816-1878)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1914)/Playwright: Katherine Brokaw
Christina Rossetti (1830-1895)/Playwright: Christine Emmert
Christine McKoy (1851-1912)/Playwright: Asia Nichols
Clara Barton (1821-1912)/Playwright: Cindy Cooper
Clara Brown (c. 1800–1885)/Playwright: Judy Meiksin
Clara Compoamor (1888-1972)/Playwright: Juana Escabias
Clara Lemlich (1886-1982)/Playwright: Susan Shafer
Clara Rilke-Westhoff (1878 – 1954)/Playwright: Ian Low
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)/Playwright: Lily Meyer
Clara Smith – (1894-1835)/Playwright: Julie Lyn Barber
Claribel Cone (1864-1929)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Constance Mary Lloyd (1858-1898) /Playwright: Suzanne Lederer
Constance Markievicz (1868 – 1927))/Playwright: Joan Bryans
Cora Millay (1863-1931)/ Playwright: Karen Ackerman
Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby (1854-1946)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983)/Playwright: Linda Evans
Countess Markiewics (1868-1927)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Delia Larkin (1878 –1949) /Playwright: Joan Bryans
Dolores Ibarruri (1895-1989)/Playwright: Begonya Plaza
Doña Maria Gertrudis “La Tules” Barceló (1800-1852)/Playwright: Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)/Playwright: Nancy Irene Kelly
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958)/Playwright Robert Brophy
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Playwright:Elaine Flynn
Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961)/Playwright: Alyson Mead
Dowager Ci’an, Empress (1835-1908)/Playwright: Joy Tomasko
Dowager Cixi, Empress (1837-1881)/Playwright: Joy Tomasko
Edith Brown (1872-1932)/Playwright: Nancy Brewka-Clark
Edith Cavell (1865-1915)/Playwright: Maggie Ollerenshaw
Edith Guerrier (1870-1958)/Playwright: Nancy Brewka-Clark
Edith Hamilton (1867)/Playwright: Heide Arbitter
Edith Head (1897-1981)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942)/Playwright: Susan Hansell
Edith Vanderbilt (1873-1958)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Edith Wharton(1862-1937)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Edith Wilson (1872 –1961)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Edmonia “Wildfire” Lewis (1843-1911)/Playwright: Michael Angel Johnson
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)/Playwright: Penny Jackson
Effa Manley (1897-1981) / Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Effie Waller Smith (1879-1960)/Playwright: Nancy Gall-Clayton
Eleanor H. Porter(1868-1920)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Eleanor Randolph Sears (1881-1968)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Elena Molokhovets (1831-1918)/Playwright: Jane Denitz Smith
Eleonora Duse (1858-1924)/Playwright: Maria Pia Pagani
(Elisa) Rachel Felix (1821-1858)/ Playwright: Christine Emmert
Eliza Anne Grier (1864-1902) /Playwright: Cesi Davidson
Eliza Johnson (1810 – 1876)/Playwright: Toni Press-Coffman
Eliza Morgan(1800s)/Playwright:Lucy Wang
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson/(1836-1917)/Playwright: Ian Low
Elizabeth Blackwell- (1821-1910)/Playwright: Rosemary Zibart
Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842-1933)/Playwright:Thomas Millstead
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Elizabeth Van Lew (1818-1900)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Elizabeth Keckley (1818-1907)/Playwright: Donna Latham
Elizabeth Holloway Marston (1893 – 1993)/Playwright: Ashley Lara
Elizabeth Okie Paxton (1877-1971)/Playwright: Rena Tobey
Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1962)/Playwright: Danielle Winston
Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893)/Playwright: Emily Ball Cicchini
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)/Playwright: Nancy Gall-Clayton (2017)
Elizabeth Wilkins (1800s)/Playwright: Maggie Ollerenshaw
Ellen Craft (1826-1891)/Playwright: Paula Cizmar
Ellen N. La Motte (1800s Years Unknown)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)/Playwright: Rebecca Burroughs
Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947)/Playwright: Maggie Ollerenshaw
Ellen Wilson (1860 – 1914)/Playwright: Toni Press-Coffman
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)/Playwright: N.G. McClernan
Emily Carr- (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945/ Playwright- Julie English-Dixon
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) / playwright Marilyn Clarke
Emily Pankhurst-(1858-1928)/Playwright : Danielle Wirsansky
Emily Preston (1819-1909)/Playwright: Nancy West
Emily West (aka Emily Morgan) (c.1815-unknown)/Playwright Sarah Lawrence
Emma Calve (1858-1942)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)/Playwright: Liza Case
Emma Jung (1882-1955)/Playwright: Catherine Frid
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)/Playwright: Shellen Lubin
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 – 1928)/Playwright: Ian Low
Empress Elizabeth of Austria (1837-1898)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Enid Yandell (1869-1934)/Playwright Nancy Gall-Clayton
Esther Roper (1868-1938)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Ethel Smyth (1858 – 1944)/Playwright: Ian Low
Etta Cone (1870-1949)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918)/Playwright: Rex McGregor
Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Eva LeGallienne (1899-1991)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Eve Adams (1891-1943)/Playwright: Barbara Kahn
Evelyn Nesbit- (1884 -1967)/ playwright: Kristy Lin Billuni
Fannie Sellins (1872-1919)/Playwright: Kathleen E. Downey
Fannie Tuttle (1800s)/Playwright: Marj O’Neill
Fanny Brice (1891 -1951)/Playwright: Kirsten Van Ritzen
Fanny Bullock Workman (1859-1925)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Fanny Kaplan (1890-1918)/Playwright: Kat Meads
Florence Elsa Bell (1880-1971)/Playwright: Jan B. Eliot
Florence Kelley (1859-1932)/Playwright Amy Merrill
Florence Mills (1895-1927)/Playwright: Barbara Kahn
Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910) Playwright:Mandy Carpenter
Frances Cleveland (1864-1947)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Frances Harper (1825-1911)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Frances Ann Hale Hunter (1819-?)/Playwright: Emily Ball Cicchini
Frances Perkins (1880-1965)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Frances Fuller Victor (1826-1902)/Playwright: Brianna Barrett
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)/Playwright: Susan Shafer
Georgia E. Mann (1836-1885)/Playwright: Johanna Miller
George Sand (1804 – 1876)/Playwright: Paddy Gillard-Bentley
Gertrude Elizabeth McCormick (1887 – 1950)/Playwright: Rosa Walston Latimer
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (1868-1926)/Playwright: Jan B. Eliot
Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952)/Playwright: Kirsten Van Ritzen
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)/Playwright: Lynne S. Brandon
Golda Meir (1898-1978)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Grace Coolidge (1879 – 1957)/Playwright: Toni Press-Coffman
Grace V Kelly (19th century))/Playwright: DS Magid
Grace Lyon (Born 1844)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Grace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett (1888-1955)/Playwright: Paddy Gillard-Bentley
Graceanna Lewis (1821-1912)/Playwright: Paula Cizmar
Gracie Allen (1895-1964)/Playwright: Stephanie Satie
Gwen John (1876-1939)/Playwright: Barbara Bridger
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)/Playwright: Treasa Nealon
Hannah Alexander (1800s-1900s)/Playwright: K.A. Brokaw
Hannah Reynolds-“Mountain Dew” ( either 1805-1865 or 1825-1865)/Playwright: J.Lois Diamond
Helen Osborne Storrow (1864-1944)/: Nancy Brewka-Clark
Harriet Bosse (1878-1961)/Playwright: Talia Pura
Harriett Forten (Purvis)– (1810-1875)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908)/Playwright: Diane Baia Hale
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)/Playwright: Sue Blundell
Harriet Powers (1837-1910)/Playwright: Danielle Winston
Harriet Rice (1866-1958)/Playwright: Sara Clifford
Harriet Hanson Robinson (1825-1911)/Playwright: Caroline Turner ColeHarriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Harriet Stanton Blatch (1856-1940)/ Playwright: Lisa K. Winkler
Harriet Tubman (1822-1913)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Harriet Quimby (1875-1912)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Hattie Hill (1847-1921)/Playwright: Patricia Watkins
Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952)/Playwright: Kristin Hornsby
Helen Boyle (1869-1957)/Playwright: Sam Chittenden
Helen Eaglesome (1821 – 1891)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Helen Shaw Fowler (1875-1957)/Playwright: Kitty Felde
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-85)/Playwright: Dorothy Velasco
Helen Jewett (1813-1836) /Playwright: LuLu LoLo
Helen Keller (1880-1968)/Playwright: Donna Latham
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891 )/Playwright: Ivan Faute
Helena Molony (1883 – 1967) /Playwright: Joan Bryans (2018)
Helene Van Zuylen (1863-1947)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Henrietta Vinton Davis (1860 – 1941)/ Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921)/Playwright: Robert Brophy
Hildegarde Angell (19th century))/Playwright: DS Magid
Hortense Powdermaker (1896-1970)/Playwright: Amina McIntyre
Ida Kaminska (1899-1980)/Playwright: Liz Amadio
Ida McKinley (1847 – 1907)/Playwright: Toni Press-Coffman
Ida Rubenstein (1883 – 1960)/playwright: Christine Emmert
Ida Tarbell (1857-1944)/Playwright: Shellen LubinIda B. Wells (1862-1931)/Playwright: Leah Halper
Inez Milholland (1886-1916)/Playwright: Jill Maynard
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924)/: Nancy Brewka-Clark
Isabella Goodwin (1865-1943)/Playwright: Cindy Cooper
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)/Playwright: Aspen Mock
Isadora Elman Lubin (1885-1978)/Playwright: Shellen LubinJane Addams (1860-1935)/Playwright: Rebecca Burroughs
Jane Cannary (1852-1903)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Jane Deans (1823-1911)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Jane Gentry (1863-1925)/Playwright: Grace Ellis
Jane Pierce (1806 – 1863)/Playwright: Toni Press-Coffman
Janina Kryezanowska (1885-1944)/Playwright: Heather L. Lee
Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973)/Playwright: Leah Halper
Jennie Hodgers aka Albert D.J. Cashier (1843-1915), Playwright: LuLu LoLo
Jenny Lind (1829-1887)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Johanna Bonger van Gogh (1862-1925)/Playwright: Caroline N. Simpson
Josefa “Chipita” Rodriguez (1800-1863)/Playwright: Susan Long Haga
Josepha Hale (1820-1863)/Playwright: Emily Ball Cicchini
Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp (1860 – December 19, 1944) / Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Josephine McCarty (aka Josephine Fagan aka Dr. Mrs. Emma Burleigh aka Virginia Seymour) (1826-?)/Playwright: DS Magid
Juana Briones (1802-1889)/Playwright: Paula Cizmar
Judy Matlack (1898-1982)/Playwright: Deborah Magid
Judy Reed (b. 1826)/Playwright: Rachel Dickson
Julia Arévalo de Roche (1898-1985)/Playwright: Jéssica Martínez
Julia Dent Grant (1826-1902)/Playwright Nancy Gall-Clayton
Julia H. P. Coleman (1873-1950)/Playwright: A’Lelia Bundles
Julia Morgan(1872-1957)/Playwright: Lucy Wang
Julia Tuttle (1848-1898)/Playwright: Marj O’Neill-Butler
Julia Tyler (1820 – 1899)/Playwright: Toni Press-Coffman
Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)/Playwright: Susan Shafer
June Weaver (1891-1977)/Playwright: Mary Sue Price
Kaiulani (1875-1899)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Kamala Nehru(1899-1936)/Playwright: J. Lois Diamond
Kasturba Gandhi (1869-1944)/Playwright: Hemavathy Guha
Kate Kelly( 1862-1898) Playwright: R.Johns
Kate Rice (1882-1963)/Playwright: Hope McIntyre
Kate Warne (1833-1868)/Playwright: Eva Schegulla
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Katharine Angell White (1892-1977)/Playwright: DS Magid
Katherine Louise Bullard (1877)/Playwright: Claire Wittman
Katharine Coman (1857-1915)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Katharine McCormick (1875-1976)/Playwright:Jenny Seidelman
Katharine Szenes (Senesh) (1886-1992)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Kathleen Brown (1887-19??)/Playwright: Rex McGregor
Kathleen Millay (1896-1943)/ Playwright: Karen Ackerman
Kitty Mills ( 19th Century)/Playwright: Ian Low
L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942)/Playwright: Emily Brauer Rogers
Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938)/Playwright: Deborah Magid
Lakshmi Bai (1828-1858)/Playwright: Cindy Cooper
Laura Cornelius Kellogg (1880-1947 or 1949)
Laurette Taylor (1883-1946)/Playwright: Michael Aman
Lavinia Dickinson (1833-1899) Playwright Tom Noe
Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913)/Playwright: Irene Zabytko
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)/Playwright: Lily Meyer
Lillian Smith (1897-1966)/Playwright: John Barrow
Liliuokalani, Queen (1838-1917)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Linnie Leckrone (1800s Years Unknown)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Lise Meitner (7 November 1878- 27 October 1968)/Playwright: Erin Moughon
Liu-Wang Liming (1897-1970)/Playwright: Glenda Frank
Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Lorena Hickok (1893-1968)/Playwright: Rex McGregor
Lotta Crabtree (1847-1924)/Playwright: Dorothy Velasco
Lou Graham (1857-1903)/Playwright: Kate Danley
Lou Salomé – (1861-1937)/Playwright: Rosemary Zibart
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Louisa Lander (1826-1923)/Playwright: Diane Baia Hale
Louise Bryant (1885-1936)/Playwright: Kimberly Patterson
Louise Lovely (1895-1980) Playwright: Laurel A. Lockhart
Louise Mack (1870-1935) /Playwright: Laurel A. Lockhart
Mrs. (James Oscar) “Louise “Mother” Nixon (1857-1947)/Playwright: Charlene A. Donaghy
Loie Fuller (1862-1928)/Playwright: Dorothy Velasco/Loïe Fuller (1862-1928)/Playwright: Hilary Kaiser
Lozen (1840-1890)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Lucretia Garfield (1832 – 1918)/Playwright: Toni Press-Coffman
Lucy Adeline Bullard (1870)/Playwright: Claire Wittman
Lucy Ann Shaw aka Lucie-Anne Lillie ( ? – 1957)/Playwright: Kirsten Van Ritzen
Lucy Parsons (ca 1853-1942)/Playwright: Barbara Corrado Pope
Lucy Stone (1818-1893)/Playwright: Nancy West
Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Luísa Mahin (early 1800s)/Playwright: Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen
Lula Hill (1800s/1900s)/Playwright: Renee Rankin
Mabel Loomis Todd (1856-1932) Playwright Tom Noe
Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962)/Playwright: Tina Esper
Mabel Loomis Todd (1856-1932) / playwright Marilyn Clarke
Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1889-1963)/Playwright: Patricia Middleton
Madame Heger (1800s)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Mae West (1893-1980)/Playwright:Germaine Shames
Maggie Lena Walker (1864-1934)/ Playwright: Rachel Dickson
Mali Spighel (1895-1982)/Playwright: Judy Meiksin
Malwida von Meysenbug – (1816-1903)/playwright: Rosemary Zibart
Mamie Smith (1891-1946)/Playwright: Rachel Dickson
Margaret E. Knight- (1838-1914)/Playwright: Anne Flanagan
Margaret Lyon (Born early 1800’s)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Margaret (“Maggie”) Maher (1841-1924)/Playwright: Jennifer O’Grady
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)/Playwright: Jenny Seidelman
Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995)/Playwright: Linda Britt
Margaretta Forten– (1806-1875)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Maria Blanchard (1881-1932)/Playwright: Inge Martín San Juan
Maria Gebbie (1814 – 1894)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Maria Meyn (1800s)/Playwright: Sophia Romma
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)/Playwright: Melody Cooper
Maria Montessori (1870-1952)/Playwright: Susan Shafer
Maria Nikolaevna ( 1899- 1918)/Playwright: R. Johns
Mariana la Loca (1831-1902)/Playwright: Beth Kander
Mariah Vance (1819-1904)/Playwright: Elizabeth Orndorff
Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)/Playwright: Naomi Elster
Marie Catherine Laveau- (1800-1881)/Playwright: Carolyn Nur Wistrand
Marie Danforth Page (1869-1940)/Playwright: Rena Tobey
Marie Bjelke Petersen (1874-1969) Playwright: Laurel A. Lockhart
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)/Playwright: Sophia Romma
Marian Anderson (1897-1993)/Playwright: Arden Kass
Marion Davies (1897-1961)/Playwright: Lucy Wang
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998)/Playwright: Robin Rice
Mary Austin (1868-1934)/Playwright: Evelyn Jean Pine
Mary Bensell (1848-1931)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Mary McLeod Bethune (1895-1955)/Playwright: Lawrence Kessenich
Mary Louise Curtis Bok (1876-1970)/Playwright: Lolly Ward
Mary Boswer (1839-?)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Mary Ware Dennett (1872-1947)/Playwright: Lisa K. Winkler
Mary Whiton Calkins (1863 – 1930)/Playwright: Sarah Tuft
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)/Playwright: Patricia Wakely Wolf
Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter (1869-1958)/Playwright: Emily Ball Cicchini
Mary Ann Cotton (1832 – 1873)/Playwright: Lindsay Adams
Mary Anne Duignan aka Chicago May (1871-1929)/Playwright: Joan Bryans
Mary Elizabeth Fairless (1899 – 1994) Playwright:Mandy Carpenter
Mary Fields (1832-1914)/Playwright: Melody Cooper
Mary Haskell (1873-1964)/Playwright: Germaine Shames
Mary Ann Girling (1827-1886)/Playwright: Benjamin Peel
Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882)/Playwright: Donna Latham
Mary Mallon (1869-1938)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Mary McIlraith (Born early 1800’s)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Mary Millicent Garretson Miller (1846-1894)/Playwright: Nancy Gall-Clayton
Mary Pickford (1892-1979)/Playwright: Rex McGregor
Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch (1867-1951)/Playwright: Rex McGregorMary Rozet Smith (1868-1934)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Mary Tape (1800s)/Playwright: Geralyn “G.L.” Horton
Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919)/Playwright: Nancy Gall-Clayton
Mary Williams (Born c. 1810)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Mary Wraight (Born 1821)/Playwright: Susan Battye
Mata Hari (1876-1917)/Playwright: Talia Pura
Matilda Joslyn Gage(1826-1898)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Maud Karpeles- (1885-1976)/Playwright: Grace Ellis
May Sinclair (1863-1946)/Playwright: Leslie McMurtry
Memphis Minnie (June 3, 1897)/Playwright: Karen Callwood
Mercedes Jellinek (1880-1929)/Playwright: Karen Jeynes
Mercy Brown (1873-1892)/Playwright: J.S. Puller
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968)/Playwright: Michael Angel Johnson
Millicent Garrett Fawcett- (1847-1929)/Playwright: Danielle Wirsansky
Millie McKoy (1851-1912)/Playwright: Asia Nichols
Minnie Cox (1869-1933)/Playwright: Rita Anderson
Minnie Harvey Huckel (1871-1943) / Playwright: Micki Shelton
Molly Picon (1898-1992)/Playwright: C.J. Ehrlich
Moms Mabley (1894-1975)/Playwright: Annie Wood
Mother Cabrini (1850-1917) Playwright: Joan Albarella
Mother Amadeus Dunne (1844-1919) Playwright: Jamie Greenblatt
Mother Jones aka Mary Harris Jones (1837-1930)/Playwright: Samantha Vakiener
Muriel Lillie (1892 – 1973)/Playwright: Kirsten Van Ritzen
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)/Playwright: Lily Meyer
Nance O’Neill (1874-1965)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Nancy Cunard (1896-1965)/Playwright: Germaine Shames
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (1890-1960)/Playwright: Michael angel Johnson
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Nellie Bly (1864-1922)//Playwright: Grace Ivana Carroll
Nellie T. Bush (1888-1963)/Playwright: James E. Burnside
Nellie McClung (1873-1951)/Playwright: Catherine Frid
NORA BARNACLE JOYCE (1884-1951) playwright Jack Gilhooley
Norma Millay (1893-1986)/ Playwright: Karen Ackerman
Olga Romanova (1895-1918 )/ Playwright: Angela J. DavisOlivia Soulouque- (1832-1936)/Playwright: Kendra Augustin
Olympia Brown (1835-1926)/Playwright: Nancy West
Paula Mondersohn Becker (1876 – 1907)/Playwright:Ian Low
Paula Snelling (1899-1985)/Playwright: John Barrow
Pauline Cushman (c. 1833 – December 2, 1893)/Playwright: Karen Rousso
Pauline Thompson (Late 19th Century)/Playwright: Suzanne Logan
Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979)/Playwright: Germaine Shames
Phoebe Cary (1824-1871) / Playwright: Michele Aldin Kushner
Polly Bemis (1853-1933)/Playwright: Geralyn “G.L.” Horton
Princess Iwa (1890-1947)/Playwright: Ilana Turner
Princess Victoria Ka’iulani (1875-1899)/Playwright: Trish Ayers
Rani Lakshmibai (1828-1858)/Playwright: Lauren Ferebee
Rebecca Ord Peshine (1859-1935)/Playwright: Jennie Webb
Réjane (1856 – 1920)/Playwright: ILANA TURNER
Renee Falconetti (1892-1946)/Playwright: Mark Rosati
Renee Vivien (1877-1909)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Roger Arliner Young (1899-1964)/Playwright: Ellen Struve
Rosalie Loveling (1834 – 1875)/Playwright: Ian Low
Rose Kennedy (1890-1995)/Playwright: James O’Connor
Ruth Gordon (1896-1985)/Playwright: David John Preece
Salomé Ureña Henríquez (1850-1897)/Playwright: María Lourdes Vega Alonso
Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-1898) Playwright: Bonnie Milne Gardner
Sarah Forbes Bonetta (1843-1880)/Playwright: Joslyn Housley McLaughlin
Sarah Forten– (1814-1883)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Sarah Orne Jewett- (1849-1909)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Sarah More (Late 19th Century)/Playwright: Suzanne Logan
Sarah Parker Remond (1826-1894)/Playwright: Charissa Menefee
Sarah Lockwood Winchester (1840-1922)/Playwright: Andrea Markowitz
Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891)/Playwright: Dorothy Velasco
Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)/Playwright: Julie Lyn Barber
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954)/Playwright: Sally Lambert
Sigridur Tomasdottir (1874-1957)/Playwright: Natalie Osborne
Sophia Jex-Blake (1840 – 1912)/ Playwright: Ian Low
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1809-1871)/Playwright: Diane Baia Hale
Sophia Tolstoy (1844-1919)/Playwright: Germaine Shames
Sophie Mumford (Late 19th Century)/Playwright: Suzanne Logan
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943)/Playwright: Ellen Davis Sullivan
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Susan Huntington Dickinson (1830-1913) / playwright Marilyn Clarke
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)/Playwright: Glenda Frank
Susanna Madora Salter (1860-1961)/Playwright: Patricia Middleton
Susannah Way Dodds (1830-1911)/Playwright: Robin Rice
Susie King Taylor (1848-1912)/Playwright: Vickie L. Williams
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938)/Playwright: June Rachelson-Ospa
Sweet Emma Barrett (1897-1983)/Playwright: Charlene A. Donaghy
Sylvia Beach (1887-1962)/Playwright: Deb Caperton Ballard
Tahirih (1817-1850)/Playwright: Carolyn Nur Wistrand
Tatiana Romanova (1897-1918)/Playwright: Angela J. DavisTennessee Claflin (1844-1923)/Playwright: Geralyn Horton
Theda Bara (1885-1955)/Playwright: Diana Burbano
Theodate Pope Riddle (1867-1946)/Playwright: Christina Hamlett
Theresa Dyer AKA “Minnie Myrtle Miller” (1845-1882)/Playwright: Brianna Barrett
Tien Fu Wu (1887- ?)/Playwright: Geralyn “G.L.” Horton
Una Hawthorne (1844-1877)/Playwright: Diane Baia Hale
Valerie Shillito (1877-1901)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)/Playwright:Robin Rice
Varina “Winnie” Davis (1864-1898)/Playwright: Monique Hebert
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1937)/Playwright: Gina Scanlon
Viola De Costa- (born late 1800s)/ playwright: Kristy Lin Billuni
Violet Gibson (1876-1956)/Playwright: Kat Meads
Virginia Waynescot (1800s)/Playwright: Cari A. Hopson
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)/Playwright: Robin Rice
Virginie Loveling (1836 – 1923)/Playwright: Ian Low
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)/Playwright: Antonia Wolf
Vivienne Haigh Wood (1888-1947)/Playwright: Erin Murray Quinlan
Willa Cather (1873-1947)/Playwright Robert Brophy
Williamina Stevens Fleming (1857-1911)/Playwright: Robert Brophy
Willie Mae Hall (19th (?))/Playwright: Kat Meads
Zitkala Sa (1876-1938)/Playwright: Teresa Stankiewicz
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)/Playwright: Larissa Brewington
365 Women A Year: a playwriting project 