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.***
Women are listed in the century they were BORN.
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Enheduanna (Ancient Times roughly 2,300 years BCE)/Playwright: Jaylan Sheila Turkkan
Ola, Choctaw princess (unknown)/Playwright: Rita Anderson
Rachel (roughly 3,500 years BCE)/Playwright: Shellen Lubin
Ancient Times
Agrippina the Younger (19/23-59)/Playwright: Erin Murray Quinlan
Alexandra David-Neel (100CE)/Playwright: David Marrs
Antonia Minor (36 BCE – 37 CE)/Playwright: Erin Moughon
Aspasia of Miletus (470BCE – 400BCE)/Playwright: Raquel Provencio
Atossa (500 BCE)/Playwright: Pippa Roberts
Boadecia (61 CE)/Playwright: Suzanne Wingrove
Calpurnia (76 B.C.E. to date of death unknown)/Playwright: Matthew Weaver
Cleopatra (69BCE-30BCE)/Playwright: Claire Willett
Clodia Metulli (92-45 BCE)/Playwright: Christine Emmert
Devorah (?)/Playwright: Deborah Magid
Dido (9th century BCE) / Playwright: Phil Darg
Esther (520 BCE- 450 BCE)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
Fulvia (83 B.C.E. – 40 B.C.E.)/ Playwright: Nicole Heneveld
Hatshepsut (1508BCE-1458BCE)/Playwright: Aspen Mock
Hrosvitha (935 CE-973 CE)/Playwright: Rita Anderson
Martha of Bethany (7 B.C.E–CE 91)/ Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Mary Mother of Jesus (15 B.CE.–CE 91)/ Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Mary of Bethany (5 B.C.E–CE. 91)/ Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Mary Magdalene (A.D. 1–A.D. 91)/ Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Medea (c. 13th Century BCE)/Playwright: Micki Shelton
Mother of disciple James (20 B.C.–A.D. 70)/ Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Myrtis (430 BCE)/Playwright: Diana Burbano
Nefertiti (1370BCE-1330BCE)/Playwright: Beatriz Cabur
Octavia (69 BC -11 BC)/Playwright: Nicole Heneveld
Penthesileia (1250 B.C.E)/Playwright: Robert F. Bradford
Salomé (CE. 5–CE 91)/ Playwright: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard
Sappho (630 BCE?-570 BCE?)/Playwright: Diana Cristobal Herrero
Theano of Crotona (6th Century BCE)/Playwright:Erica Feick
Theodora (Empress) (6th century BCE)/ Playwright: L.D. Goodisman
Vashti Esther (400 BCE)/Playwright: Carolyn Gage
200 CE
St. Agnes of Rome (292-304 CE)/Playwright: Micki Shelton
Cecilia, St. (200s?)/Playwright: Ash Sanborn
Zenobia of Palmyra (240-274 CE)/Playwright: Gemma Cooper-Novack
300 CE
Galla Placidia (392-450)/Playwright: Barbara Corrado Pope
Saint Monica (322-387)/Playwright: Erin Moughon
400 CE
Bridget, St. (451-523)/Playwright: Coni Ciongoli Koepfinger
Hypatia (?-415)/Playwright: Lauren Tunnell
600s
Dymphna (Saint) (600s)/Playwright: Kendra Augustin
Hilda of Whitby (614-680)/Playwright: Ian low
Pingyang (600-623)/Playwright: Natalie Osborne
700s
Lingzhao- “Chop Water”(8th Century)/Playwright: Merridawn Duckler
800s
Olga of Kiev (c.890-969) / Playwright: Elliot D Huxtable
Ono No Komachi (825-900)/Playwright: Velina Hasu Houston
900s
Gerberga of Saxony (913-968?/Playwright: Rita Anderson
Izumi Shikibu (976-1030)/Playwright: Velina Hasu Houston
Lady Sagami (998-1061)/Playwright: Velina Hasu Houston
Murasaki Shikibu (973 or 978 – 1014 or 1031)/Playwright: Darian Lindle
Naishi (997-?)/Playwright: Velina Hasu Houston
1000s
Angharad ferch Owain, Queen (1000s)/Playwright: Tierra Bonser
Godiva, Countess of Mercia (fl. 1010-1067)/Playwright: Rex McGregor
Gruoch of Scotland (circa 1015-?)/Playwright: Claudia Barnett
Gwenllian ferch Gruffudd (1097-1137)/Playwright: Tierra Bonser
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)/Playwright: Coni Ciongoli Koepfinger
Merinedd ferch Gruffudd (1000s)/Playwright: Tierra Bonser
Rhanult ferch Gruffudd (1000s)/Playwright: Tierra Bonser
Walladah bint al Mustakfi (1001-1091)/Playwright: Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen
1100s
Akka Mahadevi (c. 1130 – 1160)/Playwright: Paula Cizmar
Christina The Astonishing (1150-1224)/Playwright: Kendra Augustin
Heloise (1101-1164) Playwright: Lorraine Liscio
Maud le Vavasour, Baroness Butler (1176-1225)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Matilda, Empress [7 February 1102 – 10 September 1167]/Playwright: Lucy Flannery
Richardis von Stade (c1120-1152)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Tomoe Gozen (1157-1247)/Playwright: D.L. Siegal
1200s
Beatrice of Provence (1229-1267)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Hangaku Gozen- (1200s-?)/Playwright: Gyda Arber
Isabella of France (1295-1358)/Playwright: Emily Atkinson
Khutulun (1260-1306)/Playwright: Natalie Osborne
Margaret of Provence (1221-1295)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Shajar- al-Durr (?-1257)/Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
1300s
Christine de Pizan (1364-1430)/Playwright: Kirsten Brandt
Jeanne de Clisson (1300-1359)/Playwright: Eva C. Schegulla
Margery Kempe (1373-1438)/Playwright: Rachael Goddard-Rebstein
1400s
Catherine of Aragon- (1485-1536)/Playwright: Michael Radi
Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester (1400-1452)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Jeanne de Luxembourg (1400s) Playwright: Gabrielle Strasun
Joan of Arc (1412-1431)/Playwright: Coni Ciongoli Koepfinger
Lucrezia Borgia (1480 – 1519)/Playwright: Marlin Thomas
Margaret of Anjou (1430 – 1482)/Playwright: Catriona Scott
Margery Jourdemayne (1400-1441)/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Mary Boleyn- (1499-1543)/Playwright: Michael Radi
Mary of Guelders (1434-1463)/Playwright: Catriona Scott
Mirabi (1498-1596)/Playwright: MJ Kami
Mona Lisa Giaconda (14??-15??)/Playwright: Susan Apker
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