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.
Still Living
Alicia Alonso (1921)/Playwright: Stephanie Swirksy
Angela Davis (1944)/Playwright: Sandra de Helen
Amma (1953)/Playwright: Yolanda Dorado
Assata Shakur (1947)/Playwright: Renee Rankin
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945)/Playwright: Lani Anderson
Ava DuVernay (1972- )/Playwright: Jessie Salsbury
Billie Jean King (1943)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Bree Newsome (1985- )/Playwright: Connie Bennett
Buffy Sainte Marie (1941)/Playwright: Catherine Frid
Caster Semenya (1991)/Playwright: Kat Mustatea
Condoleeza Rice (1954)/Playwright: Libby Emmons
Ethel Cook (1972- )/Playwright: Jessie Salsbury
Gloria Steinem (1934)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Gretel Bergmann (1914)/Playwright: Cynthia L. Cooper
Haifaa Nour (1974- ) Playwright: Lisa H Jayne
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962)/Playwright: Heather Meyer
Jeanne Cordova (1948)/Playwright: Elise J. Geither
Jinith Bedoya- (1974)/Playwright: Margarita Reiz
Judy Chu- (1953)/Playwright: Christine Toy Johnson
Kara Walker- (1969)/Playwright: Tinuade Oyelowo
Katherine Johnson (1918 – )/Playwright: Heather Graham & Eric Church
Kathy (1947)/Playwright: Lisa Nicoll
Kristen Bell (1980- Present)/Playwright: Matthew Weaver
Lila Wallis, Doctor (1921)/Playwright: Anne Flanagan
Lily Ledbetter (1938)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Madonna (1958)/Playwright: Abby Rosebrock
Mae C. Jemison (1956- )/Playwright: Asia Nichols
Mao Hengfeng (1961- )/Playwright: Rachel Baird Rudisill
Martha Stewart (1941)/Playwright: Robin Rice Lichtig
Mary (1981)/Playwright:Lisa Nicoll
Mary Tyler Moore (1936)/Playwright:Robin Rice
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940)/Playwright: Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Michelle Obama (1964)/Playwright: Jessie Salsbury
Ming-Na Wen (1960s)/Playwright: Sarah Bewley
Mo’ne Davis (born 2001) / Playwright: Carol M. Rice
Nichelle Nichols (1932- )/Playwright: Asia Nichols
Octaviana Trujillo (1954)/Playwright: Linda Evans
Oprah Winfrey (1954- )/Playwright: Karina Cochran
P.T. Usha (1964)/Playwright: Hemavathy Guha
Paula Zahn (1956)/Playwright:Robin Rice
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (1970s)/Playwright: Sheilah Rae
Sandra Day O’Connor (1930)/Playwright: Thea Iberall
Sasha Montenegro (1945)/Playwright: Robin Rice Lichtig
Sonia Sotomayor (1954)/Playwright: Erin Moughon
Sylvia Gassell (1923)/Playwright: Shellen Lubin
Sylvia Beach Whitman (1981)/Playwright: Deb Caperton Ballard
Sylvie Le Bon (1941)/Playwright: Rita Anderson
365 Women A Year: a playwriting project 