***Our plays are loosely based on their historical counterparts.***
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 or body of email.
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“100 Birthdays” by: Lylanne Musselman (1 character/2 pages) Inspired by: Dorothea Tanning (2018)
“100 Injustices” by: Susan Long Haga (4 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Josepha Chipita Rodriquez (2014)
“128 Washington” by: Jessie Salsbury (2 Characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Viola Davis (2016)
“The 27 Club” by: Rita Anderson (4 characters/30 pages) Inspired by: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Amy Winehouse (2014)
“A Farm in New Jersey” by: Claudia I. Haas (2 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Edna Lewis (2016)
“A Fine Woman” by: Maggie Ollerenshaw (5 characters/20 pages) Inspired by Edith Cavell and Elizabeth Wilkins (2016)
“A Fine Year For Mushrooms” by: Elizabeth Orndorff (4 characters/60 pages) Inspired by: Rosalind Franklin (2014)
“A Girl Scout’s Honor” by: Christina Hamlett (14 characters/20 pages) Inspired by: Juliette Gordon Low (2018)
“A Human Interest Piece” by: Asia Nichols (2 characters, 16 pages) Inspired by: Nichelle Nichols (2015)
“A Life’s Work” by: Jennifer L. Hayes (3 characters/14 pages) Inspired by: Melba Liston (2015)
“A Lucid Dream” by: Begonya Plaza (3 characters/50 pages) Inspired by: Evita Peron, Dolores Ibarruri (2014)
“A Model Enterprise” by: Nancy Brewka-Clark (5 characters/17 pages) inspired by: Edith Brown, Edith Guerrier, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Helen Osborne Storrow (2017)
“A Moment of Silence” by: Allie Costa (6 pages, 2 characters) Inspired by: Leelah Alcorn (2015)
“A Mother’s Love” by: Lisa A. Wilde (4 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Shim Saindang (2014)
“A Multitude of Secrets for Mr. Charley Parkhurst” by: Jayne B. Stearns (5 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Charley Parkhurst (2016)
“A Relic of the Late Carnage” by Barbara Corrado Pope (1 character/8 pages) inspired by Lucy Parsons. (2016)
“A Rose by Any Other Name” by: Lou Beckett (7 characters/45 pages) Inspired by: Mary Sidney (2014)
“A Rose Upon the Blood” by: Paddy Gillard-Bentley (5 characters/23 pages) Inspired by: Grace Gifford (2014)
“A Season Of Resistance ” by Ian Low (11 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Simone Segouin (2016)
“A Tale of Apocryphal Ladies” by DS Magid (27 characters/16 pages) inspired by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2016)
“A Vote for Alice!” by: Larissa Brewington (2 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Alice Allison Dunnigan (2014)
“Abeokuta Choreopoem” by: Peggy Jones (3 characters/4 pages) Inspired by: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (2018)
“About Leo” by: Alice Allemano (4 characters/66 pages) Inspired by: Leonora Carrington (2018)
“Above the Fold” by: Christina Hamlett (19 characters/28 pages) Inspired by: Nellie Bly (2018)
“Absconded and Much Freckled” by Donna Latham (5 characters/24 pages) Inspired by Ona Judge and Martha Washington (2015)
“Absolute Magnitude: Micro” by: Melody Cooper (6 characters/64 pages) Inspired by: Melba Roy Mouton, Hypatia, Caroline Herschel and Maria Mitchell (2014)
“Admiral of the Arizona Navy” by: James E. Burnside (6 characters/20 pages) Inspired by: Nellie T. Bush (2014)
“Admiral Grace Hopper Revisits” by: Jennifer O’Grady (1 character/10 pages) Inspired by: Grace Hopper (2017)
“Advanced Women” by Michele Aldin Kushner (3 characters / 87 pages) Inspired by Alice and Phoebe Cary (2017)
“Adventuress Adventurous” by: Deborah Magid (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Alexandra David-Néel (2014)
“The Adventures of Etta and Claribel” by: Jess Eisenberg (5 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Claribel Cone, Etta Cone (2014)
“After the Gold Rush” by CJ Verburg (10 actors / 20 characters / 103 pages) Inspired by: Belle Cora / Charlotte King / Maria Knight (2019)
“After the Thin Man” by: Shellen Lubin (2 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Stella Adler, Sylvia Gassell (2014)
“Agathe” by Angela J. Davis (5 characters) / 29 pages / inspired by Agathe Uwilingiyimana (2018)
“Alchemy” by: David Marrs (2 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Maria the Jewess (2016)
“Alice: an evening with the tart-tongued daughter of Theodore Roosevelt” by: Kitty Felde (2 characters/55 pages) Inspired by: Alice Roosevelt Longworth (2016)
“Alice Defends Her Passion” by: Robin Rice (1 character/4 pages) Inspired by: Alice Austen (2014)
ALICE OF THE PEOPLE – by Heide Arbitter (3 character, 40 pages). Inspired by: Alice Hamilton, Edith Hamilton (2017)
“Alicia Dances Giselle” by: Stephanie Swirsky (3 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Alicia Alonso (2014)
“All About Caster” by: Kat Mustatea (4 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Caster Semenya (2014)
“All Too Human” by: Rosemary Zibart (8 characters/76 pages) inspired by: Lou Salomé and Malwida von Meysenbug (2016)
“The Allegory of Love” by: Abby Rosebrock (3 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Madonna (2014)
“Allein in Einer Grossen Stadt (Alone in a Big City)” by: Talia Pura (1 character/5 pages) Inspired by: Marlene Dietrich (2016)
“Allure” by David Belke (9 characters, 4 actors,/80 pages) inspired by Hedy Kiesler (2017)
“The Alma Problem” by: Connie Bennett (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Alma Mahler-Werfel (2016)
“Alma of San Francisco” by: Hilary Kaiser (15 characters/61 pages) Inspired by: Alma de Bretteville Spreckels and Loïe Fuller (2019)
“Alone, Alone, Oh” by: Karen Ackerman (4 characters/57 pages) Inspired by: Eleanor Butler, Sarah Ponsonby, Ann Radcliffe, The Ladies of Llangollen (2017)
“AMANDA TRANSCENDING” by: Connie Bennett (6 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Joanne Kittel, Amanda DeCuis (2015)
“Amazons of Tomorrow” by: Rex McGregor (3 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt (2017)
“The Amelia Play” by: Bella Poynton (10+ characters/53 pages) Inspired by: Amelia Bassano Lanier (2014)
“American Glad” by Connie Bennett (4 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Eleanor H. Porter (2015)
“The American Poetess of 23 Fitzroy Road”by: David John Preece(one character/58 pages) Inspired by: Sylvia Plath (2018)
“An Apple for a Telegram” by: Samantha Vakiener (2 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Mother Jones aka Mary Harris Jones (2015)
“An Introduction” by: Joslyn Housley McLaughlin (7 pages, 2 characters) Inspired by: Sarah Forbes Bonetta (2015)
“An Understanding” by Sam Chittenden (1 character/5 pages) Inspired by Helen Boyle (2018)
“An Untimely Likeness” by: Nancy Cooper Frank (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun and Catherine the Great (2016)
Ana’s Show & Tell (play) by Karina Richardson (6 pages, 3 characters) Inspired by Ana Roque De Duprey (2015)
“The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women” by: Carolyn Gage (9 characters/79 pages) Inspired by: Anastasia Romanov (2017)
“And Peggy” by: Allie Costa (4 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler (2017)
“and she done her right” by DS Magid (1 character / 4 pages) Inspired by: Josephine McCarty (aka Josephine Fagan aka Dr. Mrs. Emma Burleigh aka Virginia Seymour) (2018)
“And the World Was Silent” by Heather L. Lee (10-15 characters/37 pages). Inspired by Irena Sendler, Janina Grabowska, Janina Kryezanowska, and Ewa Rechtman (2016).
“And Then I Chained Us To This Porch” by: Scott Mullen (2 characters/8 pages) Inspired by Hayden Panettiere (2017)
“Anchorless” by Natalie Osborne (2 characters, 5 pages) Inspired by: Barbara Newhall Follett. (2016)
“The Anesthetic Was Psalms” by: Nancy Gall-Clayton (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Jane Todd Crawford, Sarah Shelby McDowell (2014)
“Angels, Hermits, and Phantoms” by: Emily Ball Cicchini (1 characters/4 pages) Inspired by: Mary Colter (2014)
“Angry Woman’s Audible Book Club” by: Jessie Salsbury (3 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Patty Jenkins, Leslie Jones, Reese Witherspoon (2018)
“Anita Loos, Beatrice Lillie and Fran Make A Sandwich” by: Sheree Bradford-Lea (3 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Anita Loos, Beatrice Lillie and Fran Allison (2017)
“Anne” by: Gabriella Oldham (1 character/19 pages) Inspired by: Anne Bradstreet (2016)
“Anna and the Mountain” by: Gabrielle Sinclair (1 character/4 pages) Inspired by: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (2014)
“ANNA K. AND THE ALEXIAD” by: Toby Engelberg (21 characters/ 57 pages) Inspired by: ANNA KOMNENA, ANNA DALASSENA, EIRENE DOUKAINA, MARIA OF ALANIA, and MARIA OF BULGARIA (2016)
“Anna Karenina Lives!” by: Germaine Shames (4 characters/56 pages) Inspired by: Sophia Tolstoy, Mae West (2015)
“Anna O.” by: Paul Pasulka (5 characters (with doubling)/90 pages) Inspired by: Bertha Pappenheim (2017)
“Anna Sokolow: Truth in Motion” by Cynthia Chapman (4-6 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Anna Sokolow (2016)
“Annie Londonderry Spins a Tale” by Christina Hamlett (10-16 characters/20 pages) Inspired by: Annie Londonderry (2019)
“Annie, You Poor O’ Soul” by: Asia Nichols (4 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: Annie Turnbo Malone (2015)
“Antonia Minor” by: Erin Moughon ( 1 character/ 3 pages) Inspired by: Antonia Minor (2017)
“Antonieta” by: Verónica Musalem Moreno (6-16 characters/38 pages) Inspired by: Antonieta Rivas Mercado (2015)
“Applause For The Hyena” by:Ian Low( 2 Characters/10 pages) Inspired by Irma Grese (2019)
ARDENT GIRLS, by Amy Merrill (7 characters, 4W, 2M/93 pages) Inspired by Florence Kelley (2017)
“The Army of the Lady” by: Natalie Osborne (8 pages/6 characters) Inspired by: Pingyang (2017)
“The Art of Martyrdom” by: Rita Anderson (8 characters/27 pages) Inspired by: Hrosvitha, Gerberga of Saxony (2014)
“Artemisia and Hildegard” by: Carolyn Gage (2 characters/35 pages) Inspired by: Artemisia Gentileschi, Hildegard von Bingen (2014)
“As Good As Any” by: Patricia Middleton (2 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Anne Bailey (2015)
“As Happy As God In France” by: Julia Pascal (3 characters/62 pages) Inspired by Charlotte Salomon, Eva Daube, Hannah Arendt (2018)
“Aspasia 2.0” by: Raquel Provencio (6 characters/17 pages). Inspired by: Aspasia of Miletus (2016)
“The Astonishing and The Lily” by: Kendra Augustin (3 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Christina The Astonishing and Saint Dymphna (2015)
“The Asymmetrical Embrace” by: Caroline N. Simpson (4 characters/95 pages) Inspired by: Johanna Bonger van Gogh (2016)
“At Home with Mrs. Swing” by: Dorothy Velasco (2 characters/14 pages) Inspired by: Mildred Bailey (2015)
“At The Moment Of Understanding” by: Nikki Harmon (1 character/5 pages) inspired by: Louise L. Serpa (2017)
“At the Train Station in Munich” by: Cynthia L. Cooper (2 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Gisa Peiper Konopka (2014)
“Attitudes”by Christine Emmert(5 characters/ 12 pages) Inspired by: (Lady) Emma(Hart)Hamilton (2019)
“The Autobiography of Martine Rothblatt” by: Kat Mustatea (5 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Martine Rothblatt(2015)
Ava (monologue) by Jessie Salsbury (2 pages, 1W) Inspired by: Ava DuVernay (2015)
“The Awesome Accomplishments of Jane Goodall: An Abbreviated List” by: Erin Moughon ( 1 character/3 pages) Inspired by: Jane Goodall (2016)
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“Babi Yaga and Besant” by Susan Merson (12 pages) Inspired by: Annie Besant (2017)
“Badass” by Glenda Frank (2 characters/12 pages). Inspired by: Marie Colvin (2017)
“The Bandit Queen” by: Jennifer Bradley (1 character/5 pages} Inspired by Belle Starr (2018)
“The Baptism of Abraham Lincoln” by: Elizabeth Orndorff (2 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Mariah Vance (2014)
“Barbara Strozzi ~ Donna Bella” by: Deborah Magid (1 character/5 pages) Inspired by: Barbara Strozzi (2015)
“Barbie’s Mom” by Ellen Davis Sullivan (2 character/10 pages) Inspired by Ruth Handler (2015)
“Barnum’s High Note” by: Christina Hamlett (3 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Jenny Lind (2018)
“Battleground Negative” by: Jessie Salsbury (2 Characters/3 pages) Inspired by: Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (2016)
“Beaten” by: Carol M. Rice (3 characters / 9 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Abbott (2017)
“Beatrix in the Shadows” by: D. Lee Miller (2 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Beatrix Potter (2014)
“Beauford Delaney Paints Marion Anderson” by: Arden Kass (9 characters/20 pages) Inspired by: Marian Anderson (2014)
“Beautiful Savage” by: Kathleen McDonnell (2 characters/43 pages) Inspired by: Marie-Angelique Memmie LeBlanc (2014)
“Becoming an Archangel” by DS Magid (1 character/2 pages) inspired by Arcangela Tarabotti (aka Elana Cassandra Tarabotti and Galerana Baratotti) (2016)
“Becoming Bess: Anne Wiggins Brown” by: Lisa K. Winkler (2 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Anne Wiggins Brown (2017)
“Becoming Sultana” by: Jess Eisenberg (1W, 1 page) Inspired by: Shajar- al-Durr (2018)
“BELONGING” by: Rachel Dickson (7 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: Judy Reed, Mamie Smith, Maggie Lena Walker (2018)
“Berta No Murió, Se Multiplicó” by Sarah Tuft (6-8 characters/4 pages) Inspired by Berta Cáceres (2016)
“Bessie and Clara Sing the Blues” by: Julie Lyn Barber (4 characters/35 pages) inspired by Bessie Smith and Clara Smith (2016)
“Best Actress 1962” (by: Allie Costa (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood (2016)
“Bette Davis Eyes” by: Talia Pura (2 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Bette Davis (2014)
“Between Us Gals” by: Sue Yocum (2 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Margaret Sanger, Mae West (2018)
Black Star by: Carolyn Gage (9 characters/51 pages) Inspired by: Henrietta Vinton Davis (2017)
“The Blindfold Test” by: Mora V. Harris (2 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: Mary Lou Williams (2015)
“Bloodletting” by: Lisa A. Mammel (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Caroline Branham (2014)
“Blood Sisters” by: Robin Rice (3 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Jane Mooney, Sr. Mary McGee, Sr. Wilhelmina Heintz (2015)
“Blood Ties” by: M.A. Johnson (2 characters/14 pages) Inspired by: Edmonia Lewis, Lydia Child (2014)
“Boadecia: Gather the Women” by: Suzanne Wingrove (3-6 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Boadecia (2014)
“Bossy Wang Unbound” by: Glenda Frank (41 pages, 12 characters/5 Actors) Inspired by: Liu-Wang Liming, Guangkun Liming (2015)
“Boundless” by: Paula Cizmar (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Akka Mahadevi (2016)
“Boundless” by: Christina Hamlett (11 characters/21 pages) Inspired by: Sarah Biffen (2019)
“Box of Lies” by: Karin Diann Williams (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Anais Nin (2014)
“Brave Dame Mary” by: KT Parker (3 characters/4 pages so far, will be more) Inspired by: Mary, Lady Bankes née Hawtry (2016)
“Bread & Roses” by: Rebecca Burrroughs (3 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Jane Addams, Ellen Starr (2014)
“Bread and Three Roses” by: Playwright: Jess Eisenberg (3W, 6 pages) Inspired by: Ida Nudel, Rose Schneiderman and Zivia Lubetkin (2018)
“Bread Watered With Tears” by: KT Parker (3 characters/2 pages) Inspired by: Caroline Norton & Caroline Henrietta Callander Sheridan (2016)
“Breed Superstition” by: Catherine Frid (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Buffy Sainte-Marie (2014)
“Bridge Over Troubled Waters” by: Mary Fridley (2 characters, 12 pages) Inspired by Ethel Waters
“Bright Moon” by: Erin Marshall (4 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Hwang Jini (2014)
“The Brontes Begin” By: N.G. McCLernan (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014)
“Burn Out” by: Naomi Elster (2 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin (2016)
“Burning up the Ivories” by: Charlene A. Donaghy (4 characters/40 pages) Inspired by: Sweet Emma Barrett (2016)
“Burying Toni” by: Catherine Frid (3 characters/53 pages) Inspired by: Emma Jung (2014)
“Busts of Augusta” by: Asia Nichols (4 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Augusta Savage (2017)
“But Elvis, We’re Dead” by: Jess Eisenberg (5 characters/6 pages) Inspired by: Barbara Grimes, Patricia Grimes (2014)
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“C’est La Guerre” by Laurel A. Lockhart (7characters/44 pages) Inspired by:Louise Mack (2016)
“Cake at the Vanderbilts” by: Christina Hamlett (9 characters/21 pages) Inspired by: Edith Vanderbilt (2019)
“Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter” by: Carolyn Gage (1 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Martha Jane Canary (2014)
“The Californian” by: Brianna Barrett (12 characters/112 pages) Inspired by: Frances Fuller Victor, Theresa Dyer AKA “Minnie Myrtle Miller” (2018)
“The Calling” by: Mandy Carpenter (2 characters /16 pages) inspired by Florence Nightingale (2016)
“The Calling of Haifaa Nour” by: Lisa H Jayne (2 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Haifaa Nour (2015)
“Calpurnia Delivers Caesar’s Papers to Mark Antony” (2 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Calpurnia (2017)
“Camille” by J.Lois Diamond (4 characters/9 pages) Inspired by Camille Claudel (2018)
“Carlett’s Just Carlett” by: Kat Mustatea/(5 characters/10 pages) /Inspired by: Carlett Angianlee Brown (2016)
“Carry On” by: Trish Ayers (2 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Carry A. Nation (2014)
“CASTING CARMEN” by Laurel A. Lockhart ( 4 characters/11pages) inspired by Dorothy Dandridge (2016)
“Castor and Sylvie” by: Tara Goldstein (2 characters/40 pages) Inspired by: Sylvie Le Bon and Simone de Beauvoir (2016)
“Catalina de Erauso” by Jean Reynolds (12 characters – possible doubling/109 pages) Inspired by Catalina de Erauso (2018)
“Celebrity” by: Kat Meads (5 characters, 9 pages) Inspired by: Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson (2018)
“Celia: A Case for Murder” by: Cari A. Hopson (39 pages, 10 cast members) Inspired by: Celia, Virginia Waynescot (2015)
“Celia Buys a Dress” by: Yani Perez (2 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Celia Cruz (2015)
“Cecilia Heartbreak” by: Ash Sanborn (3 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Cecilia, patron saint of music (2014)
“Cera en los ojos” (wax in her eyes) by: Amaranta Osorio (1 character/ 12 pages) inspired by: Santa Teresa de Jesus (2016)
“The Chamber of Beheaded Queens” by: KT Parker (5 characters/42 pages) Inspired by: Anne Boleyn, Mary Stuart, Catherine/Katherine Howard and Marie-Antoinette (2017)
“Changed Utterly” by: Joan Bryans (12 plus characters/54 pages) inspired by Mary Anne Duignan, Eva Gore-Booth,Dalia Larkin, Constance Markievicz, Helena Molony (2018)
“Charlotte” by: Angela J. Davis (5 characters/ 17pages) Inspired by: Charlotte Corday, Simonne Erard (2017)
“Charlotte’s Letters” by Jennifer O’Grady (7 characters/95 pages) Inspired by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Madame Heger, Elizabeth Gaskell, Meta Gaskell (2016)
“Chasing Phi” by: Erica Feick (4 characters/53 pages) Inspired by: Theano of Crotona (2015)
“The Chemistry Kahuna” by Ian Low (2 Characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Alice Augusta Ball (2019)
“La chica del guante” by Verónica Mey (3 characters – 11 pages) Inspired by Rita Hayworth (2018)
“Children of God” by: Benjamin Peel (9 characters/62 pages) Inspired by: Ann Lee and Mary Ann Girling (2019)
“Chisholm Trail” by: Olga Humphrey (3 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Shirley Chisholm (2014)
“City of Ladies” by Lorraine Liscio (7 characters/6 actors /76 pages) Inspired by Christine de Pizan (2019)
“Chop Water” by Merridawn Duckler (4-6 characters/24 pages) Inspired by Lingzhao (2015)
“Cinco Tardes Junto a Clara Campoamor” by Juana Escabias (4 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Clara Compoamor (2015)
“Circus Lady?” by: Charlene A. Donaghy (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Caroline Elizabeth (Thomas) Merrick (2018)
“City of Light” by: Danielle Wirsansky (14 characters/103 pages) Inspired by: Edith Wharton, Ellen N. La Motte, Linnie Leckrone (2018)
“Civility” by: Allie Costa (1 character / 2 pages) Inspired by: Louisa May Alcott (2018)
“Clara Brown shoos away the buzzing in her ear” by: Judy Meiksin (1 character/5 pages & Monologue version) Inspired by: Clara Brown (2019)
“Clara Brown – 2-minute monologue” by: Judy Meiksin (1 character/1 page) Inspired by: Clara Brown (2019)
“Clare” by J.Lois Diamond (17 pages) inspired by: Clare Hollingworth (2017)
“Classic Portia” by Mora V. Harris (4 characters/2 actors/23 pages) Inspired by: Porcia Catonis (2016)
“Coffee With Irna & Gloria” by: Matthew Weaver (2 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Irna Phillips and Gloria Monty (2018)
“Colette” by: Sally Lambert (Various Characters/41 pages) Inspired by: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (2014) ***This playwright has passed away. Submitted on her behalf by Cheryl King
“A Colonial Devotion” by Susan Battye 35 characters/76 pages) Inspired by: Jane Deans, Mary Williams, Mary Wraight, Margaret Lyon, Grace Lyon, Mary Mcllraith, Maria Gebbie, Helen Eaglesome (2018)
“The Colony” by Gina Stevensen (4 actors, 6 characters/96 pages)/Inspired by: Carrie Buck (2018)
“The Color of This Flower” by: Velina Hasu Houston (6-12 characters/54 pages) Inspired by: Ono No Komachi, Izumi Shikibu, Lady Sagami, Naishi (2015)
“Colors of Her Heart” by: June Rachelson-Ospa (1 character/3 songs) Inspired by: Suzanne Valadon (2014) MUSICAL
“COLOSSALLY ABUNDANT” by: Shellen Lubin (4 characters/6 pages) Inspired by: Emma Lazarus (2015)
“The Colored Door at the Train Depot” by: Nancy Gall-Clayton (10 characters/79 pages) Inspired by Anna Mac Clarke (2018)
“Comfort Women” by: Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen (6 characters/79 pages) Inspired by: Ellen van der Ploeg, Hao Yuelian, Huan Youliang, Jan Ruth O’Herne, Kim Hak-sun, Lee Yong-soo, María Rosa Luna Henson, Zhang Xiantu (2018)
“Coming to America – Transformations” by Stephanie Satie (10 monologues, 2 of 27 pages) inspired by Sophilline Cheam Shapiro (2017)
“Condi on Ice” by: Libby Emmons (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Condoleezza Rice, Sally Ride (2014) MUSICAL
“Confidence Confidant” by- Eva Schegulla (36 pages, 2 characters) Inspired by: Kate Warne (2015)
“Conflagration” by: Lauren Tunnell (6 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Hypatia (2014)
“CONSOLATION” by Toni Press-Coffman (13 characters, 9 actors with doubling, all women/44 pages) Inspired by: Louisa Adams, Julia Tyler, Jane Pierce, Mary Lincoln, Eliza Johnson, Lucretia Garfield, Ida McKinley, Ellen Wilson, Grace Coolidge, Ladybird Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama (2017)
“Constance: The Art of Being Mrs. Oscar Wilde” by Suzanne Lederer (6 characters/115 pages) Inspired by: Constance Mary Lloyd (2017)
Controlled Damage by: Andrea Scott (5 actors/8 characters/19 pages) Inspired by Viola Desmond (2016)
“Cookin’ with Typhoid Mary” by: Carolyn Gage (1 character/15 pages) Inspired by: Mary Mallon (2014)
“Cottonmouth” by: Lindsay Adams (1-3 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Mary Ann Cotton (2017)
“The Countess and the Lesbians” by: Carolyn Gage (3 characters/23 pages) Inspired by: Countess Constance Markiewicz, Esther Roper, Eva Gore-Booth (2014)
THE COUNTESS AND THE MAID by Gabrielle Strasun (4 characters/38 pages) inspired by
Joan of Arc and Jeanne de Luxembourg (2017)
“Counting Cupids” by: Nicole Heneveld (11 Characters / 105 pages) Inspired by: Aphra Behn, Anne Marshall, Barbara Villiers Palmer, Queen Catherine of Braganza, Nell Gwyn (2018)
“Courting the Lioness” by Eva C. Schegulla (5 characters/57 pages); inspired by Jeanne de Clisson (2016)
“The Conversion of Alice B Toklas” by: Carol Polcovar (1 character/40 pages) Inspired by: Alice B. Toklas (2014)
“Coppet or How not to marry a prince” by: Kristine Greenaway (6 characters/38 pages) Inspired by: Germaine de Stael, Juliette de Recamier (2014)
“Cornelia Street” by: Shan Ayers (1 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Tharon Musser (2014)
“A Crack in the Ceiling” by: Christina Hamlett (10 characters/27 pages) Inspired by: Edith Wilson (2018)
“Cuerpo marcado. Alma libre” by: Margarita Reiz (6 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Jineth Bedoya (2014)
“Currer Bell” by Glenda Frank (4 characters/10 pages). Inspired by: Charlotte Bronte (2018)
“The Czar’s Daughters” by: Angela J. Davis (3 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Olga Romanova, Tatiana Romanova, Anastasia Romanova (2017)
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“The Dance Maker” by Susan Shafer (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Agnes de Mille, Stella Stray (2015)
“Dancing with Light” by: Dorothy Velasco (3 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Loie Fuller (2017)
“Day By the Sea” by: Nancy Irene Kelly (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Dorothy Day (2017)
“Dead to Rites” by: Sheila Rinear (4 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Margaret More Roper (2014)
“Dear Abi(gail)” by: Glenda Frank (2 characters/29 pages). Inspired by: Abigail Adams: A Life ” by Woody Holton and “Abigail Adams: Letter.” (2018)
“The Death and Dying of Kateri Tekakwitha,” by Matthew Weaver (7 pages) Inspired by: St. Kateri Tekakwitha (2018)
“Death Writes” by: Paddy Gillard-Bentley (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: George Sand (2017)
“Deborah’s Match” by Susan Shafer (4 characters/7 pages) Inspired by Deborah Feldman (2018)
“Deep Haven” by: Carolyn Gage (4-8 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Sarah Orne Jewitt (2014)
“Determination of Azimuth” by: Heather Graham & Eric Church(7-9 characters/30 pages) Inspired by: Katherine Johnson (2015)
“Devil on the Wall” by: Danielle Wirsansky (9 pages, 4 characters) Inspired by: Hannah and Katherine Szenes (Senesh) (2015)
“Devorah, or Belief” by Deborah Magid (3 characters/24 pages) Inspired by: Devorah (2015)
Dido: Queen of Carthage by: Phil Darg (9 characters/101 pages) ; inspired by Dido (2018)
“Digna” by Patricia Davis (1 character/19 pages) Inspired by: Digna Ochoa (2017)
“The Dime” by: Michael angel Johnson (2 characters/12 pages) inspired by: Selma Burke (2017)
“Dinner With Daddy” by: Pam Munter (5 characters/28 pages) Inspired by: Irene Mayer Selznick and Hollywood history (2018)
“Disturbing Social Order” by: Rachel Baird Rudisill (7 pages, 4 characters) Inspired by: Mao Hengfeng (2015)
The Divine Fire by: Leslie McMurtry (10 characters/31 pages) inspired by: May Sinclair (2016)
“Divinity” by: Leah Halper (4 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Ida B. Wells (2014)
“Do You Love Me?” by: Christina Hamlett (2 characters/19 pages) Inspired by: Fanny Bullock Workman (2019)
“Domestic Service” by: Jennifer O’Grady (4 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Louise Beavers (2018)
“Don’t Know No Jokes” by Annie Wood (3 characters & 1 offstage, 6 pages) Inspired by: Moms Mabley (2015)
“Doppelganger” by: Christine Emmert (4 characters,8 pages) Inspired by: Olga Spessitzeva (2018)
‘Dorothy and William’ by: Jane Sunderland (3 characters/49 pages). Inspired by Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Hutchinson (2018)
“Down We Go” by: Danielle Wirsansky (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Andree Borrel and Lise de Baissac (2017)
“Dr. Lila Wallis- At Your Cervix” by: Anne Flanagan (4 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Lila Wallis (2014) MUSICAL
“Drawing Lili’u” by Lynda Crawford (3 characters/13 pages), inspired by: Lili’uokalani (2018)
“The Dreamer’s Play” by: Loy Webb (4 characters/76 pages) Inspired by: Alice Childress (2014)
“Dreaming in Tibetan” by Melissa Nussbaum Freeman (1 character/3 pages)Inspired by Ani Pachen (2016)
“The Dress Doctor Is In” by: Christina Hamlett (2 characters/18 pages) Inspired by: Edith Head (2018)
“The Duchess Without A Voice” by: Christina Hamlett (4 characters/24 pages) Inspired by: Empress Elizabeth of Austria (2018)
Duel of Wills by Robert Brophy (cast 9, 14 characters/2acts, 52pp) Inspired by: Willa Cather and Dorothy Canfield Fisher (2017)
“Duras” by: Eva Hibernia (7 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Marguerite Duras (2016)
“Dying is an Art” by: Kendra Augustin (3 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Sylvia Plath (2014)
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“Easter Sunday” by: Carolyn Gage (3 characters/40 pages) Inspired by: Marty Mann (2018)
“Edith’s Immovable Core” by: Gabrielle Sinclair (1 character/6 pages) Inspired by: Edith Sitwell (2014)
“El abrazo de AMMA” by: Yolanda Dorado Aguilar (9 characters/22 pages) Inspired by: Amma (2014)
“Elegy of Ada” by: Sara Cowley (1 character/3 pages) Inspired by: Ada Lovelace (2018)
“Elegy for AIyana” by: Alyson Mead (2 characters/38 pages) Inspired by: Aiyana Stanley-Jones (2015)
“Element 109” by: Erin Moughon ( 4 characters/ 7 pages) Inspired by: Lise Meitner(2017)
“Elizabeth” by: Sara Lyons (15 characters/65 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Jackson Sands, Mary *real name unknown*, Beth *real name unknown* (2017)
‘Ella’s Madrigal’ by: Julie English-Dixon (3 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Ella Fitzgerald (2017)
“Ella’s Time Piece” by: Sandra de Helen (2 characters/14 pages) Inspired by: Ella Baker (2015)
“Emily’s Room” by: Jennifer O’Grady (4 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: Emily Dickinson, Lavinia Dickinson, Margaret (“Maggie”) Maher (2018)
“The Empress Theodora” by L.D. Goodisman (6 characters/ 80 pages)Playwright: L.D. Goodisman (2019)
“End Papers” by: Jo Brisbane (2 characters/50 pages) Inspired by: Andrea Dworkin, Mary Shelley, and Ruth Hurmence Green (2017)
“Enheduanna Takes a Trip” by: Jaylan Sheila Turkkan (7 characters/57 pages) Inspired by Enheduanna (2018)
“Entr’acte or The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped” by: Carolyn Gage (4 characters/46 pages) Inspired by: Eva Le Gallienne (2014)
“Esther and Vashti” by: Carolyn Gage (23 characters/84 pages) Inspired by: Esther and Vashti (2017)
“The Ethel Party” by: Lolly Ward (23 pages, 3 characters) Inspired by: Ethel Payne (2015)
“Every Concentrated Fragment” by Susan Hansell (4 characters/ 47 pages or 30 pages) inspired by Charlotte Delbo (2017)
“Every Rose” by: Danielle Wirsansky (8 pages, 2 characters) Inspired by: Eileen Nearne (2015)
“The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide” by: Carolyn Gage (11 characters/33 pages) Inspired by: Dr. Frances Kelsey (2014)
“Expectations” by Jennifer O’Grady (2 characters/10 pages)/Inspired by Catherine “Kate” Dickens (2019)
“Expression of Regret’ by: Christine Toy Johnson (3 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Judy Chu (2014)
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“Fabulous Moolah” by: Olga Humphrey (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Fabulous Moolah (2014)
“Face On The Dime” by: Christine Hodak(2 characters, 52 pages) Inspired by: Selma Hortense Burke (2015)
“Faces of the Revolution” by: Christina Hamlett (8 characters/20 pages) Inspired by: Marie Tussaud (2019)
“Fair Game” by: Andrea Markowitz (6 characters/88 pages) Inspired by: Sarah Lockwood Winchester (2018)
“The Fairer Sex: The Life, Times and Plays of Mercy Otis Warren” by: Stephen Cedars (34 characters/95 pages) Inspired by: Mercy Otis Warren and Abigail Adams (2017)
“faith” by Amy Gijsbers van Wijk (4 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Corita Kent and Alma Woodsey Thomas(2015)
“Familiar Stranger” by: Lynda Crawford (5 characters/20 pages) Inspired by: Nancy Lane Smith (2014)
“Fannie Sellins Tells Her Story” by: Kathleen E. Downey (1 character/2 pages) Inspired by: Fannie Sellins (2019)
“The Fastest Ever Singer” by: Benjamin Peel (1 characters/2 pages) Inspired by: Anne Pashley (2019)
“Feather on the Breath” by: Connie Bennett (2 characters/8 pages) inspired by: Hildegard of Bingen and Richardis von Stade (2018)
“Feelin Lonely” by: Catherine Weingarten (2 characters/6 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Bishop (2014)
“Fénix” by: Diana Burbano (1 character/3 pages) Inspired by: Natalia Ponce de Leòn (2017)
“FIBERS” by: Amy Oestreicher (1-4 actors embodying 12 characters/43 pages_ Inspired by: Hannah Stochel (2017)
“Fiery Particle” by: Maggie Ollerenshaw (1 character/5 pages) Inspired by Ellen Wilkinson (2016)
‘The Fifth Day’ by: Treasa Nealon (2 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Hanna Sheehy Skeefington (2016)
“Figures of Speech” by Charissa Menefee (3 characters/14 pages). Inspired by Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Frances Harper, Sarah Parker Remond (2017)
“Final Bow” by Jennifer Schaupp (2 characters/3 pages) Inspired by Queen Aliquippa (2019)
“Fire in the Head” by: R.Johns ( 4 characters/19 pages) inspired by Kate Kelly (2016)
“Fire Fountain” by: Jessie Salsbury (10 pages, 2 characters) Inspired by: Ethel Cook (2015)
“Firebird” by: Merridawn Duckler (7 characters/21 pages) Inspired by: Maria Tallchief (2014)
“The First Casualty” by: David Marrs (4 characters (played by a cast of two)/7 pages) Inspired by: Gertrude Bell (2017)
“First Day in Trade” by: Jennifer O’Grady (4 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (2014)
“First Woman of Industry” by: Nancy Gall-Clayton (3 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Catherine Danenhold Melker (2014)
“Fist to the Sky” by: Chelsea Sutton (1-5 characters/4 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Catlett (2015)
“Flannery and Limpy” by: Sue Yocum (2 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Flannery O’Connor (2019)
“Flo” by: Peggy Jones (1 character/23 pages) Inspired by: Florynce “Flo” Kennedy, Ella Baker, Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, Muriel Fox (2017)
“Fly Girl” by: Renee Lucas Wayne (5 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Bessie Coleman (2014)
“Flying Bling” by: Kathleen Warnock (3 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Amelia Earhart (2014)
“The Food Tasters of the Wolf’s Lair” (Die Vorkoster der Wolfsschanze) by: Jaclyn Perlmutter (8-18 characters/4 pages) Inspired by: Margot Wölk (2015)
“Forerunner of Women’s Rights” by: Carolyn Nur Wistrand (16 characters/60 pages) Inspired by: Tahirh (2017)
“For The Love Of Baghdad” by: Jan B. Eliot (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Gertrude Bell, Florence Elsa Bell (2018)
“For Louvre or Manet” by: Deborah Magid (2 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Berthe Morisot (2014)
“For Love and Grace” by: Rita Kniess Barkey (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Grace Hartigan (2014)
“Forsaking All Others” by Heather Dunmore (4 characters/55 pages) Inspired by Margot Fonteyn (2016)
“Fossil Lady” by Claudia I. Haas (3 characters, 10 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Philpot, Mary Anning (2015)
“Four Actors, Puppets, and Baroness Bertha von Suttner” by: Erin Moughon (4 actors/ 12 pages) Inspired by: Baroness Bertha von Suttner(2018)
“Fourteen New Brilliant Colors of Magdalena Abakanowicz” by: Merridawn Duckler (4 characters/19 pages) Inspired by: Magdalena Abakanowicz (2017)
“Freedom of Speech” by Jennifer Schaupp (4 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Edith Skinner (2018)
“Fred and Mary: An Unconventional Romance” by Micki Shelton (15-19 characters/102 pages) Inspired by Mary Jane Elizabeth Colter, Minnie Harvey Huckel (2018)
“Frida Kahlo: Heartbreaker” by: Lylanne Musselman (4 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Frida Kahlo (2014)
“From Shore To Shore” by: LuLu LoLo (2 characters (one-actor performed in profile)/4 pages) inspired by Theodosia Burr Alston (2018)
“Fuel for the Fire” by Elliot D Huxtable (20+ characters / 56 pages) Inspired by Olga of Kiev (2016)
“Fumbling Folk” by: Shellen Lubin (3 characters/ 6 pages) Inspired by: Lora Lubin (2017)
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“The Gage and Mr. Comstock” by: Carolyn Gage (1 character/8 pages) Inspired by: Matilda Joslyn Gage (2014)
“Galla in Purgatory” by: Barbara Corrado Pope (6 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Galla Placidia (2015)
“Game of War and Love” by: Laurel Wetzork (3 characters/20 pages) Inspired by: Amy Elizabeth Thorpe (2016)
“Garbot” by: Jaime Mire (2F 1M – 3 Characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Greta Garbo (2016)
“Gardenias For Good Luck” by: Kristin Hornsby (2 characters/6 pages) Inspired by: Hattie McDaniel (2014)
“The Gateway of the Soul” by: Wim Coleman (2 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Queen Christina of Sweden (2017)
“Genji/Murasaki” by: Darian Lindle (10 characters/60 pages) Inspired by: Murasaki Shikibu (2016)
“Gentle Medicine” by:Ian Low (4 Characters/10 pages)/ Inspired by: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (2017)
“Geordie Heroine” by: Rex McGregor (2 characters/11 pages) Inspired by Kathleen Brown and Florence Harrison Bell (2019)
“Georgia Makes a Scene” by: Susan Shafer (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Georgia O’Keefe, Anita Pollitzer (2014)
“Gertrude Ederle Makes a Splash” by: Christina Hamlett (5F, 6M/21 pages) Inspired by: Gertrude Ederle (2017)
“Ghisolabella” by: Maria Pia Pagani (i character/11 pages) Inspired by: Eleonora Duse (2015)
“Girl Before a Mirror” by: Martha Patterson (3 characters/11 pages) Inspired by Marie-Therese Walter (2019)
“Girl On The Moon” by Ian low/ 2 characters/ ( 10 pages) inspired by
Hilda of Whitby. (2016)
“Girl of Summer” by: Andrea Lepcio (5 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Toni Stone (2014)
“Give me to the Wind to Take Away” by: Michael Tooher (4 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Reyhanah Jabbarti (2015)
“GLASS” by: Michael Aman (2 characters/49 pages) Inspired by: Laurette Taylor (2015)
“Goblins Into Angels” by Christine Emmert (5 Characters/ 11 pages) Inspired by: Christina Rossetti (2019)
“God Bless the Child of Strange Fruit” by: Julie English-Dixon (4 characters/50 pages) Inspired by: Billie Holiday (2015)
“God’s Enemies” by: Benjamin Peel (15 characters/59 pages) Inspired by: Anne Vaux and Eleanor Brooksby (2017)
“Going Solo” by: Christina Hamlett (1 characters/3 pages) Inspired by: Ida Pfeiffer (2019)
“Good Grapes” by: Jennie Webb (3-4 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Dolores Huerta (2014)
“The Good Ladies Book” by: Emily Ball Cicchini (10-25 characters/65 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Emma Willard, Frances Ann Hale Hunter, Josepha Hale, Lydia Sigourney, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (2015) MUSICAL
“Goodbye, Fanita” by: D. Lee Miller (4 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Fanny Myers (2014)
“Goodnight, Washington” by Patricia Middleton (2 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Mabel Willebrandt (2015)
“Goody Glover’s Tale” by: Aspen Mock (7 characters/ 7 pages) Inspired by: Goody Ann Glover (2015)
“Goodyear Pay Fair” by Jessica Feder-Birnbaum (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Lilly Ledbetter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2018)
“Gospel Train” by: Paula Cizmar (18 pages, 4 characters) Inspired by: Ellen Craft, Graceanna Lewis (2015)
“Got a Light?” by: Jean Koppen (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Joan of Arc (2018)
“Grace of Luo” by: Jo Hull Brisbane (7 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Grace Ogot, Grandmother of Grace Ogot (2015)
“The Gray Hours” By: Alyson Mead (11 characters/83 pages) Inspired by: Lorraine Hansberry (2017)
“The Great Gaffe” by: Jennifer O’Grady(3 characters, 10 pages) Inspired by: Edith Wharton (2015)
“The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived” by: Carolyn Gage (2 characters/22 pages) Inspired by: Nane O’Neill (2014)
“The Grimke Sisters Lead the Way” by: Grace W. Ellis (3 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke, Lydia Maria Child (2019)
Growl (a monologue by Gruoch of Scotland, the Original Lady Macbeth) by Claudia Barnett (4 pages, 1W) Inspired by: Gruoch of Scotland (2015)
“Growl” by J.Lois Diamond (3 characters, 19 pages) Inspired by: Simin Behbahani (2016)
”Guidance from Saint Monica or We’re Really Sorry About This Play” by: Erin Moughon ( 3 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Saint Monica (2016)
“Guillotined” by L.D. Goodisman (4 characters and chorus/ 67 pages)Playwright: L.D. Goodisman (2019)
“Guitar Lady” by: Karen Callwood (5 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Memphis Minnie (2017)
“Gwenllian, Part I” by: Tierra Bonser(10 characters/57 pages) Inspired by: Angharad ferch Owain, Gwenllian ferch Gruffudd, Rhanult ferch Gruffudd, Merinedd ferch Gruffudd (2015)
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“Half-Lives On Highway One” by: Evelyn Jean Pine (4 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Samira Moussa, Rita Hayworth (2014)
“The Hall of Final Ruin” by: Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos (6 characters/107 pages) Inspired by: Doña Maria Gertrudis “La Tules” Barceló (2015)
“Happiness in Palaces” by: Christine Caccipuoti (9 characters/39 pages) Inspired by: Hortense de Beauharnais Bonaparte, Caroline Bonaparte Murat, Margaret Elphinstone de Flahaut, Adèle Aguié de Broc, (2017)
“Harem” by: Jen Ferro (6 characters/78 pages) Inspired by: Aimée Dubuc de Rivery, Nakşidil Sultan, and Joséphine de Beauharnais (2017)
“Harlem-Ren” by: Larissa Brewington (4 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: Jessie Redmon, Rowena Jetliffe, Zora Neale Hurston (2014)
“Harriet Bosse” by: Talia Pura (1 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Harriet Bosse (2014)
“Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist” by: Carolyn Gage (2 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Harriet Tubman (2014)
“Harvard Computers=Elegant Women” (55pp) by Robert Brophy, inspired by: Henrietta Swan Leavitt; Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Stevens Fleming (2017)
“Harvey Girls” by: Rosa Walston Latimer (16 characters/34 pages) Inspired by: Gertrude Elizabeth McCormick (2019)
“Having Lived, It Matters” by: Lylanne Musselman (2 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Ruth Stone (2018)
“Hazel” by: Annette Lee (7 characters/19 pages) Inspired by: Hazel Ah Ying (2014)
“Healing Day Night” by: Roberta D’Alois (2 characters/4 pages) Inspired by: Kate Millett (2018)
“Hear Me: The Horrible Tale of Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos” by: Julie Lyn Barber (8 characters/49 pages) Inspired by: Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos (2018)
“Heartbeats” by: Danielle Wirsansky (8 pages, 2 characters) Inspired by: Natalia Peshkova and Galya Tchaikovskaya (2015)
“Heartsong” by: Allie Costa (3 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Sara Bareilles (2017)
“Hedy’s Fault”” by: Sarah Tuft (6 characters/4 pages) Inspired by: Hedy Lamarr
“HeLa” by: Jessie Salsbury (4 characters/6 pages) Inspired by: Henrietta Lacks, Deborah Lacks, Mary Kubicek (2014)
“Helen Dreams Ramona” by: Dorothy Velasco (3 characters/9 pages) inspired by: Helen Hunt Jackson (2019)
“Hello Ocean” by J.Lois Diamond (3 characters/21 pages) Inspired by:Nina Simone (2016)
“Her Own Things” by Amissa Miller (2 characters, 5 pages) Inspired by: Eloise Williams, Ntozake Shange (2015)
“Herstorical Pen Pals” by: Caroline Turner Cole (5 actors/14 pages) Inspired by: Harriet Hanson Robinson (2016)
“Hey, Doll. Wanna Play?”/by Susan Shafer (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Ruth Handler (2018)
“High Ground” by: Leah Halper (3 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Jeanette Rankin (2014)
“High Flying Harriet” by: Christina Hamlett (17 characters/24 pages) Inspired by: Harriet Quimby
“The Higher Love” by: Germaine Shames (3 characters/50 pages) Inspired by: Mary Haskell (2019)(2018)
“Highness” by: Carolyn Kras (6 characters/82 pages) Inspired by: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Katherine Parr (2017)
“Historiadora” by: Jennie Webb (3 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Angustias de la Guerra, Rebecca Ord Peshine (2015)
“Hitler’s Whore” by: James Colgan (four characters/45 pages) Inspired by: Eva Braun (2017)
“Holocaust Syndrome” by: Danielle Wirsansky (3 characters/19 pages) Inspired by: Golda Meir (2018)
“Hollywood Butterfly” by: Barbara Kahn (5 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Butterfly McQueen, Alla Nazimova (2014)
“Hollywood in Tasmania” by Laurel A. Lockhart ( 2 characters/ 30 pages) inspired by Louise Lovely and Marie Bjelke Petersen (2017)
“Home Economics” by: Judy Meiksin (1 character/8 pages) Inspired by: Mali Spighel (2017)
“Homespun Webs: Imagining Louise Bourgeois” by: C.J. Ehrlich (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Louise Bourgeois (2016)
“The Honeytrap” by: Carol M. Rice (2 characters/8 pages). Inspired by: Marie Christine Chilver (aka Agent Fifi) (2018)
“Horrifying Mary” by: Rex McGregor (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Claire Clairmont and Mary Shelley (2018)
“Horizons” by: Trish Ayers (10 pages, 2 characters) Inspired by: Princess Victoria Ka’iulani (2015)
“The Hornbek House” by: Jason Rainey (4 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Adeline Hornbek (2017)
“How She Played the Game” by: Cynthia L. Cooper (6 characters/19 pages) Inspired by: Eleanora Randolph Sears, Althea Gibson, Gertrude Ederle, Sonia Henie, Gretel Bergmann, Babe Didrikson (2014)
“How to Write a Science Fiction Story, by Octavia E. Butler”by: Alyson Mead (5-7 characters/23 pages) Inspired by: Octavia Butler (2016)
“Huiza Netherlands 1942” by: Jessie Salsbury (3 Characters / 8 pages) Inspired by: Marion Pritchard (2019)
“Hungry Hearts” & ”Three Ghosts of Elizabeth Bathory” by Anne Flanagan (3 characters/20 pages/in two pieces) Inspired by: Elizabeth Bathory (2015)
“Hypatia of Alexandria” by: Sandra B. Julian(7 characters + 4-person chorus/32 pages) Inspired by: Hypatia (2018)
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“I am not Grace Kelly” by: Erin Moughon ( 1 character/ 2 pages) Inspired by: Grace Kelly (2017)
“I Dream of Madame Mao” by: Laura Rohrman (3 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Madame Mao (2014)
“I Feel Good!”,by J.Lois Diamond(2 page monologue)Inspired by Sharon Jones (2017)
“I Hope You Brought A Water Bottle” by: Heather Meyer (2 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Jackie Joyner Kersee (2014)
“I Promoted Myself” by: A’Lelia Bundles (12 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: C.J. Walker, Julia H. P. Coleman (2014)
“I Put the Ocean in a Box” by: Ellen Struve (monologue, 2 pages) Inspired by: Jeanne Villepreux-Power (2016)
“I Run Beside All The Horses” by: Ana Diaz Barriga (8 characters/43 pages) Inspired by: Leonora Carrington (2015)
“I shoot better than you” by: Mora V. Harris (4 characters/20 pages) Inspired by: Hannie Schaft, Truus Oversteegen, Freddie Oversteegen (2017)
“Ice Front” by: Rachael Carnes (7 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Elsie Parmann (2018)
“Ida & Leonor” – by Danielle Winston (2 characters, 9 pages) a fictionalized account, reimagined and inspired by the lives of Ida Lupino and Leonor Fini. (2016)
“IDA’S UNVEILINGS” by: Christine Emmert (6 Characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Ida Rubenstein (2017)
“I’ll Sing On” by: Grace Ellis (4 characters/18 pages) Inspired by: Jane Gentry (2014) MUSICAL
“Illusion of Control” (in progress) by: Pauline David-Sax (4 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Adelaide Herrmann (2017)
“I’m Wearing My Own Clothes!” by Nancy Gall-Clayton (27 characters but 3F2M actors/76 pages) Inspired by Mary Edwards Walker, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2017)
“Imagine Freedom” by: Vickie L. Williams (8 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Susie King Taylor (2014)
“In Alabama” by J.Lois Diamond (2 characters/11 pages) Inspired by Juliette Hampton Morgan, Lila Morgan (2016)
“In Bed with Eleanor” by: Lolly Ward (4 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, Peg Holmes (2018)
“In Case of Emergency, Strike Glass” by: Kathy Coudle-King (5-10 characters/24 pages) Inspired by: Frances Perkins, Clara Lemlich, Rose Schneiderman, Pauline Neuman and Alva Belmont Vanderbilt. (2014)
“In Her Footprints” by Connie Bennett ( 3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by : Lucy, Mary Leakey (2015)
“In Her Voice” by: Ilana Turner (11 pages, 2 characters) Inspired by Princess Iwa (2015)
“In Passing” by: Lisa Nicoll (3 characters/9 pages) Inspire by: Camille Tarzia Holloway, Mary, Kathy (2014)
“In Such Good Company” by: Rita Anderson (1-2 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Anne Frank, Mary Shelley (2014)
“In the Matter of Stickler v Legacy” by: Karen Rousso (infinite characters/11 actors/103 pages) Inspired by: Pauline Cushman and Harriet Tubman (2018)
“In Your Dreams” by Sarah Tuft (2 characters/2 pages) Inspired by Mary Whiton Calkins (2016)
“Incredible Darlings” by: Asia Nichols (2 characters/7 pages) inspired by: Millie and Christine McKoy (2016)
“Indira” by J.Lois Diamond (43 characters/113 pages) Inspired by Indira Gandhi, Lakshmi Pandit, Kamala Nehru, Pupul Jayakar (2016)
“Inez & Alice Consort” by: Jill Maynard (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Inez Milholland and Alice Paul (2017)
“The Infinity of Delight” by: Danielle Wirsansky (2 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Susan Turner (2016)
“Inheritance” by Kim Louise (3 characters/23 pages) Inspired by Queen Nyabinghi (2017)
“The Instrument” by: Alyson Mead (5 characters/23 pages) Inspired by: Dorothy Thompson (2018)
“The International Vampirical Society: 431” by: Gina DeMarco Scanlon (4 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Tilda Swinton (2015)
“Invention” by Lolly Ward (9 characters plus ensemble/61 pages) Inspired by: Hedy Lamarr, Boski Markus Antheil, Mary Louise Curtis Bok (2017)
“IN-VISIBLE: A Day in the Life of Detective Isabella Goodwin” by Cindy Cooper (1 character/7 pages) Inspired by: Isabella Goodwin (2019)
“(In)Voluntary Exile” by: Liz Amadio (4 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Ida Kaminska (2018)
“Irreconcilable Passions” by: Julie Lyn Barber(1 character/20 pages) Inspired by: Ninon de l’Enclos (2017)
“Is That All There Is” by: Lylanne Mussleman (2 characters/3 pages) Inspired by: Peggy Lee (2015)
“Isosceles” by: Lynne S. Brandon (3 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein (2014)
“The Interrogation of Jackie Ormes” by: Sheree Bradford-Lea (5 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: Jackie Ormes (2014)
“It Will Happen” by Carol M. Rice (5 characters, 4 pages) / inspired by Jean Marian Purdy (2019)
“It’s A Wonderful Death – The Legacy of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross” by: Joyce Fontana (14 main characters/41 pages) Inspired by: Elisabeth Kubler Ross (2018)
“Izzy Sticks with It” by: Rex McGregor (4 characters/36 pages) Inspired by Ava Lowle Wiling Astor (2019)
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“Jana Regina” by: Connie Bennett (1 character/2 pages) Inspired by Jane Grey (2016)
“Jane Addams and the Devil Baby” by: Carolyn Gage (3 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Jane Addams, Mary Rozet Smith (2014)
“Joan” by: Susan Shafer (4 characters/6 pages) Inspired by: Joan Ganz Cooney (2016)
“Joan” by: Maia Henkin (3 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Joan of Arc (2018)
“Joan Drinks at the Dôme” by: Rita Kniess Barkey (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Joan Mitchell (2015)
“Journey Of A Bombshell: The Ina Ray Hutton Story” by: Melissa Ritz (10-20 characters/27 pages) Inspired by: Melissa Ritz (2015)
“Juana Maria’s Song” by: Gina Russell Tracey (1 character/2 pages) Inspired by: Juana Maria (2014)
“JUDGEMENT DAYS” by: D. Lee Miller (2 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds (2017)
“The Joy” by: Jeanmarie (Simpson) Bishop (1 character/76 pages) Inspired by: Mary Dyer (2017)
“Judith & Janey” by: Kathy Coudle-King (2 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Sakakawea, Julia Clark (2014)
“Judy Blume Wouldn’t Want You To Censor This Play” by: Scott Mullen (2 characters, 7 pages) Inspired by Judy Blume (2017)
“Juggling with Mr. Fields” by Jennifer O’Grady (4 characters/75 pages) Inspired by Carlotta Monti (2016)
“Julia Arévalo: Mujer de Bronce y Miel” (1character/17 pages) Inspired by: Julia Arévalo de Roche (2017)
“Jump the Bright Line: The Trial of Edna St. Vincent Millay” by: Karen Ackerman (6 characters, 101 pages) Inspired by: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Norma Millay, Kathleen Millay, Cora Millay (2018)
JUST A DROP by Eva C. Schegulla (15 characters/101 pages); inspired by Giulia Tofana (2016)
“Just Say it Three Times” by Erin Moughon (3 characters/21 pages) Inspired by: Aphra Behn (2015)
“Justice for Nadia” by Lynda Crawford (4 characters/12 pages) inspired by Nadia Murad (2017)
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“K.C. Reporting from The Columbia. Earth, Do You Read Me?” by: Natalie Osborne (1 character, 3 pages) Inspired by: Kalpana Chawla (2015)
“Kane” by: Yani Perez (3 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Sarah Kane (2014)
“KAPU” by: Carol Polcovar (2 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Queen Ka’ahumanu, Queen Keopoulani (2015)
“Kasturba” by: Hemavathy Guha (2 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Kasturba Gandhi (2014)
“Katoucha Niane” by LuLu LoLo (Solo/3 pages) Inspired by Katoucha Niane (2015)
“The King’s Legacy” by: Michael Radi (110 pages/9 characters) Inspired by: Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr, Elizabeth I, Jane Seymour, Mary Boleyn, Mary I (2018)
“Kinsky” by: Tee Schneider (3 characters/77 pages) Inspired by: Bertha Von Suttner (née Countess Kinsky) (2016)
“Khutulun Wrestles the World” by: Natalie Osborne (4 pages/4 characters) Inspired by: Khutulun (2017)
“Knowing Women” by: Suzanne Logan (5 characters/66 pages) Inspired by: Anna Fischer, Carrie MacDonald, Sarah More, Sophie Mumford, Pauline Thompson (2019)
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“La Doña of Santa Cruz” by: Melissa Nussbaum Freeman (4 characters/9 pages) (2014)
“La Lucha Sin FIn” by: Nancy Hopps (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Christiana Figueres (2016)
“La Madurez” by Sara Moros (2 Characters / 15 pages) Inspired by: Gioconda Belli (2016)
“La Maestra” by: Paul Pasulka (109 pages) Inspired by: Artemisia Gentileschi (2018)
“La Patrona” by: Susan Long Haga (5 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Rosa María Hinojosa de Ballí (2015)
“La petite Blanchard” by: Inge Martín (2 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: María Blanchard (2014)
“La Posada” by: Micki Shelton (23 characters/7 actors/95pages) Inspired by: Tina Mion & Mary Jane Colter (2018)
“La Profetisa” by: Beth Kander (6 characters/38 pages) Inspired by the mysterious life of Mariana “Loca” Andrada (2016)
“La Tenienta Coronela” by: Laura Derpic (1 character/8 pages) Inspired by: Juana Azurduy (2014)
“Lace Curtain Irish” by: Carolyn Gage (1 character/15 pages) Inspired by: Lizzie Borden (2015)
“Lady Chief 2000 (dancer)” by: Linda Evans (3 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Octaviana Trullijo (2014)
“Lady Godiva Womans Up” by: Rex McGregor (5 characters/22 pages) Inspired by: Godiva, Countess of Mercia (2016)
“Lady Killigrew’s Cats” by: Jean Reynolds (3 characters/6 pages) Inspired by: Lady Mary Killigrew (2017)
“Lady of the Cells” by J.Lois Diamond (3 characters/17 pages) inspired by Rita Levi- Montalcini, Paola Levi- Montalcini (2018)
“Lady of the English” by: Lucy Flannery (12 characters/ 70 pages) Inspired by: The Empress Matilda [2018]
“Lady Ott’s Snapshots” by: Deborah Magid (6+ characters/60 pages) Inspired by: Lady Ottoline Morrell (2015)
“The Lady Steamboatman” by: Nancy Gall-Clayton (3 characters/7 pages) (Inspired by Mary Millicent Garretson Miller (2018)
“The Last Princess” by: Christina Hamlett (7F, 8M/21 pages) Inspired by: Kaiulani, Liliuokalani, Frances Cleveland (2017)
“Latino” by: camila le-bert (5-17 characters/94 pages) Inspired by: Carmen Miranda (2014)
“The Laugh” by: Kim Kelly (4 characters / 8 pages) Inspired by: Carol Burnett’s stories (2019)
“Law Makers” by: Danielle Wirsansky (2 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Emily Pankhurst and Millicent Garrett Fawcett (2017)
“Le Fruit Dèfendu” by: Asia Nichols (3 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Josephine Baker and Frida Kahlo (2017)
“Le Grand Silence” by: Lily Meyer (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Nadia Boulanger, Lili Boulanger, Clara Schumann (2015)
“The Legend of Sigridur Tomasdottir” by: Natalie Osborne (9 pages/2 characters) Inspired by: Sigridur Tomasdottir (2017)
“Lengua Materna” by: Begoña Ugalde (3 characters/39 pages) Inspired by: María Luisa Bombal (2014)
“Lesya Ukrainka is Under Surveillance: by: Irene Zabytko (1 character/6 pages) Inspired by: Lesya Ukrainka (2014)
“The Letter” by Susan Shafer (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Katharine Graham and Gloria Steinem (2018)
“Letters From Ala” by: Arlene Hutton (1 character/2 pages) Inspired by: Ala Gertner (2015)
“Letters from Lotfia” by: Laura Shamas (7 pages, 2 characters) Inspired by Lotfia El Nadi, Amelia Earhart (2015)
“Libertadoras” by: Diana Burbano (3 characters/25 pages) Inspired by: Jonatas, Natan, Manuelita (2014)
“Liberty” by: Sarah Lawrence (10 characters with doubling, 96 pages) Inspired by: Bettie Randolph, Dorothea Dandridge, Dame Eleanor Parks Shelton, Elizabeth Wythe, Martha “Patsy” Henry, Sarah Shelton Henry (2018)
“Life? Or Theater?” by: Charlotte Ostrow (3 characters/43 pages) Inspired by: Charlotte Salomon (2017)
“The Life That I Live” by: Libby Mitchell (8 Characters/10 pages) Inspired by Violette Szabo, Denise Bloch, Lilian Rolfe, and Vera Atkins (2018)
“Lightning Girl” by: Rita Anderson (4 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Juliane Koepcke (2017)
“Lillian, Paula. Carson.” by John Barrow (3 characters, 85 pages). Inspired by Lillian Smith. (2017)
“Linda” by: Diane Burbano (1 character, 2 pages) Inspired by: Linda Ronstadt and Lynda Carter (2015)
“Litany” by DS Magid (5 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Katharine Angell White, Hildegarde Angell, Grace V Kelly (2018)
“Little Bear” by Glenda Frank (2 characters/14 pages). Inspired by:
Susan Glaspell (2017)
“The Little Blackbird” by: Barbara Kahn (6 characters/ 20 pages) Inspired by: Alla Nazimova and Florence Mills (2015)
“LITTLE IMAGES” (2017) by Glenda Frank (10 characters/ 6 actors/89
pages) Inspired by Lee Krasner, Elaine De Kooning, Mercedes Cordoba
Carles Matter (2017)
“Little Lotta Made of Gold” by: Dorothy Velasco (3 characters/18 pages) Inspired by: Lotta Crabtree (2016)
“Little Louis” by:Michael angel Johnson (1 character/ 6 pages) inspired by: Valaida Snow (2016)
“Little Sister” by: Carolyn Gage (8 characters/44 pages) Inspired by: Lozen (2014)
“Little Swan, a Pas de Deux” by: Allie Costa (3 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Anna Pavlova (2014)
“Living Above His Shadow” by: Lylanne Musselman (3 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Francois Gilot (2018)
“Living Memory or Three Shirleys” by: Erin Moughon (3 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Shirley Temple Black (2015)
“Living Our Best Kristen Bell Life” (7 pages) by: Matthew Weaver Inspired by: Kristen Bell (2019)
“Lizzie Siddal’s Ghost” by: Danielle Winston (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: the life and death of Elizabeth Siddal (2016)
“Louisa May Incest” by: Carolyn Gage (2 characters/22 pages) Inspired by: Louisa May Alcott (2014)
“The Loveling Sisters” by: Ian Low ( 2 characters/3 pages) Inspired by
Virginie Loveling, Rosalie Loveling (2018)
“Love’s Destiny” by: Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen (6 characters/41 pages) Inspired by: Walladah bint al Mustakfi (2014)
“Lovers of the Enlightenment: Emilie & Voltaire” by: Talia Pura (7 characters/57 pages) Inspired by: Catherine de Boufflers, Emilie du Chatelet (2014)
“Lucrezia Borgia Demands a Place at the Table” by Marlin Thomas (1 character/3 pages) Inspired by Lucrezia Borgia (2019)
“Lullabies and Lies” by: Teresa Stankiewicz (7 characters/22 pages) Inspired by the Lebensborn (2015)
“Lunatic: The Haunted Widow Lincoln” by: Donna Latham (8 characters/53 pages) Inspired by: Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley (2014)
“Lunch for the Queen” by: Lawrence Kessenich (5 characters/9 pages)/Playwright: Lawrence Kessenich (2015)
“Lupe’s America” by: Jess Eisenberg (4 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: America Ferrera, Lucita Castañón, Lupe Ontiveros, and Rosario Dawson (2016)
“Lust & Lies” by: Robin Rice (3 characters/84 pages). Inspired by Lucretia Winthrop Chapman (2016)
“Lydia Bennet Returns” by: Joanna Norland (8 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Jane Austen (2014)
“The Lynching of Little Hannah (A Christmas Time-Travelling Adventure Miracle)” by: Samantha Hill (8 characters/39 pages) Inspired by: Hannah Ocuish (2015)
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“Mabel” by: Tina Esper (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Mabel Dodge Luhan (2017)
“Mad Lady Peel: The Funniest Woman in the World” by Kirsten Van Ritzen (9 actors * 30 characters/46 pages) Inspired by: Beatrice Lillie, Muriel Lillie, Lucie-Ann Shaw, Gertrude Lawrence, Fanny Brice, Tallulah Bankhead. (2017)
“Madam(e)” by: Kate Danley (13 characters/43 pages) Inspired by: Lou Graham (2018)
“Madame” by: Kendra Augustin (8 pages, 2 characters) Inspired by: Adelina Leveque, Olivia Soulouque (2015)
“Madame Campan’s Academy” by: Lynn Marie Macy (15 characters/96 pages) Inspired by: Madame Jeanne Campan, Josephine de Beauharnais Bonaparte, Hortense de Beauharnais, Emilie de Beauharnais, Caroline Bonaparte, Adèle Auguié, Aglaé Auguié, Ameé LeClerc, Eliza Monroe 2018
“Madame Doll” by: K.A. Brokaw (6 characters, 13 pages) Inspired by: Beatrice Alexander, Florence Alexander, Hannah Alexander, Jean Alexander, Rose Alexander (2015)
“Madame Red” by: TD Mitchell (27 pages) Inspired by: Cheng Shih (2015)
“Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Visits” by: Ivan Faute (8 characters/30 pages) Inspired by: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (2016)
“Madres de Mayo” by: Nadia Rosero /7 personajes (2 protagónicos)/26 pages.) Inspired by: Madres de Plaza de Mayo (2018.)
“Maid Maud” by: Connie Bennett (5 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Maud le Vavasour, Baroness Butler (2016)
“Maize” by: Judith Pratt (5 characters/60 pages) Inspired by: Barbara McClintock (2014)
“Make My Match” by: Nancy West (5 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Lucy Stone and Olympia Brown (2015)
“Making Frankenstein” by: Natalie Osborne (5 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Mary Shelley (2014)
“(Mama) King Chronicles” by Rita Anderson (5 characters/20 pages) Inspired by:Alberta Williams King (2015)
“Mama Bett” by: Elsa Rael (1 character/12 pages) Inspired by: Bett Hemings (2014)
“Mam’zelle Champagne” by: Kristy Lin Billuni (monologue/ 4 pages) Inspired by: Evelyn Nesbit, Viola De Costa (2019)
“The Marble Muse” by: Diane Baia Hale (6 characters/109 pages) Inspired by: Louisa Lander, Harriet Hosmer, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne (2017)
Margaret and Beatrice by: Jess Eisenberg (3W/7 pages) Inspired by: Margaret and Beatrice of Provence (2018)
“Margaret Knight’s Battle Rap; 1871” by Anne Flanagan (6 characters; 10 pgs) inspired by Margaret E. Knight (2016)
Margaret Sanger: A Woman Rebel by Jessica Feder-Birnbaum (5 actors/19 roles/52 pages) Inspired by: Margaret Sanger (2018)
“Margaret Thatcher Changes the World“ by: Rex McGregor (4 characters/25 pages) Inspired by: Margaret Thatcher (2016)
“Maria” by: Susan Shafer (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Maria Montessori (2016)
“Maria Sibylla Merian Draws Jasmine” by Arlene Hutton (5-11 characters/28 pages) Inspired by: Maria Sibylla Merian (2015)
“María Untamed” by: Dorothy Velasco (2 characters/9 pages) inspired by: María Félix (2019)
“Marilyn Monroe in the Desert” by: Barbara Blatner (4 characters/83 pages) Inspired by: Marilyn Monroe (2018)
“The Marrow in the Bone” by: Jane Denitz Smith (2 characters/25 pages) Inspired by Elena Molokhovets (2016)
“Marry or Bury” by: Asia Nichols (3 characters/7 pages) inspired by: Sarah Rector (2016)
“The Marvellous Manipulations Of Mrs Mapp” by: Ian Low (3 characters/10 pages) inspired by: Sarah Mapp (2019)
“Marvel(ous) Monica” by: Sarah Tuft (4 characters/23 pages) Inspired by: Monica Lewinsky, Dini Von Mueffling, Marcia Lewinsky, Linda Tripp (2015)
“Marvin” by Angelé Sionna (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Mary Marvin Breckinridge (2016)
“MARY – A MUSICAL” by: Gayla D. Morgan and Jean Mornard (19 characters, 12 actors minimum incl one young woman-girl approx 12 yrs old/79 pages) inspired by Mary Magdalene, Mary mother of Jesus, Mary of Bethany (Lazarus’s sister), Martha of Bethany (Lazarus’s sister), Mother of James the disciple*, Salomé* (2016)
“Mary’s Diaries” by: Susan Shafer (9 in total using only 4 main characters/actors with doubling/12 pages) Inspired by: Mary Astor (2017)
“Marzieh” by J.Lois Diamond (1 character, 3 pages) Inspired by Marzieh (Ashraf o-Sadat Mortezaie) (2016)
“Mason-Dixon” by: Carolyn Gage (2 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Elizabeth Van Lew (2014)
Masquerade by Claire McCracken (6 characters, 15 pages) inspired Karen Carpenter (2016)
“Mata H.” by Angela J. Davis (5 characters) / 27 pages / inspired by Soeur Leonide and Mata Hari (2018)
“Mata Hari: Eroticism & Espionage” by: Talia Pura (1-8 characters/14 pages) Inspired by: Mata Hari (2014)
“Matched” by: Kat Meads (3 characters, 25 pages) Inspired by: Zelda Fitzgerald (2018)
“Mates” by: Sue Yocum (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Anne Bonny, Mary Read (2018)
“May Sarton Dreams Deep” by: Deborah Magid (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: May Sarton, Judy Matlack (2014)
“Medea’s Ghost” by Micki Shelton (6 characters/73 pages) Inspired by: Medea (2018)
“Mending His Shirt” by: Jennifer O’Grady (3 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Sally Hemings (2014)
“MERCY” by: J.S. Puller (9 characters/121 pages) Inspired by: Mercy Brown (2017)
“Midwives” by Suzanne Trauth (4 characters/95 pages) Inspired by: Isadora Duncan, Eleonora Duse (2018)
“Millie Dresselhaus: Beer Stew, Breaking Bonds” by: C.J. Ehrlich (2 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Mildred Dresselhaus, Rosalyn Yalow–referenced (2017)
“The Million Dollar Wound” by: Danielle Wirsansky (4 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Elsie Ott (2016)
“Miss Morgan” by: Lucy Wang( 2 characters,7 pages) Inspired by: Julia Morgan and Eliza Morgan (2015)
“The Missing Chair” by: Eugenie Carabatsos(3 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Nzinga Mbande (2015)
“Missing Daughter” by: Michelle Patrick (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Phoebe of Fraunces Tavern (2014)
“Mistyfied: by: Lucy Wang (MIN actors needed = 4, MAX = 9/33 pages) Inspired by: Misty Copeland (2016)
“Mit a Fiddle in the Middle” by: C.J. Ehrlich (5 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Molly Picon (2016)
“Model Behaviour” by L.A. Green (76 pages, 4 f, 2 m [doubling]) Inspired by Audrey Munson: American Venus by Diane Rozas and Anita Bourne Gottehrer. (2016)
“Moriarty’s Daughters” by: Claire Wittman (8 characters/74 pages) Inspired by: Lucy and Katherine Bullard
“Morton’s Fork” by: Jean Klein (4 characters/18 pages) Inspired by: Hester Thrale (2014)
“The Most Courageous Act Is Love” by: LZ Zephyr (6 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Amelia Earhart (2018)
“Mother Cabrini’s Mission to America” by Joan Albarella (1 character/14 pages) Inspired by Mother Cabrini. (2018)
“Mother Cabrini Saint of the Immigrants” by: LuLu LoLo (1 character/7 pages) inspired by Mother (Frances Xavier) Cabrini (2018)
“Mother/Child” by: Shellen Lubin (1 character plus 1 pianist/ 27 pages) Inspired by: Shellen Lubin (2017)
“Mother of Chemistry” by: Rex McGregor (4 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier and Marie-Anne Lenormand (2017)
“Mother of Miami” by: Marj O’Neill-Butler (2 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Julia Tuttle (2014)
“Mother/Tongue” by: Connie Bennett (6 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: La Malinche (2014)
“Mountain Dew” by: J. Lois Diamond (2 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Hannah Reynolds (2015)
“Mrs. Madison’s White House” by: Christina Hamlett (14 characters/27 pages) Inspired by: Dolley Madison (2018)
“Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington” by Linda Britt (Solo/15 pages) Inspired by Margaret Chase Smith (2015)
“Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library” by: Jenny Lyn Bader (2 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Hannah Arendt (2014)
“Mumbet” by: G.L. Horton (1 character/9 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Freeman (2014)
“The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya” by: Victoria Sadler (24 characters/82 pages) Inspired by: Anna Politkovskaya (2017)
“Muse” by: Erin Murray Quinlan (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Vivienne Haigh Wood (2016)
“Muse of the Violets” by: Jess Eisenberg (8 characters/19 pages) Inspired by: Renee Vivien, Natalie Clifford Barney, Sappho, Emma Calve, Helen Van Zuylen, Kerime Turkhan Pasha, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Violet Shillito (2014)
“The Muses” by Rena Tobey (6 characters/42 pages) Inspired by: Marie Danforth Page and Elizabeth Okie Paxton (2018)
“The Muralist” by: Denise Hinson (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (2017)
“My Aim is True” by: Lucy Wang (2 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Anna Mae Aquash (2014)
“My Dear Doctor” by: Rosemary Zibart (13 characters/ 65 pages), inspired by: Elizabeth Blackwell (2016)
“My Dear Madame President” by: Lisa Scott (2 characters,4 pages) Inspired by: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (Madame de Pompadour) (2015)
“My Dearest Fidel, Forever Yours Naty” by: Stephanie Swirsky (1 character/1 page) Inspired by: Natalia Revuelta (2015)
“My Mother Says Not to Make Me Pretty” by: Linda Britt (2 characters/4 pages) Inspired by: Barbara Jordan (2014)
“My Recollect Time” by: Jamie Greenblatt (10 characters, played by 3 actors, 52 pages) Inspired by: Mary Fields and Mother Amadeus Dunne (2015)
“My thing is my own” by; Peppy Barlow (1 character/18 pages). Inspired by: Ann Ford Thicknesse (2016)
“My Voice” by: Donna Latham (2 characters/1page) Inspired by: Helen Keller (2015)
“My World War Too” by: Susan Hansell (4 characters/75 or 95 pages) inspired by Marthe Cohn, Charlotte Delbo, Gerda Taro, Edith Stein, Simone Weil (2017)
“Myrtis” by: Diana Burbano (2 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Myrtis (2016)
“The Mysterious Affair at the Christies” by Jennifer O’Grady (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Agatha Christie (2016)
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“NASTY: The Lives of Peggy Guggenheim,Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Nancy Cunard” by: Germaine Shames (4 characters/40 pages) Inspired by: Peggy Guggenheim, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, and Nancy Cunard (2017)
“NeNe Leakes: Special Edition” by: Nomfanelo Moloi (7 characters/5 pages) Inspired by NeNe Leakes (2017)
“Nefertiti Y Piii” by: Beatriz Cabur (5 characters/26 pages) Inspired by: Nefertiti (2014)
“NELL!” by: LA Green (1 character/35 pages (full length)Inspired by: Nell Gwynne (2017)
“The Nest” by: Robin Rice (3 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Mary Tyler Moore, Paula Zahn (2015)
“Never Closer Than Three Feet” by Lee Richard Lawing (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Norma Shearer and Ruth Harriet Louise (2019)
“Never Forget” by Donna Hoke (4 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Shirley Jackson (2015)
“New Hampshire Yankee” by: Robin Rice (monologue, 5 pages) Inspired by: Alice Chase (2015)
“New Year’s Eve 1939” by: Barbara Corrado Pope (4 characters/13 pages)
Inspired by Alexandra Kollontai (2017)
“Nieves and Senzina” by: Amanda Andrei (4 characters and ensemble/10 pages) Inspired by: Nieves Fernandez (2016)
“No Limits” by Carol M. Rice (3 characters/11 pages). Inspired by: Mo’ne Davis, Effa Manley, and Jackie Mitchell (2016)
“No Reservation” by: Trish Ayers (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Wilma Mankiller (2014)
“No Rules” by: Patricia Wakely Wolf (12 pages, 3 characters) Inspired by Mary Cassatt (2015)
“No Stranger to Fruit” by: Cesi Davidson (4-10 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Pearl Eileen Primus and Sandra Bland (2015)
Not a Game for Girls by Benjamin Peel (14 characters/60 pages) Inspired by : Lily Parr and Alice Woods (2016)
“Not A “Nice” Woman” by: Catherine Frid (1 character/14 pages) Inspired by: Nellie McClung (2017)
“Not Like the Others” by: Connie Bennett (4 character/10 pages) Inspired by Mary Bensell (2016)
“Not So Dumb” by Lucy Wang (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by Marion Davies (2015)
“Not Still Life” by: Robin Rice (2 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf (2014)
“Nude with Oblong Halo” by: Rex McGregor (3 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Broncia Koller-Pinell (2016)
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O RÉJANE by ILANA TURNER (6 characters/70 pages) Inspired by Réjane (2016)
“O Retrato Da Sibila” by: Vanesa Sotelo (4 characters/6 pages) Inspired by: Maruja Mallo (2014)
“OCTAVIA” by Holli Harms (3 characters/26 pages) Inspired by: Octavia Estelle Butler (2015)
“Octobers” by: Emily Brauer Rogers (2 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: L.M. Montgomery (2014)
“Off the Record” by: Connie Bennett (5 characters/17 pages) inspired by: Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt (2017)
“Office 62-B” by: Claire Willett (5 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Cleopatra (2014)
“Oh, to Be a Lesbian in the 19th Century” by: Jess Eisenberg (2 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Charlotte Cushman, Matilda Hays (2014)
“Olga’s Letter” by J. Sanders-Nelson (3charaters/10pages) Inspired by: Concepcion ‘Connie’ Picciott (2017)
“Olivia Makes Waves” by Nina Howes (2 Characters/ 10 pages) Inspired by: Dr. Olivia J. Hooker (2017)
“Olympic Dreams” by: Cynthia L. Cooper (1 character/4 pages) Inspired by: Wilma Rudolph (2014)
“On Its Chimney” by: Beth Blatt (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Alva Vanderbilt (2017)
“On the Explanation of the Lunar Eclipse” by: Sara Israel (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Wang Zhenyi (2014)
“On Water” by: Charissa Menefee (1 character/3 pages) Inspired by: Madeleine L’Engle (2018)
“Once A Spy” by: Rachel Bublitz (6 actors/96 pages) Inspired by: Nancy Wake (2018)
“Once Had A Love” by: KT Parker (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Deborah “Debbie” Harry (2016)
Once I Was a Kingdom by: Gemma Cooper-Novack (2F/12 pages) Inspired by: Zenobia of Palmyra (2018)
“One Black WAC” by Nancy Gall-Clayton (6 pages) Inspired by: Anna Mac Clarke (2014)
“One Night in the Garden” by: Carol M. Rice (12 characters/65 pages) Inspired by: Anne of Austria, Henrietta Maria, Jeanne de Verneville, Leonora Dori Galigai, Louise de La Fayette, Marie de Chevreuse (2014)
“Opera Julie” by: Thea Rodgers (60 pages) Inspired by: Julie D/Aubigny (2016)
“Opposing Ophelia” by: Deneen Reynolds-Knott (4 characters/23 pages) Inspired by: Ophelia DeVore (2015)
“Ordinary Woman, Extraordinary Life” by: Pat C. Jennings (1 character/4 pages) Inspired by: Lizzie Bell Carrithers (2014)
“Orphan Rose” by Emily Brauer Rogers (1 character/2 pages) Inspired by: Iva Toguri D’Aquino (2015)
“The Open Hand is Blessed” by: Monique N. Simpson (3 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Biddy Mason (2014)
“Oprah” by Karina Cochran (3 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Oprah Winfrey (2015)
“Over the Line” by Cindy Cooper (1 character/7 pages) Inspired by Mamie ‘Peanut’ Johnson (2016)
“Over the Ocean” by: Lolly Ward (6 characters/30 pages) Inspired by: Bonnie Stroll, Candace Lyle Hogan, Diana Nyad (2016)
“Over Water Under Fire” by: Jessie Salsbury (3 characters, 7 pages) inspired by Tess Ashplund, Yushra Mardini and Ana Navarro (2017)
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“Painters in Purgatory” by: Lylanne Musselman (3 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Alice Neel (2014)
“Panic in Connecticut; Accused Witches Have Their Say” by: Virginia Wolf (5 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Mary Staples, Lydia Gilbert, Judith Varlet, Mary Barnes, Mercy Disbrough (2014)
“The Pantheon of Anthem Protesters” by: Ellen Davis Sullivan (4 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Isabella Stewart Gardner (2018)
“Paradise Blues” by Julie Lyn Barber (1 character/18 pages) inspired by: Marion Harris (2016)
“Paris to Paris” by: Patricia Watkins (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Hattie Hill (2014)
“Paris Purity” by: Shellen Lubin (2 characters/4 pages) Inspired by: Zilphia Horton (2015)
“The Parmachene Belle” by: Carolyn Gage (1 character/17 pages) Inspired by: Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby (2014)
“Partner Of — ” by: Rachael Carnes (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Hemings (2018)
“The Passion of Ethel Rosenberg” (1 character, 35 pages) Inspired by Ethel Rosenberg (2016)
“The Past Is Still Ahead” by: Sophia Romma (9 characters/46 pages) Inspired by: Marina Tsvetaeva, Maria Meyn (2014)
“The Past Past” by: Mandy Carpenter (2 characters /16 pages) inspired by Mary Elizabeth Fairless (2016)
The Pastels of Paris” by Michael angel Johnson /1 character/(6 pages) inspired by: Annie E. A. Walker. (2017)
“patchoulí” by: camila le-bert & Claudia Hidalgo (2 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Violeta Parra (2014)
“Pay It No Mind” by: Monique Hebert (4 Characters/ 13 pages) inspired by: Marsha P Johnson (2017)
“The Peacock and the Nightingale” by: Julie Lyn Barber (38 pages, 2 characters) Inspired by: Sarojini Naidu, Begum Hazrat Mahal (2015)
“Pearlie Mae” by: Sandra de Helen (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Pearl Bailey (2016)
“The Pele Chant” by: Carolyn Gage (2 characters/27 pages) Inspired by: Queen Lili’uokalani (2014)
“Penthesileia” by: Robert F. Bradford (4 characters/49 pages) Inspired by: Penthesileia (2015)
“Petra Kelly Speaks to Power” by: Daniel M. Kinch (19 characters, eight actors with role doubling/111 pages) Inspired by: Petra Kelly (2016)
“Petrified!” by: Kate Busselle (7-12 characters/29 pages) Inspired by: Annie Montague Alexander (2019)
”Phillis Wheatley: Twas Mercy Brought Me…” by Paula J Sanders (8 characters/40 pages) Inspired by: Phillis Wheatley (2015)
“Phyllis Schlafly And The Imaginary Television Show” by Jo Brisbane (7 characters/12 pages) Inspired by Phyllis Schlafly (2016)
“Pigment and Stones” by: Michael angel Johnson (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Lois Mailou Jones (2016)
“The Pill” by: Jenny Seidelman (3 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Katharine McCormick, Margaret Sanger (2014)
“Pillow of Tears” by: Lynda Crawford (5-6 characters/20 pages) Inspired by: Yang Huanyi (2014)
“The Plant in Your Life” by: Lylanne Musselman (4 characters/14 pages) Inspired by: Patsy Southgate (2015)
“Pleiades Rising” by: Lisa Jayne (5 characters/48 pages) Inspired by: Cecilia Payne, Annie Jump Cannon (2014)
“Pocahontas” by Pat Cheshire Jennings(2 characters, 7 pages) Inspired by:Pocahontas (2015)
“The Poet from Pikeville” by: Nancy Gall-Clayton (4 characters/14 pages) Inspired by: Effie Waller Smith (2014)
“Poise & Place” by: Ian Low ( 7 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Beryl Mills/Kitty Mills (2016)
“Poison’s Fruit” by: Christine Emmert (4 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Clodia Metulli (2019)
“Policarpa” by: Diana Burbano (9 characters/57 pages) Inspired by: Policarpa Salavarietta (2016)
“Poor Painted Queen” by: Catriona Scott (8 characters/67 pages) Inspired by: Margaret of Anjou (2018)
“Poor Words of a Poet” by: Lynda Crawford (7-17 characters/36 pages) Inspired by: Anna Akhmatova (2015)
“The Power of Enchantment” by: Rex McGregor (2 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Suzi Gablik (2017)
“Pre-War” by: Jennifer O’Grady (2 characters, 8 pages) Inspired by: Clara Joseph (2015)
PREACHER GIRLS by Lyndol Michael (5 characters, 14 pages), inspired by Aimee Semple McPherson and Kathryn Kuhlman (2018)
“President Charles Evans Hughes” by: Rex McGregor (4 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Mary Pickford (2017)
“Prisms” by: Teresa Stankiewicz (7 characters/30 pages) Inspired by: Zitkala-Sa (2014)
“Proof of Influence” by: Patricia Watkins (5 pages, 1 character) Inspired by: Olga Watkins Gmoser (2015)
“Pulse” by Allie Costa (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (2018)
“The Punk Rock Ballad of Gloria Von Thurn und Taxis” by: Natalie Osborne (1 character/2pages) Inspired by: Gloria Von Thurn Und Taxis (2017)
“Purdah” by J.Lois Diamond,(32 pages),inspired by Kamala Nehru and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Nan) 2017
“Purloined Papers” by Glenda Frank (5 characters/14 pages). Inspired by:
Samantha Power(2017), Laura Pitter and Barbara Demick. (2017)
“Pursuing Sylvia Beach” by: Deb Caperton Ballard (5 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: Sylvia Beach Whitman, Sylvia Beach (2014)
“Push Boldly Off” by: Donna Latham (6 characters/67 pages) Inspired by: Abigail Alcott, Anna Alcott, Louisa May Alcott (2015)
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“The Quality of Light” by Eva C. Schegulla (5 characters/20 pages) inspired by Canaletto’s sisters Fiorenza Canal Bellotto, Francesca Canal, and Viena Canal. (2019)
“The Queen’s Breast” by: Pippa Roberts (2 characters/9pages) Inspired by: Atossa (2018)
“Queen Catharine” by: Judith Pratt (5 characters/14 pages) Inspired by: Catherine Montour, Esther Montour (2014)
“Queen of the Water Lilies” by: Kitty Felde (6 characters/89 pages) Inspired by: Helen Shaw Fowler (2018)
“Queen, Next Westminster” by: Connie Bennett (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Margery Jourdemayne and by Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester (2016)
“Queen Takes Emperor” by: Rex McGregor (2 characters/25pages) Inspired by Louise, Queen of Prussia (2019)
“#Qworegoys (“Hashtag Kwo-ray-go-eess”)” by: Robert Brophy (27 pp., 3 scenes may be done separately) Inspired by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibaado, and Huma Abedin (2017)
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“The Race Box” by Connie Bennett (2 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Bree Newsome (2015)
“Rachel Carson and the Devil” by Pat Montley (6 or 7 characters / 30 pages) Inspired by: Rachel Carson. Also available from author in a 10-page, 3 or 4-character version. (2017)
“Racing Into History” by: Christina Hamlett (9-20 characters/22 pages) Inspired by: Sybil Ludington (2019)
“Rage” by: Gina Scanlon (3 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Etta James (2014)
“Rap Race” by: Nancy Brewka-Clark (2 characters/8 pages) inspired by: Ruth Batson, Louise Day Hicks (2018)
“Raqqa” by: Jessie Salsbury (1 Character/1 Page) Inspired by: Avril Difram (2019)
“Ravenscraig” by: Catriona Scott (6 characters/25 pages) Inspired by: Mary of Guelders (2017)
“Reading Jeanne” by: Elise Geither (2 characters/2 pages) Inspired by: Jeanne Cordova (2014)
“Reasons of the Heart by Barbara Corrado Pope (4 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Sophie de Condorcet (2019)
“Recipe for Espionage (Before She Was Julia Child)” by: Carol M. Rice (20 pages, 5 characters) Inspired by: Julia McWilliams Child (2015)
“Refusing to Sing the Blues” by Sharai Bohannon (2 Characters/ 4 pages) Inspired by Helen Humes (2018)
The Rejection by: Michael angel Johnson(11pages)inspired by Augusta Savage (2017)
“Remedios Varo: La Alquimista” by: Estela Garcia (3-5 characters/38 pages) Inspired by: Remedios Varo (2014)
“Re -remembering – Sara Baartman” by: robyn brooks (4W/8 pages) Inspired by: Sara Baartman (2018)
“Rene and Elisabeth” by: Erin Moughon ( 2 characters/ 5 pages) Inspired by: Elisabeth of Bohemia(2017)
“Resolute” by: Christina Hamlett (1 characters/4 pages) Inspired by: Theodate Pope Riddle (2019)
“Restoration” by: Mark Rosati (2 characters/10 pages) inspired by Renee Falconetti (2017)
“The Resurrection of the Publick Universal Friend” by: Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos (3 characters/71 pages) Inspired by: Jemima Wilkinson (2016)
“Retracing” by Barbara Bridger (3 characters/33 pages) Inspired by: Gwen John (2019)
“Return to Sender” by: Rita Anderson (5 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Minnie Cox, and Ola, Choctaw princess (2016)
“REUNIÓN DE AMIGAS” by: Marina Castiñeira Ezquerra (3 characters/25 pages) Inspired by Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Roberta Martin and Imelda Marcos (2015)
“Revolutionist/Abolitionist” by Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen (7 characters/69 pages) inspired by Luísa Mahin (2017)
“RIDE THE WILD WIND OR DIE! Anne Bonny, From the Crow’s Nest” by: Eva Montealegre (1 character/33 pages) Inspired by: Anne Bonny (2014)
“The Rise of Jessie Bates” by Paul Antokolsky (5 characters/45 pages) Inspired by: Jessie Bates (2019)
“The River Runs Red” by: Brenda White (1 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Cornblossom (2014)
“The Road to Women’s Suffrage: A Reader’s Theater” by Lisa K. Winkler (14 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Carrie Chapman Catt, Abigail Adams, Sarah Grimke, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Lucy Stone, Clara Barton, Mary Ware Dennett, Alice Paul, Harriet Stanton Blatch (2019)
“Roadside Alice” by: Uma Incrocci (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Alice Huyler Ramsey (2017)
“Robbed Time” by Luiza CAROL (4 characters/ 6 pages/ Inspired by Lidia ZAMENHOF and Eva TOREN (2018)
“Rock” by: Larissa Brewington (3 characters/26 pages) Inspired by: Daisy Bates (2014)
“Rock-Paper-Toffee Hammer” by: Ian Low ( 2 characters/ 6 pages) Inspired by: Ethel Smyth and Emmeline Pankhurst (2018)
“Rockabye Baby” by: Susan Shafer (3 characters, 6 pages) Inspired by: Virginia Apgar (2017)
“Rodin’s Garden” by: Michael Angel Johnson (3 characters/38 pages) Inspired by: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (2014)
“Roofing the County of Surrey with Crystal” by: Sue Blundell (7 main characters, 6 minor/76 pages). Inspired by Harriet Martineau (2018)
“Root Down” by: Allie Costa (3 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2017)
“Rosemary” by James O’Connor (6 characters/125 pages) Inspired by: Rosemary Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy (2018)
“Rosetta LeNoire: Working the Mission” by: Jean Hartley Sidden (6 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Rosetta LeNoire, Jane White, Billie Allen, Ruby Dee (2016)
“Rouge Étude or How He Became A Misogynist” by DS Magid (4 characters/87 pages) Inspired by: Wilma (Wilhelmine) Norman-Neruda (2018)
“Round Two” by: Julie Riggs (1 character/9 pages) Inspired by: Anne Sullivan (2014)
“The Rules of the Game” by: Kimberly Patterson (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Louise Bryant (2017)
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“Safo de Lesbos” by: Diana Cristóbal Herrero (7 characters/31 pages) Inspired by: Safo (2014)
“St. Agnes in Agony” by Micki Shelton(12 characters/23 pages) Inspired by: St. Agnes of Rome (2018)
“Saints in Revolt” by: Coni Ciongoli Koepfingerc (6 characters/27 pages) Inspired by: Hildegard of Bingen, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Saint Bridget (2014)
“Sala’s Reply To The Violence” by: Arlene Hutton (1 character, 2 pages) Inspired by: Sala Garncarz (2015)
“Samurai Girl” by: Gyda Arbor (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Hangaku Gozen (2014)
“Sarah Franklin for President!” by: Ariel Aliza Sanders and Matt Sanders (2 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Sarah Franklin Bache (2017)
Sarah’s Poem by Charissa Menefee (three characters/ten pages/2016), inspired by Harriett Forten (Purvis), Margaretta Forten, and Sarah Forten (2016)
“Save the Turkey!” by: Robin Rice (4 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Martha Stewart (2014)
“Say Goodnight, George – The Final Episode” by Stephanie Satie (5 characters/37 pages) Inspired by: Gracie Allen (2017)
“School The Unknown” by: Cindy Cooper (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Marjory Stoneman Douglas (2018)
“Science of Motion Sickness” by: Asia Nichols (4 characters, 11 pages) Inspired by: Mae C. Jemison (2015)
“Scrutable” by: Karen Rousso (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Anna May Wong, Dorothy Lamour (2014)
“Sea Change” by DS Magid (1 character / 1 pages) Inspired by: MFK Fisher (2018)
“The Secret War of Emma Edmonds” by: Bonnie Milne Gardner (Cast of 7 play 14 roles/92 pages) Inspired by: Sarah Emma Edmonds (2019)
“See the Sign” by: Trish Ayers (1 character/4 pages) Inspired by: Claudette Osborne-Tyo (2016)
“Self-Portrait” by: Ian Low ( 2 characters/6 pages) inspired by Paula Modersohn Becker & Clara Rilke-Westhoff (2018)
Serene and Determined by Eva C. Schegulla (62 pages/ 12 characters) Inspired by: Lavinia Fontana (2017)
“The Seven Virtues of Edinburgh” by: Ian Low / (1 Character/ 3pages)
Inspired by: Sophia Jex-Blake (2017)
“Shadow” by: Michael angel Johnson (1 character/10 pages) Inspired by: Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (2015)
” Shadowing Emily” by: Christine Emmert ( 5 Characters, 8 pages) Inspired by:
Emily Hahn (2018)
“Shattered Isolation of the Steel Butterfly” by: Lani Anderson (13 characters/25 pages) Inspired by: Aung San Suu Kyi (2014)
“She Sailed a Hero’s Course” by Francesca Peppiatt (10-20 characters/23 pages) Inspired by: Laskarina Bouboulina (2015)
“She Sails Sea Ships Far From the Seashore” by: Christina Hamlett (10 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Jeanne Baret (2019)
“She Walks” by: Allie Costa (3 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Ada Lovelace (2014)
“She Was Never Lost” by: Allie Costa (1 character/6 pages) Inspired by: Alice Liddell (2015)
“She Who Struggles” by: Renee Rankin (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Assata Shakur, Lula Hill (2014)
“She’ll Stick To Ye’” by: Jack Gilhooley (2 characters/34 pp) Inspired by: Nora Barnacle Joyce (2017)
“The Sheltered Fire” by Lorraine Liscio (9 characters by 6 actors/83 pages) Inspired by Heloise (2019)
“SheWolf” by: Emily Atkinson (6+ characters/46 pages) Inspired by: Isabella of France. (2017)
“Shirtwaist Girls, Unite!” by Susan Shafer (3 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Clara Lemlich (2019)
”Silueta” by Diana Burbano, Chris Shelton and Tom Shelton (2 characters/55 pages) Inspired by: Ana Medieta (2015)
“Simone at Home” by: Rita Anderson (6 characters/26 pages) Inspired by: Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvie Le Bon (2014)
“Single and Active” Adaptation & Lyrics: Sheilah Rae Music: Michelle Brourman (6 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Rachel Lehman-Haupt (2014) MUSICAL
“Sins of the Flesh” by: Heather Forgie (14 characters/42 pages) Inspired by: St. Kateri (2014)
“Sister Elviry” by: Mary Sue Price (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: June Weaver (2014) MUSICAL
“Sit Here For the Present: An Appreciation of Beverly Cleary” by: Matthew Weaver (5 performers/4 pages) Inspired by: Beverly Cleary (2017)
“The Sitting” by: Susan Apker (2 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Mona Lisa Giacondi (2014)
“Skull Against the Sky” by: Rex McGregor (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Georgia O’Keeffe (2018)
“Small’s Tongue of Totem to Eyes” by: Julie English-Dixon (1 character/50 pages) Inspired by: Emily Carr (2017)
“Smith” by: Sarah Tuft (2 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: Patti Smith, Janis Joplin (2015)
“SNOW JOB” by: Lucy Wang (3 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Suzanne Somers and Taylor Swift(2017)
“Social Movements and Lesser Wars” by: Jess Eisenberg (5 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman (2014)
“Something’s Got to Give” by: Sandra de Helen (3 characters/24 pages) Inspired by: Marilyn Monroe, Angela Davis (2014)
“Sonnets For a Siren” by: LuLu LoLo (1 character/7pages) inspired by Helen Jewett (2018)
“Sor Juana” by: Cynthia L. Cooper (2 characters/19 pages) Inspired by: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (2014)
“Sound Off” by: Amina S. McIntyre (5 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: Cathay Williams (2014)
“The Souvenir” by Robin Baron (6 characters/7pages) Inspired by: Dora Maar (2017)
“Speak Fully the One Awful Word” by: Carolyn Gage (4 characters/14 pages) Inspired by: Lady Byron, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014)
“The Spring and Fall of Eve Adams” by: Barbara Kahn (8 characters/49 pages) Inspired by: Eve Adams (2014)
“Squeezing Papayas” by: Robin Rice (2 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Sasha Montenegro (2014)
“Stagecoach Mary or Fuck You All” by: Melody Cooper (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Mary Fields (2014)
“Standard Practices” by: Shellen Lubin (2 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Ida Tarbell (2016)
“Standing Strong in a Field of Color” by: Lylanne Musselman (10 pages, 3 characters) Inspired by Helen Frankenthaler (2015)
“Star Maps” by Deanne Stillman 7 characters/30 pages) Inspired by: Katerina Witt (2019)
“Star Lady” by: J.Lois Diamond (3 characters/14 pages) Inspired by: Nancy Roman (2019)
“Stigmata” by: Carolyn Gage (14 characters/96 pages) Inspired by: Benedetta Carlini (2017)
“The Stir” by: Evelyn Jean Pine (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Mary Austin (2017)
“Stitches In Time” by Danielle Winston (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Harriet Powers (2015)
“Stonewall Memories” by Carol Polcovar (1 character, 5 pages) Inspired by: Jean Devente (2015)
“The Story of Ruth” by: David John Preece (8 actors/51 characters/134 pages) Inspired by: Ruth Gordon(2019)
“Succotash” by: Lydia Williams (7 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Mary Rowlandson, Weetamoo and Wootonekanuske (2017)
“The Subject” by: Carolyn Kras (11 characters/84 pages) Inspired by: Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Princess Charlotte of the United Kingdom, Princess Augusta of the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Princess Mary of the United Kingdom, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (2017)
“Suffer A Witch” by: Donna Latham (10 characters/80 pages) Inspired by: Grace Sherwood, Witch of Pungo (2018)
“Sunshine in Every Window” by: Rex McGregor (5 characters/29 pages) Inspired by: Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch (2017)
“That Sunny April Afternoon” by: Paul Calandrino (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Margaret Bourke-White (2018)
“Sustenance Through Crucifixion” by: Julie English-Dixon (3 characters/52 pages) Inspired by: Violette Leduc (2016)
“Sweatshop Cinderella” by: Ellen W. Kaplan (8 characters/39 pages) Inspired by: Anzia Yezierska (2017)
“Sword Play” by: Rita Kniess Barkey (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Catalina de Erauso (2014)
“Sworn Oath for a Soldier” by LuLu LoLo ( 1 character/7 pages) Inspired by: Jennie Hodgers aka Albert D.J. Cashier (2017)
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“Table in the Air” by: Rex McGregor (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Eusapia Palladino and Marie Curie (2018)
“The Tale of Nancy Hart” by: Gyda Arber (6-9 characters/6 pages) Inspired by: Nancy Morgan Hart, Sookie Hart (2015)
“Taman” by: Marlo Kern (11 characters/78 pages) Inspired by : Nina Ulyanenko, Vera Bjelik, Natalya Meklin, Yevdokia Bershanskaya (2017)
“TCHEKOV at THE HOUSE of SPECIAL PURPOSE” by: R.Johns ( 12 characters/56 pages) inspired by: Anastasia, Maria, Olga, Tatiana, and also that of their mother ( ex- Empress) Alexandra. (2017)
“Tea with Anne” by Kenneth Robbins (5 women, 23 pages) inspired by Anne Hathaway (2017)
“Tea With Eleanor Roosevelt” by:Michel angel Johnson (1 character (7 pages) Inspired by: Pauli Murray (2018)
“Tell It Slant:” by Marilyn Clarke / 5 characters /21 pgs / inspired by: Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Susan Huntington Dickinson (2016)
“Temperance” by: Gina Scanlon (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Victoria Woodhull (2014)
“TENDER” by: David John Preece (3 characters/99 pages) Inspired by: Zelda Fitzgerald (2019)
“Tennessee Claflin Conquer the Commodore” by: Geralyn Horton (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Tennessee Claflin (2014)
“Ternura negra” by: Denise Despeyroux (3 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Maria Estuardo (2014)
“This One Wild and Precious Life” by: Micki Shelton (3 female actors, 6 female characters/58 pages) Inspired by: Mary Oliver (2019)
“This Lady Doesn’t Stop” by: Cindy Cooper (3 characters/25 pages) Inspired by: Clara Barton, Ida B Wells, Lakshmi Bai (2015)
“This Land’s Gonna Rise Me Up” by: Cesi Davidson (3 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Anne Grier (2016)
“Thistle patch” by: Catherine Frid (17 characters (5 actors)/62 pages) Inspired by: Flora Danziger, Norma Lee Dean (2016)
“Threads of Orchard Street” by: Shellen Lubin (5 characters/16 pages) Inspired by:Isadora Elman Lubin (2017)
“The Three Deaths of Agrippina” by: Erin Murray Quinlan (6 characters/50 pages) Inspired by: Agrippina the Younger (2016)
“Three Judy Garlands” by: Jess Eisenberg (4 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Judy Garland (2015)
“Timeless Beauty” by: Genny Yosco (3 characters/18 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Bathory (2016)
“To Tread Among Serpents” by: Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos (4+ characters/75 pages) Inspired by: Viola Hyatt (2014)
“Toca Para Mi” by: Liza Case (5 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Emma Goldman, Gwendolyn Brooks (2014)
“Torched: A Monologue” by: Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro (1 character/5 pages) Inspired by: Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro (2015)
The Tour of Life Before the Dawn by Claire McCracken (7 characters, 17 pages) inspired by Kate Bush & Emily Bronte (2016)
TOUT OU RIEN by Christine Emmert (4 characters/9 pages)
inspired by: Felix Rachel (2017)
“The Tower” by: Diana Burbano (2 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Melania Trump (2017)
“Tradition of the First Lady Garden” by: Jessie Salsbury (1 character/4 pages) Inspired by: Michelle Obama (2014)
“The Tragic Tale of Silas McKee or The True Story of Susanna Salter” by Patricia Middleton (10 characters/19 pages) Inspired by: Susanna Salter (2015)
“Trece días” by: María Lourdes Vega Alonso (2 characters/3 pages) Inspired by: Ana Orantes (2018)
“The Trial of Margaret Clitherow” by: Judy Meiksin (4 characters/23 pages) Inspired by: Margaret Clitherow (2016)
“The Trial of Mary Reade” by: Joan Kane (11 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Mary Reade (2014)
“The Trials of Ruth Handler” by: Jonathan Alexandratos (2 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Ruth Handler (2018)
“Triflers Need Not Apply” by: Kate Busselle (5 characters/70 pages) Inspired by: Belle Gunness (2019)
” Trilogy” by Gloria Schramm (3 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Diana, Princess of Wales and St. Teresa of Calcutta (2018)
“Triumvir” by: Nicole Heneveld (3 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Fulvia, Cleopatra, Octavia (2017)
“Trouble The Water” by: K A Brokaw (6-10 characters/40 pages) Inspired by: Charlotte Forten Grimke (2014)
“The Trouble with Catherine” by: Nancy Cooper Frank (6 characters/60 page) Inspired by: Yekaterina Dashkova and Catherine the Great (2015)
“The Trouble With Girls” by Sarah Tuft (3 characters/4 pages) Inspired by Connie St Louis (2016)
“Truth and Justice on an Elevator” by: Erin Moughon (2-3 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Sonia Sotomayor (2014)
“Try Not to Get Assassinated” by: Joy Tomasko (2 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Empress Dowagers Cixi & Ci’an (2014)
“Two Falling Voices” by: Teresa Stankiewicz (5 characters/52 pages) Inspired by: Mary Jemison (2014)
“Two to the Body” by: Sara K. Larson (8 characters/6 pages) Inspired by: Phoolan Devi (2014)
“Two Women” by: Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (3 characters/3 pages) Inspired by: Maxine Hong Kingston (2014)
“Two Words” by: Asia Nichols (2 characters/3 pages) inspired by Angelina Weld Grimkè (2018)
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“Un mar de papel” by: Inmaculada Alvear (3 characters/21 pages) Inspired by: Carlota O’Neill (2014)
“Unbinding Our Lives” by: Geralyn “G.L.” Horton (1-3 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Mary Tape, Tien Fu Wu, Polly Bemis (2015)
“Unter Investigation” by: Nancy Hopps (3 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Mary Lou Kownacki (and also by an Iraqi immigrant) (2017)
“Unto the Breach at the Maison de Ville” by: Charlene A. Donaghy (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Mrs. (James Oscar) Louise “Mother” Nixon (2017)
“Une Belle Fleur” by: Aspen Mock (8 characters/ 36 pages) Inspired by: Catherine de Medici and Louise of Lorraine (2015)
“Une Echarpe Rouge” by: Aspen Mock (2 characters/ 6 pages) Inspired by: Isadora Duncan (2015)
“Unlikely Weapons” by: Robin Rice (3 characters/27 pages). Inspired by: Susannah Way Dodds (2017)
“Under the Microscope” by Ellen Struve (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Roger Arliner Young (2017)
“Unmasked” by: Patti Cassidy (5 characters/19 pages) Inspired by: Anna Coleman Ladd (2015)
“The Unapology of Leni Riefenstahl” by: Zoe Mavroudi (1 character/29 pages) Inspired by: Leni Riefenstahl (2016)
“Us Against Us” by: Katherine Glover (11+characters/101pages) Inspired by: Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon(2018)
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“Valadon” by: Devon Greene (4-9 characters/55 pages) Inspired by: Suzanne Valadon (2018)
“Valerie Solanas at Matteawan” by: Carolyn Gage (4 characters/18 pages) Inspired by: Valerie Solanas (2014)
“The Value of a Reasoned Argument” by Elliot D. Huxtable (16 characters/46 pages) Inspired by Ayn Rand, Anna Lively, Evva Pryor, Frances Smith, Ilona Royce Smithkin, Kathleen Nickerson, Lisette Hassani (2016)
“Vamping” by: Diana Burbano (1 character/4 pages) Inspired by: Theda Bara (2015)
“Verzet Amsterdam [Resistance Amsterdam]” by: Barbara Kahn (6 characters/91 pages) Inspired by: Frieda Belinfante (2018)
“The View From Here” by: Allie Costa (2 characters/4 pages) Inspired by: Anna Christina Olson (2014)
“The Visions of Christine” by: Kirsten Brandt (49 pages, 5 characters) Inspired by Christine de Pizan (2015)
“The Vision of Margery Kempe” by: Rachael Goddard Rebstein (7 actors/19 characters/89 pages) Inspired by: Margery Kempe (2018)
“Vivian’s Song and Dance” by: Monica Bauer (1 character/10 pages) Inspired by: Vivian Strong (2014)
“Vodou Queen” by: Carolyn Nur Wistrand (5 characters/38 pages) Inspired by: Marie Laveau (2017)
“The Vulgarity of Grace” by: Danielle Wirsansky (3 characters/13 pages) Inspired by: Gracia Mendes Nasi (2014)
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“Warrior Stories” by: D.L. Siegel (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Tomoe Gozen (2014)
“Wata Daughters” by: Asia Nichols (2 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Mami Wata (2017)
“The Way Of Things” by: Earl T. Roske (2 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Buffalo Calf Road (2014)
“We Did it For You” by: Thea Iberall (8-22 characters/31 pages) Inspired by: 21 different women in history (2014)
“We Were Very Merry” by: Penny Jackson (4 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Edna Saint Vincent Millay (2014)
“Wearing the Pants” by: Christina Hamlett (10 characters/18 pages) Inspired by: Luisa Capetillo (2019)
“Welcome to These Sandwich Islands” by: Jennifer O’Grady (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Lucy Thurston and Queen Ka’ahumanu (2017)
“West” by: Antonia Wolf (6 characters/22 pages)) Inspired by: Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (2015)
“What Does the Flag Mean to You?: A Lesson for Patricia Hill Collins” by: Ivan Faute (3 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Patricia Hill Collins (2016)
“What Will Happen To The Flowers? Looking For Parveen” by: Melissa Nussbaum Freeman (6 characters, 18 pages) Inspired by: Parveen Shakir (2015)
“What you are” by: Samantha Lierens (29 pages) Inspired by: Janet Taylor, Ann Taylor (2016)
“What You Would Do” by: Lauren Ferebee (2 characters/5 pages) Inspired by: Rani Lakshmibai (2014)
“What’s In A Name?” by: Kay Ellen Bullard ( 5 characters/20 pages) Inspired by: Mary Katharine Goddard (2017)
“When Women Cry Bloody Murder” by: Sheree Bradford-Lea (7+ characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Bridget Moran, Coreen Thomas, Mary John Sr, Sophie Thomas (2015)
“Where There’s Smoke” by: Christina Hamlett (12F, 9M/21 pages) Inspired by: Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt (2017)
“White and Male” by: Jess Eisenberg (5 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Deborah Sampson Gannett (2014)
“White Cotton” by: Shellen Lubin (2 characters/9 pages) Inspired by: Fannie Lou Hamer (2014)
“White Mouse” by: Danielle Wirsansky (3 characters/16 pages) Inspired by: Nancy Wake (2014)
“The White Nile”by Karin Diann Williams (3 characters, 9 pages) Inspired by: Alexandrine Tinné (2015)
“White Rose: Another Kind of Fairytale” by: Lisa Jayne (4 characters/15 pages) Inspired by: Sophie Scholl (2016)
“Whitewashed” by Lynda Crawford (3 characters/11 pages). Inspired by the life of Lavern Baker. (2016)
“where has all the cat soup gone: a monologue” by: Emmy Kuperschmid (1 character/3 pages) Inspired by: Nekojiru (Chiyomi Hashiguchi) (2017)
“Where We’re Going” by Roberta D’Alois (2 characters, 9 pages) inspired by Bettina Aptheker (2017)
“Who Was Charles Oakes Ermatinger?” by: Wendy Hamilton (3 characters/8 pages) Inspired by: Mananowe (2015)
“The Widow Capet” by: Susan Apker (3 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Marie Antoinette (2014)
“Will You Dance On?” by: Robin Rice (1 character/2 pages) Inspired by: Marjorie Stoneman Douglas (2014)
“Winnie & Alfred” by: Monique Hebert (4 Characters/ 15 pages) inspired by: Varina “Winnie” Davis (2017)
“Winning” by Jennifer O’Grady (6 characters/10 pages) Inspired by Aurelia Browder, Claudette Colvin, Susie McDonald, Mary Louise Smith. (2019)
“The Wisdom of Serpents” by: Diane Baia Hale/(12 Characters/106 pages) Inspired by: Hildegard von Bingen (2018)
“The Wit of Dorothy Parker” by :Elaine Flynn (one character/11 pages) Inspired by Dorothy Parker (2017)
The Women of Amherst by Tom Noe (9 to 13 characters, 109 pages) inspired by Emily Dickinson, Lavinia Dickinson, Susan Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd (2018)
“This Woman is an Island” by: Hope McIntyre (5 characters/11 pages) Inspired by: Kate Rice (2016)
“Women of Unsound Mind” by: Grace Ivana Carroll (94 pages/14 characters) Inspired By: Nellie Bly (2016)
“Wonder Women” by: Ashley Lara (3 characters/25 pages) Inspired by: Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne (2016)
“The Wondrous Life of Chief Sarah Winnemucca” by: Dorothy Velasco (26 pages, 4 characters) Inspired by: Sarah Winnemucca (2015)
“Writing in a Wall of Light” by Nancy West (4 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Emily Preston (2016)
“Writing Your Own Tragedy” by: Sara Cowley (1 character/1 page) Inspired by: Lucy Grealy & Ann Patchett (2017)
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“Year 7” by: Aspen Mock (9 characters/45 pages) Inspired by: Hatshepsut (2014)
“Yellow Clover” by: Jess Eisenberg (4 characters/7 pages) Inspired by: Katharine Lee Bates, Katharine Coman (2014)
“Yellow Rose: The Legend of Emily West” by: Sarah Lawrence- in collaboration with erry Langfitt and Paul Gandolfi (26-36 characters, 115 pages) Inspired by: Emily West and Celia Morgan (2018)
“Yerba Buena” by: Paula Cizmar (2 characters/17 pages) Inspired by: Juana Briones (2014)
“Yes, I Cut Marble, Mrs. Grant” by Nancy Gall-Clayton (4 characters/16 pages) Inspired by Enid Yandell, Bertha Honoré Palmer, and Julia Dent Grant (2018)
“Yo destapé la Gurtel” by: Pilar G. Almansa (12 characters/12 pages) Inspired by: Ana Garrido (2016)
“You Need Me to Be” by: Jess Eisenberg (1 character/4 pages) Inspired by: Merle Oberon (2016)
“Your Bo” by Thomas Millstead (43 pages, 12 characters) Inspired by Elizabeth Bacon Custer (2019)
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“Zora and Hortense” by: Amina McIntyre (2 characters/10 pages) Inspired by: Hortense Powdermaker, Zora Neale Hurston (2015)
“Zoya” by: David Marrs (21 characters (played by a small cast)/8 pages) Inspired by: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (2017)
365 Women A Year: a playwriting project 