1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Encouraged to read the classics at home, she was too rebellious to make a success of formal education, but won prizes from an...

Efua Sutherland

Efua Sutherland

EFUA SUTHERLAND was a children’s author, poet, activist, and the earliest Ghanaian playwright-director. She was an advocate for children and developed educational curricula, literature, theatre,...

Elaine Sterne Carrington

Elaine Sterne Carrington

ELAINE STERNE CARRINGTON was an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. She was a pivotal figure in the radio soap opera genre and wrote more than 12,000 daily dramas during her career....

Eleanor Gates

Eleanor Gates

ELEANOR GATES spent her early years on the South Dakota prairie, where her family owned and operated a cattle farm. She met her first husband, playwright Richard Walton Tully, while she was a...

Elena Balletti

Elena Balletti

ELENA BALLETTI was an Italian actress, poet, woman of letters, playwright and writer. She came from a family of actors working in the commedia dell'arte tradition of improvising scripts and...

Elena Garro

Elena Garro

ELENA GARRO was a journalist, playwright, and screenwriter. She is associated with the beginning of the Magical Realism literary movement, though she herself rejected the affiliation. Garro...

Elena Guro

Elena Guro

ELENA GURO was a Russian painter, playwright, poet, and fiction writer living in the transitory period between Russian symbolism and futurism. She was born in St. Petersburg to a high-ranking army...

Elena Văcărescu

Elena Văcărescu

ELENA VĂCĂRESCU was a playwright, poet, and aristocrat. She was lucky to come from a very connected and well-off family, which gave her access to an education in English, French, philosophy, and...

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