1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

Emma Gad

Emma Gad

EMMA GAD was one of the most prolific playwrights of her time. Although 25 of her scripts were published or performed in Denmark between 1886 and 1916, she is remembered now mostly for her rules...

Emma Sheridan Fry

Emma Sheridan Fry

EMMA SHERIDAN FRY was an actor, teacher, playwright and founder of the Children's and Young People's Theatre in New York City. She also served as director of the Children's Educational Theatre and...

Enid Bagnold

Enid Bagnold

ENID BAGNOLD was an English playwright and novelist. She attended art school in London until becoming a nurse during the First World War. In 1920, she moved with her husband, Sir Roderick Jones,...

Estelle Anna Lewis

Estelle Anna Lewis

ESTELLE ANNA LEWIS was a poet and dramatist, prolific since childhood. While still in secondary school, she completely translated The Aeneid by Virgil into English verse and composed a ballad...

Esther McCracken

Esther McCracken

ESTHER HELEN MCCRACKEN (née Armstrong) was a British actress and playwright. She joined the Newcastle Repertory Company as an actress in 1929. McCracken’s first play, The Willing Spirit was...

Estrella Alfon

Estrella Alfon

ESTRELLA ALFON was a Filipina author and playwright who wrote primarily in English. She was born in Cebu City and attended the University of the Philippines to study medicine. Alfon was...

Ethel Watts Mumford

Ethel Watts Mumford

ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD was an American journalist, poet, novelist, playwright and illustrator. After her first husband grew intolerant of her writing, she fled to San Francisco with their child and...

Eulalie Spence

Eulalie Spence

EULALIE SPENCE was a playwright, teacher, director, and actress. As a child, Spence emigrated from her the British West Indies to Harlem, the location for most of her plays. She was an influential...

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