Jay Presson Allen
JAY PRESSON ALLEN was a screenwriter, playwright, stage director, novelist, and producer. At 18, she moved from Texas to New York to pursue acting but soon found that she would rather be involved...
Jeanette Granberg
JEANETTE GRANBERG was a Swedish playwright. Her sister, Louise Granberg, was another prominent playwright during this era; they co-authored several plays together, both using male pseudonyms....
Jean Kerr
JEAN KERR was an American playwright, novelist, and essayist. She often collaborated with her husband, noted theatre critic and writer Walter Kerr, on comedic plays and musicals. Many of their...
Jennifer Rankin
JENNIFER RANKIN was an Australian poet and playwright. She was born in Chatswood, New South Wales in 1941 and moved to Sydney with her family to obtain her primary education at a Methodist School....
Joan Littlewood
JOAN LITTLEWOOD, originally from a working-class family in London, earned a scholarship to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London as an actor. Dissatisfied with the training and the...
Joanna Baillie
JOANNA BAILLIE was a dramatist and poet who reached critical acclaim, a rare feat for a Scottish woman. Through her aunt, Anne Hunter, Baillie met with some of the most brilliant minds throughout...
Joan Ure
JOAN URE was the pen name of Scottish poet and playwright Elizabeth Thoms Clark. She was born in England to Scottish parents in 1918, with whom she moved to Glasgow in her youth. Her passion for...
John Oliver Hobbes
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES, originally Pearl Mary Teresa Richards, was a novelist, essayist, and playwright born in Boston but raised in London. Her first novel, Some Emotions and a Moral, was published...