Amélie-Julie Candeille
AMÉLIE-JULIE CANDEILLE was the daughter of famed theatre director and music composer Pierre-Joseph Candeille and grew up surrounded by music. She was professionally trained to play the...
Ana Caro
ANA MARÍA CARO DE MALLÉN was a poet and playwright and one of Spain's (and Europe's) first known professional female writers. She was born and raised in Grenada but moved with her family to...
Anastasiya Verbitskaya
ANASTASIYA VERBITSKAYA was a Russian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, publisher, and feminist. Her most notable play was the comedy Mirage (1895), which played at The Maly Theater in Moscow. In...
Ángeles López de Ayala y Molero
ÁNGELES LÓPEZ AYALA Y MOLERO was a playwright, journalist, and political activist, considered the leading feminist intellectual from Spain during her time. She had a passion for writing at a young...
Angelina Weld Grimke
ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE was a journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet. Born into a prominent bi-racial family that included slave holders and abolitionists, race was an ongoing theme in her...
Anita Loos
ANITA LOOS was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 1912, she became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood, when D. W. Griffith put her on the payroll, and she...
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Anna Brenko
ANNA BRENKO was an actress, playwright and theatre manager whose efforts to create an ensemble-based company preceded Stanislavski by almost two decades. After an uninspiring stint as an actor,...
Anna Catharina Materna
ANNA CATHARINA MATERNA, née VON DER LÜHE, joined one of the first performing troupes at the Royal Danish Theatre, after they advertised a shortage of actresses, in an era when it was shameful for...