Mrs. Garnder
MRS GARDNER, also known as Sarah Cheney, was an actress and playwright. She found success as a comedic actress at the Drury Lane Theatre in London, and later at the Haymarket Theatre. Her most...
Mrs. Harlow Phibbs
MRS. HARLOW PHIBBS poked fun at herself as the “vicar’s wife,” running Mothers Meetings (her husband was a church of England minister in Hastings.) She was active in regional Suffrage movements....
Muktabai Dixit
MUKTABAI DIXIT was a Marathi playwright and author from India. The Marathi people are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to Maharashtra. Marathi theatre began in the mid 19th century,...
Máirín Cregan
MÁIRÍN CREGAN was an Irish nationalist, children’s writer, playwright, and novelist. She is best known for her involvement in the Irish resistance and received a service medal for her work during...
Mária Földes
MÁRIA FÖLDES was a playwright of Jewish descent. She and her mother survived multiple concentration camps during the Holocaust, until they were liberated by the Russians in Langenbialau. After the...
Mărgărita Miller-Verghy
MARGARITA (Mărgărita) MILLER-VERGHY was both a writer and a socialite, born in Romania to parents of noble ancestry. Her father died when she was young so Margarita’s mother took the family abroad...
Najwa Kawar Farah
NAJWA KAWAR FARAH was a playwright and theatre director. Born in Nazareth, she attended the Teachers’ Academy in Jerusalem and returned to her hometown to teach, but from the 1950s onwards Farah...
Nancy Cárdenas
NANCY CÁRDENAS received her PhD in Mexico and studied film and theatre at Yale University. At twenty, she became a radio announcer and stage actress, before transitioning into writing journal...