Olympe de Gouges
OLYMPE DE GOUGES was a playwright and prominent activist. Born into a middle-class family with the name Marie Aubrey, de Gouges received a modest education, but was married against her will at...
Oriel Gray
ORIEL GRAY was a playwright and screenwriter. Between 1937 and 1949, Gray was a writer and actor at the Sydney New Theatre, which had a reputation of left-wing and avant-garde radical political...
Patricia Joury
PATRICIA JOUDRY was a playwright, actress, and writer for radio from Alberta, Canada. She started in broadcast journalism, and began her writing career with radio dramas. Out of the 300 plays she...
Patrícia Rehder Galvão (Pagu)
PATRÍCIA REHDER GALVAO (PAGU) was a Brazilian writer, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator. An outspoken Left-wing activist, associated with the Brazilian Communist Party during the 1930s,...
Paula O. Jakobi
PAULA O. JAKOBI, playwright and notable suffragette, was one of the leaders of the National Women’s Party in New York City, and organized several protests and demonstrations for women’s rights....
Pauline Hopkins
PAULINE HOPKINS was an African-American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. At the age of 16, Hopkins began her career as a stage performer and by 1879 Hopkins and her family...
Pilar de Valderrama
PILAR DE VALDERRAMA was a poet and playwright. Born into a wealthy family in Madrid she was part of the cultural scene from a young age. A member of the Lyceum Club, where the cream of the female...
Prema Karanth
PREMA KARANTH was a playwright, theatre and film director, and the first female filmmaker of Kannada cinema. She was born into a poor family and raised by her grandparents after both her parents...