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...
Princess Amalie of Saxony
PRINCESS AMALIE OF SAXONY was a German composer under the pen name A. Serena and a dramatist under the name Amalie Heiter. Amalie was a royal descendant who lived as a well-educated woman in the...
Pu Shunqing
PU SHUNQING (濮舜卿) was a screenwriter, playwright, and feminist. Pu was the first woman in China to become a screenwriter, and with her husband, the film director Hou Yao, they created film content...
Rachel Barton Butler
RACHEL BARTON BUTLER was an American lyricist and playwright. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati, Butler pursued further studies at Radcliffe, where she was part of the drama...
Rachel Crothers
RACHEL CROTHERS was a playwright and director, considered by many to be the most successful and prolific woman dramatist in the early 20th Century. She attended drama school in Boston as an teen,...
Rachel de Queiroz
RACHEL DE QUEIROZ was a journalist, playwright, and United Nations representative. She started her career as a journalist before finding unexpected success with the publication of her first novel,...
Rachilde
RACHILDE wrote more than 20 plays which were produced throughout Europe, but her theatrical writing is largely unknown in comparison to her work as a novelist. At the height of her career, she...
Raffaella de' Sernigi
RAFFAELLA DE' SERNIGI was an Augustinian nun devoted to the Catholic Church, identified as authoring at least one 16th Century Mystery Play. Published sometime between the years 1550 and 1557, it...