Sharon Pollock
SHARON POLLOCK was a playwright, actor, and director born in New Brunswick. She was deeply interested in theatre and writing from a young age. After leaving her abusive husband and returning to...
Shauneille Perry
SHAUNEILLE PERRY was an American director and playwright. Born in Chicago, she was the cousin of playwright Lorraine Hansberry. She received a BA in Drama from Howard University and an MFA from...
Sheila Bhatia
SHEILA BHATIA was a playwright and poet born in British India, in present day Pakistan. A teacher of mathematics, she was active in the struggle for Indian independence until Partition when she...
Shelagh Delaney
SHELAGH DELANEY was a playwright and screenwriter. Her most celebrated work, A Taste of Honey, written when she was just 18, featured a ground-breaking cast of realistic characters who were...
Shimako Murai
SHIMAKO MURAI was a Japanese playwright born in Hiroshima, but she was not there when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb in 1945. As a result, Murai devoted a lot of her work to the subject of the...
Shirley Graham Du Bois
SHIRLEY GRAHAM DU BOIS was an American-Ghanaian writer, playwright, composer, and activist. After her marriage and the birth of her first child, she moved to Paris, France in 1926 to study music...
Shulamit Bat-Dori
SHULAMIT BAT-DORI was a Polish-Israeli playwright and director, known for revolutionizing Kibbutz Theatre, a form considered “inappropriate” for the collectivist kibbutz lifestyle. She studied...
Sidney Frances Bateman
SIDNEY FRANCES BATEMAN was a theatre manager and playwright. Born in the U.S. to British actor parents. In 1869 Bateman moved to London with her husband, who became manager of the Lyceum Theatre;...