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;...
Solveig Christov
SOLVEIG CHRISTOV was a Norwegian novelist, writer, and playwright. Born Solveig Fredriksen in Drammen in 1918, she took the pen name Christov in 1949. That same year she made her literary debut...