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...
Solvejg Eriksen
SOLVEJG ERIKSEN was a playwright, journalist, novelist, and translator from Karlsoy, Norway. She began her writing career as a journalist and later wrote for the popular newspaper, Morgenposten,...
Sophia Lee
SOPHIA LEE was an English novelist, playwright, and educator whose work influenced the Gothic literature movement. Her first play, The Chapter of Accidents (1780), is a three-act drama based on...