1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

Sybil le Brocquy

Sybil le Brocquy

SYBIL LE BROCQUY was a playwright and conservationist. A member of the Drama League, she wrote a number of short dramatic plays which were staged at the Abbey Theatre and broadcast by Radio...

Sylvia Wynter

Sylvia Wynter

SYLVIA WYNTER is a novelist, critic, essayist, and playwright, whose work is known for reframing ontological studies to decenter the Western man. After being awarded a scholarship from her high...

Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik

Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik

TATIANA SHCHEPKINA-KUPERNIK was a poet, playwright, and translator. One of her first known literary endeavors was a poem dedicated to her grandfather, which she wrote in school. She began her...

Teresa Deevy

Teresa Deevy

TERESA DEEVY was first regarded as the successor to Sean O'Casey at the Abbey Theatre, but within a decade had fallen into obscurity. In 1913, she lost her hearing and learned to lip read by...

Thelma Myrtle Duncan

Thelma Myrtle Duncan

THELMA MYRTLE DUNCAN was an African-American playwright born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Duncan’s first produced and published play, The Death Dance, was written while she was still a music...

Therese Mergerle Von Mühlfeld

Therese Mergerle Von Mühlfeld

THERESE MERGERLE VON MÜHLFELD was a writer and translator. She was married off when she was sixteen years old, and her dowry was large enough to allow her husband to work in theatre. After...

Tsarevna Natalya Alexeyevna

Tsarevna Natalya Alexeyevna

TSAREVNA NATALYA ALEXEYEVNA was the oldest daughter of Tsar Alexis and sister of Peter the Great. She supported her brother’s aim to Westernize Russia and she founded the city’s first Russian...

Una Marson

Una Marson

UNA MARSON was a Jamaican activist, poet, playwright, editor, essayist, radio producer, and broadcaster. In 1928, she became Jamaica’s first female editor and publisher with her feminist magazine,...

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