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 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...
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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 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...
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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 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,...
Una Troy
UNA TROY was an Irish novelist and playwright whose career began in 1936 when she published her novel Mount Prospect under the pen name “Elizabeth Connor”. The novel was quickly banned in the...
Urilka (Ullie) Akerstrom
URILKA (ULLIE) AKERSTROM was an actress, dancer, writer, and avid playwright known for her wide variety of facial expressions and her sharp wit. Born and raised in NYC, her mother taught her dance...