Viva Tattersall
VIVA TATTERSALL was the stage name of Vera Tattersall, a British stage and film actress, sculptor, and playwright. She was born in London and moved to the United States to begin her career as a...
Wakako Yamauchi
WAKAKO YAMAUCHI (山内 若子) was a Japanese-American writer and playwright. She was born to first-generation Japanese immigrants (Issei) and farmers in Southern California’s Imperial Valley. The...
Wang Yun
WANG YUN was a scholar, playwright, and poet during the Qing Dynasty. She was born in the ancient capital of Chang’an, now known as Xi’an. Her plays were written in the traditional style of...
Xohana Torres
Xohana Torres was a playwright, poet, and radio broadcaster from Galicia, Spain. During the restrictive Francoist era, she worked full-time in broadcasting, where she created and directed Raíz e...
Xohana Torres Fernández
XOHANA TORRES FERNÁNDEZ was a poet, playwright, and an academic. As a child, she was greatly influenced by her grandmother, who taught her Galician, the language she would write in for most of her...
Yang Jiang
YANG JIANG (杨绛) was a Beijing-born playwright and author. She attended Soochow University, Tsinghua University, where she met her husband, fellow scholar QIAN ZHONGSHU, and then studied at Oxford...
Zinaida Gippius
ZINAIDA NIKOLAYEVNA GIPPIUS (Зинаи́да Никола́евна Ги́ппиус) was a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism. Gippius started...
Zoe Akins
ZOE ATKINSA was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for THE OLD MAID. Akins wrote her first play in junior college, a parody of a Greek tragedy....