1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

ALICE O'CONNOR is best known by her pen name AYN RAND. She was a Russian author, playwright, and philosopher highly affected by the Russian Revolution. She immigrated to the United States in 1926....

Babette Hughes

Babette Hughes

BABETTE HUGHES was a playwright of one-act plays and a mystery novelist. Hughes wrote over 20 comedic one-acts, most in the subgenre of 10-minute plays. Her writing was reviewed positively, and...

Barbara Garson

Barbara Garson

BARBARA GARSON is a playwright, author, and social activist from the United States. During her time at the University of California, Berkeley, she was part of the Free Speech Movement and was an...

Barbara Ogier

Barbara Ogier

BARBARA OGIER was a Flemish playwright who represented the Chamber of Rhetoric in Antwerp, and mostly wrote plays commemorating Flemish government and history. She challenged societal norms by...

Barbara Vernon

Barbara Vernon

BARBARA VERNON was a playwright, screenwriter, editor and radio announcer. She served in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force during WWII, then joined the radio industry. She began writing...

Barbarina Brand

Barbarina Brand

BARBARINA BRAND, aka Lady Dacre (née Ogle), was an English poet, playwright, and translator. Born into an aristocratic family, Brand was primarily educated at home. Her first collection, Dramas,...

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Orczy

BARONESS EMMA ORCZY was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. In 1903, Orczy and her husband, Montagu Barstow, wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel, a play based on one of her short stories...

Beah Richards

Beah Richards

BEAH RICHARDS was an American stage, screen, and television actress, playwright, poet, author, and activist. In 1948, she received a degree from Dillard University in New Orleans and moved to New...

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