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Martha Morton (October 10, 1865 – February 18, 1925) was the first successful American woman to sustain a lengthy career as a professional playwright.Author of numerous plays, she founded the Society of Dramatic Authors, and helped open doors for other female theatre artists.
James Albery (1838–1889, England) Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890, Romania) Grace Alexander (1872–1951, United States) Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803, Italy) William Alfred (1922–1999, United States) Jay Presson Allen (1922–2006, United States) Jim Allen (1926–1999, England) Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg 1935, United States)
China Zorrilla as Emily Dickinson, 1981. The Belle of Amherst is a one-woman play by William Luce.. Based on the life of poet Emily Dickinson from 1830 to 1886, and set in her Amherst, Massachusetts, home, the 1976 play makes use of her work, diaries, and letters to recollect her encounters with the significant people in her life – family, close friends, and acquaintances.
Pages in category "American women dramatists and playwrights" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 656 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mari Evans (July 16, 1919 [3] [1] – March 10, 2017) [4] was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist [5] associated with the Black Arts Movement. [6] Evans received grants and awards including a lifetime achievement award from the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation.
Aphra Behn (1640–1689), dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers; Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), New England's first published poet; Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess; Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1654–1724), French ...
Crothers was born on December 12, 1870, in Bloomington, Illinois, to Dr. Eli Kirk Crothers and Dr. Marie Louise (de Pew) Crothers. [3] Crothers' mother, an independent-minded woman whose father had been friends with Abraham Lincoln, went to medical school at forty and became one of the first woman physicians in Illinois, encountering and eventually overcoming much opposition to her practice in ...
Pages in category "Women dramatists and playwrights" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.