Women make up 51% of the population.
Yet, only 17% of plays produced are written by women.
(From the Festival 51 Women’s Playwrighting Festival in Pawtucket, Rhode Island)
Here are our Women Playwrights, Lyricists, Bookwriters and Composers:
Aichelle, Genevieve (playwright)LBT
Brewster, Allison (composer) LBT
Britt, Linda (playwright, lyricist)LBT
Brockway, Amie (Playwright) LBT
Brown, Jody D. (playwright, author)LBT
Coles, Christie Lund (playwright)ZT
Davis, Pat (playwright) LBT/ZT
Franzetti, Allison (composer) LBT
Gaver, Alexandra Grace (playwright)LBT
Gourley, Wendy (playwright) LBT
Hansen, Elizabeth (playwright, lyricist)LBT/ZT
Hogan, Barbara Howe (playwright, composer, lyricist)LBT
Jankell, Alice (playwright) LBT (soon)
Jarvik, Elaine (playwright) LBT
Kim, Susan (Playwright) LBT
King, Gayanne Ramsden (playwright, lyricist)LBT
Koepfinger, Coni Ciongoli (playwright) PBT/GNT
Kraus, Joanna H — (playwright)LBT
Marbacher, Jes (playwright)LBT
Martinez, Lyvia (playwright) LBT, ZT
Mew, Patricia (playwright)LBT
Murset, Carolyn (Playwright, composer, lyricist) ZT
Nii, Jenifer (playwright)LBT
Ospa, June Rachelson- (Playwright, Lyricist) LBT
Pearson, Carol Lynn (playwright, lyricist)LBT/ZT
Reck, Jennifer (playwright)LBT
Rinear, Sheila (playwright)LBT
Shepherd, Morag (playwright) LBT
Shields, Shirlee Hurst (playwright, lyricist) LBT/ZT
Tirro, Stacy (playwright, composer, lyricist) ZT
Tucker, Emily Rose (composer)LBT
Young, Heather (playwright, lyricist) LBT/ZT