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
Britt, Linda (playwright, lyricist)LBT
Brown, Jody D. (playwright, author)LBT
Coles, Christie Lund (playwright)ZT
Davis, Pat (playwright) LBT/ZT
Gaver, Alexandra Grace (playwright)LBT
Gourley, Wendy (playwright) LBT
Hansen, Elizabeth (playwright, lyricist)LBT/ZT
Hogan, Barbara Howe (playwright, composer, lyricist)LBT
Jarvik, Elaine (playwright) LBT
Kim, Susan (Playwright) LBT
King, Gayanne Ramsden (playwright, lyricist)LBT
Kraus, Joanna H — (playwright)LBT
Marbacher, Jes (playwright)LBT
Mew, Patricia (playwright)LBT
Nii, Jenifer (playwright)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
Tucker, Emily Rose (composer)LBT
Young, Heather (playwright, lyricist) LBT/ZT