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Women Directors
in alphabetical order by last name

Below are all the women* directors that have worked on the productions that we have seen or listed.


Tara Ahmadinejad - Hand Foot Fizzle Face

Tea Alagic -  Lidless, Jackie 

Audrey Alford  - The Perfect Wife  

Linda Ames Key - Trans Script

Kathleen Amshoff - Swell

Andrea Andresakis -  Final Analysis, My Purple Wig 
 
Rosemary Andress -  The Swearing Jar   
 
Elena Araoz - The Architect of Becoming 

Andra Assaf - Eleven Reflections on September

Suzanne Barabas -  The Housewives of Mannheim

Jessica Bauman - In Flight

Sarah Benson -  That Face

Pamela Berlin -  23 Feet in 12 Minutes 

​Terry Berliner - Promising 
 
Jo Bonney -  By the Way, Meet Vera Stark   

Sophia Cannata-Bowman - Brothers

Michelle Bossy- Ever Good Girl Deserves Fun  
 
Kathleen Brant -  Miss Lulu Bett

Laura Braza - The Dreamer Examines His Pillow

Melody Brooks -  Hamlet, Mother of God! 
 
Elizabeth Bunnell - The Power of Birds

Jessica Burr -  The Storm, Eurydice's Dream, Doruntine 

Kathleen Butler - Delirium's Daughters

Shelley Butler - The Most Deserving 

Carolyn Cantor - Fly By Night (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015)

Laura Caparrotti - Tosca e le Altre Due

Katherine M. Carter - Let It Come Down

Karen Case Cook - Medea & The Furies 

Tisa Chang - Sayonara
 
Rachel Chavkin -   Three Pianos, Iphegina at Aulis 

Jess Chayes - Primal Play, I Will Look Forward to This Later

Kate Chisholm (Writer, Director, Designer) - The Hidden Sky

Heather Cohn -  Sans Merci, Salvage    

Leslie Collins -  My Three Moms

Orietta Crispino -  Three Sisters Come and Go

Gretchen Cryer -  The Fifties Girl: A Simple Story 
 
Heather de Michele -  Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto

Lisa Devine - Devil and the Deep 

Francesca Di Cesare - The C*nt

Sherri Eden Barber - Gordy Crashes, Happily Ever After

Marianne Elliott - The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015)

Tara Elliott - Burq Off!, Secession 2015

Emily Feinstein - Plath.
 
Linsay Firman -  Photograph 51 

Kamilah Forbes - Fried Chicken and Latkes    

Lydia Fort - The Architect of Becoming

Amy Fowkes - The Singularity

Valentina Fratti - Catch the Butcher

Robin Frohardt - The Pigeoning

Leah C. Gardiner -  Born Bad 

Holly Kristina Goldstein - EVE

Erica Gould - Emmett, Down In My Heart

Jenn Haltmann - Summertime

Kel Haney -  Good Egg   

Courtney Harge - Rachel
  
Reynaliz Herrara - Ideas, Not Theories
 
Katrin Hilbe - Danton's Death Take 1, In Bed with Roy Cohn

Jessi D. Hill -  (+)30NYC: new plays imagining the next new york, Human Fruit Bowl, Cry Me a Liver

Maddie Hill - Only a Paper Moon

Adrienne Campbell-Holt - How to Live on Earth

Tess Howsam - Secession 2015
 
Laurie James -  A Medley for Margaret Fuller 
 
Barbara Kahn -  The Spring and Fall of Eve Adams, Birds of Fire, Island Girls   
 
Joan Kane -  Play Nice!, I Know What Boys Want, 100 Saints You Should Know

Irene Kapustina - Poor People

Anne Kauffman -  Belleville, Buzzer, You Got Older (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015)  

Lauren Keating -  The Architect of Becoming 

Alexa Kelly -  Ladies in Retirement, Chaos Theory, Balm in Gilead 

Kirsten Kelly - The Undeniable Sound of Right Now

Gillian King - The Gap

Julie Kline - Magdalen
 
Ari Laura Kreith  - I Like To Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, or, This is a Mango, Mourning Sun

Portia Krieger -  (+)30NYC: new plays imagining the next new york, 16 Words or Less, The Bachelors 

Emily Lerer - R Culture

Katie Lindsay - Secession 2015

Phyllida Lloyd - Henry IV

Pam MacKinnon -  Smudge, The Lying Lesson, Dinner With Friends,            
                                   The Heidi Chronicles
Judith Malina -  Korach

Jamibeth Margolis -  Family Dinner

Kay Matschullar -  Carson McCullers Talks About Love 

Ash Mayfair - Gruesome Playground Injuries

Kristin McCarthy Parker - Hold On To Your Butts
 
Wendy McClellan -  Or, 

Patricia McGregor - Ugly Lies the Bone

Lynne Meadow - Of Good Stock

Erin B. Mee - The Ferry Play

Ashley Mills - Rapunzel in the Wild West

Ashley Monroe - Secession 2015

Kate Mueth - EVE 

Lila Neugebeauer - The Wayside Motor Inn (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015)

Cynthia Nixon - Motherstruck
  
Kelly O'Donnell -  Dog Act, Jane the Plain

Mimi O'Donnell - Nice Girl

Julia Pascal -  The Dybbuk 

Rebecca Patterson - Sir Patient Fancy

Lisa Peterson - King Liz

Lorca Peress -  Hell and High Water

Margaret Perry -  First Prize 

Lisa Peterson - To The Bone    

Renee Philippi -  Geppetto, Alone in Triptych 
 
Jean Randich -  Dog and Wolf 

Jenny Reed - Future Honey
 
Cara Reichel -  Once Upon a Time in New Jersey, I Married Wyatt Earp

Emma Rice -  Brief Encounters   
 
Paula Riley -  Devil Dog Six 

Jillian Roberson - Come Back Up

Danielle Roos - Princess Cut

Christina Roussos - Magic Trick

Mia Rovegno - Underland

Giovanna Sardelli -  Stray, Apple Cove

Laura Savia - Red Flamboyant

Erica Schmidt -  Honey Brown Eyes

Seret Scott -  Rift 
 
Julia Sears - Measure for Measure
 
Leigh Silverman -  Creature 

Anne Simon - Trail of Crumbs

Kira Simring - Hey Jude

Jenny Beth Snyder - Night of the Living

Ariel Stess - Heartbreak 

Melanie Sutherland - 7 Sins in 60 Minutes 

Rebecca Taichman - Milk Like Sugar 

Adina Tal - Not By Bread Alone

Lucie Tiberghien - Soldier X

Amiee Todoroff - Office Politics

Liesl Tommy- Eclipsed

Daniella Topol -  Lascivious Something, When January Feels Like Summer 
 
Lyndsey Turner -  Machinal (Roundabout)

Claire Van Kampen - Nice Fish

Gretchen Van Lente -  Leakey's Ladies, Blood Red Roses 
 
Ludovica Villar-Hauser -  As It Is In Heaven, Final Analysis, This Will All Be Yours    

Daisy Walker -  A Splintered Soul 

Sarah Wansley - The Bad German

Marianne Weems -  Sontag: Reborn

Kate Whoriskey -  The Miracle Worker

Melanie Moyer Williams - All Through the Night, The Radiant

Misti B. Wills - Shake the Earth

Gail Winar - Trans Script
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We have linked to personal websites as we were able to find them.  If there is a name on this list that should be linked and isn't please let us know!

Works by Women seeks to support women* in the theatre industry by alerting audiences to female* driven productions.   We do not attest to the quality of the productions listed or endorse individual artists on this website.

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