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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