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Women Writers
in alphabetical order by last name

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


Johnna Adams -  Sans Merci;  Lickspittles, Buttonholers, & Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens

Liz Duffy Adams -  Or,

Jenny Allen - I Got Sick Then I Got Better

Jessica Anderson -  My Purple Wig

Moe Angelos -  Sontag: Reborn

Elle Anhorn - The C*nt

​Heidi Armbruster- Every Good Girl Deserves Fun

Andrea Assaf - Eleven Reflections on September

Rachel Axler -  Smudge 

Jaclyn Backhaus - Men on Boats

Jenny Lyn Bader - I Like To Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, or, This is a Mango; In Flight  

Annie Baker - John

Leah Barker - Secession 2015

Claire Baron  - You Got Older (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015)

Jessie Bear - The Ferry Play

Joan Beber - In Bed with Roy Cohn

Aphra Behn -  Sir Patient Fancy

Melissa Bell - (Book & Additional Lyrics) Devil and the Deep

Mari Brown -  23 Feet in 12 Minutes

Kelsey Broyles - Princess Cut

Bekah Brunstetter -  (+)30NYC: new plays imagining the next new york

Virginia Bryan -  My Three Moms

Sheila Callaghan -  Lascivious Something

Kaca Celan -  The Last Story

Kate Chisholm -  The Hidden Sky

Staceyann Chin - Motherstruck     

Caryl Churchill -  Love and Information, Vinegar Tom    

Paula Cizmar -  7 Sins in 60 Minutes

Eliza Clark -  Edgewise 

Alexandra Collier - Underland    

Cecilia Copland - R Culture

Fernanda Coppel - King Liz

Kara Lee Corthron -  The Architect of Becoming

Clare Coss - Emmett, Down In My Heart

Erin Courtney -  Leakey's Ladies

Virginia Cowles -  Love Goes to Press  

Rachel Crothers -  A Little Journey 

Gretchen Cryer -  The Fifties Girl: A Simple Story

Lisa D'Amour - Airline Highway (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015)

Cheryl L. Davis -  7 Sins in 60 Minutes

Teresa Deevy -  Wife to James Whelan, Temporal Powers

Anne DeSalvo -  Mamma Roma 

Lisi DeHaas - Leave Me Green

Aminta De Lara - Golondrinas/The Swallow

Lydia R. Diamond -  Stick Fly

Susan DiLallo -  Once Upon a Time in New Jersey 

Harrie Dobby - The Gap

Bathsheba Doran - The Mystery of Love and Sex

Sarah M. Duncan - Come Back Up

Beth Dzuricky - Bed, Beth, & Beyond

Laura Eason - The Undeniable Sound of Right Now

Michele Elliot - Promising

Christine Evans -  (+)30NYC: new plays imagining the next new york 

Yael Farber - Nirbhaya

Cheryl Feraone - Vinegar Tom

Lindsey Ferrentino - Ugly Lies the Bone

Catherine Filloux -  Dog and Wolf, Luz 

June Finfer -  The Glass House

Kate Fodor -  100 Saints You Should Know

Dorothy Fortenberry -  Good Egg

Olga de la Fuente - 7 Sins in 60 Minutes 

Margaret Fuller -  A Medley for Margaret Fuller

Fengar Gael -  Devil Dog Six

Zona Gale - Miss Lulu Bett

Sarah Gancher -  The Architect of Becoming   

Martha Gellhorn -  Love Goes to Press

Madeleine George -  The Zero Hour

Rebecca Gilman -  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Debbie Tucker Green -  Born Bad

Kristen Greenidge -  Milk Like Sugar

Virginia Grise -  The Architect of Becoming

Dipika Guha -  The Architect of Becoming

​Danai Gurira - Eclipsed

Jennifer Haley - The Nether

Lillian Hellman -  Another Part of the Forest, The Little Foxes

Reynaliz Herrara - Ideas, Not Theories

Amy Herzog -  Belleville

Kate Hewlett -  The Swearing Jar

Maggie Hill - Only a Paper Moon

Chisa Hutchinson -  7 Sins in 60 Minutes

Arlene Hutton -  As It Is In Heaven 

Elizabeth Irwin - My Manana Comes (Drama Desk Nominee, 2015)

Crystal Jackson - The Singularity

Penny Jackson -  I Know What Boys Want

Laurie James -  A Medley for Margaret Fuller

Elfriede Jelinek -  Jackie 

Charlotte Jones -  Airswimming

Marie Jones -  Fly Me to the Moon 

Cush Jumbo - Josephine and I    

Juliacks -  Swell 

MJ Kaufman - How to Live on Earth    

Barbara Kahn -  The Spring and Fall of Eve Adams, Birds of Fire, Island Girls

Jelena Kajgo -  Realists 

Sibyl Kempson - Let Us Now Praise Susan Sondheim    

Anna Khaja -  Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto

Krista Knight - Primal Play

Kerri Koczen - Princess Cut

Andrea Kuchlewska - Human Fruit Bowl 

Susan Laubach -  The Fifties Girl: A Simple Story 
  
Dina Laura - Elephants and Other Worldly Dilemmas
 
Shirley Lauro -  All Through The Night, The Radiant

Antoinette LaVecchia -  How To Be A Good Italian Daughter 

Dorothy Marcic - Sistas

Nancy Monocherian - Hey Jude

Erin Layton - Magdalen

Eve Lederman - Let It Come Down

Rehana Lew Mirza - Soldier X   

Karen Lewis - The Perfect Wife 

Robin Rice Lichtig -  The Power of Birds, Play Nice!

Phyllida Lloyd - Henry IV

Teresa Lotz - She Calls Me Firefly 

Marcy Lovitch - Office Politics    

Noelle Lusane -  Island Girls  

Emily M. -  The Fly in the Fridge

Tingying Ma - The Weird Tree

Mariah MacCarthy - Magic Trick

Judith Malina -  Korach

Karen Malpede -  Prophecy

Kara Manning -  Sleeping Rough

​Dorothy Marcic - Sistas

Israela Margalit -  First Prize 

Terri Mateer - A Kind Shot  

Caroline V McGraw - The Bachelors 

Ruth McKee -  Stray 

Victoria Melody - Major Tom    

Michelle A. Miller -  Mother of God!

Ashley Mills - Rapunzel in the Wild West

Sylvia Milo - The Other Mozart

Desi Moreno-Penson - Comida de Puta

Jessica Nelson - Secession 2015

Lynn Nottage -  By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Las Meninas

Aya Ogawa - Ludic Proxy

Dael Orlandersmith -  Horsedreams, Forever    

Julia Pascal -  The Dybbuk

Laura Pedersen - This Will All Be Yours

Anne Phelan -  7 Sins in 60 Minutes

Renee Philippi -  Geppetto, Alone in Triptych

Sylvia Plath -  Three Women

Lucie Pohl - Cry Me a Liver

Rain Pryor - Fried Chicken & Latkes     

Sheila Rae -  I Married Wyatt Earp 

Lisa Ramirez - To The Bone   

Theresa Rebeck -  Seminar  

Jacqui Rego - Baby Hubris

Lavinia Roberts - Poor People

Alexis Roblan - Secession 2015

​Jenny Rodgers - Imagine the Imaginary Invalid

Sofia Romma - That Queer Blind Silence

Danielle Roos - Princess Cut

Lynn Rosen -  Apple Cove 

Kim Rosenstock - Fly By Night (Drama Desk Nominee 2015)

Melissa Ross - Nice Girl, Of Good Stock

Kate E. Ryan - Card & Gift    

Heidi Schreck -  Creature, There Are No More Big Secrets 

Lousine Shamamian - Shake the Earth

Claudia Shear -  Restoration

Jocelyn Shratter - The Weird Tree

Jamuna Yvette Sirker -  Hell and High Water

Crystal Skillman -  The Vigil or The Guided Cradle

Githa Sowerby -  Rutherford and Son

Peggy Stafford - 16 Words or Less

Polly Stenham -  That Face 

Ariel Stess - Heartbreak    

Gerda Stevenson -  Federer versus Murray

Caridad Svich -  Rift

Cori Thomas - When January Feels Like Summer

Melisa Tien -  7 Sins in 60 Minutes, I Like To Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, or, This is a Mango

Joy Tomasko - I Like To Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, or, This is a Mango

Sophie Treadwell -  Machinal

Catherine Trieschmann -  The Most Deserving

Franca Valeri -  Tosca e le Altre Due    

Suzanne Vega -  Carson McCullers Talks About Love

Anne Washburn - Iphigenia at Aulis

Angelina Weld Grimke - Rachel

Laura Wickens -  The Storm

Michele Willens -  Family Dinner 

Tracy Scott Wilson - Buzzer    

Bess Wohl - Small Mouth Sounds, 2015 Drama Desk Special Award Recipient

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig  - Lidless

Antu Yacob - Morning Sun

Lauren Yee -  The Architect of Becoming

Stefanie Zadravec -  Honey Brown Eyes

Anna Ziegler - Photograph 51, A Delicate Ship

Laura Zlatos - Secession 2015, Happily After Ever, The Weird Tree
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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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