Writers
in alphabetical order by last name
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The list of women and transgender playwrights listed here were collected from the Works by Women Database.
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
Eliza Clark - Edgewise
Alexandra Collier - Underland
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
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
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
Phyllida Lloyd - Henry IV
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
