May 20, 2009
your favorites please
In response (sort of) to the conversation going on over here I would like to make a list of some of my favorite female playwrights who I would like to see produced more. Please add your own favorites in the comments section.
In no particular order, an incomplete list
Kia Corthron
Annie Baker
Anne Marie Healy
Anne Washburn
Lisa D'Amour
Liz Meriwether
Liz Flahive
Bekah Brunstetter
Boo Killabrew
Kristen Palmer
Julia Cho
Crystal Skillman
Gina Gionfriddo
Lucy Thurber
Jenny Schwartz
Sheila Callaghan
Brooke Berman
who else?
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Naomi Iizuka
Melanie Marnich
Lauren Yee
Sherry Kramer
Erin Bregman
Katori Hall
Liz Duffy Adams
that's great!
Who else?
Emily Chadick Weiss
great! These playwrights were sent to me from various sources:
Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, Theresa Rebeck, Alexandra Cunningham, Caryl Churchill, Catherine Trieschmann, Johnna Adams, Suzan Lori Parks, Judy Juanita, Maria Rokas, Geetha Reddy, Ellen Lewis, Tina Howe, Wendy Wasserstein, Mae West, Carson McCullers, Adrienne Kennedy, Beth Henley, Sarah Jones, Kate Robin, Dael Orlandersmith, Shelagh Delaney, Polly Teale, Adrienne Kennedy, Trista Baldwin, Kira Obolensky, Maria Irene Fornes, Aphra Behn, Julia Jordan, Sarah Ruhl
who else?
more posted on facebook and other places:
Diana Son, Victoria Stewart, Joy Tomasko, Megan Mostyn-Brown, Winter Miller, Tina Howe, Anne-Marie MacDonald, Judith Thompson
who else?
Sally Oswald
Deborah Stein
Tory Stewart
Kristen Newbaum
Madeline George
Erin Courtney
Christina Anderson
Molly Rice
Paula Vogel, Johnna Adams, Laura Marks, Susan Ferrara, Brooke Berman
I.
Love.
This.
Thank you, Adam.
Elizabeth Heffron
Constance Congdon
Judith Thompson
Michole Biancosino
Lauren Gunderson
Laura Schellhardt
Kate Tarker
Christina Ham
Kathleen Akerley
Caryl Churchill
Renee Calarco
Molly Rice
Vanda
Melanie Marnich
Hortense Gerardo
Jeannette Farr
Stephanie Walker
* Allison Moore: HAZARD, SLASHER, EIGHTEEN
* Migdalia Cruz: FUR
* Jenny Schwartz: GOD'S EAR (probably the single best play I saw in NYC in 2007)
* Maria Irene Fornes: DANUBE, MUD
* Young Jean Lee: CHURCH
3 more from facebook comments
Ellen McLaughlin
Karen Wikberg
Rachel Hoeffel
Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell!
Rebecca Gilman, Ann Marie Healy, Melanie Marnich, Katherine Catmull, Monika Bustamante, and Leah Ryan
Sarah Kane
Cherrie Moraga
Diana Son
Jeffrey, Heck yeah Allison Moore dont forget AMERICAN KLEPTO (my personal fav.)
Solo performers / solo show playwrights
Lisa Kron
Staceyann Chin
Anna Deveare Smith
Nilija Sun
Ann Magnuson
Holly Hughes
Peggy Shaw
Shelly Mars
Jane Wagner
Christine Clifford
Heather Gold
Raquel Cion
Stacey Robinson
Abigail Gampel
Linda Mancini
Natalia de Campos
I can't believe I left out Eliza Anderson (The Water Principle)
Susan Hodara
Hannah Cowley
Susanna Centlivre
Hrosvitha
Elizabeth Inchbald
Joanna Baillie
Aphra Behn
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Susan Glaspell
Sophie Treadwell
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Helene Cixous
Tanya Saracho
Betty Shamieh
Astrid Saalbach
Susan Merson
Ninna Tersman
EM Lewis
Jennifer Fawcett
Irene Fornes
Lorraine Hansberry
Caridad Svich
Alice Childress
Sheila Callaghan
Naomi Lizuka
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Shirley Graham
Ana Caro
Young Jean Lee
Lynne Alvarez
Caryl Churchill
Lynne Nottage
I'm sure there's a ton I'm forgetting . . .
keep em coming
no one could ever say there aren't enough great female playwrights
Arlene Hutton
Kate Walat
Naomi Wallace
Moira Buffini
My two favs right now are:
Carson Kreitzer
Callie Kimball
I love Anna Deveare Smith so much I have to mention her, even though someone else already did.
an fyi to those in NYC:
The Women's Project is producing a new sight specific piece at the World Financial Center on June 3-6which features the writing of Crystal Skillman and Bekah Brunstetter (among others). It's free so you should check it out:
http://womensproject.org/on_our_stage.htm
Stefanie Zadravec
Amy Freed is an absolutely brilliant writer, and person. Her work is hysterical!
Rinne Groff
Deb Margolin
Margaret Edson
Jennifer Fawcett
Sarah Ruhl
Diana Son
Young Jean Lee
Yes! Of course, Stefanie Zadravec, who wrote Honey Brown Eyes.
And I love Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal."
This list makes me so happy!
Jennifer Fawcett no doubt.
I'm honored someone added me as a solo playwright. I would also add
Wendy Weiner
Elyse Singer
Jenny Lyn Bader
Karen Malpede
Susan Bernfeild
Erin Cressida Wilson
Lillian Ann Slugocki
Thanks for this GREAT list!
Christen Clifford
Stephanie Fleischman
Phyllis Nagy
Lynn Nottage
Kirsten Greenidge
Marie Irene Fornes
Monica Raymond
Laura Henry
Caryl Churchill
Lois Weaver
Peggy Shaw
I gotta give some love to the ladies of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab:
Carla Ching
Michi Barall
Mrinalini Kamath
Rehana Mirza
Patty Jang
Nora Chau
Nandita Shenoy
Suzanne Lee
Maureen Sebastian
I think there are some repeats in here, but:
Erin Courtney
Lydia Diamond
Trista Baldwin
Mia McCullough
Quiara Alegria Hudes
Marisa Wegrzyn
Ruth McKee
Johnna Adams
Lauren Weedman
Sarah Treem
...and if every theater were doing Naomi Wallace and Young Jean Lee, I probably still wouldn't get tired of them.
Tanya Barfield
Courtney Baron
Laura Maria Censabella
Cusi Cram
Lisa Dillman
Catherine Filloux
Sheri Wilner
Anna Ziegler
Andrea James
Tammy Anderson
Margaret Hollingsoworth
Andrea Hairston
Ellen McLaughlin, anyone?
Ginger Lazarus
Kirsten Greenidge (mentioned once, but worth a repeat)
Sigrid Gilmer.
Sibyl O'Malley.
Jane Pickett.
Vicki Grise.
Elaine Avila.
Kara Lee Corthron
Naomi Wallace
Jane Shephard
Young Jean Lee
Tanya Barfield
Adrienne Kennedy
Maria Irene Fornes
Cori Thomas
Molly Smith-Metzler
Emily Schwend
Katori Hall
Andrea Ciannavei
Liz Meriwether
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