1ryannnicole
I am looking for plays for my sister! She wants to read more female playwrights! Any recommendations?
2AnnieMod
From the ones I had read and enjoyed in the last two years or so (1 act or longer):
Amy Herzog
Annie Baker
Danai Gurira
Jennifer Haley
Lynn Nottage
Quiara Alegría Hudes
Naomi Ragen
Lorraine Hansberry
Claudia Rankine
Sarah Ruhl
Paula Vogel
Wendy Wasserstein
Lauren Gunderson
Madeleine George
May be easier to just point to my Plays collection...: https://www.librarything.com/catalog/AnnieMod/plays
If you prefer play names and not playwrights as recommendations, let me know - I can add the titles but... I had not read a bad play by either.
Amy Herzog
Annie Baker
Danai Gurira
Jennifer Haley
Lynn Nottage
Quiara Alegría Hudes
Naomi Ragen
Lorraine Hansberry
Claudia Rankine
Sarah Ruhl
Paula Vogel
Wendy Wasserstein
Lauren Gunderson
Madeleine George
May be easier to just point to my Plays collection...: https://www.librarything.com/catalog/AnnieMod/plays
If you prefer play names and not playwrights as recommendations, let me know - I can add the titles but... I had not read a bad play by either.
3LolaWalser
Yasmina Reza = fun
4Capybara_99
A lot of good choices above. I'd add these to the list:
Caryl Churchill
Shelagh Delaney
Lillian Hellman
Theresa Rebeck
Maria Irene Fornes
Caryl Churchill
Shelagh Delaney
Lillian Hellman
Theresa Rebeck
Maria Irene Fornes
5lilithcat
Anna Ziegler - Photograph 51 is excellent.
Tanya Saracho = Our Lady of the Underpass, Electricidad
Karen Zacarias - Sins of Sor Juana
Stephanie Alison Walker - The Madres, The Abuelas
Tanya Saracho = Our Lady of the Underpass, Electricidad
Karen Zacarias - Sins of Sor Juana
Stephanie Alison Walker - The Madres, The Abuelas
7spiralsheep
Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale.
8susanbooks
Susan Glaspell
9megbmore
Monica Wood is primarily known as a novelist, but she is also a playwright.
10AnnieMod
One more - Lucy Prebble
12karenb
Adrienne Kennedy
Alice Childress wrote fiction and plays, and adapted some of her novels for the stage.
An anthology of plays by Black female playwrights from the 1920s: Zora Neale Hurston, Eulalie Spence, Marita Bonner
Alice Childress wrote fiction and plays, and adapted some of her novels for the stage.
An anthology of plays by Black female playwrights from the 1920s: Zora Neale Hurston, Eulalie Spence, Marita Bonner