female playwrights
Theatre's women authors
Women who write plays for theatrical performance.
The phrase typically appears in discussions of representation, historical exclusion, or literary study: a festival featuring female playwrights, female playwrights have been underrepresented on Broadway.
The modifier distinguishes from the unmarked category "playwrights," which historically defaulted to male.
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
- glass ceilingUnacknowledged limit blocking advancement
- Broadway debutInitial theatrical appearance, Manhattan
- social justiceFair distribution of opportunities
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
comedy · family dynamics · marginalized voices · monologues · historical drama · experimental theater · solo show · political activism · untold stories · musicals · docudrama · stage directions · creative process · opening night · women's voices · cultural heritage · domestic sphere · farce
- Women WritersJane Austen, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Anne Bronte
- women's writingVirginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath
- theaterstage, play, onstage, acting, auditorium