Pioneering Women playwrights

• Thea ÄŒervenková

  director, documentary maker, film actress, film company founding partner, film company owner, film critic, journalist, playwright, producer, screenwriter, writer Czechoslovakia
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  Lenore Coffee

  continuity girl, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, title writer United States
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  Sada Cowan

  co-screenwriter, continuity, playwright, screenwriter, writer United States
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  Beatrice deMille

  agent, co-screenwriter, play broker, playwright, screenwriter, theatre actress, theatrical entrepreneur United States
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  Beulah Marie Dix

  adapter, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, title writer, writer United States
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  Marion Fairfax

  company director, director, editor, editorial director, playwright, producer, screenwriter, theatre actress United States
• Emma Gendron

  journalist, playwright, screenwriter, writer Canada
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  Elizabeth B. Grimball

  director, playwright, producer, scenario writer, theatre actress, theatre director, theatrical entrepreneur, writer United States
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  Katharine Hilliker

  editor, journalist, personal assistant, playwright, production editor, scenario editor, title writer, writer United States
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  Kate Howarde

  co-director, co-screenwriter, film actress, musical comedy actress, playwright, producer, theatre actress, theatre critic, theatre director, theatrical entrepreneur, writer Australia, New Zealand, United States
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  Zora Neale Hurston

  director, ethnographic filmmaker, novelist, personal assistant, playwright, screenwriter United States
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  Agnes Christine Johnston

  adapter, co-screenwriter, playwright, scenario writer, screenwriter, stenographer, writer United States
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  Bradley King

  playwright, scenario writer, screenwriter, stenographer, writer United States
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  Ray Lewis

  dancer, distributor, exhibitor, film critic, journalist, playwright, poet, screenwriter, source author, theatre actress, trade journal editor, trade journal publisher, wardrobe consultant Canada, United States
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  Anita Loos

  co-producer, co-screenwriter, film actress, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, source author, writer United States
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  Mary Manning

  adapter, amateur filmmaking club co-founder, arts magazine editor, assistant director, director, film actress, film critic, film society co-founder, film society secretary, miscellaneous crew, playwright, theatre actress, writer Ireland, United States
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  Gwladys, Marchioness of Townshend

  novelist, playwright, scenario writer, screenwriter United Kingdom: England
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  Margaret Mayo

  adapter, film actress, film company founding partner, playwright, screenwriter, theatre actress, writer United States
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  Lorna Moon

  adapter, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, writer United States
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  Jane Murfin

  animal trainer, co-director, co-producer, guild co-founder, playwright, producer, screenwriter, source author United States
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  Nancy Naumburg

  cinematographer, co-director, co-screenwriter, photographer, playwright United States
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  Olga Printzlau

  adapter, playwright, screenwriter United States
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  Pu Shunqing

  assistant director, film actress, playwright, screenwriter China
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  Natacha Rambova

  art director, co-screenwriter, costume designer, film actress, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, set decorator, set designer, theatre actress United States
• Carmen Toscano

  director, documentary maker, editor, playwright, poet, preservationist, producer, screenwriter, writer Mexico
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  Margaret Turnbull

  adapter, playwright, scenario writer, screenwriter, source author, writer France, United Kingdom: England, United States
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  Caroline van Dommelen

  co-director, director, film actress, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, theatre actress, theatre director, writer The Netherlands
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  Gabriela von Bussenius Vega

  art director, film critic, journalist, novelist, playwright, producer, screenwriter, source author, theatre director Chile