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Jane Wiseman – The Lost Lady

15th March 20193rd May 2023 AlexaPlaywrights

Hi Friends, Hope you’re well 🙂 Today marks a return to English-speaking writers after the last couple of months dealing with the oddities, and then trying to make sense, of google translate. I promise I[…]

Marie-Anne Barbier

15th February 201915th February 2019 AlexaPlaywrights

Hi friends, welcome to February’s MicroBiog. This month we’re in eighteenth century France with female playwright Marie-Anne Barbier. ? Her first play was written 1702. A tragedy called ‘Arrie et Petus’. ? Barbier followed this[…]

Sharman Macdonald

8th February 20198th February 2019 AlexaPlaywrights

Hi friends, it’s 8th February and it’s a red letter day in the world if female playwrights: Happy Birthday to Sharman MacDonald ??. In case you’re not familiar with the Scottish born writer, here’s the[…]

Victoria Benedictsson

21st January 201922nd January 2019 AlexaPlaywrights

Hi friends, How’s 2019 treating you? I’m back and we’re in Sweden; in the nineteenth century and we’re talking someone who has been considered one of the greatest writers of Swedish realism, alongside August Strindberg:[…]

Biography of eighteenth century Danish female playwright, Dorothea Biehl by Hedda House.

Danish Best

15th December 201821st December 2018 AlexaPlaywrights

Hi friends, How’s December treating you? After the hiatus of last month we’re back and we’re in Denmark (here, on Instagram and on the email list) so let’s meet Dorothea Biehl. ?Her grandparents had a[…]

Theatre Lovers Holidays Gift Guide

3rd December 20183rd December 2018 AlexaSeasonal

Gifts for Theatre lovers … that aren’t plays. Hello fellow female playwright fans. It’s December (already!) and time for the crazy holidays season. To help you out with the, let’s face it, sometimes tricky theatre[…]

Hedda House's Bio of woman playwright from Germany Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian Rebel: Elfriede Jelinek

20th October 201818th November 2018 AlexaPlaywrights

Hi Friends ? A version of this MicroBiog was originally posted on instagram in 2017. On the 5th November to be precise. I made a tenuous link with Guy Fawkes in an effort to make[…]

Luise Gottsched

15th October 201816th October 2018 AlexaPlaywrights

I recently posted a MicroBiog on Instagram about the early eighteenth century German female playwright, Luise Gottsched and my simultaneous admiration for her body of work and seething fury at her husband and, well, all[…]

Hedda House biography of French female playwright Sophie Bawr

The Terror Won’t Stop Sophie Bawr

20th September 201830th September 2018 AlexaPlaywrights

Hi Friends and fellow theatrical time-travellers. Welcome to 19th Century France. Meet Sophie Bawr. ? Bawr wrote a total of twelve stage plays, as well as musical theatre, novels, educational texts, her own memoir and[…]

The Life and Exile of Marie Vieux Chauvet

9th September 201830th September 2018 AlexaPlaywrights

Hi friends, how do you fancy a little trip to Haiti? A virtual, female playwright, one of course. Via Marie Vieux Chauvet: writer and dissident. ? Began writing dramatic sketches for her family and friends[…]