Female Playwrights

The 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to U.K. playwright Alice Birch for her play Anatomy of a Suicide. Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, the Prize is awarded annually to recognize…

I wrote For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday as a gift for my mother (for her seventieth birthday). My mother grew up playing Peter Pan in Davenport, Iowa. As a child I looked at pictures scattered around my grandparents’ house of my mother wearing green tights…

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced 10 Finalists for its prestigious playwriting award, the oldest and largest prize awarded to women playwrights writing in the English language. Chosen from over 150 nominated…

Samuel French is America’s oldest dramatic publishing company; but we do not draw the line with exclusively American pieces of theatre. Hardly! Our catalog contains a variety of works across the western world, and today we are delighted to share…

Vulnerability is universal.
No matter who you are or where you come from, sharing your innermost wants, fears, and desires is terrifying. Kingdom Come is about two people isolated from their own worlds who seek solace on…

The latest play by acclaimed playwright Rosary Hartel O’Neill, Wishing Aces, was performed via a workshop reading at the Gallery Players theater in Brooklyn, New York, on October 9th, 2017.

One of the big themes of Hannah and the Dread Gazebo is the limbic space, that in-between realm that is neither here nor there. Both Hannah and her brother, Dang, feel this by being Korean-American; they don’t feel they entirely belong in either America or Korea, because they don’t speak Korean…