Plays for Actresses

Plays for Actresses

Plays for Actresses

Plays for Actresses

Plays for Actresses

Overview



Gather any group of actresses, from students to stars, and someone will inevitably ask, “Where are all the great roles for women?” The roles are right here, in this unprecedented and magnificently diverse collection of plays with all-female casts. The seven full-length and ten one-act selections range in tone from the unabashed theatricality of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Three Tall Women to the blistering black comedy of Laura Cunningham’s Beautiful Bodies.

Authors

Nina Shengold

Nina Shengold won the Writers Guild Award for her teleplay Labor of Love, starring Marcia Gay Harden, and the ABC Playwright Award for Homesteaders. Her one-act plays have been produced throughout the U.S. and in Canada, Europe, Asia, and New Zealand; No Shoulder was filmed b ...
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Eric Lane

Eric Lane is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and book editor. Plays include Ride (WHAT), Filming O’Keeffe (Adirondack Theatre Festival commission), Heart of the City (Theatre at 30th St.) and Dancing on Checkers’ Grave which starred Jennifer Aniston. Other plays inc ...

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