50 Women in Theatre Hardcover - 2021

Naomi Paxton is a researcher and performer. She is an AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, and received the TaPRA Early Career Research prize in 2019 for her body of work on suffrage theatre, which includes two edited collections with Methuen Drama, a monograph with Manchester University Press, the exhibitions Dramatic Progress: Votes for Women and the Edwardian Stage exhibition (National Theatre, 2018-9) and What Difference Did the War Make? World War One and Votes for Women (UK Parliament, 2018), and the card game Suffra-Greats!

Dr Susan Croft is a writer, curator, arts archive specialist, dramaturg and activist. She is Director of Unfinished Histories: Recording the History of the Alternative Theatre Movement, editor of the blog, Her Inside: Women in the Lockdown, and producer of SuffrageArts.
Her publications include She Also Wrote Plays: an International Guide to Women Playwrights (2001) and the anthologies Votes for Women and Other Plays (2009), Classic Plays by Women (2012) and (with Sherry Engle) Thousands of Noras: Short Plays by Women 1875-1920.

Gabrielle Brooks is a London born Actress and Cultural Producer. She is first generation with parents of Guyanese and Jamaican heritage. Gabrielle started her professional acting career at the tender age of 8 performing in the Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Whistle Down the Wind in London's West End and has gone on to perform in various Regional and West End productions and on screen.

Gabrielle is the creator and Producer of BlackStage UK, an emotional and educational expos on what it means to be Black in the UK arts industry. It is a free tool in anti-racist education for arts organisations and individuals to implement systemic change in their practice and daily lives.
Throughout her career, she has had first-hand experience of the damaging effects of racial bias in the arts industry and saw the vital need for change. She continues to align her work as an artist and activism to advocate for a truly equitable workplace.