Sarah Daniels

SD is a contemporary playwright whose works take on such challenging feminist issues as violence, pornography, and sexual abuse, as they are experienced by lesbians, single mothers, people with disabilities or psychiatric problems, prisoners, prostitutes, social workers, and those who are poor and unemployed. She has been sometimes accused of melodrama. Her introduction to her first collected volume explains: I didn't set out to further the cause of Feminism. However, I am proud if some of my plays have added to its influence. She has worked for the stage, radio, and television, primarily, as far as possible, with women directors and actors. In the Bloomsbury Theatre Guide in 1988 Carole Woddis called her the only radical lesbian feminist to have made it into the mainstream.