Anna Wynne O'Ryan

According to Cait Miller at the Library of Congress, the play "may well have been the first full-length Broadway musical authored entirely by women".

[6] She was a member of the New York Pen and Brush Players, a group of writers and painters.

[9] O'Ryan collaborated with Helen Smith Woodruff, Madelyn Sheppard, and Annelu Burns on the 1922 musical, Just Because.

[12] In 1925, O'Ryan married Colonel James Crooke McLeer in New York City.

Around July 14, 1928, Anna died with her mother in their home in New York, from asphyxiation due to a gas stove.