[1] The women whose stories form the basis of Seven are all involved in the Vital Voices Global Partnership.
The writers met in February 2007 to read the monologues together, and then worked them into a unified script during a Residency Fellowship retreat at Bard College.
[3] The play was first performed on 21 January 2008 at the 92nd Street Y in New York, directed by Evan Yionoulis.
[3][4] Some productions have involved well-known professional actors, as when Meryl Streep read the part of Inez McCormack at the Hudson Theatre on New York's Broadway.
[5][6] Other productions have involved amateur groups or public figures, as when a group of senior Belarus government ministers performed it in Minsk in 2015[7] and Washington Supreme Court justice Mary Yu read the part of Farida Azizi at Town Hall Seattle in 2016.