Sometimes in Hollywood, when someone isn’t nabbing the kind of roles they want because they’re either getting beat out by others or the parts simply aren’t out there to begin with, there’s only thing to do - write them yourself. And the plus side of controlling the narrative is getting nude on your own terms.

As more and more ladies are penning material with the women characters they want to see - and play - we’re shining the spotlight on some of the many actress/writers like Pamela Adlon, Brit Marling, and Lena Dunham and others who paved the way for new female-centric work, such as Zoe Lister-Jones’s new skin-filled series Slip. See who had a story to tell and layers to lose!