Pamela Parker (1955-2020) was born in Georgia and raised in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Southwest DeKalb High School in Decatur, Georgia, in 1971. Parker began performing with the feminist theatre troupe WomanSong Theatre in the early 1970s. She continued to perform solo at music and comedy events hosted by the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA). In 1986, she wrote her first play, Kissing Frogs, for the Dunwoody Stage Door Player's One-Act Play Festival. In 1987, she helped found the troupe Southern Fried Productions, which produced many of her plays throughout the 1990s, including her first full-length play, Second Samuel, in 1990. In 1991, Neighborhood Playhouse in Decatur, Georgia, named Parker their playwright-in-residence. A year later she served as artist-in-residence at the Atlanta Theater Company Neighborhood Playhouse, where she staged her rock musical I’ll Be Home for Christmas. The Atlanta Journal Constitution named her full-length play Second Samuel the Best Original Play of 1991-1992. In 1995, she won the Southern Playwrights Competition at the Center for Southern Studies at Jackson State University in Alabama with her play A Higher Place in Heaven. In 2020, Alabama-based production company iHysm Studios released their film adaptation of her play Second Samuel.