A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended...
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Playwright is an open-source automation library for browser testing and web scraping developed by Microsoft and launched on 31 January 2020, which has...
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The Playwright is a 1911 silent film short starring Francis X. Bushman. It was produced at the Essanay Studios, Chicago and released by the General Film...
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John Patrick Byrne (6 January 1940 – 30 November 2023) was a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, artist and designer. He wrote The Slab Boys Trilogy, plays...
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John Anthony Miller Jr.; April 22, 1939 – May 13, 2001) was an American playwright and actor. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for...
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This is a list of British playwrights. See also the more extensive list at British playwrights since 1950. Jim Allen John Arden Alan Ayckbourn John Roman...
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José Rivera (born March 24, 1955) is a playwright and the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award for the movie, The Motorcycle...
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James Still (born May 31, 1959) is an American writer and playwright. Still grew up in a small town in Kansas, and graduated from the University of Kansas...
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Tony McNamara (writer) (redirect from Tony McNamara (playwright))
Tony McNamara (born 1967) is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and television producer. He is also an occasional film director and producer. He is...
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Daniel Craig Jackson, also known as D.C. Jackson, is a Scottish playwright, born in 1980. His first full-length play The Wall premiered at the Tron Theatre...
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Saleem (Saleem Azzouqa) is a Palestinian-American gay Muslim playwright, actor, DJ, and dancer. Saleem was born and raised in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, finished...
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William Shakespeare (redirect from William Shakespeare (playwright))
William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English...
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Sir David Rippon Hare FRSL (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also...
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Michael Cooney (screenwriter) (redirect from Michael Cooney (playwright))
Michael Cooney (born 1967) is a British screenwriter, playwright, and director. Cooney also has written children's literature and young adult fiction....
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Jones is a British actor, playwright and filmmaker. Born and bred in The Black Country, Alex became an actor and playwright after various jobs in the...
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Zachariah Linney IV (September 21, 1930 – January 15, 2011) was an American playwright and novelist. Linney was born in Philadelphia, the son of Maitland (née...
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Sam Shepard (category 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights)
Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a...
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Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit American Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary...
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Marc Camoletti (16 November 1923 – 18 July 2003) was a French playwright best known for the farce Boeing-Boeing. Camoletti was born a French citizen in...
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Henry William Lewis (born 21 November 1988) is a British actor and playwright. He co-founded Mischief Theatre, responsible for The Play That Goes Wrong...
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Christine Claire Bush (born 3 July 1986) is a British playwright and artistic director. Bush was born in Sheffield, England. She studied at the University...
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Dan O’Brien (born 1974) is an American playwright, poet, memoirist, essayist, and librettist. His most prominent works have been the play The Body of an...
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Edwin Sanchez (born 1955) is a Puerto Rican-born playwright, novelist, and educator, based in New York City for many years. He is known for plays, including...
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(December 1579 – August 1625) was an English playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific...
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author and playwright (d. 1928) 1863 – Wallace Bryant, American archer (d. 1953) 1865 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (d. 1932)...
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This is a list of Slovenian playwrights. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Peter Božič (1932–2009) Ivan Cankar (1876–1918)...
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama (redirect from Pulitzer-winning playwright)
Lynn Nottage is the only female playwright to win the prize twice. She and August Wilson are the only playwrights of color to accomplish this feat....
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Richard France (writer) (redirect from Richard France playwright and critic))
Richard France (born Richard Zagami, May 5, 1936) is an American playwright, author, actor, and film and drama critic. He is a recognized authority on...
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James Graham (born 1982 or 1983) is a British playwright and screenwriter. His work has been staged throughout the UK and internationally, at theatres...
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This is a list of notable playwrights. See also Literature; Drama; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth; Lists of authors. Contents: A...
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