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    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 (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 (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 (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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    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 (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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