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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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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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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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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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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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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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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M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z List of Canadian poets List of Canadian playwrights List of Canadian short story writers List of Canadian science fiction...
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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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Tennessee Williams (redirect from Thomas Williams (playwright))
American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century...
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Sir David Rippon Hare (born 5 June 1947) FRSL is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also...
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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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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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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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Suzie Miller (redirect from Suzie Miller Playwright)
Suzie Miller is an Australian-British playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and lawyer. In April 2022, Miller made her West End debut with Prima Facie...
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Chris Bush (born 3 July 1986) is a British playwright and artistic director. Bush was born in Sheffield, England. She studied at the University of York...
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Leslye Headland (category 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights)
1980) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and playwright. She is best known for the play and 2012 film Bachelorette and 2015 film...
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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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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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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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Richard France (writer) (redirect from Richard France playwright and critic))
Richard France (born May 5, 1936) is an American playwright, author, and film and drama critic. He is a recognized authority on the stage work of American...
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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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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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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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Sam Shepard (category 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights)
Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century...
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William Shakespeare (category 16th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
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...
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C. P. Taylor (redirect from Cecil Taylor (playwright))
as C. P. Taylor, was a Scottish playwright. He wrote almost 80 plays during his 16 years as a professional playwright, including several for radio and...
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Max Catto (redirect from Simon Kent (playwright))
1992) was born Mark Finkell in Manchester, England and was an English playwright and novelist. Catto wrote adventure novels and dramas for more than four...
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Sue Smith (writer) (redirect from Sue Smith (playwright))
Sue Smith is an Australian screenwriter and playwright. She is best known for writing or co-writing Australian television productions including Mabo, Bastard...
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Terence (redirect from Terence (playwright))
– c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence (/ˈtɛrəns/), was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six comedies based on...
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