• John Murray (October 12, 1906 – June 17, 1984) was an American playwright best known for writing the 1937 play Room Service with Allen Boretz. Murray...
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  • broadcaster and journalist John Murray (playwright) (1906–1984), American playwright, co-author of Room Service John Murray (sports broadcaster) (born...
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  • Henry Murray (May 30, 1948 – December 16, 2014) was an American playwright who lived in Los Angeles, California. He is survived by his husband Lewin Wertheimer...
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    Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (May 1, 1751 – June 9, 1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter...
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    Manhattan organized by playwright-director Timothy Mayer and in a stage production of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man. Murray returned to film with Scrooged...
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    Joanna Murray-Smith (born 17 April 1962) is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist, and newspaper columnist. Joanna Murray-Smith...
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  • became an acting member of Murray Mednick's Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, an annual event which brought young playwrights from throughout the United...
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    John Edward Cariani (born July 23, 1969) is an American actor and playwright. Cariani is best known as the forensic expert Julian Beck in Law & Order....
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  • Beverley Cross (category 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
    Alan Beverley Cross (13 April 1931 – 20 March 1998) was an English playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Born in London into a theatrical family, and...
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  • John Steppling (born June 18, 1951 in Burbank, California) is an American playwright, screenwriter and teacher. Steppling's plays have been produced in...
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    School. He eventually went on to play in numerous bands, including Not Now Murray, What Now, Annie's Autograph, and Old Springs Pike. Gallagher played Tom...
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    Notable playwrights from the United States include: Hugh Henry Brackenridge William Dunlap Robert Hunter Royall Tyler Mercy Otis Warren George Aiken Nathaniel...
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    George Gilbert Aimé Murray OM FBA (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections...
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  • Albert John Moffatt (24 September 1922 – 10 September 2012) was an English character actor and playwright, known for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot on...
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  • Padua Playwrights Productions, or Padua, is a Los Angeles-based theater company founded in 1978 by playwright and poet Murray Mednick and John Woodruff...
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    Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. With a career spanning more than sixty years, he is noted for his roles on the screen...
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    sitcoms that I grew up on". The series received poor reviews, including playwright and The New York Times TV critic Neil Genzlinger's, who wrote "It rips...
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    Bull (1980). He created the title role of John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre...
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    Peter Richard Nichols (31 July 1927 – 7 September 2019) was an English playwright, screenwriter, director and journalist. Born in Bristol, England, he was...
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    historian and academic John Roman Baker (born 1944), British playwright and activist John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922), American author John Banville (born 1945)...
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    Likewise, the musician, playwright and Irish Republican Dominic Behan criticized the British government via the proxy of John Bull in his popular ballad...
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    Adam F. Goldberg (category American dramatists and playwrights)
    and won the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival. His plays were performed in venues such as the Sundance Playwrights Lab, the Illusion Theater, The...
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  • Liza Colón-Zayas (born 1972) is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for playing Tina Marrero on the comedy-drama series The Bear, for...
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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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    Zoe Kazan (category 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights)
    Behanding in Spokane (2010), and the revival of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt: A Parable (2024). Also a playwright, she wrote Absalom (2008), We Live Here (2011)...
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    musical theatre, John composed music for a West End theatre production of Billy Elliot the Musical in 2005 with playwright Lee Hall. John had been moved...
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    John Murray Anderson (September 20, 1886 – January 30, 1954) was a Canadian theatre director and producer, songwriter, actor, screenwriter, dancer and...
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    and the Padua Playwrights Festival. A long-time collaborator of Murray Mednick, he originated the role of the Trickester in the playwright's epic seven-hour...
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    boxing, and for his role in the downfall of the Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde. John Douglas was born in Florence, Italy, the eldest son of Conservative...
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    in London during World War II, though her parents, actor Sir John Mills and playwright Mary Hayley Bell, soon moved the family to the country to be away...
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