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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
George Abbott
Playwright
25-Jun-1887 31-Jan-1995 Damn Yankees
Paul Ableman
Novelist
13-Jun-1927 25-Oct-2006 I Hear Voices
Joseph Addison
Author
1-May-1672 17-Jun-1719 The Spectator
Aeschylus
Playwright
c. 525 BC c. 456 BC Oresteia
Zoë Akins
Playwright
30-Oct-1886 29-Oct-1958 The Greeks Had a Word For It
Edward Albee
Playwright
12-Mar-1928   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Isabel Allende
Novelist
2-Aug-1942   The House of Spirits
Maxwell Anderson
Playwright
15-Dec-1888 28-Feb-1959 What Price Glory?
Regina M. Anderson
Playwright
21-May-1901 5-Feb-1993 Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Robert W. Anderson
Playwright
28-Apr-1917 9-Feb-2009 Tea and Sympathy
Jean Anouilh
Playwright
23-Jun-1910 3-Oct-1987 Le Voyageur sans Bagage
John Arden
Playwright
26-Oct-1930   Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Aristophanes
Playwright
c. 450 BC c. 388 BC Lysistrata, The Frogs
Fernando Arrabal
Playwright
11-Aug-1932   Viva la muerte
Antonin Artaud
Playwright
4-Sep-1896 4-Mar-1948 Theater of Cruelty
Juana de Asbaje
Poet
12-Nov-1651 17-Apr-1695 America's first feminist poet
Sholem Asch
Author
1-Nov-1880 1-Aug-1957 Yiddish novelist
Howard Ashman
Songwriter
17-May-1950 14-Mar-1991 Beauty and the Beast
Enid Bagnold
Novelist
27-Oct-1889 31-Mar-1981 National Velvet
Joanna Baillie
Playwright
11-Sep-1762 23-Feb-1851 Family Legend
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Playwright
17-Jan-1600 25-May-1681 La Vida es Sueño
Philip Barry
Playwright
18-Jun-1896 3-Dec-1949 The Philadelphia Story
Francis Beaumont
Playwright
1584 6-Mar-1616 Collaborator with John Fletcher
Samuel Beckett
Playwright
13-May-1906 22-Dec-1989 Waiting for Godot
Brendan Behan
Playwright
9-Feb-1923 20-Mar-1964 The Hostage
Dominic Behan
Playwright
1929 3-Aug-1989 The Patriot Game
Aphra Behn
Playwright
10-Jul-1640 16-Apr-1689 Oroonoko, the History of the Royal Slave
David Belasco
Playwright
25-Jul-1853 14-May-1931 Madame Butterfly
Jacinto Benavente
Playwright
12-Aug-1866 14-Jul-1954 The Bonds of Interest
Alan Bennett
Playwright
9-May-1934   The Madness of George III
Cyrano de Bergerac
Playwright
6-Mar-1619 28-Jul-1655 Voyage dans la Lune
Steven Berkoff
Actor
3-Aug-1937   London Theatre Group
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Playwright
8-Dec-1832 26-Apr-1910 Synnöve Solbakken
Pedro Bloch
Playwright
17-Apr-1914 23-Feb-2004 The Hands of Eurydice
Eric Bogosian
Actor
24-Apr-1953   Talk Radio
George Henry Boker
Playwright
6-Oct-1823 2-Jan-1890 Francesca da Rimini
Robert Bolt
Playwright
15-Aug-1924 20-Feb-1995 A Man for All Seasons
Edward Bond
Playwright
18-Jul-1934   Saved
Dion Boucicault
Playwright
26-Dec-1820 18-Sep-1890 The Corsican Brothers
Roger Boyle
Military
25-Apr-1621 16-Oct-1679 Treatise on the Art of War
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright
10-Feb-1898 14-Aug-1956 Mother Courage and Her Children
Robert Browning
Poet
7-May-1812 12-Dec-1889 Prominent Victorian poet and playwright
Georg Büchner
Playwright
17-Oct-1813 19-Feb-1837 Leonce and Lena
Mikhail Bulgakov
Author
3-May-1891 10-Mar-1940 The Master and Margarita
Ed Bullins
Playwright
2-Jul-1935   In the Wine Time
Janet Burroway
Novelist
21-Sep-1936   The Dancer from the Dance
Abe Burrows
Playwright
18-Dec-1910 17-May-1985 Co-Author, Guys and Dolls
Albert Camus
Novelist
7-Nov-1913 4-Jan-1960 French author and Nobel laureate
Elias Canetti
Author
25-Jul-1905 14-Aug-1994 Crowds and Power
Karel Capek
Author
9-Jan-1890 25-Dec-1938 R.U.R.
Miguel de Cervantes
Novelist
29-Sep-1547 22-Apr-1616 Don Quixote
Paddy Chayefsky
Playwright
29-Jan-1923 1-Aug-1981 Network
Anton Chekhov
Playwright
17-Jan-1860 15-Jul-1904 Playwright and short story writer
Caryl Churchill
Playwright
3-Sep-1938   Having a Wonderful Time
Charles Churchill
Poet
1731 4-Nov-1764 Rosciad
Colley Cibber
Playwright
6-Nov-1671 11-Dec-1757 Apology
George M. Cohan
Composer
3-Jul-1878 5-Nov-1942 Yankee Doodle Dandy
Wilkie Collins
Novelist
8-Jan-1824 23-Dec-1889 The Moonstone
Padraic Colum
Novelist
8-Dec-1881 11-Jan-1972 Wild Earth
William Congreve
Playwright
24-Jan-1670 19-Jan-1729 The Way of the World
Marc Connelly
Playwright
13-Dec-1890 21-Dec-1980 The Green Pastures
Pierre Corneille
Playwright
6-Jun-1606 1-Oct-1684 Le Cid
Noel Coward
Playwright
16-Dec-1899 26-Mar-1973 Design for Living
Cratinus
Playwright
c. 520 BC c. 423 BC Athenian comic poet
Michael Cristofer
Playwright
22-Jan-1945   The Shadow Box
Rachel Crothers
Playwright
12-Dec-1878 5-Jul-1958 When Ladies Meet
Russel Crouse
Playwright
20-Feb-1893 3-Apr-1966 The Sound of Music
Jeff Daniels
Actor
19-Feb-1955   Dumb and Dumber
Sir William Davenant
Poet
1606 7-Apr-1668 Gondibert
Ossie Davis
Actor
18-Dec-1917 4-Feb-2005 Do The Right Thing
Richard Harding Davis
Author
18-Apr-1864 11-Apr-1916 Yellow-era journalist
John Day
Playwright
1574 c. 1640 The Parliament of Bees
Michel de Ghelderode
Playwright
3-Apr-1898 1-Apr-1962 Surrealistic Belgian playwright
Thomas Dekker
Playwright
c. 1572 c. 1632 The Gentle Craft
Casimir Delavigne
Poet
4-Apr-1793 11-Dec-1843 La Parisienne
Don DeLillo
Novelist
20-Nov-1936   White Noise
John Dennis
Critic
1657 6-Jan-1734 The Usefulness of the Stage
Nigel Dennis
Novelist
16-Jan-1912 19-Jul-1989 Cards of Identity
Jean Desmarets
Playwright
1595 28-Oct-1676 Les Visionnaires
Philippe Destouches
Playwright
9-Apr-1680 4-Jul-1754 Le Glorieux
Elizabeth Dewberry
Playwright
1963   Break the Heart of Me
J. P. Donleavy
Novelist
23-Apr-1926   The Ginger Man
John Dryden
Poet
19-Aug-1631 1-May-1700 Absalom and Achitophel
Alexandre Dumas père
Novelist
24-Jul-1802 5-Dec-1870 The Three Musketeers
William Dunlap
Playwright
19-Feb-1766 28-Sep-1839 Fountainville Abbey
Marguerite Duras
Novelist
4-Apr-1914 3-Mar-1996 Hiroshima mon Amour
José Echegaray
Playwright
19-Apr-1832 14-Sep-1916 Nobel Prizewinning Spanish dramatist
Dietrich Eckart
Playwright
23-Mar-1868 25-Dec-1923 Nazi intellectual, Hitler's best friend
Günter Eich
Poet
1-Feb-1907 20-Sep-1972 Züge im Nebel
T. S. Eliot
Poet
26-Sep-1888 4-Jan-1965 Author of "The Waste Land"
Juan del Encina
Playwright
12-Jul-1469 1529 Founder of Spanish drama
Eve Ensler
Playwright
25-May-1953   The Vagina Monologues
Epicharmus
Playwright
c. 530 BC c. 440 BC Greek comic dramatist
George Etherege
Playwright
c. 1635 10-May-1692 Love in a Tub
Euripides
Playwright
c. 484 BC 406 BC Medea
George Farquhar
Playwright
1678 29-Apr-1707 The Beaux Stratagem
Jules Feiffer
Cartoonist
26-Jan-1929   Can't draw but writes like a master
Edna Ferber
Novelist
15-Aug-1885 16-Apr-1968 Show Boat and Giant
Henry Fielding
Novelist
22-Apr-1707 8-Oct-1754 Tom Jones
Harvey Fierstein
Actor
6-Jun-1952   Torch Song Trilogy
Alexandre Dumas fils
Playwright
27-Jul-1824 27-Nov-1895 La dame aux camélias
Martin Flavin
Novelist
2-Nov-1883 27-Dec-1967 Journey in the Dark
John Fletcher
Playwright
1579 29-Aug-1625 Collaborator with Francis Beaumont
Dario Fo
Playwright
26-Mar-1926   Italian playwright and Nobel laureate
Horton Foote
Playwright
14-Mar-1916 4-Mar-2009 To Kill a Mockingbird
Samuel Foote
Actor
1720 21-Oct-1777 Diversions
Ugo Foscolo
Playwright
6-Feb-1778 10-Sep-1827 The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
Anatole France
Novelist
16-Apr-1844 13-Oct-1924 French novelist
Bruno Frank
Playwright
13-Jun-1878 20-Jun-1945 Storm in a Teacup
Brian Friel
Playwright
9-Jan-1929   Dancing at Lughnasa
Max Frisch
Novelist
15-May-1911 4-Apr-1991 Homo Faber
Christopher Fry
Playwright
18-Dec-1907 30-Jun-2005 The Lady's Not for Burning
Athol Fugard
Playwright
11-Jun-1932   The Blood Knot
Charles Fuller
Playwright
5-Mar-1939   A Soldier's Play
George Furth
Playwright
14-Dec-1932 11-Aug-2008 Company
Lorena Gale
Actor
9-May-1958 21-Jun-2009 Je me souviens
Zona Gale
Novelist
26-Aug-1874 27-Dec-1938 Miss Lulu Bett
John Galsworthy
Novelist
14-Aug-1867 31-Jan-1933 The Forsyte Saga
Federico García Lorca
Poet
5-Jun-1898 18-Aug-1936 Lament for a Bullfighter
Robert Garnier
Poet
c. 1545 20-Sep-1590 Bradamante
João Batista de Almeida Garrett
Playwright
4-Feb-1799 9-Dec-1854 Frei Luís da Sousa
David Garrick
Actor
19-Feb-1717 20-Jan-1779 Manager of Drury Lane Theatre
John Gay
Poet
30-Jun-1685 4-Dec-1732 The Beggar's Opera
Jean Genet
Novelist
19-Dec-1910 15-Apr-1986 Theatre of the Absurd
William Gillette
Actor
24-Jul-1853 29-Apr-1937 Portrayed Sherlock Holmes on the stage
Frank D. Gilroy
Playwright
13-Oct-1925   The Subject Was Roses
Natalia Ginzburg
Novelist
14-Jul-1916 7-Oct-1991 La strada che va in città
Jean Giraudoux
Novelist
29-Oct-1882 31-Jan-1944 The Madwoman of Chaillot
Susan Glaspell
Playwright
1-Jul-1882 27-Jul-1948 Provincetown Players
Carlo Goldoni
Playwright
25-Feb-1707 6-Feb-1793 Founder of Italian comedy
Maxim Gorky
Playwright
28-Mar-1868 17-Jun-1936 The Lower Depths
David Marshall Grant
Actor
21-Jun-1955   Air America
Adolph Green
Songwriter
2-Dec-1914 23-Oct-2002 Singin' in the Rain
Robert Greene
Playwright
Jul-1558 3-Sep-1592 Friar Bacon
Augusta, Lady Gregory
Playwright
4-Mar-1852 22-May-1932 The Golden Apple
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
Poet
29-Aug-1709 16-Jun-1777 Vert Vert
Jacques Grévin
Playwright
1538 5-Nov-1570 Les Ébahis
Franz Grillparzer
Playwright
15-Jan-1791 21-Jan-1872 Der Traum, ein Leben
John Guare
Playwright
5-Feb-1938   Six Degrees of Separation
John Hale
Novelist
5-Feb-1926   The Whistle Blower
Patrick Hamilton
Playwright
17-Mar-1904 23-Sep-1962 Gaslight
Christopher Hampton
Playwright
26-Jan-1946   Dangerous Liaisons
Peter Handke
Novelist
6-Dec-1942   Insulting the Audience
William Hanley
Playwright
22-Oct-1931 25-May-2012 Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
Lorraine Hansberry
Playwright
19-May-1930 12-Jan-1965 A Raisin in the Sun
David Hare
Playwright
5-Jun-1947   Racing Demon
Ned Harrigan
Actor
26-Oct-1844 6-Jun-1911 Harrigan & Hart
Moss Hart
Playwright
24-Oct-1904 20-Dec-1961 You Can't Take It With You
Jan de Hartog
Novelist
22-Apr-1914 22-Sep-2002 Hollands glorie
Johannes Carsten Hauch
Poet
12-May-1790 4-Mar-1872 Valdemar Seir
Gerhart Hauptmann
Playwright
15-Nov-1862 6-Jun-1946 Die Weber
Vaclav Havel
Head of State
5-Oct-1936 18-Dec-2011 Playwright President of Czechia
Friedrich Hebbel
Playwright
18-Mar-1813 13-Dec-1863 Die Niebelungen Trilogie
Ben Hecht
Screenwriter
28-Feb-1894 18-Apr-1964 The Front Page
Lillian Hellman
Playwright
20-Jun-1905 30-Jun-1984 Little Foxes
Beth Henley
Playwright
8-May-1952   Crimes of the Heart
James A. Herne
Playwright
1-Feb-1839 2-Jun-1901 Shore Acres
Theodor Herzl
Activist
2-May-1860 3-Jul-1904 Lead Zionist
John Heywood
Playwright
1497 c. 1580 The Play of Love
Thomas Heywood
Playwright
c. 1575 16-Aug-1641 A Woman kilde with kindnesse
Aaron Hill
Playwright
10-Feb-1685 8-Feb-1750 The Progress of Wit
Ludvig Holberg
Author
3-Dec-1684 28-Jan-1754 Founder of Danish literature
Thomas Holcroft
Playwright
10-Dec-1745 23-Mar-1809 The Road to Ruin
John Home
Playwright
21-Sep-1722 5-Sep-1808 Douglas
Avery Hopwood
Playwright
28-May-1882 1-Jul-1928 The Bat
Sir Robert Howard
Playwright
1626 3-Sep-1698 The Committee
Sidney Coe Howard
Playwright
26-Jun-1891 23-Aug-1939 They Knew What They Wanted
Hrosvitha
Playwright
c. 935 AD c. 1000 AD Female medieval dramatist
Langston Hughes
Poet
1-Feb-1902 22-May-1967 The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Victor Hugo
Author
26-Feb-1802 23-May-1885 Les Miserables
Henrik Ibsen
Playwright
20-Mar-1828 23-May-1906 Peer Gynt
William Inge
Playwright
3-May-1913 10-Jun-1973 Come Back, Little Sheba
Eugène Ionesco
Playwright
26-Nov-1912 28-Mar-1994 The Bald Soprano
Alfred Jarry
Playwright
8-Sep-1873 1-Nov-1907 Ubu roi
Elfriede Jelinek
Novelist
20-Oct-1946   Die Klavierspielerin
Ben Jonson
Playwright
11-Jun-1572 6-Aug-1637 Volpone
Erland Josephson
Actor
15-Jun-1923 25-Feb-2012 The Sacrifice
Georg Kaiser
Playwright
25-Nov-1878 4-Jun-1945 The Gardener of Toulouse
Mindy Kaling
Actor
24-Jun-1979   Kelly Kapoor on The Office
George S. Kaufman
Playwright
16-Nov-1889 2-Jun-1961 You Can't Take It With You
George Kelly
Playwright
16-Jan-1887 18-Jun-1974 Craig's Wife
Jean Kerr
Author
10-Jul-1922 5-Jan-2003 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Hermann Kesten
Novelist
28-Jan-1900 1996 I, the King
Thomas Killigrew
Playwright
7-Feb-1612 19-Mar-1683 The Prisoners
James Kirkwood
Novelist
22-Aug-1924 21-Apr-1989 A Chorus Line
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
Playwright
17-Feb-1752 9-Mar-1831 Sturm under Drang
Oskar Kokoschka
Painter
1-Mar-1886 22-Feb-1980 Austrian expressionist painter
Arthur Kopit
Playwright
10-May-1937   Mama's Hung You in the Closet
Larry Kramer
Playwright
25-Jun-1935   The Normal Heart
Norman Krasna
Playwright
7-Nov-1909 1-Nov-1984 The Devil and Miss Jones
Alfred Kreymborg
Author
10-Dec-1883 Aug-1966 Founder of The Glebe
Tony Kushner
Playwright
16-Jul-1956   Angels in America
Thomas Kyd
Playwright
1558 Aug-1594 The Spanish Tragedy
Neil LaBute
Film Director
19-Mar-1963   In the Company of Men
Pär Lagerkvist
Author
23-May-1891 11-Jul-1974 Barabbas
Ring Lardner, Jr.
Playwright
19-Aug-1915 31-Oct-2000 Screenwriter, M*A*S*H
Arthur Laurents
Playwright
14-Jul-1918 5-May-2011 West Side Story
Jerome Lawrence
Playwright
14-Jul-1915 29-Feb-2004 Inherit the Wind and Mame
John Howard Lawson
Playwright
25-Sep-1894 11-Aug-1977 One of the Hollywood Ten
Maurice Leblanc
Novelist
11-Dec-1864 6-Nov-1941 Creator of Arsène Lupin
Nathaniel Lee
Playwright
c. 1653 6-May-1692 The Rival Queens
Alan Jay Lerner
Playwright
31-Aug-1918 14-Jun-1986 An American in Paris
Alain René Lesage
Novelist
6-May-1668 17-Nov-1747 Gil Blas
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Playwright
22-Jan-1729 15-Feb-1781 Laokoon
Howard Lindsay
Playwright
29-Mar-1889 11-Feb-1968 The Sound of Music
David Lindsay-Abaire
Playwright
30-Nov-1969   Rabbit Hole
James Lipton
TV Personality
19-Sep-1926   Host, Inside the Actors Studio
Joshua Logan
Film Director
5-Oct-1908 12-Jul-1988 South Pacific
Frederick Lonsdale
Playwright
5-Feb-1881 4-Apr-1954 The King of Cadonia
Clare Boothe Luce
Politician
10-Apr-1903 9-Oct-1987 Congresswoman, wife of Henry R. Luce
Otto Ludwig
Playwright
11-Feb-1813 25-Feb-1865 Der Erbförster
John Lyly
Playwright
1554 18-Nov-1606 Euphues
Charles MacArthur
Playwright
5-Nov-1895 21-Apr-1956 The Front Page
Percy MacKaye
Playwright
16-Mar-1875 31-Aug-1956 The Canterbury Pilgrims
Steele MacKaye
Playwright
6-Jun-1842 25-Feb-1894 Founder of New York's Lyceum Theatre
Archibald Macleish
Poet
7-May-1892 20-Apr-1982 Conquistador
Louis MacNeice
Poet
12-Sep-1907 3-Sep-1963 Autumn Journal
Georgius Macropedius
Playwright
1487 Jul-1558 Neo-Latin playwright
Maurice Maeterlinck
Playwright
29-Aug-1862 6-May-1949 Pelléas et Mélisande
Antonine Maillet
Novelist
10-May-1929   Pélagie-la-Charette
Albert Maltz
Playwright
28-Oct-1908 26-Apr-1985 One of the Hollywood Ten
Patrick Marber
Playwright
19-Sep-1964   Closer
Gabriel Marcel
Philosopher
7-Dec-1889 8-Oct-1973 French existential philosopher
Pierre Marivaux
Novelist
4-Feb-1688 12-Feb-1763 Marianne
Georgi Markov
Victim
1-Mar-1929 11-Sep-1978 Killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella
Jeannette Marks
Poet
16-Aug-1875 1964 The Merry Merry Cuckoo
Christopher Marlowe
Playwright
6-Feb-1564 30-May-1593 Doctor Faustus
René Marqués
Playwright
4-Oct-1919 22-Mar-1979 La Carreta
John Marston
Playwright
7-Oct-1576 25-Jun-1634 The Malcontent
Philip Massinger
Playwright
1583 1639 The Virgin Martyr
François Mauriac
Novelist
11-Oct-1885 1-Sep-1970 Le Noeud de Vipères
Cormac McCarthy
Novelist
20-Jul-1933   All the Pretty Horses
Terrence McNally
Playwright
3-Nov-1939   Frankie and Johnny
Menander
Playwright
c. 342 BC c. 292 BC Early Greek comic dramatist
Metastasio
Poet
3-Jan-1698 12-Apr-1782 Italian librettist of the 18th century
Thomas Middleton
Playwright
18-Apr-1580 4-Jul-1627 A Game at Chess
Arthur Miller
Playwright
17-Oct-1915 10-Feb-2005 Death of a Salesman
Jason Miller
Actor
22-Apr-1939 13-May-2001 The Exorcist
May Miller
Playwright
26-Jan-1899 8-Feb-1995 The Bog Guide
Anthony Minghella
Film Director
6-Jan-1954 18-Mar-2008 The English Patient
Vilhelm Moberg
Novelist
20-Aug-1898 8-Aug-1973 The Emigrants
Molière
Playwright
15-Jan-1622 17-Feb-1673 Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope
Ferenc Molnár
Playwright
12-Jan-1878 1-Apr-1952 The Paul Street Boys
William Vaughn Moody
Playwright
8-Jul-1869 17-Oct-1910 The Great Divide
John Mortimer
Playwright
21-Apr-1923 16-Jan-2009 Rumpole of the Bailey
Anthony Munday
Playwright
c. 1560 10-Aug-1633 Sir Thomas More
Alfred de Musset
Poet
11-Dec-1810 2-May-1857 Les Caprices de Marianne
Thomas Nashe
Author
1567 c. 1601 The Unfortunate Traveller
Ivor Novello
Composer
15-Jan-1893 6-Mar-1951 Keep the Home Fires Burning
Richard O'Brien
Actor
25-Mar-1942   The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sean O'Casey
Playwright
30-Mar-1880 18-Sep-1964 Juno and the Paycock
Eugene O'Neill
Playwright
16-Oct-1888 27-Nov-1953 Long Day's Journey Into Night
Clifford Odets
Playwright
18-Jul-1906 14-Aug-1963 Sweet Smell of Success
Joe Orton
Playwright
1-Jan-1933 9-Aug-1967 Prick Up Your Ears
John Osborne
Playwright
12-Dec-1929 24-Dec-1994 Look Back in Anger
Thomas Otway
Playwright
3-Mar-1652 14-Apr-1685 Venice Preserved
Thomas Love Peacock
Novelist
18-Oct-1785 23-Jan-1866 Nightmare Abbey
George Peele
Playwright
1558 9-Nov-1596 The Old Wives Tale
Silvio Pellico
Playwright
25-Jun-1789 31-Jan-1854 Le Mie Prigioni
Tyler Perry
Film Director
13-Sep-1969   Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Clarke Peters
Actor
7-Apr-1952   Lester Freamon on The Wire
Pherecrates
Playwright
fl. 5th c. BC fl. 5th c. BC The Wild Men
Arthur Wing Pinero
Playwright
24-May-1855 23-Nov-1934 The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
David Pinski
Playwright
5-Apr-1872 11-Aug-1959 Yiddish playwright, Der Oitzer
Harold Pinter
Playwright
10-Oct-1930 24-Dec-2008 The Birthday Party
Luigi Pirandello
Playwright
28-Jun-1867 10-Dec-1936 Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
Plautus
Playwright
c. 254 BC 184 BC Earliest extant Roman playwright
J. B. Priestley
Novelist
13-Sep-1894 14-Aug-1984 An Inspector Calls
David Rabe
Playwright
10-Mar-1940   Sticks and Bones
Jean Racine
Playwright
20-Dec-1639 21-Apr-1699 Phèdre
Yordan Radichkov
Author
24-Oct-1929 21-Jan-2004 Bulgarian writer
Terence Rattigan
Playwright
10-Jun-1911 30-Nov-1977 Separate Tables
Charles Reade
Novelist
8-Jun-1814 11-Apr-1884 The Cloister and the Hearth
Elmer Rice
Playwright
28-Sep-1892 8-May-1967 Street Scene
Thomas D. Rice
Comic
20-May-1808 19-Sep-1860 Played "Jim Crow"
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Novelist
12-Aug-1876 22-Sep-1958 Circular Staircase
Martin Ritt
Film Director
2-Mar-1914 8-Dec-1990 The Long Hot Summer
Edmond Rostand
Playwright
1-Apr-1868 2-Dec-1918 Cyrano de Bergerac
Nicholas Rowe
Playwright
20-Jun-1674 6-Dec-1718 Editor of William Shakespeare
William Rowley
Playwright
c. 1585 c. 1642 Collaborator with Thomas Middleton
Nelly Sachs
Poet
10-Dec-1891 12-May-1970 O the Chimneys
Françoise Sagan
Novelist
21-Jun-1935 24-Sep-2004 Bonjour Tristesse
Victorien Sardou
Playwright
5-Sep-1831 8-Nov-1908 Les Pattes de Mouche
Nathalie Sarraute
Novelist
18-Jul-1900 19-Oct-1999 Portrait of a Man Unknown
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher
21-Jun-1905 15-Apr-1980 Nausea, No Exit
Friedrich von Schiller
Playwright
10-Nov-1759 9-May-1805 Wallenstein
Arthur Schnitzler
Playwright
15-May-1862 21-Oct-1931 Reigen
Seneca
Author
c. 4 BC 65 AD Epistulae Morales
Alois Senefelder
Inventor
6-Nov-1771 26-Feb-1834 Inventor of lithography
Thomas Shadwell
Playwright
c. 1642 19-Nov-1692 Epsom Wells
Peter Shaffer
Playwright
15-May-1926   Amadeus, Equus
William Shakespeare
Playwright
23-Apr-1564 23-Apr-1616 Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
26-Jul-1856 2-Nov-1950 Irish dramatist and pamphleteer
Irwin Shaw
Playwright
27-Feb-1913 16-May-1984 Rich Man, Poor Man
Wallace Shawn
Actor
12-Nov-1943   Ate dinner with Andre
Sam Shepard
Playwright
5-Nov-1943   Buried Child
Jim Sheridan
Film Director
6-Feb-1949   My Left Foot
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Playwright
30-Oct-1751 7-Jul-1816 The School for Scandal
Robert E. Sherwood
Playwright
4-Apr-1896 14-Nov-1955 Abe Lincoln in Illinois
James Shirley
Playwright
1596 29-Oct-1666 Love Tricks
Neil Simon
Playwright
4-Jul-1927   The Odd Couple
Anna Deavere Smith
Actor
18-Sep-1950   Nancy McNally on The West Wing
Sophocles
Playwright
c. 496 BC 406 BC Oedipus the King
Thomas Southerne
Playwright
1660 26-May-1746 The Persian Prince
Wole Soyinka
Playwright
13-Jul-1934   Politically-charged Nigerian author
Joseph Stein
Playwright
30-May-1912 24-Oct-2010 Fiddler on the Roof librettist
John Steinbeck
Novelist
27-Feb-1902 20-Dec-1968 The Grapes of Wrath
Douglas Stewart
Playwright
6-May-1913 14-Feb-1985 Fire in the Snow
Tom Stoppard
Playwright
3-Jul-1937   Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
David Storey
Novelist
13-Jul-1933   Saville
August Strindberg
Playwright
22-Jan-1849 14-May-1912 Röda Rummet
Sir John Suckling
Poet
1609 1642 Fragmenta Aurea
Aleksandr Sumarokov
Playwright
14-Nov-1717 12-Oct-1777 Founder of Russian classical drama
John Millington Synge
Playwright
16-Apr-1871 24-Mar-1909 The Playboy of the Western World
Ede Szigligeti
Playwright
8-Mar-1814 19-Jan-1878 Leading Hungarian dramatist
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet
7-May-1861 7-Aug-1941 Gitanjali
Manuel Tamayo y Baus
Playwright
15-Sep-1829 20-Jun-1898 Lances de Honor
Nahum Tate
Poet
1652 30-Jul-1715 Imitative British playwright
Terence
Playwright
c. 195 BC c. 159 BC Comic playwright of Ancient Rome
Josephine Tey
Novelist
1897 13-Feb-1952 Richard of Bordeaux
Ludwig Tieck
Novelist
31-May-1773 28-Apr-1853 Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen
Ernst Toller
Playwright
1-Dec-1893 22-May-1939 Transformation
Giangiorgio Trissino
Scholar
8-Jul-1478 8-Dec-1550 Sofonisba
Royall Tyler
Playwright
18-Jul-1757 26-Aug-1826 The Contrast
John Vanbrugh
Playwright
24-Jan-1664 26-Mar-1726 The Provok'd Wife
Mario Vargas Llosa
Novelist
28-Mar-1936   Acclaimed Peruvian author
Lope de Vega
Playwright
25-Nov-1562 27-Aug-1635 Reformed Spanish comedy
Henri Verneuil
Playwright
15-Oct-1920 11-Jan-2002 I as in Icarus
Alfred de Vigny
Poet
27-Mar-1797 17-Sep-1863 Chatterton
Voltaire
Author
21-Nov-1694 30-May-1778 Candide
Derek Walcott
Poet
23-Jan-1930   In a Green Night
Wendy Wasserstein
Playwright
18-Oct-1950 30-Jan-2006 The Heidi Chronicles
John Webster
Playwright
c. 1580 1634 The Duchess of Malfy
Frank Wedekind
Playwright
24-Jul-1864 9-Mar-1918 Playwright born before his time
Kurt Weill
Composer
2-Mar-1900 3-Apr-1950 The Threepenny Opera
Arnold Wesker
Playwright
24-May-1932   The Kitchen
Patrick White
Novelist
28-May-1912 30-Sep-1990 Riders in the Chariot
Oscar Wilde
Playwright
16-Oct-1854 30-Nov-1900 The Picture of Dorian Gray
Thornton Wilder
Novelist
17-Apr-1897 7-Dec-1975 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Emlyn Williams
Playwright
26-Nov-1905 25-Sep-1987 Night Must Fall
Tennessee Williams
Playwright
26-Mar-1911 25-Feb-1983 The Glass Menagerie
August Wilson
Playwright
27-Apr-1945 2-Oct-2005 The Piano Lesson
Lanford Wilson
Playwright
13-Apr-1937 24-Mar-2011 The Hot L Baltimore
Robert Wilson
Theater Director
4-Oct-1941   Experimental theater director, designer
Eric Woolfson
Musician
18-Mar-1945 1-Dec-2009 Former Alan Parsons Project collaborator
William Wycherley
Playwright
1640 1-Jan-1716 The Plain Dealer
Gao Xingjian
Author
4-Jan-1940   Chinese expatriate, novelist
William Butler Yeats
Poet
13-Jun-1865 28-Jan-1939 The Land of Heart's Desire
Israel Zangwill
Playwright
14-Feb-1864 1-Aug-1926 Children of the Ghetto
Paul Zindel
Author
15-May-1936 27-Mar-2003 Books for young adults



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