Dramatist celebrities
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Seán O’Casey (Irish: Seán Ó Cathasaigh, born John Casey, 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
Heiner Müller (January 9, 1929 – December 30, 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as “the theatre’s greatest living poet” since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most im
Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud(4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the Eu
Roy Smiles is an English playwright and singer-songwriter from west London. He is also an occasional actor.Smiles has written twenty six theatre plays, the best known of which is Kurt and Sid, a 2009 London West End production about the fictional mee
Félix-Henri Bataille (4 April 1872 in Nîmes – 2 March 1922 in Rueil-Malmaison) was a French dramatist and poet. His works were extremely popular between 1900 and the start of World War I.
Percy MacKaye (1875–1956) was an American dramatist and poet.
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted
Tim Firth (born 1964) is an English dramatist, screenwriter and songwriter.
Bronson Howard (October 7, 1842 – August 4, 1908) was a well-known American dramatist.
Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage”.
Eugenio Zanetti (born in 1949) is an Argentine dramatist, painter, film set designer, and theater and opera director. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 1995, for the film Restoration.
James Albery (4 May 1838 – 15 August 1889) was an English dramatist.