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Donald Freed (born 1933) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, and actor. He is associated with writing programs at the University of Southern California, and was Artist in Residence at the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, United K
Eugene Walter (November 27, 1874 – September 26, 1941) was a playwright. He was the author of the hit play The Easiest Way.
Rajiv Joseph (born June 16, 1974) is an American playwright and a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Julia Cho (born 1975) is an American playwright and television writer who has won national awards for her work.
Thoppil Bhasi (Malayalam: തോപ്പില് ഭാസി) (born 1924 April 8 – died 1992 December 8) was a Malayalam playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He was associated with the communist movement in Kerala and his play Ningale
Jeremy “Jez” Butterworth (born March 1969) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has written screenplays in collaboration with his brothers, John-Henry and Tom.
Marcel Dubé, OC (born January 3, 1930 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian playwright. He has produced over 300 works for radio, television and the stage. His concerns for the preservation and sanctity of the French language in Quebec was a primary fo
Branislav Nušić (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранислав Нушић, 20 October 1864 – 19 January 1938) was a Serbian playwright, satirist, essayist,novelist and founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil servan
Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951) is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, How I Learned to Drive. Vogel was Chair of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.
Hamilton Deane (1880–1958) was an Irish actor, playwright and director. He played a key role in popularising Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a stage play and, later, a film.
Sheldon Feldner 3/16/36-8/11/10 Playwright, actor, poet, director. Loved dogs, the spoken word, and his friends. Born in Chicago, but raised in San Francisco. Graduate of Lincoln High School, San Francisco State, and Stanford University (MFA). US Arm
Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her “musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, rev