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Charles Braun Ludlam (April 12, 1943 – May 28, 1987) was an American actor, director, and playwright.
Jim Cartwright (born 27 June 1958) is an Internationally acclaimed English dramatist, born in Farnworth, Lancashire, England. Cartwright’s first play, Road, won a number of awards before being adapted for TV and broadcast by the BBC. His work has bee
Andrea Dunbar was brought up on the deprived Buttershaw Estate in Bradford, which was the setting of her three plays. She had three children by different fathers. Her first play, The Arbor, was written for a Certificate of Secondary Education drama c
David Drake (born June 27, 1963) is an American playwright, stage director, actor and author. He is best known as the author and original performer of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, for which he received a Village Voice Obie Award, a 1994 Drama-Lo
Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu, 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco’s p
Valentin Vladimirovich Ovechkin (Russian: Валентин Владимирович Овечкин; June 22, 1904 – January 27, 1968) was a Soviet writer, playwright, and journalist.
Anthony Robert “Tony” Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. He co-authored with Eric Roth the scree
Glenn Chandler is an award-winning Scottish playwright and novelist. He has written plays for theatre and radio, original screenplays for television and films, television series, and novels. His best-known work is the Scottish television detective se
Hanif Kureishi, CBE (born 5 December 1954) is a British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist. In 2008, The Times included Kureishi in their list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”.