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Steele MacKaye Facts

James Morrison Steele MacKaye (/məˈkaɪ/ mə-KY; June 6, 1842 – February 25, 1894) was an American playwright, actor, theater manager and inventor. Having acted, written, directed and produced numerous and popular plays and theatrical spectacular

Ken Ludwig Facts

Ken Ludwig (born March 15, 1950) is an American playwright and theatre director whose work has been performed in more than 30 countries in over 20 languages.

Ernesto Rossi Facts

Ernesto Rossi (27 March 1827 – 4 June 1896), was an Italian actor and playwright.

Luís de Sttau Monteiro Facts

Luís Infante de Lacerda Sttau Monteiro (April 3, 1926 – July 23, 1993) was a Portuguese writer, novelist and playwright, a man to whom “the only sacred thing was to be free as the wind”.

Nell Dunn Facts

Nell Mary Dunn (born 1936) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and author.

W. Somerset Maugham Facts

W. Somerset MaughamActive – 1922 – 1965 | Born – Jan 25, 1874 in Paris, France | Died – Dec 16, 1965 in Nice, France | Genres – DramaBiography by Bruce Eder W. Somerset Maugham, or Somerset Maugham, as he is usually referred to, was perhaps

Bahram Beizai Facts

Bahrām Beyzāi (also spelt Bahrām Beizai, Bahrām Beyzaie, Persian: بهرام بیضائی‎‎, born 26 December 1938 in Tehran) is a critically acclaimed Iranian film director, theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, film editor, producer,

Edward Bond Facts

Edward Bond (born 18 July 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of some fifty plays, among them Saved (1965), the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorshi

Reza Abdoh Facts

Reza Abdoh (February 23, 1963, in Tehran, Iran – May 12, 1995 in New York City) was an Iranian-born American director and playwright known for large-scale, experimental theatrical productions, often staged in unusual spaces like warehouses and aban

Joe Penhall Facts

Joe Penhall (born 1967) is a British playwright and screenwriter from London, best known for his award-winning stage play “Blue/Orange” and the award winning West End musical “Sunny Afternoon.”

Joseph A. Walker Facts

Joseph Alexander Walker (February 24, 1935–January 25, 2003) was an American playwright and screenwriter, theater director, actor and professor. He is best known for writing The River Niger, a three-act play that was originally produced Off-Broadwa

Peter Shaffer Facts

Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBE (born 15 May 1926), is an English playwright and screenwriter of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been filmed.