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Elizabeth Becker “Beth” Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an award-winning American playwright, screen writer, and actress. Her play, Crimes of the Heart won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the 1981 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for B
Charles Langbridge Morgan (22 January 1894 – 6 February 1958) was an English-born playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, “Art, Love, and Death”, and the relation between them.
Clay Meredith Greene (March 12, 1850 – September 5, 1933) was an American playwright.
Peter Sagal (born January 31, 1965) is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor, and host of the National Public Radio game show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, and the PBS special Constitution USA with Peter Sagal.
Habib Tanvir (1 September 1923 – 8 June 2009) was one of the most popular Indian Urdu, Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor. He was the writer of plays such as, Agra Bazar (1954) and Charandas Chor (1975). A pioneer in Urdu, Hindi
Ntozake Shange (/ˈɛntɵzɑːkiː ˈʃɑːŋɡeɪ/ EN-tə-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-gay; born October 18, 1948) is an American playwright, and poet. As a self-proclaimed black feminist, she addresses issues relating to race and feminism in much of her work.
William Wycherley (c. 1640 – 31 December 1715) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.
Eleanor Wong (Chinese: 王少研; pinyin: Wáng Shǎo Yán) is a playwright and poet in Singapore. She is an Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, where she is Vice Dean of Student Affairs and Director of Legal Skills Pr
Oren Safdie (born April 20, 1965) is a Canadian-American-Israeli playwright and screenwriter, and the son of architect Moshe Safdie.
Aron Ettore Schmitz (December 19, 1861 – September 13, 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo was an Italian writer and businessman, known as a novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
Hyman Solomon Kraft (April 30, 1899 – July 29, 1975), aka Hy Kraft or H.S. Kraft, was an American screenwriter, playwright, and theatrical producer.
Michael Stewart (August 1, 1924 – September 20, 1987) was an American playwright and librettist for the stage.