| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| George Abbott |
Playwright |
25-Jun-1887 |
31-Jan-1995 |
Damn Yankees |
| Paul Ableman |
Novelist |
13-Jun-1927 |
25-Oct-2006 |
I Hear Voices |
| Joseph Addison |
Author |
1-May-1672 |
17-Jun-1719 |
The Spectator |
| Aeschylus |
Playwright |
c. 525 BC |
c. 456 BC |
Oresteia |
| Zoë Akins |
Playwright |
30-Oct-1886 |
29-Oct-1958 |
The Greeks Had a Word For It |
| Edward Albee |
Playwright |
12-Mar-1928 |
|
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Isabel Allende |
Novelist |
2-Aug-1942 |
|
The House of Spirits |
| Maxwell Anderson |
Playwright |
15-Dec-1888 |
28-Feb-1959 |
What Price Glory? |
| Regina M. Anderson |
Playwright |
21-May-1901 |
5-Feb-1993 |
Climbing Jacob's Ladder |
| Robert W. Anderson |
Playwright |
28-Apr-1917 |
9-Feb-2009 |
Tea and Sympathy |
| Jean Anouilh |
Playwright |
23-Jun-1910 |
3-Oct-1987 |
Le Voyageur sans Bagage |
| John Arden |
Playwright |
26-Oct-1930 |
|
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance |
| Aristophanes |
Playwright |
c. 450 BC |
c. 388 BC |
Lysistrata, The Frogs |
| Fernando Arrabal |
Playwright |
11-Aug-1932 |
|
Viva la muerte |
| Antonin Artaud |
Playwright |
4-Sep-1896 |
4-Mar-1948 |
Theater of Cruelty |
| Juana de Asbaje |
Poet |
12-Nov-1651 |
17-Apr-1695 |
America's first feminist poet |
| Sholem Asch |
Author |
1-Nov-1880 |
1-Aug-1957 |
Yiddish novelist |
| Howard Ashman |
Songwriter |
17-May-1950 |
14-Mar-1991 |
Beauty and the Beast |
| Enid Bagnold |
Novelist |
27-Oct-1889 |
31-Mar-1981 |
National Velvet |
| Joanna Baillie |
Playwright |
11-Sep-1762 |
23-Feb-1851 |
Family Legend |
| Pedro Calderón de la Barca |
Playwright |
17-Jan-1600 |
25-May-1681 |
La Vida es Sueño |
| Philip Barry |
Playwright |
18-Jun-1896 |
3-Dec-1949 |
The Philadelphia Story |
| Francis Beaumont |
Playwright |
1584 |
6-Mar-1616 |
Collaborator with John Fletcher |
| Samuel Beckett |
Playwright |
13-May-1906 |
22-Dec-1989 |
Waiting for Godot |
| Brendan Behan |
Playwright |
9-Feb-1923 |
20-Mar-1964 |
The Hostage |
| Dominic Behan |
Playwright |
1929 |
3-Aug-1989 |
The Patriot Game |
| Aphra Behn |
Playwright |
10-Jul-1640 |
16-Apr-1689 |
Oroonoko, the History of the Royal Slave |
| David Belasco |
Playwright |
25-Jul-1853 |
14-May-1931 |
Madame Butterfly |
| Jacinto Benavente |
Playwright |
12-Aug-1866 |
14-Jul-1954 |
The Bonds of Interest |
| Alan Bennett |
Playwright |
9-May-1934 |
|
The Madness of George III |
| Cyrano de Bergerac |
Playwright |
6-Mar-1619 |
28-Jul-1655 |
Voyage dans la Lune |
| Steven Berkoff |
Actor |
3-Aug-1937 |
|
London Theatre Group |
| Bj�rnstjerne Bj�rnson |
Playwright |
8-Dec-1832 |
26-Apr-1910 |
Synnöve Solbakken |
| Pedro Bloch |
Playwright |
17-Apr-1914 |
23-Feb-2004 |
The Hands of Eurydice |
| Eric Bogosian |
Actor |
24-Apr-1953 |
|
Talk Radio |
| George Henry Boker |
Playwright |
6-Oct-1823 |
2-Jan-1890 |
Francesca da Rimini |
| Robert Bolt |
Playwright |
15-Aug-1924 |
20-Feb-1995 |
A Man for All Seasons |
| Edward Bond |
Playwright |
18-Jul-1934 |
|
Saved |
| Dion Boucicault |
Playwright |
26-Dec-1820 |
18-Sep-1890 |
The Corsican Brothers |
| Roger Boyle |
Military |
25-Apr-1621 |
16-Oct-1679 |
Treatise on the Art of War |
| Bertolt Brecht |
Playwright |
10-Feb-1898 |
14-Aug-1956 |
Mother Courage and Her Children |
| Robert Browning |
Poet |
7-May-1812 |
12-Dec-1889 |
Prominent Victorian poet and playwright |
| Georg Büchner |
Playwright |
17-Oct-1813 |
19-Feb-1837 |
Leonce and Lena |
| Mikhail Bulgakov |
Author |
3-May-1891 |
10-Mar-1940 |
The Master and Margarita |
| Ed Bullins |
Playwright |
2-Jul-1935 |
|
In the Wine Time |
| Janet Burroway |
Novelist |
21-Sep-1936 |
|
The Dancer from the Dance |
| Abe Burrows |
Playwright |
18-Dec-1910 |
17-May-1985 |
Co-Author, Guys and Dolls |
| Albert Camus |
Novelist |
7-Nov-1913 |
4-Jan-1960 |
French author and Nobel laureate |
| Elias Canetti |
Author |
25-Jul-1905 |
14-Aug-1994 |
Crowds and Power |
| Karel Capek |
Author |
9-Jan-1890 |
25-Dec-1938 |
R.U.R. |
| Miguel de Cervantes |
Novelist |
29-Sep-1547 |
22-Apr-1616 |
Don Quixote |
| Paddy Chayefsky |
Playwright |
29-Jan-1923 |
1-Aug-1981 |
Network |
| Anton Chekhov |
Playwright |
17-Jan-1860 |
15-Jul-1904 |
Playwright and short story writer |
| Caryl Churchill |
Playwright |
3-Sep-1938 |
|
Having a Wonderful Time |
| Charles Churchill |
Poet |
1731 |
4-Nov-1764 |
Rosciad |
| Colley Cibber |
Playwright |
6-Nov-1671 |
11-Dec-1757 |
Apology |
| George M. Cohan |
Composer |
3-Jul-1878 |
5-Nov-1942 |
Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Wilkie Collins |
Novelist |
8-Jan-1824 |
23-Dec-1889 |
The Moonstone |
| Padraic Colum |
Novelist |
8-Dec-1881 |
11-Jan-1972 |
Wild Earth |
| William Congreve |
Playwright |
24-Jan-1670 |
19-Jan-1729 |
The Way of the World |
| Marc Connelly |
Playwright |
13-Dec-1890 |
21-Dec-1980 |
The Green Pastures |
| Pierre Corneille |
Playwright |
6-Jun-1606 |
1-Oct-1684 |
Le Cid |
| Noel Coward |
Playwright |
16-Dec-1899 |
26-Mar-1973 |
Design for Living |
| Cratinus |
Playwright |
c. 520 BC |
c. 423 BC |
Athenian comic poet |
| Michael Cristofer |
Playwright |
22-Jan-1945 |
|
The Shadow Box |
| Rachel Crothers |
Playwright |
12-Dec-1878 |
5-Jul-1958 |
When Ladies Meet |
| Russel Crouse |
Playwright |
20-Feb-1893 |
3-Apr-1966 |
The Sound of Music |
| Jeff Daniels |
Actor |
19-Feb-1955 |
|
Dumb and Dumber |
| Sir William Davenant |
Poet |
1606 |
7-Apr-1668 |
Gondibert |
| Ossie Davis |
Actor |
18-Dec-1917 |
4-Feb-2005 |
Do The Right Thing |
| Richard Harding Davis |
Author |
18-Apr-1864 |
11-Apr-1916 |
Yellow-era journalist |
| John Day |
Playwright |
1574 |
c. 1640 |
The Parliament of Bees |
| Michel de Ghelderode |
Playwright |
3-Apr-1898 |
1-Apr-1962 |
Surrealistic Belgian playwright |
| Thomas Dekker |
Playwright |
c. 1572 |
c. 1632 |
The Gentle Craft |
| Casimir Delavigne |
Poet |
4-Apr-1793 |
11-Dec-1843 |
La Parisienne |
| Don DeLillo |
Novelist |
20-Nov-1936 |
|
White Noise |
| John Dennis |
Critic |
1657 |
6-Jan-1734 |
The Usefulness of the Stage |
| Nigel Dennis |
Novelist |
16-Jan-1912 |
19-Jul-1989 |
Cards of Identity |
| Jean Desmarets |
Playwright |
1595 |
28-Oct-1676 |
Les Visionnaires |
| Philippe Destouches |
Playwright |
9-Apr-1680 |
4-Jul-1754 |
Le Glorieux |
| Elizabeth Dewberry |
Playwright |
1963 |
|
Break the Heart of Me |
| J. P. Donleavy |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1926 |
|
The Ginger Man |
| John Dryden |
Poet |
19-Aug-1631 |
1-May-1700 |
Absalom and Achitophel |
| Alexandre Dumas père |
Novelist |
24-Jul-1802 |
5-Dec-1870 |
The Three Musketeers |
| William Dunlap |
Playwright |
19-Feb-1766 |
28-Sep-1839 |
Fountainville Abbey |
| Marguerite Duras |
Novelist |
4-Apr-1914 |
3-Mar-1996 |
Hiroshima mon Amour |
| José Echegaray |
Playwright |
19-Apr-1832 |
14-Sep-1916 |
Nobel Prizewinning Spanish dramatist |
| Dietrich Eckart |
Playwright |
23-Mar-1868 |
25-Dec-1923 |
Nazi intellectual, Hitler's best friend |
| Günter Eich |
Poet |
1-Feb-1907 |
20-Sep-1972 |
Züge im Nebel |
| T. S. Eliot |
Poet |
26-Sep-1888 |
4-Jan-1965 |
Author of "The Waste Land" |
| Juan del Encina |
Playwright |
12-Jul-1469 |
1529 |
Founder of Spanish drama |
| Eve Ensler |
Playwright |
25-May-1953 |
|
The Vagina Monologues |
| Epicharmus |
Playwright |
c. 530 BC |
c. 440 BC |
Greek comic dramatist |
| George Etherege |
Playwright |
c. 1635 |
10-May-1692 |
Love in a Tub |
| Euripides |
Playwright |
c. 484 BC |
406 BC |
Medea |
| George Farquhar |
Playwright |
1678 |
29-Apr-1707 |
The Beaux Stratagem |
| Jules Feiffer |
Cartoonist |
26-Jan-1929 |
|
Can't draw but writes like a master |
| Edna Ferber |
Novelist |
15-Aug-1885 |
16-Apr-1968 |
Show Boat and Giant |
| Henry Fielding |
Novelist |
22-Apr-1707 |
8-Oct-1754 |
Tom Jones |
| Harvey Fierstein |
Actor |
6-Jun-1952 |
|
Torch Song Trilogy |
| Alexandre Dumas fils |
Playwright |
27-Jul-1824 |
27-Nov-1895 |
La dame aux camélias |
| Martin Flavin |
Novelist |
2-Nov-1883 |
27-Dec-1967 |
Journey in the Dark |
| John Fletcher |
Playwright |
1579 |
29-Aug-1625 |
Collaborator with Francis Beaumont |
| Dario Fo |
Playwright |
26-Mar-1926 |
|
Italian playwright and Nobel laureate |
| Horton Foote |
Playwright |
14-Mar-1916 |
4-Mar-2009 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Samuel Foote |
Actor |
1720 |
21-Oct-1777 |
Diversions |
| Ugo Foscolo |
Playwright |
6-Feb-1778 |
10-Sep-1827 |
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis |
| Anatole France |
Novelist |
16-Apr-1844 |
13-Oct-1924 |
French novelist |
| Bruno Frank |
Playwright |
13-Jun-1878 |
20-Jun-1945 |
Storm in a Teacup |
| Brian Friel |
Playwright |
9-Jan-1929 |
|
Dancing at Lughnasa |
| Max Frisch |
Novelist |
15-May-1911 |
4-Apr-1991 |
Homo Faber |
| Christopher Fry |
Playwright |
18-Dec-1907 |
30-Jun-2005 |
The Lady's Not for Burning |
| Athol Fugard |
Playwright |
11-Jun-1932 |
|
The Blood Knot |
| Charles Fuller |
Playwright |
5-Mar-1939 |
|
A Soldier's Play |
| George Furth |
Playwright |
14-Dec-1932 |
11-Aug-2008 |
Company |
| Lorena Gale |
Actor |
9-May-1958 |
21-Jun-2009 |
Je me souviens |
| Zona Gale |
Novelist |
26-Aug-1874 |
27-Dec-1938 |
Miss Lulu Bett |
| John Galsworthy |
Novelist |
14-Aug-1867 |
31-Jan-1933 |
The Forsyte Saga |
| Federico García Lorca |
Poet |
5-Jun-1898 |
18-Aug-1936 |
Lament for a Bullfighter |
| Robert Garnier |
Poet |
c. 1545 |
20-Sep-1590 |
Bradamante |
| João Batista de Almeida Garrett |
Playwright |
4-Feb-1799 |
9-Dec-1854 |
Frei Luís da Sousa |
| David Garrick |
Actor |
19-Feb-1717 |
20-Jan-1779 |
Manager of Drury Lane Theatre |
| John Gay |
Poet |
30-Jun-1685 |
4-Dec-1732 |
The Beggar's Opera |
| Jean Genet |
Novelist |
19-Dec-1910 |
15-Apr-1986 |
Theatre of the Absurd |
| William Gillette |
Actor |
24-Jul-1853 |
29-Apr-1937 |
Portrayed Sherlock Holmes on the stage |
| Frank D. Gilroy |
Playwright |
13-Oct-1925 |
|
The Subject Was Roses |
| Natalia Ginzburg |
Novelist |
14-Jul-1916 |
7-Oct-1991 |
La strada che va in città |
| Jean Giraudoux |
Novelist |
29-Oct-1882 |
31-Jan-1944 |
The Madwoman of Chaillot |
| Susan Glaspell |
Playwright |
1-Jul-1882 |
27-Jul-1948 |
Provincetown Players |
| Carlo Goldoni |
Playwright |
25-Feb-1707 |
6-Feb-1793 |
Founder of Italian comedy |
| Maxim Gorky |
Playwright |
28-Mar-1868 |
17-Jun-1936 |
The Lower Depths |
| David Marshall Grant |
Actor |
21-Jun-1955 |
|
Air America |
| Adolph Green |
Songwriter |
2-Dec-1914 |
23-Oct-2002 |
Singin' in the Rain |
| Robert Greene |
Playwright |
Jul-1558 |
3-Sep-1592 |
Friar Bacon |
| Augusta, Lady Gregory |
Playwright |
4-Mar-1852 |
22-May-1932 |
The Golden Apple |
| Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset |
Poet |
29-Aug-1709 |
16-Jun-1777 |
Vert Vert |
| Jacques Grévin |
Playwright |
1538 |
5-Nov-1570 |
Les Ébahis |
| Franz Grillparzer |
Playwright |
15-Jan-1791 |
21-Jan-1872 |
Der Traum, ein Leben |
| John Guare |
Playwright |
5-Feb-1938 |
|
Six Degrees of Separation |
| John Hale |
Novelist |
5-Feb-1926 |
|
The Whistle Blower |
| Patrick Hamilton |
Playwright |
17-Mar-1904 |
23-Sep-1962 |
Gaslight |
| Christopher Hampton |
Playwright |
26-Jan-1946 |
|
Dangerous Liaisons |
| Peter Handke |
Novelist |
6-Dec-1942 |
|
Insulting the Audience |
| William Hanley |
Playwright |
22-Oct-1931 |
25-May-2012 |
Slow Dance on the Killing Ground |
| Lorraine Hansberry |
Playwright |
19-May-1930 |
12-Jan-1965 |
A Raisin in the Sun |
| David Hare |
Playwright |
5-Jun-1947 |
|
Racing Demon |
| Ned Harrigan |
Actor |
26-Oct-1844 |
6-Jun-1911 |
Harrigan & Hart |
| Moss Hart |
Playwright |
24-Oct-1904 |
20-Dec-1961 |
You Can't Take It With You |
| Jan de Hartog |
Novelist |
22-Apr-1914 |
22-Sep-2002 |
Hollands glorie |
| Johannes Carsten Hauch |
Poet |
12-May-1790 |
4-Mar-1872 |
Valdemar Seir |
| Gerhart Hauptmann |
Playwright |
15-Nov-1862 |
6-Jun-1946 |
Die Weber |
| Vaclav Havel |
Head of State |
5-Oct-1936 |
18-Dec-2011 |
Playwright President of Czechia |
| Friedrich Hebbel |
Playwright |
18-Mar-1813 |
13-Dec-1863 |
Die Niebelungen Trilogie |
| Ben Hecht |
Screenwriter |
28-Feb-1894 |
18-Apr-1964 |
The Front Page |
| Lillian Hellman |
Playwright |
20-Jun-1905 |
30-Jun-1984 |
Little Foxes |
| Beth Henley |
Playwright |
8-May-1952 |
|
Crimes of the Heart |
| James A. Herne |
Playwright |
1-Feb-1839 |
2-Jun-1901 |
Shore Acres |
| Theodor Herzl |
Activist |
2-May-1860 |
3-Jul-1904 |
Lead Zionist |
| John Heywood |
Playwright |
1497 |
c. 1580 |
The Play of Love |
| Thomas Heywood |
Playwright |
c. 1575 |
16-Aug-1641 |
A Woman kilde with kindnesse |
| Aaron Hill |
Playwright |
10-Feb-1685 |
8-Feb-1750 |
The Progress of Wit |
| Ludvig Holberg |
Author |
3-Dec-1684 |
28-Jan-1754 |
Founder of Danish literature |
| Thomas Holcroft |
Playwright |
10-Dec-1745 |
23-Mar-1809 |
The Road to Ruin |
| John Home |
Playwright |
21-Sep-1722 |
5-Sep-1808 |
Douglas |
| Avery Hopwood |
Playwright |
28-May-1882 |
1-Jul-1928 |
The Bat |
| Sir Robert Howard |
Playwright |
1626 |
3-Sep-1698 |
The Committee |
| Sidney Coe Howard |
Playwright |
26-Jun-1891 |
23-Aug-1939 |
They Knew What They Wanted |
| Hrosvitha |
Playwright |
c. 935 AD |
c. 1000 AD |
Female medieval dramatist |
| Langston Hughes |
Poet |
1-Feb-1902 |
22-May-1967 |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
| Victor Hugo |
Author |
26-Feb-1802 |
23-May-1885 |
Les Miserables |
| Henrik Ibsen |
Playwright |
20-Mar-1828 |
23-May-1906 |
Peer Gynt |
| William Inge |
Playwright |
3-May-1913 |
10-Jun-1973 |
Come Back, Little Sheba |
| Eugène Ionesco |
Playwright |
26-Nov-1912 |
28-Mar-1994 |
The Bald Soprano |
| Alfred Jarry |
Playwright |
8-Sep-1873 |
1-Nov-1907 |
Ubu roi |
| Elfriede Jelinek |
Novelist |
20-Oct-1946 |
|
Die Klavierspielerin |
| Ben Jonson |
Playwright |
11-Jun-1572 |
6-Aug-1637 |
Volpone |
| Erland Josephson |
Actor |
15-Jun-1923 |
25-Feb-2012 |
The Sacrifice |
| Georg Kaiser |
Playwright |
25-Nov-1878 |
4-Jun-1945 |
The Gardener of Toulouse |
| Mindy Kaling |
Actor |
24-Jun-1979 |
|
Kelly Kapoor on The Office |
| George S. Kaufman |
Playwright |
16-Nov-1889 |
2-Jun-1961 |
You Can't Take It With You |
| George Kelly |
Playwright |
16-Jan-1887 |
18-Jun-1974 |
Craig's Wife |
| Jean Kerr |
Author |
10-Jul-1922 |
5-Jan-2003 |
Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
| Hermann Kesten |
Novelist |
28-Jan-1900 |
1996 |
I, the King |
| Thomas Killigrew |
Playwright |
7-Feb-1612 |
19-Mar-1683 |
The Prisoners |
| James Kirkwood |
Novelist |
22-Aug-1924 |
21-Apr-1989 |
A Chorus Line |
| Friedrich Maximilian Klinger |
Playwright |
17-Feb-1752 |
9-Mar-1831 |
Sturm under Drang |
| Oskar Kokoschka |
Painter |
1-Mar-1886 |
22-Feb-1980 |
Austrian expressionist painter |
| Arthur Kopit |
Playwright |
10-May-1937 |
|
Mama's Hung You in the Closet |
| Larry Kramer |
Playwright |
25-Jun-1935 |
|
The Normal Heart |
| Norman Krasna |
Playwright |
7-Nov-1909 |
1-Nov-1984 |
The Devil and Miss Jones |
| Alfred Kreymborg |
Author |
10-Dec-1883 |
Aug-1966 |
Founder of The Glebe |
| Tony Kushner |
Playwright |
16-Jul-1956 |
|
Angels in America |
| Thomas Kyd |
Playwright |
1558 |
Aug-1594 |
The Spanish Tragedy |
| Neil LaBute |
Film Director |
19-Mar-1963 |
|
In the Company of Men |
| Pär Lagerkvist |
Author |
23-May-1891 |
11-Jul-1974 |
Barabbas |
| Ring Lardner, Jr. |
Playwright |
19-Aug-1915 |
31-Oct-2000 |
Screenwriter, M*A*S*H |
| Arthur Laurents |
Playwright |
14-Jul-1918 |
5-May-2011 |
West Side Story |
| Jerome Lawrence |
Playwright |
14-Jul-1915 |
29-Feb-2004 |
Inherit the Wind and Mame |
| John Howard Lawson |
Playwright |
25-Sep-1894 |
11-Aug-1977 |
One of the Hollywood Ten |
| Maurice Leblanc |
Novelist |
11-Dec-1864 |
6-Nov-1941 |
Creator of Arsène Lupin |
| Nathaniel Lee |
Playwright |
c. 1653 |
6-May-1692 |
The Rival Queens |
| Alan Jay Lerner |
Playwright |
31-Aug-1918 |
14-Jun-1986 |
An American in Paris |
| Alain René Lesage |
Novelist |
6-May-1668 |
17-Nov-1747 |
Gil Blas |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
Playwright |
22-Jan-1729 |
15-Feb-1781 |
Laokoon |
| Howard Lindsay |
Playwright |
29-Mar-1889 |
11-Feb-1968 |
The Sound of Music |
| David Lindsay-Abaire |
Playwright |
30-Nov-1969 |
|
Rabbit Hole |
| James Lipton |
TV Personality |
19-Sep-1926 |
|
Host, Inside the Actors Studio |
| Joshua Logan |
Film Director |
5-Oct-1908 |
12-Jul-1988 |
South Pacific |
| Frederick Lonsdale |
Playwright |
5-Feb-1881 |
4-Apr-1954 |
The King of Cadonia |
| Clare Boothe Luce |
Politician |
10-Apr-1903 |
9-Oct-1987 |
Congresswoman, wife of Henry R. Luce |
| Otto Ludwig |
Playwright |
11-Feb-1813 |
25-Feb-1865 |
Der Erbförster |
| John Lyly |
Playwright |
1554 |
18-Nov-1606 |
Euphues |
| Charles MacArthur |
Playwright |
5-Nov-1895 |
21-Apr-1956 |
The Front Page |
| Percy MacKaye |
Playwright |
16-Mar-1875 |
31-Aug-1956 |
The Canterbury Pilgrims |
| Steele MacKaye |
Playwright |
6-Jun-1842 |
25-Feb-1894 |
Founder of New York's Lyceum Theatre |
| Archibald Macleish |
Poet |
7-May-1892 |
20-Apr-1982 |
Conquistador |
| Louis MacNeice |
Poet |
12-Sep-1907 |
3-Sep-1963 |
Autumn Journal |
| Georgius Macropedius |
Playwright |
1487 |
Jul-1558 |
Neo-Latin playwright |
| Maurice Maeterlinck |
Playwright |
29-Aug-1862 |
6-May-1949 |
Pelléas et Mélisande |
| Antonine Maillet |
Novelist |
10-May-1929 |
|
Pélagie-la-Charette |
| Albert Maltz |
Playwright |
28-Oct-1908 |
26-Apr-1985 |
One of the Hollywood Ten |
| Patrick Marber |
Playwright |
19-Sep-1964 |
|
Closer |
| Gabriel Marcel |
Philosopher |
7-Dec-1889 |
8-Oct-1973 |
French existential philosopher |
| Pierre Marivaux |
Novelist |
4-Feb-1688 |
12-Feb-1763 |
Marianne |
| Georgi Markov |
Victim |
1-Mar-1929 |
11-Sep-1978 |
Killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella |
| Jeannette Marks |
Poet |
16-Aug-1875 |
1964 |
The Merry Merry Cuckoo |
| Christopher Marlowe |
Playwright |
6-Feb-1564 |
30-May-1593 |
Doctor Faustus |
| René Marqués |
Playwright |
4-Oct-1919 |
22-Mar-1979 |
La Carreta |
| John Marston |
Playwright |
7-Oct-1576 |
25-Jun-1634 |
The Malcontent |
| Philip Massinger |
Playwright |
1583 |
1639 |
The Virgin Martyr |
| François Mauriac |
Novelist |
11-Oct-1885 |
1-Sep-1970 |
Le Noeud de Vipères |
| Cormac McCarthy |
Novelist |
20-Jul-1933 |
|
All the Pretty Horses |
| Terrence McNally |
Playwright |
3-Nov-1939 |
|
Frankie and Johnny |
| Menander |
Playwright |
c. 342 BC |
c. 292 BC |
Early Greek comic dramatist |
| Metastasio |
Poet |
3-Jan-1698 |
12-Apr-1782 |
Italian librettist of the 18th century |
| Thomas Middleton |
Playwright |
18-Apr-1580 |
4-Jul-1627 |
A Game at Chess |
| Arthur Miller |
Playwright |
17-Oct-1915 |
10-Feb-2005 |
Death of a Salesman |
| Jason Miller |
Actor |
22-Apr-1939 |
13-May-2001 |
The Exorcist |
| May Miller |
Playwright |
26-Jan-1899 |
8-Feb-1995 |
The Bog Guide |
| Anthony Minghella |
Film Director |
6-Jan-1954 |
18-Mar-2008 |
The English Patient |
| Vilhelm Moberg |
Novelist |
20-Aug-1898 |
8-Aug-1973 |
The Emigrants |
| Molière |
Playwright |
15-Jan-1622 |
17-Feb-1673 |
Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope |
| Ferenc Molnár |
Playwright |
12-Jan-1878 |
1-Apr-1952 |
The Paul Street Boys |
| William Vaughn Moody |
Playwright |
8-Jul-1869 |
17-Oct-1910 |
The Great Divide |
| John Mortimer |
Playwright |
21-Apr-1923 |
16-Jan-2009 |
Rumpole of the Bailey |
| Anthony Munday |
Playwright |
c. 1560 |
10-Aug-1633 |
Sir Thomas More |
| Alfred de Musset |
Poet |
11-Dec-1810 |
2-May-1857 |
Les Caprices de Marianne |
| Thomas Nashe |
Author |
1567 |
c. 1601 |
The Unfortunate Traveller |
| Ivor Novello |
Composer |
15-Jan-1893 |
6-Mar-1951 |
Keep the Home Fires Burning |
| Richard O'Brien |
Actor |
25-Mar-1942 |
|
The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| Sean O'Casey |
Playwright |
30-Mar-1880 |
18-Sep-1964 |
Juno and the Paycock |
| Eugene O'Neill |
Playwright |
16-Oct-1888 |
27-Nov-1953 |
Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Clifford Odets |
Playwright |
18-Jul-1906 |
14-Aug-1963 |
Sweet Smell of Success |
| Joe Orton |
Playwright |
1-Jan-1933 |
9-Aug-1967 |
Prick Up Your Ears |
| John Osborne |
Playwright |
12-Dec-1929 |
24-Dec-1994 |
Look Back in Anger |
| Thomas Otway |
Playwright |
3-Mar-1652 |
14-Apr-1685 |
Venice Preserved |
| Thomas Love Peacock |
Novelist |
18-Oct-1785 |
23-Jan-1866 |
Nightmare Abbey |
| George Peele |
Playwright |
1558 |
9-Nov-1596 |
The Old Wives Tale |
| Silvio Pellico |
Playwright |
25-Jun-1789 |
31-Jan-1854 |
Le Mie Prigioni |
| Tyler Perry |
Film Director |
13-Sep-1969 |
|
Diary of a Mad Black Woman |
| Clarke Peters |
Actor |
7-Apr-1952 |
|
Lester Freamon on The Wire |
| Pherecrates |
Playwright |
fl. 5th c. BC |
fl. 5th c. BC |
The Wild Men |
| Arthur Wing Pinero |
Playwright |
24-May-1855 |
23-Nov-1934 |
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray |
| David Pinski |
Playwright |
5-Apr-1872 |
11-Aug-1959 |
Yiddish playwright, Der Oitzer |
| Harold Pinter |
Playwright |
10-Oct-1930 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Birthday Party |
| Luigi Pirandello |
Playwright |
28-Jun-1867 |
10-Dec-1936 |
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore |
| Plautus |
Playwright |
c. 254 BC |
184 BC |
Earliest extant Roman playwright |
| J. B. Priestley |
Novelist |
13-Sep-1894 |
14-Aug-1984 |
An Inspector Calls |
| David Rabe |
Playwright |
10-Mar-1940 |
|
Sticks and Bones |
| Jean Racine |
Playwright |
20-Dec-1639 |
21-Apr-1699 |
Phèdre |
| Yordan Radichkov |
Author |
24-Oct-1929 |
21-Jan-2004 |
Bulgarian writer |
| Terence Rattigan |
Playwright |
10-Jun-1911 |
30-Nov-1977 |
Separate Tables |
| Charles Reade |
Novelist |
8-Jun-1814 |
11-Apr-1884 |
The Cloister and the Hearth |
| Elmer Rice |
Playwright |
28-Sep-1892 |
8-May-1967 |
Street Scene |
| Thomas D. Rice |
Comic |
20-May-1808 |
19-Sep-1860 |
Played "Jim Crow" |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart |
Novelist |
12-Aug-1876 |
22-Sep-1958 |
Circular Staircase |
| Martin Ritt |
Film Director |
2-Mar-1914 |
8-Dec-1990 |
The Long Hot Summer |
| Edmond Rostand |
Playwright |
1-Apr-1868 |
2-Dec-1918 |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Nicholas Rowe |
Playwright |
20-Jun-1674 |
6-Dec-1718 |
Editor of William Shakespeare |
| William Rowley |
Playwright |
c. 1585 |
c. 1642 |
Collaborator with Thomas Middleton |
| Nelly Sachs |
Poet |
10-Dec-1891 |
12-May-1970 |
O the Chimneys |
| Françoise Sagan |
Novelist |
21-Jun-1935 |
24-Sep-2004 |
Bonjour Tristesse |
| Victorien Sardou |
Playwright |
5-Sep-1831 |
8-Nov-1908 |
Les Pattes de Mouche |
| Nathalie Sarraute |
Novelist |
18-Jul-1900 |
19-Oct-1999 |
Portrait of a Man Unknown |
| Jean-Paul Sartre |
Philosopher |
21-Jun-1905 |
15-Apr-1980 |
Nausea, No Exit |
| Friedrich von Schiller |
Playwright |
10-Nov-1759 |
9-May-1805 |
Wallenstein |
| Arthur Schnitzler |
Playwright |
15-May-1862 |
21-Oct-1931 |
Reigen |
| Seneca |
Author |
c. 4 BC |
65 AD |
Epistulae Morales |
| Alois Senefelder |
Inventor |
6-Nov-1771 |
26-Feb-1834 |
Inventor of lithography |
| Thomas Shadwell |
Playwright |
c. 1642 |
19-Nov-1692 |
Epsom Wells |
| Peter Shaffer |
Playwright |
15-May-1926 |
|
Amadeus, Equus |
| William Shakespeare |
Playwright |
23-Apr-1564 |
23-Apr-1616 |
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth |
| George Bernard Shaw |
Playwright |
26-Jul-1856 |
2-Nov-1950 |
Irish dramatist and pamphleteer |
| Irwin Shaw |
Playwright |
27-Feb-1913 |
16-May-1984 |
Rich Man, Poor Man |
| Wallace Shawn |
Actor |
12-Nov-1943 |
|
Ate dinner with Andre |
| Sam Shepard |
Playwright |
5-Nov-1943 |
|
Buried Child |
| Jim Sheridan |
Film Director |
6-Feb-1949 |
|
My Left Foot |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
Playwright |
30-Oct-1751 |
7-Jul-1816 |
The School for Scandal |
| Robert E. Sherwood |
Playwright |
4-Apr-1896 |
14-Nov-1955 |
Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
| James Shirley |
Playwright |
1596 |
29-Oct-1666 |
Love Tricks |
| Neil Simon |
Playwright |
4-Jul-1927 |
|
The Odd Couple |
| Anna Deavere Smith |
Actor |
18-Sep-1950 |
|
Nancy McNally on The West Wing |
| Sophocles |
Playwright |
c. 496 BC |
406 BC |
Oedipus the King |
| Thomas Southerne |
Playwright |
1660 |
26-May-1746 |
The Persian Prince |
| Wole Soyinka |
Playwright |
13-Jul-1934 |
|
Politically-charged Nigerian author |
| Joseph Stein |
Playwright |
30-May-1912 |
24-Oct-2010 |
Fiddler on the Roof librettist |
| John Steinbeck |
Novelist |
27-Feb-1902 |
20-Dec-1968 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
| Douglas Stewart |
Playwright |
6-May-1913 |
14-Feb-1985 |
Fire in the Snow |
| Tom Stoppard |
Playwright |
3-Jul-1937 |
|
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
| David Storey |
Novelist |
13-Jul-1933 |
|
Saville |
| August Strindberg |
Playwright |
22-Jan-1849 |
14-May-1912 |
Röda Rummet |
| Sir John Suckling |
Poet |
1609 |
1642 |
Fragmenta Aurea |
| Aleksandr Sumarokov |
Playwright |
14-Nov-1717 |
12-Oct-1777 |
Founder of Russian classical drama |
| John Millington Synge |
Playwright |
16-Apr-1871 |
24-Mar-1909 |
The Playboy of the Western World |
| Ede Szigligeti |
Playwright |
8-Mar-1814 |
19-Jan-1878 |
Leading Hungarian dramatist |
| Rabindranath Tagore |
Poet |
7-May-1861 |
7-Aug-1941 |
Gitanjali |
| Manuel Tamayo y Baus |
Playwright |
15-Sep-1829 |
20-Jun-1898 |
Lances de Honor |
| Nahum Tate |
Poet |
1652 |
30-Jul-1715 |
Imitative British playwright |
| Terence |
Playwright |
c. 195 BC |
c. 159 BC |
Comic playwright of Ancient Rome |
| Josephine Tey |
Novelist |
1897 |
13-Feb-1952 |
Richard of Bordeaux |
| Ludwig Tieck |
Novelist |
31-May-1773 |
28-Apr-1853 |
Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen |
| Ernst Toller |
Playwright |
1-Dec-1893 |
22-May-1939 |
Transformation |
| Giangiorgio Trissino |
Scholar |
8-Jul-1478 |
8-Dec-1550 |
Sofonisba |
| Royall Tyler |
Playwright |
18-Jul-1757 |
26-Aug-1826 |
The Contrast |
| John Vanbrugh |
Playwright |
24-Jan-1664 |
26-Mar-1726 |
The Provok'd Wife |
| Mario Vargas Llosa |
Novelist |
28-Mar-1936 |
|
Acclaimed Peruvian author |
| Lope de Vega |
Playwright |
25-Nov-1562 |
27-Aug-1635 |
Reformed Spanish comedy |
| Henri Verneuil |
Playwright |
15-Oct-1920 |
11-Jan-2002 |
I as in Icarus |
| Alfred de Vigny |
Poet |
27-Mar-1797 |
17-Sep-1863 |
Chatterton |
| Voltaire |
Author |
21-Nov-1694 |
30-May-1778 |
Candide |
| Derek Walcott |
Poet |
23-Jan-1930 |
|
In a Green Night |
| Wendy Wasserstein |
Playwright |
18-Oct-1950 |
30-Jan-2006 |
The Heidi Chronicles |
| John Webster |
Playwright |
c. 1580 |
1634 |
The Duchess of Malfy |
| Frank Wedekind |
Playwright |
24-Jul-1864 |
9-Mar-1918 |
Playwright born before his time |
| Kurt Weill |
Composer |
2-Mar-1900 |
3-Apr-1950 |
The Threepenny Opera |
| Arnold Wesker |
Playwright |
24-May-1932 |
|
The Kitchen |
| Patrick White |
Novelist |
28-May-1912 |
30-Sep-1990 |
Riders in the Chariot |
| Oscar Wilde |
Playwright |
16-Oct-1854 |
30-Nov-1900 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Thornton Wilder |
Novelist |
17-Apr-1897 |
7-Dec-1975 |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| Emlyn Williams |
Playwright |
26-Nov-1905 |
25-Sep-1987 |
Night Must Fall |
| Tennessee Williams |
Playwright |
26-Mar-1911 |
25-Feb-1983 |
The Glass Menagerie |
| August Wilson |
Playwright |
27-Apr-1945 |
2-Oct-2005 |
The Piano Lesson |
| Lanford Wilson |
Playwright |
13-Apr-1937 |
24-Mar-2011 |
The Hot L Baltimore |
| Robert Wilson |
Theater Director |
4-Oct-1941 |
|
Experimental theater director, designer |
| Eric Woolfson |
Musician |
18-Mar-1945 |
1-Dec-2009 |
Former Alan Parsons Project collaborator |
| William Wycherley |
Playwright |
1640 |
1-Jan-1716 |
The Plain Dealer |
| Gao Xingjian |
Author |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Chinese expatriate, novelist |
| William Butler Yeats |
Poet |
13-Jun-1865 |
28-Jan-1939 |
The Land of Heart's Desire |
| Israel Zangwill |
Playwright |
14-Feb-1864 |
1-Aug-1926 |
Children of the Ghetto |
| Paul Zindel |
Author |
15-May-1936 |
27-Mar-2003 |
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