21st-century American dramatists and playwrights

The list 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights includes Jesse Eisenberg, Lorene Scafaria, Woody Allen, Zoe Kazan and Zach Helm. The list consists of 544 members.

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1.

Mara Wilson

American actress (born 1987)

Overview: Mara Elizabeth Wilson (born July 24, 1987) is an American actress and writer. She rose to prominence as a child for playing Natalie Hillard in the film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and went on to play Susan Walker ...

Date of birth: 24 July 1987

Age: 37

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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American bisexual actresses 175T

American bisexual women 295T

LGBTQ bloggers 58T
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Jesse Eisenberg

American actor (born 1983)

Overview: Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 5, 1983) is an American actor. He made his television debut with the short-lived comedy-drama series Get Real (1999–2000). Following his first leading role in the co ...

Date of birth: 5 October 1983

Age: 41

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Anna Strout (Married)

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21st-century American Jews 3,173T

Golden Raspberry Award winners 272T

Writers from Manhattan 410T
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Steve Martin

American comedian, actor, musician and writer (born 1945)

Overview: Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and musician. Martin came to public notice in the 1960s as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later ...

Date of birth: 14 August 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Anne Stringfield (Married)

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AFI Life Achievement Award recipients 47T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

Baptists from Texas 208T
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Lorene Scafaria

American actress and filmmaker (born 1978)

Overview: Lorene Scafaria (born 1978) is an American filmmaker, playwright, musician, and former actress. She wrote and directed the films Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012), The Meddler (2015), and ...

Date of birth: 1 May 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: American

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Holmdel High School alumni 10T

21st-century American screenwriters 794T

21st-century American women singers 2,825T
5.

Woody Allen

American filmmaker, actor, and comedian (born 1935)

Overview: Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning movies ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1935

Age: 89

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Parody film directors 67T

American parodists 175T

Postmodernist filmmakers 64T
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Zoe Kazan

American actress (born 1983)

Overview: Zoe Swicord Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter. Kazan made her acting debut in Swordswallowers and Thin Men (2003) and later appeared in films such as The ...

Date of birth: 9 September 1983

Age: 41

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Paul Dano (Long-Term)

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21st-century American screenwriters 1,295T

Kazan family 9T

Screenwriters from California 1,174T
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Lewis Black

American comedian

Overview: Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor. His comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history, politics, religion ...

Date of birth: 9 August 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Jewish American male comedians 179T

Stand Up! Records artists 62T

People from White Oak, Maryland 3T
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Harvey Fierstein

American actor and playwright

Overview: Harvey Forbes Fierstein ( FIRE-steen; born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright, singer and voice actor. He is best known for his roles as Frank Hillard in Mrs. Doubtfire and the voice of Yao ...

Date of birth: 6 June 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Broadway actors 482T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Zach Helm

American film director

Overview: Zach Helm (born January 21, 1975 in Santa Clara, California) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. The son of school teachers, Helm was raised in a town of less than 50 citizens in ...

Date of birth: 21 January 1975

Age: 50

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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21st-century American screenwriters 625T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T

Screenwriters from California 1,055T
10.

Arthur Miller

American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

Overview: Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a ...

Date of birth: 17 October 1915

Date of death: 10 February 2005

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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21st-century American Jews 3,208T

20th-century American Jews 3,239T

Special Tony Award recipients 130T
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Lin-Manuel Miranda

American songwriter, actor, and librettist (born 1980)

Overview: Lin-Manuel Miranda ((born January 16, 1980)) is an American actor, singer, songwriter, rapper, composer, director, producer, author and playwright. He created and starred in the Broadway musicals In the ...

Date of birth: 16 January 1980

Age: 45

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

Partner: Vanessa Nadal Miranda (Married)

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Writers from Manhattan 74T

Lin-Manuel Miranda 1T

Broadway actors 482T
12.

Christina Hart

Actress, director, producer

Overview: Christina Hart (born July 21, 1949) is an American film producer, film director, playwright and retired actress. She teaches acting at the Hollywood Court Theater.

Date of birth: 21 July 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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People from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania 24T

Film producers from Pennsylvania 99T

21st-century American women writers 6,124T
13.

Zoe Lister-Jones

American actress and screenwriter

Overview: Zoe Lister-Jones (born September 1, 1982) is an American actress and filmmaker who co-starred as Jen Collins Short in the CBS sitcom Life in Pieces from 2015 to 2019. She is also known for her roles in ...

Date of birth: 1 September 1982

Age: 42

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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21st-century American screenwriters 1,138T

21st-century American women singers 3,151T

Edward R. Murrow High School alumni 23T
14.

Lusia Strus

American, Actress

Overview: Lusia Strus (born December 13, 1969) is an American writer and stage and film actress with Neo-Futurists.

Date of birth: 13 December 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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21st-century American women 15,534T

Actresses of Italian descent 658T

Actresses from Chicago, Illinois 442T
15.

Roger Guenveur Smith

American actor

Overview: Roger Guenveur Smith (born, 1955) is an American actor, director, and writer best known for his collaborations with Spike Lee.

Date of birth: 27 July 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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21st-century American male writers 3,233T

American male dramatists and playwrights 800T

Male actors from Berkeley, California 22T
16.

Jane Wagner

American writer, director and producer (born 1935)

Overview: Jane Wagner (born February 26, 1935) is an American writer, director and producer. Wagner is best known as Lily Tomlin's comedy writer, collaborator and wife.

Date of birth: 2 February 1935

Age: 90

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Female

Partner: Lily Tomlin (Married)

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Morristown High School (Morristown, Tennessee) alumni 2T

21st-century American women writers 4,233T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T
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Ron Palillo

American actor and teacher (1949–2012)

Overview: Ronald Gabriel Palillo (April 2, 1949 – August 14, 2012) was an American actor and teacher. He was best known for his role as the endearingly dim-witted character Arnold Horshack on the ABC sitcom Welcome ...

Date of birth: 2 April 1949

Date of death: 14 August 2012

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Cheshire High School alumni 9T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
18.

Wallace Shawn

American actor

Overview: Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American character actor, voice artist, comedian, playwright and essayist. His film roles have included those of Wally Shawn (a fictionalized version ...

Date of birth: 12 November 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

Partner: Deborah Eisenberg (Long-Term)

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Jewish American atheists 139T

Jewish American male comedians 199T

Disney voice actors 118T
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Neil Simon

American playwright, writer, and academic (1927–2018)

Overview: Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of ...

Date of birth: 4 July 1927

Date of death: 26 August 2018

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Jewish American male comedians 179T

2018 deaths 9,212T

Kidney transplant recipients 90T
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Gore Vidal

American author

Overview: Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, patrician manner, and polished style of ...

Date of birth: 3 October 1925

Date of death: 31 July 2012

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Gore Vidal 4T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T