Famous Playwrights

The list Famous Playwrights includes Erica Schmidt, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, William Shakespeare and Liza Powel O'Brien. The list consists of 5,579 members.

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Erica Schmidt

American, Playwright

Date of birth: 8 June 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Peter Dinklage (Married)

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William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

Overview: William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist ...

Date of birth: 26 April 1564

Date of death: 23 April 1616

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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17th-century English male writers 128T

16th-century English dramatists and playwrights 41T

Spoken articles 779T
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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
4.

Lorraine Hansberry

American playwright and journalist

Overview: Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the ...

Date of birth: 19 May 1930

Date of death: 12 January 1965

Age: 34 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Female

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Civil rights movement 165T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T

20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 1,348T
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Vantile Whitfield

American, Playwright

Date of birth: 8 September 1930

Date of death: 1 September 2005

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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Liza Powel O'Brien

American, Playwright

Date of birth: 12 November 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Conan O'Brien (Married)

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Andrew Upton

Australian screenwriter

Overview: Andrew Upton (born 1 February 1966) is an Australian playwright, screenwriter and director. He is the husband of the actress Cate Blanchett.

Date of birth: 1 February 1966

Age: 59

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

Partner: Cate Blanchett (Married)

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Australian male dramatists and playwrights 97T

20th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights 119T

Australian male writers 129T
8.

Polly Stenham

English playwright

Overview: Polly Stenham MBE FRSL (born 16 July 1986) is an English playwright known for her play That Face, which she wrote when she was 19 years old.

Date of birth: 16 July 1986

Age: 38

Nationality: British

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Female

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People educated at Rugby School 990T

People educated at Wycombe Abbey 54T

Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature 864T
9.

Selina Giles

English actress and writer

Overview: Selina Giles (born 5 March 1972) is an English actress and writer. She is best known for playing Valerie Stowe in Until Death (1988) and Evey's mother in V for Vendetta (2005).

Date of birth: 5 March 1972

Age: 53

Nationality: English

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Female

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21st-century English actresses 1,157T

20th-century English actresses 1,339T

English stage actresses 1,664T
10.

George S. Kaufman

American playwright, theater director and producer (1889–1961)

Overview: George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 – June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote ...

Date of birth: 16 November 1889

Date of death: 2 June 1961

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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Jewish theatre directors 22T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T

20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 1,348T
11.

Clifford Odets

American writer and actor (1906–1963)

Overview: Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. In the mid-1930s he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright ...

Date of birth: 18 July 1906

Date of death: 14 August 1963

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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Broadway theatre directors 38T

Broadway actors 482T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
12.

Clare Boothe Luce

American author and politician (1903–1987)

Overview: Ann Clare Boothe Luce (March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was an American author, politician, U.S. Ambassador and public conservative figure. She was the first American woman appointed to a major amba ...

Date of birth: 10 April 1903

Date of death: 9 October 1987

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Female

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American anti-communists 339T

American women ambassadors 351T

Catholics from Connecticut 92T
13.

Bertolt Brecht

German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)

Overview: Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Re ...

Date of birth: 10 February 1898

Date of death: 14 August 1956

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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Bertolt Brecht 1T

Writers from Augsburg 19T

20th-century German dramatists and playwrights 151T
14.

Alan Jay Lerner

American lyrcist and librettist

Overview: Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular ...

Date of birth: 31 August 1918

Date of death: 14 June 1986

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Broadway composers and lyricists 196T

20th-century American biographers 388T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
15.

Samuel Beckett

Irish writer (1906–1989)

Overview: Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult ...

Date of birth: 13 April 1906

Date of death: 22 December 1989

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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People from Foxrock 5T

Philosophical pessimists 36T

Writers from Dublin (city) 74T
16.

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
17.

David Rabe

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1940)

Overview: David William Rabe (born March 10, 1940) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 (Sticks and Bones) and also received Tony award nominations for Best Play ...

Date of birth: 10 March 1940

Age: 85

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male writers 9,084T

Screenwriters from New York (state) 1,282T

United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War 1,161T
18.

Lillian Hellman

American writer and playwright

Overview: Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, author and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist sympathies and political activism ...

Date of birth: 20 June 1905

Date of death: 30 June 1984

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Female

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20th-century memoirists 804T

American women memoirists 620T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T
19.

Graham Swannell

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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Manonmaniam Sundaram Pillai

Writer

Overview: Manonmaniyam P. Sundaranar (4 April 1855 – 26 April 1897) was an Indian scholar, noted for the famous Tamil drama Manonmaniyam. as well as the state song of Tamil Nadu Tamil Thai Valthu.

Date of birth: 4 April 1855

Date of death: 26 April 1897

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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Dramatists and playwrights from Kerala 48T

19th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights 34T

Writers from Alappuzha 14T