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Agha Hashar Kashmiri

Poet, playwright and dramatist

English playwright (born 1939)

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Count, Russian poet, novelist and playwright

Alexander Griboyedov

Russian diplomat, playwright, poet and composer (1795-1829)

Alexander Ostrovsky

Russian playwright

Alfred de Musset

French writer (1810 – 1857)

Àngel Guimerà

Spanish Catalan author

Russian dramatist and author

French dramatist, actor and theatre director

Antonio García Gutiérrez

American playwright

South African playwright

August Strindberg

Swedish writer and painter (1849-1912)

American playwright (1945–2005)

Australian author and playwright

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

Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright

Caryl Churchill

British playwright (born 1938)

Christopher Fry

English poet and playwright

American playwright, screenwriter, director and actor (1906–1963)

Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, director, painter and politician

American theatrical producer, impresario, director, and playwright

American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director

British writer (1933-2017)

David Williamson

Australian playwright

Bulgarian dramatist, novelist and veterinarian (1909-1966)

Dorothy Heyward

American playwright, lyricist

American novelist, playwright, poet (1885-1940)

Ebrahim Hussein

Tanzanian playwright and poet (born 1943)

19th/20th century French poet and dramatist

American playwright

Elbazduko Britayev

Ossetian playwright (1881–1923)

American playwright

French writer (1820-1889)

Eugène Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright

American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature

French dramatist and librettist

American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)

George S. Kaufman

American playwright, theatre director and producer

Georges Feydeau

Georgia Douglas Johnson

American poet and playwright (1880–1966)

Gerhart Hauptmann

German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)

Giles Cooper (playwright)

British playwright (1918–1966)

English playwright (1930-2008)

Norwegian playwright (1828–1906)

Pakistani dramatist

Jacinto Benavente

Spanish writer (1866-1954)

French playwright (1910–1987)

French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist

French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright

English playwright and author

John Millington Synge

Irish writer and collector of folklore (1871–1909)

English playwright

José Echegaray

Spanish statesman

Junji Kinoshita

Japanese writer

Czech science fiction writer and playwright (1890–1938)

American playwright

American playwright

American playwright

Leonid Andreyev

Russian playwright, author and poet (1871-1919)

Lillian Hellman

American dramatist and screenwriter

Lorraine Hansberry

African-American playwright and author (1930–1965)

Luigi Pirandello

American playwright (1890-1980)

Martin McDonagh

British-Irish film director and playwright

Polish-American playwright

Maurice Maeterlinck

Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)

Maxwell Anderson

American playwright and writer (1888–1959)

South African playwright and musician (1955–2023)

Mirza Fatali Akhundov

Iranian Azerbaijani author

American dramatist and conservative activist

American playwright, librettist, and theatre director (1904-1961)

American playwright, writer, academic

Writer (1950-2003)

Ukrainian-Russian writer (1809–1852)

English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

French writer (1810–1875)

British playwright and screenwriter

Robert E. Sherwood

American writer

American playwright and actor (1943–2017)

Irish writer (1906–1989)

English playwright (1971–1999)

Irish dramatist and memoirist

Stanisława Przybyszewska

Polish playwright (1901-1935)

Tennessee Williams

American playwright

Terrence McNally

American playwright

African-American playwright (1902-1983)

Thornton Wilder

American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)

American playwright and screenwriter

Victorien Sardou

French dramatist (1831–1908)

Wendy Wasserstein

American playwright (1950–2006)

American playwright and novelist (1913-1973)

William M. Hoffman

American playwright, theatre director, editor, and professor

Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist

Chinese playwright