August Wilson: Biography and Background
August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright.
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Lorraine Hansberry: Biography and Background
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and civil rights activist.
Sarah Kane: Biography and Background
Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright.
Wole Soyinka: Biography and Background
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet.
Athol Fugard: Biography and Background
Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard ( ATH-əl FYOO-gard; 11 June 1932 – 8 March 2025) was a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director.
Dario Fo: Biography and Background
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (Italian: [ˈdaːrjo ˈfɔ]; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italia
Suzan-Lori Parks: Biography and Background
Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist.
Samuel Beckett: Biography and Background
Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet.
Bertolt Brecht: Biography and Background
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
Jeff Biggers: Biography and Background
Jeff Biggers (born in 1963) is an American Book Award-winning historian, journalist, playwright, novelist and monologist.
Bruce Bonafede: Biography and Background
Bruce Bonafede is an American playwright.
Gordon Dahlquist: Biography and Background
Gordon Dahlquist is an American playwright and novelist.
Danijela Popović: Biography and Background
Danijela Popović (Belgrade) is a Serbian-American Actor, composer, pianist, educator, and playwright.
Christopher Dimond: Biography and Background
Christopher Dimond is an American playwright, librettist, and lyricist currently living in New York City.
Stephen Dolginoff: Biography and Background
Stephen Dolginoff is an American playwright and composer.
Mary Gallagher: Biography and Background
Mary Gallagher is an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, actress, director and teacher.
Dennis Gersten: Biography and Background
Dennis Gersten American actor and director who helped create Stagewrights, Inc.
Jeff Gottesfeld: Biography and Background
Howard Jeffrey Gottesfeld (born 1956) is an American novelist, playwright, and screen and television writer.
Peretz Hirschbein: Biography and Background
Peretz Hirshbein (Yiddish: פרץ הירשביין); November 7, 1880 – August 16, 1948) was a Yiddish-language playwright, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and theater director and producer.
Ricardo Khan: Biography and Background
Ricardo "Rick" Khan (born November 4, 1951) is an American playwright and theater director of African and Indian descent.
Katie Hae Leo: Biography and Background
Katie Hae Leo is a Korean American playwright, poet, essayist and creative nonfiction writer.
Lindsay and Crouse: Biography and Background
Lindsay and Crouse was the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, who collaborated famously on a succession of Broadway plays and musicals for 27 years during the mid 20th century.
Deb Margolin: Biography and Background
Deb Margolin is an American performance artist and playwright.
Jane Martin: Biography and Background
Jane Martin is the pen name of a playwright who has been active from 1981 to the present, whose real identity remains unknown.
Raf Mauro: Biography and Background
Raf Mauro is an American film, television and stage actor, and playwright.
Ferenc Molnár: Biography and Background
Ferenc Molnár (US: FERR-ents MOHL-nar, -ənts -, - MAWL-, Hungarian: [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈmolnaːr]; born Ferenc Neumann; January 12, 1878 – April 1, 1952), often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungar
Matt Pizzolo: Biography and Background
Matt Pizzolo (born on Long Island, New York) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, bestselling comic book writer, playwright, and entrepreneur, best known for his work as writer o
Jose Luis Ramos Escobar: Biography and Background
José Luis Ramos Escobar (born December 19, 1950, in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican writer and playwright who is also directed several plays and written television scripts.
Mark Savage (playwright): Biography and Background
Mark Savage (born September 19, 1958) is an American playwright, songwriter, and theatre director.
Frederick Solomon: Biography and Background
Frederick Charles Solomon (31 August 1853 – 9 September 1924), sometimes given as Fred Solomon or Frederic Solomon, was a British-born American composer, conductor, actor, librettist, playwright,
Craig Warner: Biography and Background
Craig Warner (25 April 1964 – 12 July 2026) was a US-born, BAFTA-nominated playwright and screenwriter who lived and worked in Suffolk, England.
Randy Weiner: Biography and Background
Randy Weiner (born March 10, 1965) is an American playwright, producer and theater and nightclub owner.
Jade Wu: Biography and Background
Jade Wu (born January 5, 1953) is a Chinese-American actress, playwright, producer, director, and editor.
Candida Cave: Biography and Background
Candida Cave is a British painter, playwright and art historian.