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Ricardo Khan: Biography and Background

Ricardo "Rick" Khan (born November 4, 1951) is an American playwright and theater director of African and Indian descent.

Playwright Capt. Edward Knoblock circa 1918

Edward Knoblock: Biography and Background

Edward Knoblock (born Edward Gustavus Knoblauch; 7 April 1874 – 19 July 1945) was a playwright and novelist, originally American and later a naturalised British citizen.

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Peter Morgan: Biography and Background

Peter Julian Robin Morgan (born 10 April 1963) is a British playwright and screenwriter.

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Sarah Kane: Biography and Background

Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English 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.

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Henry Pettitt: Biography and Background

Henry Alfred Pettitt (7 April 1848 – 24 December 1893), was a British actor and dramatist.

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Brett C. Leonard: Biography and Background

Brett C.

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Katie Hae Leo: Biography and Background

Katie Hae Leo is a Korean American playwright, poet, essayist and creative nonfiction writer.

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Philip Glassborow: Biography and Background

Philip Glassborow is a playwright, lyricist and composer who writes for theatre, radio and television.

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Atiha Sen Gupta: Biography and Background

Atiha Sen-Gupta (born 1988) is a British playwright and screenwriter.

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Jeff Biggers: Biography and Background

Jeff Biggers (born in 1963) is an American Book Award-winning historian, journalist, playwright, novelist and monologist.

Suzan-Lori Parks photographed by Eric Schwabel at Schwabel Studio in Venice, California, 2006.

Suzan-Lori Parks: Biography and Background

Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist.

Joseph A. Golden. American film director, film producer, screenwriter and playwright.

Joseph A. Golden: Biography and Background

Joseph A.

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Edward Abbott Parry: Biography and Background

Sir Edward Abbott Parry (2 October 1863 – 1 December 1943) was a British judge and dramatist.

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Danijela Popović: Biography and Background

Danijela Popović (Belgrade) is a Serbian-American Actor, composer, pianist, educator, and playwright.

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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

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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,

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Simon Rae: Biography and Background

Simon Rae is a British poet, broadcaster, biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company.

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Jonathan Gems: Biography and Background

Jonathan Gems (born 1952, in London) is a British playwright and screenwriter mostly known for his work on Mars Attacks!

Photograph of English stage manager, playwright, and actor, William Lestocq. Appeared in The Sketch on November 3, 1897, p. 82

William Lestocq: Biography and Background

William Lestocq (born Lestock Boileau Wooldridge; 1852 – 16 October 1920) was a British theatre manager, playwright, and actor.

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Randy Weiner: Biography and Background

Randy Weiner (born March 10, 1965) is an American playwright, producer and theater and nightclub owner.

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Kevin Fegan: Biography and Background

Kevin Fegan (born 1957 in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, UK) is a British-Irish playwright and poet, known for his work in theatre, radio, and poetry.

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Henry M. Milner: Biography and Background

Henry M.

Image, prior to 1868, of Joseph Stirling Coyne, credited to Lombard and Co, reproduced at Project Gutenberg

Joseph Stirling Coyne: Biography and Background

Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803–1868) was a humorist and satirist in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.

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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.

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Jade Wu: Biography and Background

Jade Wu (born January 5, 1953) is a Chinese-American actress, playwright, producer, director, and editor.

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Dennis Gersten: Biography and Background

Dennis Gersten American actor and director who helped create Stagewrights, Inc.

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Tom X. Chao: Biography and Background

Tom X.

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Marcus Markou: Biography and Background

Marcus Markou is a British film maker, playwright and internet entrepreneur.

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Jason Charles: Biography and Background

Jason Charles is a London-based novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and poet.

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David Spencer (playwright): Biography and Background

David Spencer (born 1958) is a British playwright.

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Carol Ann Duffy: Biography and Background

Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright.

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Henry Nevil Payne: Biography and Background

Henry Nevil Payne (died 1710?) was a dramatist and agitator for the Roman Catholic cause in Scotland and England.

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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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James Wedgwood Drawbell: Biography and Background

James Wedgwood Drawbell (1899–6 February 1979) was a British writer, playwright, and journalist, known in equal measure for his literary works and professional association (of variable closeness)

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Douglas Rintoul: Biography and Background

Douglas Rintoul is a British theatre director and playwright.

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Hannah Doran: Biography and Background

Hannah Doran is a playwright, whose work The Meat Kings!

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Stephen Dolginoff: Biography and Background

Stephen Dolginoff is an American playwright and composer.

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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.

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Simon Mendes da Costa: Biography and Background

Simon Mendes da Costa is a British playwright.