Ricardo Khan: Biography and Background
Ricardo "Rick" Khan (born November 4, 1951) is an American playwright and theater director of African and Indian descent.
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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.
Jeff Gottesfeld: Biography and Background
Howard Jeffrey Gottesfeld (born 1956) is an American novelist, playwright, and screen and television writer.
Dennis Gersten: Biography and Background
Dennis Gersten American actor and director who helped create Stagewrights, Inc.
Mary Gallagher: Biography and Background
Mary Gallagher is an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, actress, director and teacher.
Stephen Dolginoff: Biography and Background
Stephen Dolginoff is an American playwright and composer.
Christopher Dimond: Biography and Background
Christopher Dimond is an American playwright, librettist, and lyricist currently living in New York City.
Danijela Popović: Biography and Background
Danijela Popović (Belgrade) is a Serbian-American Actor, composer, pianist, educator, and playwright.
Gordon Dahlquist: Biography and Background
Gordon Dahlquist is an American playwright and novelist.
Bruce Bonafede: Biography and Background
Bruce Bonafede is an American playwright.
Jeff Biggers: Biography and Background
Jeff Biggers (born in 1963) is an American Book Award-winning historian, journalist, playwright, novelist and monologist.
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.
Samuel Beckett: Biography and Background
Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet.
Suzan-Lori Parks: Biography and Background
Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist.
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
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.
Wole Soyinka: Biography and Background
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet.
Sarah Kane: Biography and Background
Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright.
Lorraine Hansberry: Biography and Background
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and civil rights activist.
August Wilson: Biography and Background
August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright.