Famous Playwrights - Biography, Life, Interesting Facts

• Henrik Ibsen

  Playwright

  Norway

• Cyrano De Bergerac

  Dramatist

  Île-de-France, France

• Tennessee Williams

  Playwright

  Mississippi, United States of America

• Jerome K. Jerome

  Author

  United Kingdom

• Oscar Milosz

  Poet

  Belarus

• Samuel Beckett

  Novelist

  Leinster, Republic of Ireland

• Honore De Balzac

  Author

  France

• Jean Cocteau

  Artist

  France

• Luigi Pirandello

  Author

  Italy

• Jean-Paul Sartre

  Author

  Île-de-France, France

• Agatha Christie

  Author

  Devon, United Kingdom

• Moliere

  Actor

  Île-de-France, France

• James Thurber

  Cartoonist

  Ohio, United States of America

• Humayun Ahmed

  Playwright

  Mymensingh, Bangladesh

• Fred Rogers

  Playwright

  New York, United States of America

• Robert Browning

  Poet

  London, United Kingdom

• August Strindberg

  Novelist

  Stockholm, Sweden

• Irwin Shaw

  Author

  New York, United States of America

• Michael Morpurgo

  Librettist

  England, United Kingdom

• Doris Lessing

  Novelist

  Iran

• Harold Pinter

  Actor

  London, United Kingdom

• Caryl Churchill

  Playwright

  England, United Kingdom

• Jafar Jabbarly

  Playwright

  Azerbaijan

• Fran Levstik

  Writer

  Lower Carniola, Slovenia

• Camille Saint-Saens

  Composer

  Île-de-France, France

• Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

  Playwright

  New York, United States of America

• Friedrich Schiller

  Poet

  Baden Wurttemberg, Germany

• Thomas Middleton

  Playwright

  England, United Kingdom

• John Galsworthy

  Author

  London, United Kingdom

• George Bernard Shaw

  Author

  Dublin, Republic of Ireland

• Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Poet

  Maine, United States of America

• Aphra Behn

  Playwright

  England, United Kingdom

• Bernard Slade

  Playwright

  Ontario, Canada

• Lord Byron

  Poet

  Kent, United Kingdom

• P G Wodehouse

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• A. B. Yehoshua

  Novelist

  Israel

• Alfred de Vigny

  Poet

  Indre-et-Loire, France

• Toni Morrison

  Editor

  Ohio, United States of America

• Saki

  Writer

  Rakhine State, Myanmar

• A.P. Herbert

  Novelist

  England, United Kingdom

• Rod Serling

  Screenwriter

  New York, United States of America

• Langston Hughes

  Playwright

  Missouri, United States of America

• Sholem Aleichem

  Author

  Kiev Oblast, Ukraine

• Joseph Addison

  Essayist

  England, United Kingdom

• Victor Hugo

  Author

  Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

• Dario Fo

  Actor

  Varese, Italy

• Lillian Hellman

  Dramatist

  Louisiana, United States of America

• Richard Rodgers

  Composer

  New York, United States of America

• William Shakespeare

  Writer

  England, United Kingdom

• Alphonse Daudet

  Novelist

  Occitanie, France

• Beverley Cross

  Playwright

  England, United Kingdom

• Pierre Corneille

  Playwright

  ?Normandy, France

• Elfriede Jelinek

  Playwright

  Styria, Austria

• Oliver Goldsmith

  Novelist

  Connacht, Republic of Ireland

• Alexandre Dumas

  Author

  Hauts-de-France, France

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Author

  Hesse, Germany

• Martin McDonagh

  Playwright

  England, United Kingdom

• Cormac McCarthy

  Author

  Rhode Island, United States of America

• Federico Garcia Lorca

  Poet

  Granada, Spain

• Neil Simon

  Playwright

  New York, United States of America

• Tom Stoppard

  Author

  Zlín, Czech Republic

• J. B. Priestley

  Novelist

  West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

• Sir Alan Patrick Herbert

  Novelist

  England, United Kingdom

• T. S. Eliot

  Poet

  Missouri, United States of America

• Thornton Wilder

  Author

  Wisconsin, United States of America

• Julie Taymor

  Artist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Sonia Sanchez

  Poet

  Alabama, United States of America

• Alice B. Toklas

  Playwright

  California, United States of America

• Sam Shepard

  Actor

  Illinois, United States of America

• William Butler Yeats

  Playwright

  Dublin, Republic of Ireland

• John Burgoyne

  General

  Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

• Eugene Ionesco

  Playwright

  Olt, Romania

• Wole Soyinka

  Playwright

  Ogun, Nigeria

• Jules Feiffer

  Cartoonist

  New York, United States of America

• Bill Pullman

  Actor

  New York, United States of America

• Brian Friel

  Author

  Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

• Anthony Minghella

  Director

  Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

• Mike Leigh

  Director

  England, United Kingdom

• D.H. Lawrence

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• Peter Shaffer

  Playwright

  England, United Kingdom

• Michael McClure

  Author

  Kansas, United States of America

• Ira Levin

  Author

  New York, United States of America

• Peter Handke

  Author

  Carinthia, Austria

• Cyril Cusack

  Actor

  KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

• William Wells Brown

  Author

  Kentucky, United States of America

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• Preston Sturges

  Director

  Illinois, United States of America

• Kwame Kwei-Armah

  Actor

  London, United Kingdom

• François Mauriac

  Author

  Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

• Euripides

  Playwright

  Salamis, Greece

• W.H. Auden

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• George Abbott

  Producer

  New York, United States of America

• Stefan Zweig

  Author

  Austria

• Spalding Gray

  Actor

  Rhode Island, United States of America

• Noble Sissle

  Jazz Singer

  Indiana, United States of America

• Wendy Wasserstein

  Playwright

  New York, United States of America

• Graham Greene

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• Herman J. Mankiewicz

  Screenwriter

  New York, United States of America

• Suzan-Lori Parks

  Author

  Kentucky, United States Of America

• Peter Ustinov

  Academic

  England, United Kingdom

• Alan Bennett

  Actor

  England, United Kingdom

• Christopher Marlowe

  Playwright

  England, United Kingdom

• Edmond Rostand

  Playwright

  Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

• Sean O'Casey

  Journalist

  Leinster, Republic of Ireland

• Saint Hildegard

  Nun

  West Franconia, Germany

• Daphne du Maurier

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• Rudolfo A. Anaya

  Author

  New Mexico, United States Of America

• John Osborne

  Actor

  England, United Kingdom

• Clare Boothe Luce

  Diplomat

  New York, United States of America

• Antonin Artaud

  Actor

  Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

• Jean Toomer

  Author

  D.C, United States of America

• Vaclav Havel

  Playwright

  Bohemia, Czech Republic

• Theodor Herzl

  Activist

  Budapest, Hungary

• Luis Valdez

  Director

  California, United States of America

• Lorraine Hansberry

  Playwright

  Illinois, United States of America

• Fernando Arrabal

  Director

  Spain

• Joe Orton

  Playwright

  England, United Kingdom

• George S. Kaufman

  Critic

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Jerome Lawrence

  Playwright

  Ohio, United States of America

• Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• June Jordan

  Academic

  New York, United States of America

• Thomas Wolfe

  Author

  North Carolina, United States of America

• James Lapine

  Director

  Ohio, United States of America

• Brendan Behan

  Author

  Leinster, Ireland

• Nelly Sachs

  Playwright

  Berlin, Germany

• Horacio Quiroga

  Author

  Salto, Uruguay

• Noel Coward

  Playwright

  Middlesex, United Kingdom

• Paddy Chayefsky

  Playwright

  New York, United States of America

• August Wilson

  Playwright

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Gore Vidal

  Author

  New York, United States of America

• Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac

  Author

  ?Île-de-France, France

• Edward Albee

  Playwright

  Virginia, United States of America

• Anton Chekhov

  Author

  Rostov, Russia

• Carson McCullers

  Author

  Georgia, United States Of America

• Moss Hart

  Actor

  New York, United States of America

• David Mamet

  Director

  Illinois, United States Of America

• Alejo Carpentier

  Author

  Vaud, Switzerland

• Joan Didion

  Author

  Sacramento, United States Of America

• Bertolt Brecht

  Playwright

  Bavaria, Germany

• Lady Gregory

  Poet

  County Galway, Ireland

• Peter Barnes

  Film Critic

  England, United Kingdom

• J.M. Barrie

  Author

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Countee Cullen

  Poet

  New York, united states of America

• Christopher Fry

  Actor

  England, United Kingdom

• Melvin Van Peebles

  Actor

  Illinois, united states of America

• John Millington Synge

  Playwright

  Dublin, Ireland

• William Inge

  Playwright

  Kansas, united states of America

• Aaron Sorkin

  Playwright

  New York, united states of America

• Ayn Rand

  Novelist

  Northwestern, Russia