List of playwrights

List of notable playwrights.

See also Literature; Drama; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth; Lists of authors

A

Ab-Al

George Abbot (1887-1995) (United States)
Kjeld Abell (1901-1961) (Denmark)
Marcel Achard (1899-1974) (France)
Herbert Achternbusch
Adam de la Halle (ca. 1237-ca. 1288) (France)
Arthur Adamov (1908-1970) (France)
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) (England)
George Ade (1866-1944) (United States)
Aeschylus, (ca. 525 B.C.-456 B.C.) (Greece)
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Afinogenov (1904-1941) (Russia)
Agathon
Demetrio Aguilera-Malta
Leopold Ahlsen (born 1927) (Germany)
Ama Ata Aidoo
Étienne Aignan
George L. Aiken (1830-1876) (United States)
Zoe Akins
Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza
Edward Albee (born 1928) (United States)
Rafael Alberti (1902-1999) (Spain)
James Albery
Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890) (Romania)
Alonso Alegría
Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803) (Italy)
William Alfred (1922-1999) (United States)
Jay Presson Allen (1922-2006) (United States)
Jim Allen (1926-1999) (United Kingdom)
Alejandro Rodriguez Alvarez {redirect to Alejandro Casona}
Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero [Serafin (1871-1938) and Joaquin (1873-1944)] (Spain)
Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik
Franco Ambriz Brooklyn, New York
Angelo Ambrogini {redirect to Angelo Poliziano}
Denis Amiel (1884-1977) (France)

An-As

Jane Anderson
Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959) (United States)
Bo Anderson (1981-Present) (Alaska/United States)
Robert W. Anderson (born 1917) (United States)
Jorge Andrade
Stefan Andres (1906-1970) (Germany)
Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) (Russia)
Lucius Livius Andronicus
Innokenty Fyodorovich Annensky (1856-1909) (Russia)
Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) (France)
S. Ansky (1863-1920) (Russia) *Russian language and Yiddish language*
Camillo Antona-Traversi (1857-1934) (Italy)
Giannino Antona-Traversi (1860-1939) (Italy)
Ludwig Anzengruber (1839-1889) (Austria)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) (France)
Aleksei Nikolaevich Arbuzov (1908-1986) (Russia)
Manuel José Arce
William Archibald (1924-1970) (United States
Jane Arden (film-director) (1927-82)
John Arden (born 1930) (England)
Arthur Arent (1904-1972) (United States)
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) (Italy)
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) (Italy)
Aristophanes, (ca. 446 B.C.-385 B.C.) (Greece)
Roberto Arlt
Georges Arnaud (1917-1987) (France)
Carlos Arniches y Barrera (1866-1943) (Spain)
Alexandre Arnoux (1884-1973) (France)
Fernando Arrabal (born 1932) (Spain)
Francisco Arriví
Antón Arrufat
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) (France)
Sholem Asch (1880-1957) (Poland/United States) *Yiddish language*
Werner Aspenstrom (1918-1997) (Sweden)

Au-Ay

Aubignac {redirect to François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac}
David Auburn (born 1969)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) (England/United States)
Jacques Audiberti (1899-1965) (France)
Emile Augier (1820-1889) (France)
Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko
Máximo Avilés-Blonda
George Axelrod (1922-2003) (United States)
Lilly Axster (1896-1948)
Mulat Ayalneh
Alan Ayckbourn
Philip Ayckbourn
Marcel Aymé (1902-1967) (France)
Jacob Ayrer
Leslie Ayvazian

B

Ba-Bl

Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (1894-1941) (Russia) *Russian language and Yiddish language*
Ingeborg Bachmann
Giuseppe Baffico (1852-1927) (Italy)
Bianca Bagatourian
Enid Bagnold
Hermann Bahr (1863-1934) (Austria)
George Pierce Baker (1866-1935) (United States)
John Lloyd Balderston (1889-1954) (United States)
James Baldwin (1924-1987) (United States)
John Bale (1495-1563) (England)
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) (France)
Francisco Antonio Bances y López-Candamo (1662-1704) (Spain)
Théodore de Banville (1823-1891) (France)
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born 1934) (United States)
Girolamo Bargagli (1537-1586) (Italy)
Pierre Barillet (born 1923) (France)
Howard Barker
James Nelson Barker (1784-1858) (United States)
Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) (Germany)
Peter Barnes
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) (Scotland)
Jeff Baron
Mike Bartlett
Philip Barry (1896-1949) (United States)
Gabriel Barylli
Peter Basch
Todd Bash
Enrico Bassano (1899-1999) (Italy)
Henri Bataille (1872-1922) (France)
Wolfgang Bauer
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) (United States)
Terry Baum
Bahram Bayzaee (Iran)
Clifford Bax (1886-1962) (England)
Richard Bean (born 1956) (England)
Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) (France)
Francis Beaumont (1584/85-1616) (England)
Jim Beaver (United States)
Ulrich Becher (1910-1990) (Germany)
Frawley Becker (United States)
Jürgen Becker
Jurek Becker
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) (Ireland) *English language and French language*
Henry Becque (1837-1899) (France)
Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945) (Austria)
Brendan Behan (1923-1964) (Ireland)
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) (England)
S. N. Behrman (1893-1973) (United States)
David Belasco (1853-1931) (United States)
Feo Belcari (1410-1484) (Italy)
Wendy Belden
T. James Belich (pseudonym: Colorado Tolston) (b. 1976) (United States)
Jean Bellemère {redirect to Jean Sarment}
Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez (ca. 1590-ca. 1650) (Spain)
Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954) (Spain)
Sem Benelli (1877-1949) (Italy)
Gottfried Benn
Alan Bennett
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) (England)
Angelo Beolco
Hjalmar Bergman (1883-1931) (Sweden)
Alan Berks
Jean-Jacques Bernard (1888-1972) (France)
Tristan Bernard (1866-1947) (France)
Jean Bernard-Luc (1909-1985) (France)
Henry Bernstein (1876-1953) (France)
Georges Berr (1867-1942) (France)
Carlo Bertolazzi (1870-1916) (Italy)
Kurt Besci (born 1920) (Austria)
Rudolph Besier (1878-1942) (England)
Lucien Besnard (1872-1955) (France)
Ugo Betti (1892-1953) (Italy)
Bernardo Dovizio da Bibbiena (1470-1520) (Italy)
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1735-1812) (Ireland)
Sieur de Bigot {redirect to Jean Palaprat}
François Billetdoux (1927-1991) (France)
Richard Billinger (1893-1965) (Austria)
André Birabeau (1890-1974) (France)
Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854) (United States)
Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910) (Norway)
Lewis Black(United States)
August Blanche
Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) (United States)
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880-1921) (Russia)

Bo-By

Augusto Boal
Eric Bogosian
George H. Boker (1823-1890) (United States)
Robert Bolt (1924-1995) (England)
Valentino Bompiani (1898-1992) (Italy)
Francesco Augusto Bon (1788-1858) (Italy)
Edward Bond
Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960) (Italy)
Clare Boothe (1903-1987) (United States)
Wolfgang Borchert (1921-1947) (Germany)
Dion Boucicault (1820/22-1890) (Ireland/United States)
Jacques Bouralan {redirect to Jacques Deval}
Édouard Bourdet (1887-1945) (France)
Edme Boursault (1638-1701) (France)
John Griffith Bowen
Warren Bowles
William Boyle (1853-1923) (Ireland)
Oskar Braaten
Roberto Bracco (1861-1943) (Italy)
Suzanne Bradbeer
Vitaliano Brancati (1907-1954) (Italy)
Thomas Brasch
Volker Braun
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) (Germany)
Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585-1618)
Howard Brenton
Manuel Bretón de los Herreros (1796-1873) (Spain)
James Bridie (1888-1951) (Scotland)
Eugène Brieux (1858-1932) (France)
Harold Brighouse (1882-1958) (England)
Hermann Broch
Max Brod (1884-1968) (Czech Republic/Israel) *German language*
Richard Brome (ca. 1590-1652/53) (England)
Arnolt Bronnen (1895-1959) (Austria)
Kent R. Brown
Robert Browning (1812-1889) (England)
Ferdinand Bruckner (1891-1958) (Austria)
Christine Brückner
David-Augustin de Brueys (1640-1723) (France)
Nathan Bruhn
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) (Italy)
Alfred Brust
Georg Büchner (1813-1837) (Germany)
Duke of Buckingham {redirect to George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham}
Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000) (Spain)
Oliver Bukowski
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940) (Russia)
Edward Bullins (1935- )(United State)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) (England)
Michelangelo Buonarotti, the Younger (1568-1642) (Italy)
Waldfried Burggraf {redirect to Friedrich Forster}
John Burkhardt
Leo Butler (1974) England
Enrico Annibale Butti (1868-1912) (Italy)
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) (England)
Henry James Byron

C

Gaston de Caillavet (1869-1915) (France)
Hall Caine (1853-1931) (England)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) (Spain)
Daniel Call
Sheila Callaghan
Joaquín Calvo-Sotelo (1905-1993) (Spain)
Marc Camoletti
Bartley Campbell
David Campton (born 1924) (England)
Albert Camus (1913-1960) (France)
Carlos Canales (1955) (Puerto Rico)
Elias Canetti
Veza Canetti
José de Cañizares (1676-1750) (Spain)
Cao Yu
Karel Čapek (1890-1938) (Czech Republic)
Luigi Capuana (1839-1915) (Italy)
Alfred Capus (1858-1922) (France)
Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912) (Romania)
Louis Carette {redirect to Félicien Marceau}
Annibale Caro (1507-1566) (Italy)
Alice Caroline
Paul Vincent Carroll (1900-1968) (Ireland/Scotland)
Jim Cartwright
Alberto Casella (1891-1957) (Italy)
Alejandro Casona (1903-1965) (Spain)
Guillén de Castro y Bellvís (1569-1631) (Spain)
Enrico Cavacchioli (1885-1954) (Italy)
Giovan Maria Cecchi (1518-1587) (Italy)
Susannah Centlivre (ca. 1667-1723) (England)
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) (Spain)
George Chapman (ca. 1560-1634) (England)
Charlotte Charke (1713-1760)
Mary Coyle Chase (1907-1981) (United States)
Klaus Chatten
P. J. Chapsky (Thailand)
Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981) (United States)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) (Russia)
Andrew Cherry (1762-1812)
Luigi Chiarelli (1880-1947) (Italy)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) (Japan)
Hans Chlumberg (1897-1930) (Austria)
Jerome Chodorov (1911-2004) (United States)
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) (England)
David W. Christner
Caryl Churchill
Colley Cibber (1671-1757) (England)
Giovanni Battista Cini (ca. 1525-1586) (Italy)
Paul Claudel (1868-1955) (France)
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) (France)
Antonio Coello y Ochoa (1611-1652) (Spain)
George M. Cohan (1878-1942) (United States)
Harry Cohen
George Colman the Elder (1732-1794) (England)
John Colton (1889-1946) (United States/England)
Padraic Colum (1881-1972) (Ireland/United States)
Pat Condell (England)
William Congreve (1670-1729) (England)
Marc Connelly (1890-1980) (United States)
Robert Taylor Conrad (1810-1858) (United States)
Michael Cook
Ray Cooney
Romain Coolus (1868-1952) (France)
Jacques Copeau (1879-1949) (France)
François Coppée (1842-1908) (France)
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) (France)
Thomas Corneille (1625-1709) (France)
Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas (United States)
Pietro Cossa (1830-1881) (Italy)
Georges Courteline (1858-1929) (France)
Noel Coward (1899-1973) (England)
Louis O. Coxe (1918-1993) (United States)
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674-1762) (France)
Michael Cristofer
Francis de Croisset (1877-1937) (France)
Fernand Crommelynck (1885-1970) (Belgium/France) *French language*
A. J. Cronin (1896-1981) (Scotland)
Rachel Crothers (1878-1958) (United States)
Russel Crouse (1893-1966) (United States)
Mart Crowley (born 1935) (United States)
John Crowne (ca. 1640-ca. 1703) (England)
Nilo Cruz
Ramón de la Cruz (1731-1794) (Spain)
Gergely Csíky (1842-1891) (Hungary)
Franz Theodor Csokor (1885-1969) (Austria)
Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón (1596-1661) (Spain)
Juan de la Cueva (ca. 1550-1610) (Spain)
Richard Cumberland (1732-1811) (England)
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) (United States)
François de Curel (1854-1928) (France)
Stephen Currens

D

Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) (Sweden)
George Dalton
Augustin Daly (1838-1899) (United States)
Florent Carton Dancourt (1661-1725) (France)
Clemence Dane (1888-1965) (England)
Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) (Italy)
Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) (France)
William Davenant (1606-1668) (England)
Robertson Davies (1913-1995) (Canada)
Jack Davis (1917-2000) (Australia)
Ossie Davis (1917–2005) (United States)
Owen Davis (1874-1956) (United States)
Roxann Dawson
Frederic Lansing Day (1886-1982) (United States}
April De Angelis (England)
Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1984) (Italy)
Thomas Dekker (ca. 1572-1632) (England)
Shelagh Delaney (born 1939) (England)
Casimir-Jean-François Delavigne (1793-1843) (France)
Barbu Delavrancea (1858-1918) (Romania)
Giambattista Della Porta (1535-1615) (Italy)
Federico Della Valle (ca. 1560-1628) (Italy)
Merrill Denison (1893-1975) (Canada)
Lucien Descaves (1861-1949) (France)
Jean Desmaretz de Saint-Sorlin (1595-1676) (France)
Sugathapala de Silva
Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680-1754) (France)
Jacques Deval (1894-1972) (France)
Juan Bautista Diamante (1625-1687) (Spain)
Lydia R. Diamond (born 1969) (United States)
Joaquín Dicenta y Benedicto (1863-1917) (Spain)
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) (France)
Steven Dietz
Salvatore Di Giacomo (1860-1934) (Italy)
Tony DiMurro (United States)
Joe diPietro
Madge Dishman
Ludovico Dolce (1508-ca. 1568) (Italy)
Maurice Donnay (1859-1945) (France)
Ariel Dorfman
Earl of Dorset {redirect to Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset}
Tankred Dorst (born 1925) (Germany)
Stuart Draper (England)
Michael Drayton (1563-1631) (England)
Alex Dremann (1966-) (United States)
John Drinkwater (1882-1937) (England)
John Dryden (1631-1700) (England)
Marin Drzic
Marcel Dubé (born 1930) (Canada) *French language*
Charles Rivière Dufresny (1654-1724) (France)
Roger Martin du Gard {redirect to Martin du Gard, Roger}
Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895) (France)
Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870) (France)
D Underbelly (United States)
William Dunlap (1766-1839) (United States)
Marc Dunn
Nell Dunn
Philip Dunning (1891-1957) (United States)
Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) (England/Ireland)
Christopher Durang
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) (France)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) (Switzerland) *German language*
Pierre Du Ryer (1606-1658) (France)
Jean Dutourd (born 1920) (France)
Henri Duvernois (1875-1937) (France)

E

José Echegaray (1832-1916) (Spain)
David Edgar
Margaret Edson
Erik Ehn
Günter Eich
Baron Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857) (Germany)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) (United States/England)
Gundi Ellert
Juan del Encina (ca. 1469-1529/30) (Spain)
Will Eno
Nick Enright
Eve Ensler
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Brad Erickson
Paul Ernst (1866-1933) (Germany)
St. John Ervine (1883-1971) (Ireland/England)
George Etherege (ca. 1635-1691) (England)
Solomon Ettinger (1800/03-1856) (Poland) *Hebrew language and Yiddish language*
Euripides (ca. 485 B.C.-ca. 406 B.C.) (Greece)

F

Diego Fabbri (1911–1980) (Italy)
Émile Fabre (1869–1955) (France)
Michael Fackelmann
George Farquhar (1677/8-1707) (England)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
René Fauchois (1882–1962) (France)
Jules Feiffer (born 1929) (United States)
Ludwig Fels
Dan Fenton
Edna Ferber (1887–1968) (United States)
Roger Ferdinand {redirect to Roger-Ferdinand}
Lucas Fernández (1474–1542) (Spain)
Luis Fernández Ardavín (1891–1962) (Spain)
Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828) (Spain)
Nicolás Fernández de Moratín (1737–1780) (Spain)
Bob Jude Ferrante (1959-) (United States)
Paolo Ferrari (1822–1889) (Italy)
Leo Ferrero (1903–1933) (Italy)
Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958) (Germany)
Georges Feydeau (1862–1921) (France)
Nathan Field
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) (England)
Joseph Fields (1895–1966) (United States)
Alex Finlayson (1951 - ) (United States)
Clyde Fitch (1865–1909) (United States)
George Fitzmaurice (1877–1963) (Ireland)
Gustave Flaubert
Martin Flavin (1883–1967) (United States)
David Fleisher (American playwright who teaches in the English department at Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL. He co-authored, with David Freedman, Death of An American: The Killing of John Singer. With Shel Silverstein, Mickey James and Sharon Spivey, he wrote a musical, Last Call at The Cozy. He is a member of the Authors Guild and the Dramatists Guild of America.
James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) (England)
Marieluise Fleisser
Justin Fleming
Robert de Flers (1872–1927) (France)
John Fletcher (1579–1625) (England)
Lucille Fletcher
Dario Fo
Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911) (Italy)
Rick Fonté
Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (1744/5-1792) (Russia)
Horton Foote
Samuel Foote (1720–1777) (England)
John Ford (ca. 1586-after 1639) (England)
Maria Irene Fornes
Lars Forssell (born 1928) (Sweden)
Friedrich Forster (1895–1958) (Germany)
Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827) (Italy)
Amy Fox (1975–present) (United States)
Bruno Frank (1887–1945) (Germany)
Leonhard Frank (1882–1961) (Germany/United States)
Ian Fraser (South Africa/United States)
Michael Frayn
Aleksander Fredro (1793–1876) (Poland)
David French
Gustav Freytag (1816–1895) (Germany)
Erich Fried
Alan Foster Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman (born 1930) (United States)
Brian Friel (born 1929) (Ireland)
Ketti Frings (1909–1981) (United States)
Max Frisch (1911–1991) (Switzerland)
Christopher Fry (1907–2005) (England)
Franz Fühmann (1922–1984) (Germany)
Athol Fugard
Ulpian Fulwell (1545/6 - 1584/5/6)
Derek Alan Fuzzell (born 1985) (United States)

G

Jeremy Gable (born 1982) (United States)
Christoph Gahl
Zona Gale (1874-1938) (United States)
Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787) (Italy)
John Galsworthy (1867-1933) (England)
Simon Gantillon (1887-1961) (France)
Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta (1734-1787) (Spain)
Antonio García Gutiérrez (1813-1884) (Spain)
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) (Spain)
Robert Garnier (1544-1590) (France)
David Garrick (1717-1779) (England)
George Gascoigne (1535-1577) (England)
Armand Gatti (born 1924) (France)
Natalie Gaupp (born 1967) (United States)
John Gay (1685-1732) (England)
Michael V. Gazzo (1923-1995) (United States)
Jack Gelber (1932-2003) (United States)
Gratien Gélinas (1909-1999) (Canada) *French language*
Jean Genet (1910-1986) (France)
Paul Géraldy (1885-1983) (France)
Katharina Gericke
Esther Gerritsen
Joel Gersmann (1942-2005) (United States)
Alice Gerstenberg
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (1737-1823) (Germany)
Landen Gessell
Elke Geurts (born 1973) (Netherlands)
Michel de Ghelderode (1898-1962) (Belgium) *French language*
Henri Ghéon (1875-1944) (France)
Gherardo Gherardi (1891-1949) (Italy)
Paolo Giacometti (1816-1882) (Italy)
Giuseppe Giacosa (1847-1906) (Italy)
Gigio Artemio Giancarli (ca. 1500-1550) (Italy)
Donato Giannotti (1492-1573) (Italy)
William Gibson (born 1914) (United States)
David Gieselmann
Kathie Lee Gifford
W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) (England)
William Gillette (1855-1937) (United States)
Frank D. Gilroy (born 1925) (United States)
Antonio Gil y Zárate (1793-1861) (Spain)
José Antonio Giménez Arnau y Gran (1912-1985) (Spain)
Jean Giono (1895-1970) (France)
Silvio Giovaninetti (1901-1959) (Italy)
Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio (1504-1573) (Italy)
Giovanni Giraud (1776-1834) (Italy)
Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) (France)
Vincenzo Giusti (1532-1619) (Italy)
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948) (United States)
John Godber
Kermi Goell
Reinhard Goering (1887-1936) (Germany)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) (Germany)
Ruth and Augustus Goetz
Curt Goetz (1888-1960) (Germany)
Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852) (Russia)
Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden (1840-1908) (Russia/United States) *Hebrew language and Yiddish language*
James Goldman (1927-1998) (United States)
Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) (Italy)
Oliver Goldsmith (1728/30-1774) (England)
Ivan Goll
Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) (Poland/Argentina) *Polish language*
Jules Eckert Goodman (1876-1962) (United States)
Frances Goodrich (1890-1984) (United States)
Jacob Gordin (1853-1909) (Ukraine/United States) *Russian language and Yiddish language*
Ruth Gordon
Charles Gordone (1925-1995) (United States)
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) (Russia)
Abraham Dov Ber Gottlober (1811-1899) (Russia) *Hebrew language and Yiddish language*
Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766) (Germany)
Olympe de Gouges
David Gow (1964 - ) (Canada, Quebec)
Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806) (Italy)
Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801-1836) (Germany)
Ed Graczyk
Duncan Graham (Australia)
David Marshall Grant
Marsha L. Grant
Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946) (England)
Jörg Graser
Günter Grass (born 1927) (Germany)
Jacinto Grau Delgado (1877-1958) (Spain)
Simon Gray
Antonio Francesco Grazzini (1503-1584) (Italy)
Jean-Pierre Grédy (born 1920) (France)
Julien Green (1900-1998) (France/United States) *French language*
Paul Green (1894-1981) (United States)
Richard Greenberg
Graham Greene (1904-1991) (England)
Robert Greene (1558-1592) (England)
Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) (Ireland)
David Greig (Scotland)
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gresset (1709-1777) (France)
Tom Griffin
Trevor Griffiths
Franz Grillparzer
Alan Gross
Jim Grover
Andreas Gryphius
John Guare (1938- ) (United States)
Sacha Guitry
Sachin Gupta
A.R. Gurney
Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow

H

Peter Hacks
Ruth Hale
Adam de la Halle (ca. 1237-ca. 1288) (France)
Peter Handke
William Hanley
Lorraine Hansberry
Haseena Moin (b. 1941) - Pakistan
Ernst Hardt
David Hare
Moss Hart
Fred Harvey
Jonathan Harvey
Walter Hasenclever
Jeffrey Hatcher
Gerhart Hauptmann
Václav Havel
Friedrich Hebbel
Peter Hedges
Lillian Hellman
Beth Henley
Nigel Heseltine
Dorothy Hewett
John Heywood(c. 1497-c. 1580)
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Shawn Hirabayashi
Prince Hoare
Rolf Hochhuth
Fritz Hochwaelder
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Darcy Hogan
Ludvig Holberg
Michael Hollinger
Rupert Holmes
Ödön von Horváth
Sidney Howard
Tina Howe
Frank Howson
John-Michael Howson
Hroswitha of Gandersheim
Dusty Hughes
Langston Hughes
Victor Hugo
Maureen Hunter

I

J

K

L

M

Ewan MacColl
Michael MacLennan
Wendy MacLeod
George Macropedius, (1487-1558)
Ellen McLaughlin
Carlo Maria Maggi, (Italy) *Insubric language*
Monica Malek-Yonan
Rosie Malek-Yonan
David Mamet, (born 1947)
Klaus Mann
William Marchant, (United States), (1923-1995)
Donald Margulies
Pierre de Marivaux
Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593)
Jane Martin (United States) (pen name for unknown playwright)
William Somerset Maugham
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Joey Mayberry
Marius von Mayenburg
Martin McDonagh, (born 1970)
Frank McGuinness
Sally McLean
Terrence McNally, (born 1939)
Mark Medoff
Charles L. Mee
Menander
David Mercer
George Middleton
Thomas Middleton
Arthur Miller, (1915-2005)
Willy Millowitsch
Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917)
Molière, (1622-1673)
Jose Zorrilla y Moral
Félix Morisseau-Leroy (Moriso Lewa), (1912-1998)
Melvyn Morrow
Ralph Morse (actor)
John Mortimer
Tad Mosel
Itamar Moses
Dimitrios Mpogris, (Greece ), (1890–1964 )
Sean Muir
Heiner Müller
Kaj Munk
Thomas Murphy
Tommy Murphy
Robert Musil
Mohan Rakesh

N

O

P

Ralph Pape
Suzan-Lori Parks
Angelo Parra
John Patrick
Tyler Perry
Arthur Wing Pinero
Harold Pinter
Luigi Pirandello
Plautus
Ulrich Plenzdorf
Sharon Pollock
Will Power
Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868-1927) (Poland)
J. B. Priestley
Alexander Pushkin
Ariel Pytrell
Narciso Pimentel, Jr.

Q

Philippe Quinault (1635-1688) (France)

R

S

Sa-Se

Sg-Sr

St-Sz

T

George Tabori
Steven Talbot
Jean Tardieu
Henry Taylor
Bernard J. Taylor
Samuel Taylor
Vijay Tendulkar
Terence
Tian Han
Ernest Thompson (b. 1949) (United States)
Judith Thompson
Ludwig Tieck
Stephen Tobolowsky (United States)
Ernst Toller
Colorado Tolston, pseudonym of T. James Belich (b. 1976) (United States)
Bartolomé de Torres Naharro
Miles Tredinnick
Kurt Tucholsky

U

V

W

Heinrich Leopold Wagner
Susan Wald (writer on General Hospital; Daytime Emmy & WGA Awards nominee & winner)
Derek Walcott
Craig Walker
George F. Walker
Naomi Wallace
Martin Walser
Robert Walser
Agnes Walsh
Saadallah Wannous, (Syria), (1941-1997)
Dale Wasserman
Wendy Wasserstein
Keith Waterhouse
Harrison Watts
John Webster
Frank Wedekind
Peter Weiss
Edward Crosby Wells
Franz Werfel
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Arnold Wesker
Peter Whelan
John Whiting
Adolf von Wilbrandt
Oscar Wilde
Thornton Wilder
Emlyn Williams
Tennessee Williams
David Williamson (b. 1942) (Australia)
August Wilson
Lanford Wilson
Jaimie-Lee Wise
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz {Witkacy} (1885-1939) (Poland)
William Wycherley
Charles Wood

Y

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) (Ireland)
Benjamin Yeoh (born 1978)
Chay Yew

Z

Gabriela Zapolska (1860-1921) (Poland)
Paul Zindel (1936-2003) (United States)
Émile Zola (1840-1902) (France)
José Zorrilla (1817-1893) (Spain)
Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977) (Germany/United States/Austria)
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) (Austria)
Zillur Rahman John (1959- ) [Bangladesh, Canada]