List of playwrights

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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

• Henrik Ibsen
• Almir Imsirevic
• William Inge
• Eugène Ionesco
• Roger Iverson
• David Ives
• Naomi Iizuka

J

• Alfred Jarry
• Elfriede Jelinek
• Douglas William Jerrold
• Christopher John (Australia)
• Terry Johnson
• Denis Johnston
• Ben Jonson
• James Joyce
• Jaimie Martin

K

• Georg Kaiser
• Kalidasa
• Sarah Kane
• Girish Karnad
• George S. Kaufman
• Moisés Kaufman
• John B. Keane
• Joseph Kesselring
• Thomas Kilroy
• Sidney Kingsley
• Heinrich von Kleist
• Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
• Václav Kliment Klicpera
• Alexander Kluge
• Frederick Knott
• Oskar Kokoschka
• Harry Kondoleon
• Karl König
• Allan Stewart Konigsberg
• Bernard Kops
• August von Kotzebue
• Karl Kraus
• Helmut Krausser
• Franz Xaver Kroetz
• Nestor Kukolnik
• Rick Kunzi
• Hanif Kureishi
• Tony Kushner
• Thomas Kyd

L

• Neil LaBute
• Jun Lana
• Jonathon Larson
• Miklos Laszlo ,(1903-1973)
• Else Lasker-Schüler
• Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Reinhard Lettau
• Ira Levin
• Saunders Lewis
• Nell Leyshon
• David Lindsay-Abaire
• Romulus Linney
• Kenneth Lonergan
• Stephen Lowe
• Craig Lucas
• Clare Boothe Luce
• Charles Ludlam
• Ken Ludwig
• Otto Ludwig

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

• Richard Nelson
• Johann Nestroy
• Anthony Neilson
• Peter Nichols
• William Nicholson
• Marsha Norman
• Lynn Nottage
• János Nyíri

O

• Dan O'Brien
• Michael O'Brien
• Sean O'Casey
• Eugene O'Neill
• Gerlinde Obermeier
• Clifford Odets
• Bolaji Odofin
• Han Ong
• Joe Orton
• John Osborne
• Peter Oswald
• Rochelle Owens

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

• David Rabe
• Jean Racine
• Ferdinand Raimund
• Jonathan Rand
• Adam Rapp
• Lutz Rathenow
• Terence Rattigan
• James Reaney
• Yasmina Reza
• Erwin Riess
• Philip Ridley
• Lawrence Riley
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Lennox Robinson
• Rony Robinson
• Jack Rosenthal
• Kenneth G. Ross
• Edmond Rostand
• Friederike Roth
• David Rudkin
• Paul Rudnick
• Sarah Ruhl
• Willy Russell

S

Sa-Se

• Partap Sharma
• Hans Sachs
• Gupta Sachin
• Nelly Sachs
• Florencio Sánchez
• William Saroyan
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Robert Schenkkan (United States)
• Friedrich Schiller
• Arno Schmidt
• Ron Schnitzius
• Arthur Schnitzler
• Werner Schwab
• Robert Schenkkan
• Mary Rohde Scudday
• David Sedaris
• Seneca the Younger
• Janet Silva
• Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
• Francesca Sanders
• Parmod Singh

Sg-Sr

• Anthony Shaffer
• Peter Shaffer, (born 1926)
• William Shakespeare, (1564-1616)
• Ntozake Shange
• John Patrick Shanley
• George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
• Wallace Shawn (born 1943)
• Rob Shearman
• Edward Sheldon
• Jane Shepard (born 1958)
• Sam Shepard (born 1943)
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Jonathan Marc Sherman
• R. C. Sherriff
• Robert E. Sherwood
• George Shiels
• Del Shores
• Larry Shue
• Nicky Silver
• Neil Simon
• Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
• Bernard Slade
• Anna Deavere Smith
• Charles Smith
• Sophocles
• Aaron Sorkin
• Wole Soyinka
• Ron Sparks
• Biljana Srbljanović

St-Sz

• Shelagh Stephenson
• Tom Stoppard
• David Storey
• August Stramm
• Botho Strauß
• August Strindberg
• Preston Sturges
• Patrick Süskind
• Alfred Sutro
• Caridad Svich
• Jeffrey Sweet
• John Millington Synge

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

• Nicholas Udall
• Alfred Uhry
• Orl Unho
• Rodolfo Usigli

V

• Alexander Vampilov
• John Vanbrugh
• John William Van Druten
• Billy Van Zandt
• Gil Vicente
• Paula Vogel
• Carlos von Son
• Alfonso Vallejo

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]

See also

• List of Bosnian playwrights
• List of British playwrights since 1950
• List of Canadian playwrights
• List of French playwrights
• List of German playwrights
• List of Irish dramatists
• List of Irish playwrights
• List of Jewish American playwrights
• List of Slovenian playwrights
• List of playwrights from the United States
• List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)