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-An
- George Francis Abbott (1887–1995, United States)
- Kjeld Abell (1901–1961, Denmark)
- Marcel Achard (1899–1974, France)
- Herbert Achternbusch
- Adam de la Halle (c. 1237 – c. 1288, France)
- Arthur Adamov (1908–1970, France)
- Marion Adams-Acton (1846–1928, Scotland)
- Joseph Addison (1672–1719, England)
- George Ade (1866–1944, United States)
- Mirza Adeeb (1914–1999, Pakistan)
- David Adjmi (living, United States)
- Aeschylus, (c. 525 BC – 456 BC, Ancient Greece)
- Akbar Radi, (1939–2007, Iran)
- Aleksandr Nikolayevich Afinogenov (1904–1941, Russia)
- Agathon
- Bola Agbaje (United Kingdom)
- Ama Ata Aidoo
- Étienne Aignan
- George L. Aiken (1830–1876, United States)
- Zoë Akins
- Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov
- Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza
- Edward Albee (born 1928, United States)
- Rafael Alberti (1902–1999, Spain)
- James Albery (1838–1889, England)
- Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890, Romania)
- Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803, Italy)
- William Alfred (1922–1999, United States)
- Jay Presson Allen (1922–2006, United States)
- Jim Allen (1926–1999, England)
- Alejandro Rodriguez Alvarez
- Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero (1871–1938 and 1873–1944, Spain)
- Maria Adelaide Amaral (Brazil)
- Franco Ambriz Brooklyn, New York
- Angelo Ambrogini {redirect to Angelo Poliziano}
- Jane Anderson
- Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959, United States)
- Robert W. Anderson (born 1917, United States)
- Stefan Andres (1906–1970, Germany)
- Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919, Russia)
- Lucius Livius Andronicus (Ancient Rome)
- Innokenty Fyodorovich Annensky (1856–1909, Russia)
- Jean Anouilh (1910–1987, France)
- S. Ansky (1863–1920, Russia) in Russian and Yiddish
- Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889, Austria)
Ap-Ay
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918, France)
- Jacob Appel (United States)
- Manuel José Arce
- William Archibald (1917–1970) (United States)
- Jane Arden (director) (1927–1982)
- John Arden (born 1930, England)
- Pietro Aretino (1492–1556, Italy)
- Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533, Italy)
- Aristophanes, (c. 446 BC – 385 BC, Ancient Greece)
- Roberto Arlt
- Arnab Jan Deka (born 1967, India)
- Georges Arnaud (1917–1987, France)
- Carlos Arniches (1866–1943, Spain)
- Fernando Arrabal (born 1932, Spain)
- Francisco Arriví
- Jorge Arroyo (born 1959, Costa Rica)
- Antón Arrufat
- Antonin Artaud (1896–1948, France)
- Sholem Asch (1880–1957, Poland/United States) in Yiddish
- Werner Aspenström (1918–1997, Sweden)
- Marie Aspioti (1909–2000, Corfu)
- Leilah Assunção
- 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)
- Émile Augier (1820–1889, France)
- Arkady Averchenko
- George Axelrod (1922–2003, United States)
- Rachel Axler (United States)
- Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939, England)
- Philip Ayckbourn (England)
- Marcel Aymé (1902–1967, France)
- Jakob Ayrer
- Leslie Ayvazian
B
Ba-Be
- Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (1894–1941, Russia), in Russian and Yiddish
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Enid Bagnold (1889–1981, England)
- Hermann Bahr (1863–1934, Austria)
- George Pierce Baker (1866–1935, United States)
- John Roman Baker (born 1944, England)
- John Lloyd Balderston (1889–1954, United States)
- James Baldwin (1924–1987, United States)
- John Bale (1495–1563, England)
- Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850, France)
- Banabhatta (India) in Sanskrit
- Francisco Antonio Bances y López-Candamo (1662–1704, Spain)
- Théodore de Banville (1823–1891, France)
- Imamu Amiri Baraka (1934–2014, United States)
- Howard Barker
- James Nelson Barker (1784–1858, United States)
- Ernst Barlach (1870–1938, Germany)
- Peter Barnes
- Jeff Baron
- J. M. Barrie (1860–1937, Scotland)
- Philip Barry (1896–1949, United States)
- Mike Bartlett
- Gabriel Barylli
- Peter Basch
- Todd Bash
- Henri Bataille (1872–1922, France)
- Wolfgang Bauer
- L. Frank Baum (1856–1919, United States)
- Terry Baum
- 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)
- Jürgen Becker
- Jurek Becker
- Samuel Beckett (1906–1989, Ireland) in English and French
- Henry Becque (1837–1899, France)
- Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866–1945, Austria)
- Chad Beguelin (1969, United States)
- Brendan Behan (1923–1964, Ireland)
- Aphra Behn (1640–1689, England)
- S. N. Behrman (1893–1973, United States)
- David Belasco (1853–1931, United States)
- T. James Belich (pseudonym: Colorado Tolston) (born 1976, United States)
- Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez (c. 1590 – c. 1650, Spain)
- Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954, Spain)
- Victoria Benedictsson (1850–1888, Sweden)
- Sem Benelli (1877–1949, Italy)
- Ramvriksh Benipuri (1902–1968, India), in Hindi
- Gottfried Benn
- Alan Bennett (England)
- Arnold Bennett (1867–1931, England)
- Angelo Beolco
- Hjalmar Bergman (1883–1931, Sweden)
- Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007, Sweden)
- Jean-Jacques Bernard (1888–1972, France)
- Tristan Bernard (1866–1947, France)
- Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989, Austria)
- Henri Bernstein (1876–1953, France)
- Rudolph Besier (1878–1942, England)
- Ugo Betti (1892–1953, Italy)
Bi-By
- Bernardo Dovizio da Bibbiena (1470–1520, Italy)
- Isaac Bickerstaffe (1735–1812, Ireland)
- Sieur de Bigot {redirect to Jean Palaprat}
- François Billetdoux (1927–1991, France)
- André Birabeau (1890–1974, France)
- Robert Montgomery Bird (1806–1854, United States)
- Alexandre Bisson (1848–1912, France)
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910, Norway)
- Lewis Black (United States)
- August Blanche
- Dharamvir Bharati
- Marc Blitzstein (1905–1964, United States)
- Alexander Blok (1880–1921, Russia)
- Augusto Boal
- Eric Bogosian
- George H. Boker (1823–1890, United States)
- Robert Bolt (1924–1995, England)
- Valentino Bompiani (1898–1992, Italy)
- Edward Bond
- Leslie Bonnet (1902–1985, Wales)
- Massimo Bontempelli (1878–1960, Italy)
- Clare Boothe (1903–1987, United States)
- Wolfgang Borchert (1921–1947, Germany)
- Dion Boucicault (1820/22 – 1890, Ireland/United States)
- Édouard Bourdet (1887–1945, France)
- Lucien Bourjeily (Lebanon)
- Edmé Boursault (1638–1701, France)
- John Griffith Bowen
- William Boyle (1853–1923, Ireland)
- Oskar Braaten
- Roberto Bracco (1861–1943, Italy)
- 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) (Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia/Israel) in German
- Richard Brome (c. 1590 – 1652/53, England)
- Arnolt Bronnen (1895–1959, Austria)
- Peter Brook (England)
- Charles Brooks (born 1939, United States)
- Kent R. Brown
- Robert Browning (1812–1889, England)
- Ferdinand Bruckner (1891–1958, Austria)
- Christine Brückner
- David-Augustin de Brueys (1640–1723, France)
- Giordano Bruno (1548–1600, Italy)
- Georg Büchner (1813–1837, Germany)
- Duke of Buckingham (George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham)
- Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916–2000, Spain)
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940, Russia)
- Edward Bullins (born 1935, United States)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873, England)
- Leo Butler (1974, England)
- George Gordon Byron (1788–1824, England)
- Henry James Byron England
C
- Emilio Carballido (1925–2008, Mexico)
- Gaston de Caillavet (1869–1915, France)
- Hall Caine (1853–1931, England)
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681, Spain)
- Sheila Callaghan
- Callias (Ancient Greece)
- Marc Camoletti
- Bartley Campbell
- David Campton (born 1924, England)
- Albert Camus (1913–1961, France)
- Elias Canetti (1905–1994, Bulgaria/England) in German
- José de Cañizares (1676–1750, Spain)
- Cao Yu (1910–1996, China)
- Karel Čapek (1890–1938, Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia) in Czech
- 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)
- Paul Vincent Carroll (1900–1968, Ireland/Scotland)
- Jim Cartwright
- Alejandro Casona (1903–1965, Spain)
- Guillén de Castro y Bellvís (1569–1631, Spain)
- Susannah Centlivre (c. 1667 – 1723, England)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616, Spain)
- Linda Chambers (United States)
- George Chapman (c. 1560–1634, England)
- Charlotte Charke (1713–1760, England)
- Mary Coyle Chase (1907–1981, United States)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981, United States)
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904, Russia)
- Andrew Cherry (1762–1812)
- William Rufus Chetwood, (died 1766, England/Ireland)
- Luigi Chiarelli (1880–1947, Italy)
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653–1725, Japan)
- Jerome Chodorov (1911–2004, United States)
- Agatha Christie (1890–1976, England)
- Caryl Churchill
- Colley Cibber (1671–1757, England)
- Giovanni Battista Cini (c. 1525 – 1586, Italy)
- Paul Claudel (1868–1955, France)
- Rick Cleveland (United States)
- Jean Cocteau (1889–1963, France)
- Antonio Coello y Ochoa (1611–1652, Spain)
- George M. Cohan (1878–1942, United States)
- 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)
- Richard Conlon (England)
- Marc Connelly (1890–1980, United States)
- Robert Taylor Conrad (1810–1858, United States)
- Michael Cook
- Ray Cooney (born 1932, England)
- Jacques Copeau (1879–1949, France)
- François Coppée (1842–1908, France)
- Simon Corble (England)
- Pierre Corneille (1606–1684, France)
- Thomas Corneille (1625–1709, France)
- Joe Corrie (1894–1968, Scotland)
- Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas (United States)
- Pietro Cossa (1830–1881, Italy)
- Georges Courteline (1858–1929, France)
- Noël Coward (1899–1973, England)
- Louis O. Coxe (1918–1993, United States)
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762, France)
- Michael Cristofer (born 1945, United States)
- Francis de Croisset (1877–1937, France)
- Fernand Crommelynck (1885–1970, Belgium/France) in French
- 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 (c. 1640 – c. 1703, England)
- Nilo Cruz (born 1960, Cuba/United States) in English
- 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 (c. 1550–1610, Spain)
- Richard Cumberland (1732–1811, England)
- E. E. Cummings (1894–1962, United States)
- François de Curel (1854–1928, France)
D
- Stig Dagerman (1923–1954, Sweden)
- Andrew Dallmeyer (born 1945, Scotland)
- Augustin Daly (1838–1899, United States)
- George Landen Dann (1904–1977, Australia)
- 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)
- Arnab Jan Deka (born 1967, India)
- Nalini Prava Deka (1944–2014, India)
- Thomas Dekker (c. 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)
- Merrill Denison (1893–1975, Canada)
- Lucien Descaves (1861–1949, France)
- Jean Desmarets (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 (1863–1917, Spain)
- Denis Diderot (1713–1784, France)
- Steven Dietz
- Salvatore Di Giacomo (1860–1934, Italy)
- Joe DiPietro
- Lodovico Dolce (1508 – c. 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)
- John Drinkwater (1882–1937, England)
- John Dryden (1631–1700, England)
- Marin Držić
- Marcel Dubé (born 1930, Canada) in French
- Charles Rivière Dufresny (1654–1724, France)
- Charles Rivière Dufresny (1654–1724, France)
- Roger Martin du Gard {redirect to Martin du Gard, Roger}
- Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870, France)
- D Underbelly (United States)
- Govind Deshpande
- 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) in German
- Pierre du Ryer (1606–1658, France)
- Jean Dutourd (born 1920, France)
- Swadesh Deepak(born 1942, India)
- 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)
- Jesse Eisenberg (United States)
- T. S. Eliot (1888–1965, United States/England)
- Gundi Ellert
- Juan del Encina (c. 1469–1529/30, Spain)
- Will Eno
- Per Olov Enquist (Sweden)
- Nick Enright
- Eve Ensler
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Epicharmus of Kos (later 6th – earlier 5th c. BC, Ancient Greece)
- Paul Ernst (1866–1933, Germany)
- St. John Ervine (1883–1971, Ireland/England)
- George Etherege (c. 1635 – 1691, England)
- Solomon Ettinger (1800/03 – 1856, Poland) in Hebrew language and Yiddish
- Eupolis (c. 446 – 411 BC, Ancient Greece)
- Euripides (c. 485 – c. 406 BC, Ancient Greece)
- Don Evans (United States)
F
- Diego Fabbri (1911–1980, Italy)
- Émile Fabre (1869–1955, France)
- George Farquhar (1677/8 – 1707, England)
- Graham Farrow England
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany)
- René Fauchois (1882–1962, France)
- Jules Feiffer (born 1929, United States)
- Edna Ferber (1887–1968, United States)
- Lucas Fernández (1474–1542, Spain)
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828, Spain)
- Nicolás Fernández de Moratín (1737–1780, Spain)
- Paolo Ferrari (1822–1889, 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 (born 1951, United States)
- Clyde Fitch (1865–1909, United States)
- George Fitzmaurice (1877–1963) (Ireland)
- Gustave Flaubert
- Martin Flavin (1883–1967, United States)
- Harvey Fierstein (born 1952, United States)
- 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)
- Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (1744/5 – 1792, Russia)
- Horton Foote
- Samuel Foote (1720–1777, England)
- John Ford (c. 1586 – after 1639, England)
- Maria Irene Fornes
- Lars Forssell (1928–2007, Sweden)
- Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827, Italy)
- Jon Fosse (Norway)
- Norm Foster (born 1949, Canada)
- Paul Foster (born 1937, United States)
- Paul Foucher (1810–1875, France)
- Charles J. Fourie (born 1965, South Africa)
- Amy Fox (born 1975, United States)
- Bruno Frank (1887–1945, Germany)
- Leonhard Frank (1882–1961, Germany/United States)
- Ian Fraser (South Africa/United States)
- Michael Frayn (England)
- Aleksander Fredro (1793–1876, Poland)
- David French
- Gustav Freytag (1816–1895, Germany)
- Erich Fried
- Gertrude Friedberg (died 1989, United States)
- 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 (South Africa)
- Ulpian Fulwell (1545/6 – 1584/5/6)
G
- Jeremy Gable (born 1982, United States)
- Ram Ganesh Gadkari (1885-1919, India)
- Zona Gale (1874–1938, United States)
- Ferdinando Galiani (1728–1787, Italy)
- John Galsworthy (1867–1933, England)
- 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)
- Larry Gelbart (1928–2009, United States)
- Jack Gelber (1932–2003, United States)
- Gratien Gélinas (1909–1999, Canada) in French
- Jean Genet (1910–1986, France)
- Joel Gersmann (1942–2005, United States)
- Alice Gerstenberg
- Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (1737–1823) (Germany)
- Michel de Ghelderode (1898–1962, Belgium) in French
- Henri Ghéon (1875–1944, France)
- Paolo Giacometti (1816–1882, Italy)
- Giuseppe Giacosa (1847–1906, Italy)
- Donato Giannotti (1492–1573, Italy)
- Melissa James Gibson (Canada)
- William Gibson (born 1914, United States)
- Kathie Lee Gifford
- W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911, England)
- D. B. Gilles (United States)
- William Gillette (1855–1937, United States)
- Frank D. Gilroy (born 1925, United States)
- Antonio Gil y Zárate (1793–1861, Spain)
- Jean Giono (1895–1970, France)
- Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio (1504–1573, Italy)
- Giovanni Giraud (1776–1834, Italy)
- Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944, France)
- Susan Glaspell (1882–1948, United States)
- Janusz Głowacki (Poland/United States) in Polish and English
- John Godber
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832, Germany)
- Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852, Russia)
- Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden (1840–1908) (Russia/United States) in Hebrew and Yiddish
- James Goldman (1927–1998, United States)
- Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793, Italy)
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728/30 – 1774, Ireland/England)
- Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969, Poland/Argentina) in Polish
- Jeff Goode (United States)
- Jules Eckert Goodman (1876–1962, United States)
- Frances Goodrich (1890–1984, United States)
- Jacob Gordin (1853–1909, Ukraine/United States) in Russian and Yiddish
- Ruth Gordon (United States)
- Charles Gordone (1925–1995, United States)
- Maxim Gorky (1868–1936, Russia)
- Staffan Göthe (Sweden)
- Abraham Dov Ber Gottlober (1811–1899, Russia) in Hebrew and Yiddish
- Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766, Germany)
- Olympe de Gouges
- David Gow (born 1964, Canada, Quebec)
- Carlo Gozzi (1720–1806, Italy)
- Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801–1836, Germany)
- Ed Graczyk
- Ray Harrison Graham (born 1962)
- David Marshall Grant
- Harley Granville-Barker (1877–1946, England)
- Jörg Graser
- Günter Grass (born 1927, Germany)
- Jacinto Grau Delgado (1877–1958, Spain)
- Nicholas Stuart Gray (1922–1981, England)
- Simon Gray (1936–2008, England)
- Antonio Francesco Grazzini (1503–1584, Italy)
- Julien Green (1900–1998, France/United States) in French
- Paul Eliot Green (1894–1981, United States)
- Richard Greenberg
- Graham Greene (1904–1991) (England)
- Robert Greene (1558–1592, England)
- Elana Greenfield (United States)
- David Greenspan
- Lady Augusta Gregory (1852–1932) (Ireland)
- David Greig (Scotland)
- Jean-Baptiste Louis Gresset (1709–1777, France)
- Tom Griffin
- Trevor Griffiths
- Franz Grillparzer
- David Grimm (born 1965, United States)
- Rinne Groff (United States)
- Alan Gross
- Andreas Gryphius
- John Guare (born 1938, United States)
- Stephen Adly Guirgis (United States)
- Sacha Guitry
- Yesim Ozsoy Gulan
- Sachin Gupta
- Danai Gurira (United States)
- A.R. Gurney
- Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
H
- Peter Hacks (1928–2003)
- Ruth Hale (1908–2003)
- Adam de la Halle (c. 1237 – c. 1288, France)
- W. David Hancock (United States)
- Peter Handke (born 1942)
- William Hanley (born 1931)
- Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)
- Haseena Moin (born 1941, Pakistan)
- Ernst Hardt (1876–1947)
- David Hare (born 1947)
- Moss Hart (1904–1961)
- Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850–1885, India)
- Ray Harrison Graham (born 1962)
- Jonathan Harvey (born 1968)
- Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940)
- Jeffrey Hatcher
- Cleve Haubold (born 1930)
- Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946)
- Václav Havel (1936–2011) (Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic)
- Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1863)
- Peter Hedges (born 1962)
- Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
- Beth Henley (born 1952)
- George Herman (born 1928)
- Amy Herzog (United States)
- Nigel Heseltine (1916–1995)
- Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002)
- John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580)
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991)
- Prince Hoare
- Rolf Hochhuth
- Fritz Hochwaelder
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Darcy Hogan
- Ludvig Holberg
- Michael Hollinger
- Rupert Holmes
- CJ Hopkins
- Ödön von Horváth (Austria-Hungary)
- Robert Howard
- Sidney Howard
- Tina Howe
- Frank Howson
- John-Michael Howson
- Hroswitha of Gandersheim (Germany) in Latin
- Dusty Hughes
- Langston Hughes (United States)
- Victor Hugo (France)
- Maureen Hunter
- Samuel D. Hunter (United States)
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- Henrik Ibsen (Norway)
- William Inge
- Eugène Ionesco (Romania)
- David Ives
- Naomi Iizuka
J
- Luigi Jannuzzi
- Alfred Jarry (France)
- Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
- Douglas William Jerrold
- Zillur Rahman John (born 1959, Bangladesh/Canada)
- Terry Johnson
- Denis Johnston
- Arthur M. Jolly
- Ben Jonson (England)
- Rajiv Joseph
- James Joyce (Ireland)
K
- Georg Kaiser
- Kalidasa (India) in Sanskrit
- Sarah Kane
- Girish Karnad (India) in Kannada and English
- Lally Katz
- George S. Kaufman
- Moisés Kaufman
- John B. Keane
- Dennis Kelly
- Adrienne Kennedy
- Joseph Kesselring
- Lyle Kessler
- Stanley Keyes (United States)
- Thomas Kilroy
- Sidney Kingsley
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
- Václav Kliment Klicpera (Austria-Hungary) in Czech
- Kevin Kling (United States)
- Alexander Kluge
- Frederick Knott
- Oskar Kokoschka (Austria-Hungary, England, Switzerland) in German
- Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989, France)
- Harry Kondoleon
- Karl König
- Allan Stewart Konigsberg (United States)
- Bernard Kops
- August von Kotzebue
- Karl Kraus
- Helmut Krausser
- Franz Xaver Kroetz
- Nestor Kukolnik
- Hanif Kureishi
- Tony Kushner
- Kusumagraj
- Thomas Kyd (England)
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- Neil LaBute
- Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974) (Sweden)
- Jun Lana
- Jonathon Larson
- Stig Larsson (Sweden)
- Kirke La Shelle
- Else Lasker-Schüler
- Miklós László (1903–1973, Hungary/United States)
- Walter Learning (Canada)
- Kang Baek Lee (Korea)
- Robert Edwin Lee
- Sue Lenier
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Germany
- Reinhard Lettau
- Ira Levin
- Caleb Lewis
- Saunders Lewis
- Nell Leyshon
- David Lindsay-Abaire
- Romulus Linney
- Kenneth Lonergan
- Stephen Lowe
- Craig Lucas
- Clare Boothe Luce (United States)
- Charles Ludlam
- Ken Ludwig
- Otto Ludwig
M
- Ewan MacColl
- Robert McLellan (1907–1985) (Scotland)
- Michael MacLennan (born 1968) (Canada)
- Wendy MacLeod
- George Macropedius (1487–1558) (Netherlands)
- Ellen McLaughlin
- Monica Malek-Yonan
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- David Mamet (born 1947, United States)
- Henning Mankell (born 1948, Sweden)
- Klaus Mann
- Mona Mansour (United States)
- Frank Marcus (1928–1996, England)
- William Marchant (1923–1995, United States)
- Donald Margulies
- Pierre de Marivaux
- Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593, England)
- John Marston (1576–1634, England)
- Jane Martin, pseudonym of unknown playwright (United States)
- William Somerset Maugham
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) (Russia)
- Marius von Mayenburg
- Dick McBride (born 1928) (United States)
- Tarell Alvin McCraney (United States)
- Martin McDonagh (Ireland) (born 1970)
- Frank McGuinness
- Scott McMorrow
- Terrence McNally (born 1939)
- Scott McPherson (United States)
- Mark Medoff
- Charles L. Mee
- Leonard Melfi (United States)
- Menander (342–291 BC, Ancient Greece)
- David Mercer
- William Mew (1602 – c. 1669, England) in Latin
- George Middleton (1880–1967, United States)
- Thomas Middleton (born 1850) (England)
- Arthur Miller (1915–2005) (United States)
- Willy Millowitsch
- Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917, France)
- Meg Miroshnik (United States)
- Vilhelm Moberg (1898–1973, Sweden)
- Molière (1622–1673, France)
- Jose Zorrilla y Moral
- Félix Morisseau-Leroy, aka Moriso Lewa (1912–1998)
- Melvyn Morrow
- Dr. Narendra Mohan
- Agustus Montrose (1830–1899, England)
- John Mortimer (1923–2009, England)
- Tad Mosel
- Itamar Moses
- Dimitrios Mpogris (1890–1964, Greece)
- Sławomir Mrożek (Poland/France)
- Heiner Müller (Germany)
- Brighde Mullins (United States)
- Kaj Munk (Denmark)
- Jimmy Murphy
- Tom Murphy
- Tommy Murphy (Australia)
- Robert Musil (Austria)
N
- Richard Nelson
- Johann Nestroy
- Anthony Neilson
- Peter Nichols
- William Nicholson
- Lars Norén (Sweden)
- Marsha Norman
- Bruce Norris
- Lynn Nottage
- Alden Nowlan (1933–1983, Canada)
- János Nyíri (Hungary)
O
- Dan O'Brien
- Seán O'Casey (1880–1964, Ireland)
- Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953)
- Gerlinde Obermeier
- Clifford Odets (1906–1963, United States)
- Bolaji Odofin
- Han Ong
- Onyeka (England)
- Dael Orlandersmith (United States)
- Joe Orton (1933–1967, England)
- John Osborne (1929–1994, England)
- Peter Oswald
- Rochelle Owens
P
- Jean Palaprat
- Ralph Pape
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Angelo Parra
- John Patrick
- Robert Patrick
- Borislav Pekić (1930–1992, Serbia)
- Matthew Perry (United States)
- Tyler Perry (United States)
- Arthur Wing Pinero (England)
- Harold Pinter (1930–2008, England)
- Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936, Italy)
- Plautus (Ancient Rome)
- Ulrich Plenzdorf
- Sharon Pollock (Canada)
- Gordon Porterfield (United States)
- Reinaldo Povod
- Will Power
- Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868–1927) (Poland)
- J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) (England)
- Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) (Russia)
Q
- Abu Khalil Qabbani (1835–1902) (Syria)
- Philippe Quinault (1635–1688) (France)
R
- David Rabe
- Jean Racine (France)
- Ferdinand Raimund
- Mohan Rakesh (India)
- Jonathan Rand
- Adam Rapp
- Lutz Rathenow
- Terence Rattigan
- James Reaney
- Keith Reddin (United States)
- Yasmina Reza (France)
- Erwin Riess
- Arnold Ridley (1896–1984) (England)
- Philip Ridley
- Lawrence Riley
- Rainer Maria Rilke (Germany)
- José Rivera
- Lennox Robinson
- Rony Robinson
- Jack Rosenthal
- Kenneth G. Ross
- Edmond Rostand
- Friederike Roth
- David Rudkin
- Paul Rudnick
- John Ruganda (1941–2007, Uganda)
- Sarah Ruhl
- Willy Russell
S
Sa-Se
- Partap Sharma
- Hans Sachs
- Nelly Sachs
- Florencio Sánchez
- Colin Sargent
- William Saroyan (United States)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (France)
- Mark Scharf
- Georges Schehadé (1905–1989 – Lebanon)
- Robert Schenkkan (United States)
- Moritz Schiff
- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
- Guillermo Schmidhuber (born 1943, Mexico)
- Arno Schmidt
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Werner Schwab
- Robert Schenkkan
- Will Scott (1893–1964 – England)
- Sandra Seaton
- David Sedaris
- Seneca the Younger
- Ferhan Sensoy
- Bhisham Sahni
- Rick Shiomi
- Francesca Sanders
Sg-Sr
- Anthony Shaffer (England)
- Peter Shaffer, (born 1926, England)
- William Shakespeare, (1564–1616, England)
- Ntozake Shange
- John Patrick Shanley
- George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950, Ireland/England)
- Wallace Shawn (born 1943)
- Rob Shearman
- Edward Sheldon
- Jane Shepard (born 1958)
- Sam Shepard (born 1943)
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Ireland/England)
- Jonathan Marc Sherman
- R. C. Sherriff (England)
- Robert E. Sherwood
- George Shiels
- Christopher Shinn
- Del Shores
- Larry Shue
- Nicky Silver
- Lazarre Seymour Simckes (born 1937)
- Neil Simon
- Eric Simonson (born 1960)
- Bernard Slade
- Roy Smiles
- Anna Deavere Smith
- Charles Smith
- Evan Smith
- Sophocles (Ancient Greece)
- Aaron Sorkin
- Wole Soyinka (born 1934, Nigeria)
- Ron Sparks
- Biljana Srbljanović
St-Sz
- Shelagh Stephenson
- Polly Stenham
- Tom Stoppard (England)
- David Storey (England)
- August Stramm
- Botho Strauß
- August Strindberg (Sweden)
- Sara Stridsberg (Sweden)
- Kelly Stuart (United States)
- Preston Sturges
- Patrick Süskind
- Alfred Sutro
- Caridad Svich
- Robin Swados
- Jeffrey Sweet
- John Millington Synge (Ireland)
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- George Tabori (1914–2007, Hungary/England/United States/Germany) in English and German
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941, India) in English
- Habib Tanvir (1923–2009, India) in Urdu
- Jean Tardieu
- Henry Taylor
- Bernard J. Taylor
- Samuel Taylor
- Telecleides (fl. 440s – 440s BC, Ancient Greece)
- Vijay Tendulkar (India)
- Terence (c. 195/185 – c. 159 BC, Ancient Rome)
- Tian Han (1898–1968, China)
- Ernest Thompson (born 1949, United States)
- Judith Thompson
- Ludwig Tieck
- Stephen Tobolowsky (United States)
- Ernst Toller
- Francis Tolson (died 1745–46)
- Colorado Tolston, pseudonym of T. James Belich (born 1976, United States)
- Bartolomé de Torres Naharro
- Miles Tredinnick
- Kurt Tucholsky
U
- Nicholas Udall
- Alfred Uhry
- Rodolfo Usigli
- Utpal Dutta, actor and director (India)
V
W
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner
- Stephen Wakelam
- Derek Walcott
- Craig Walker
- George F. Walker
- Naomi Wallace
- Martin Walser
- Robert Walser
- Agnes Walsh
- Saadallah Wannous, (Syria, 1941–1997)
- Anne Washburn (United States)
- Dale Wasserman
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006, United States)
- Keith Waterhouse
- John Webster (1580 – c. 1634, England)
- Frank Wedekind
- Peter Weiss
- Franz Werfel
- Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Arnold Wesker (England)
- Peter Whelan
- John Whiting
- Adolf von Wilbrandt
- Oscar Wilde (Ireland)
- Thornton Wilder (United States)
- Adolfo Wilhelmy (Mexico)
- Emlyn Williams (Wales)
- Tennessee Williams (United States)
- David Williamson (born 1942, Australia)
- August Wilson (United States)
- Laurence Wilson (born 1970, England)
- Lanford Wilson (United States)
- Tracey Scott Wilson (United States)
- Nicholas Wright (born 1940, United Kingdom)
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz aka Witkacy (1885–1939, Poland)
- William Wycherley (England)
- Laurence Mark Wythe
- Charles Wood
- Linda Woolverton
Y
- William Butler Yeats (1865–1939, Ireland)
- Benjamin Yeoh (born 1978, England)
- Chay Yew
Z
- Gabriela Zapolska (1860–1921, Poland)
- Birhanu Zerihun (1933/4 – 1987, Ethiopia)
- 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)
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)
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