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Person who writes plays
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended
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End-to-end testing framework
Playwright is an open-source automation library for browser testing and web scraping developed by Microsoft and launched on 31 January 2020, which has
Playwright_(software)
Scottish playwright and artist (1940–2023)
John Patrick Byrne (6 January 1940 – 30 November 2023) was a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, artist and designer. He wrote The Slab Boys Trilogy, plays
John_Byrne_(playwright)
British playwright and television writer
James Graham OBE FRSL (born 8 July 1982) is a British playwright and screenwriter. His work has been staged throughout the UK and internationally, at theatres
James_Graham_(playwright)
American dramatist (1930–2011)
Zachariah Linney IV (September 21, 1930 – January 15, 2011) was an American playwright and novelist. Linney was born in Philadelphia, the son of Maitland (née
Romulus_Linney_(playwright)
American actor and playwright (1939–2001)
John Anthony Miller Jr.; April 22, 1939 – May 13, 2001) was an American playwright and actor. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for
Jason_Miller_(playwright)
American playwright (1911–1983)
American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century
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English playwright and director (born 1980)
Duncan Macmillan (born 1980) is an English playwright and director. He is best known for his plays Lungs, People, Places and Things, Every Brilliant Thing
Duncan_Macmillan_(playwright)
American writer and playwright (born 1959)
James Still (born May 31, 1959) is an American writer and playwright. Still grew up in a small town in Kansas, and graduated from the University of Kansas
James_Still_(playwright)
1911 silent short film
The Playwright is a 1911 American silent short drama film starring Francis X. Bushman. It was produced at the Essanay Studios, Chicago and released by
The_Playwright
American playwright and screenwriter (born 1968)
Jason Keller (born December 12, 1968) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has also been credited under the anagram pen name of Arnell Jesko
Jason_Keller_(playwright)
British playwright and artistic director
Christine Claire Bush (born 3 July 1986) is an Olivier Award Winning British playwright, bookwriter and artistic director. Bush was born in Sheffield, England
Chris_Bush_(playwright)
American dramatist
Peter Ackerman is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, television writer, television producer, and author. Peter Ackerman began his varied career
Peter_Ackerman_(playwright)
Scottish playwright (born 1980)
Craig Jackson (born 1980), also known as D. C. Jackson, is a Scottish playwright. His first full-length play The Wall premiered at the Tron Theatre in
Daniel_Jackson_(playwright)
British TV anthology series (1958–1959)
Television Playwright is a British television anthology series which aired from 1958 to 1959 on the BBC. Of the 29 episodes, only three are known to survive
Television_Playwright
English playwright and theatre director (born 1965)
Edward Thomas Kemp (born 9 October 1965) is an English playwright and theatre director. He was Director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from
Edward_Kemp_(playwright)
American playwright and educator (born 1966)
David Robson (born September 11, 1966) is an American playwright, writer, and educator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has written more than thirty
David_Robson_(playwright)
English playwright (1579–1625)
(December 1579 – August 1625) was an English playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific
John_Fletcher_(playwright)
Northern Irish-born playwright and actor
David Ireland (born 1976 or 1977) is a Northern Irish-born playwright and actor, known for his award-winning plays Cyprus Avenue and Ulster American. David
David_Ireland_(playwright)
English playwright, actor, and screenwriter (1928–2021)
Charles Raymond Dyer (7 July 1928 – 23 January 2021) was an English playwright, actor and screenwriter. His first appearance was in 1948, at the Whitehall
Charles_Dyer_(playwright)
Australian playwright, screenwriter, and director
Matt Cameron is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and director. Matt Cameron was born in Melbourne.[citation needed] Mr Melancholy (1995) was produced
Matt_Cameron_(playwright)
British playwright and screenwriter (born 1978)
Jack Thorne (born 6 December 1978) is a British playwright, screenwriter, and producer. Thorne is best known for writing the stage play Harry Potter and
Jack_Thorne
English playwright (1764–1838)
Thomas Morton (1764 – 28 March 1838) was an English playwright. Morton was born in the city of Durham. He was the youngest son of John and Grace Morton
Thomas_Morton_(playwright)
French theatre director
Marc Goldberg is a French theatre director, playwright, actor, and translator. Goldberg studied Philosophy before joining the Compagnie des Théâtrophages
Marc_Goldberg_(playwright)
American playwright (1937–2023)
23, 2023) was an American playwright, poet, lyricist, short story writer, and novelist. Patrick was a prolific playwright, with more than 300 productions
Robert_Patrick_(playwright)
English playwright (born 1947)
Sir David Hare FRSL (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and director. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has received numerous
David_Hare_(playwright)
16th-century English playwright
William Haughton (died 1605) was an English playwright in the age of English Renaissance theatre. Most of what little biographical information there is
William_Haughton_(playwright)
French playwright (1923–2003)
Marc Camoletti (16 November 1923 – 18 July 2003) was a French playwright best known for the farce Boeing-Boeing. Camoletti was born a French citizen in
Marc_Camoletti_(playwright)
American playwright and performer
Monica Palacios is a Chicana lesbian American playwright and performer, specialising in Chicana, queer, feminist, and lesbian themes. She has charted the
Monica_Palacios_(playwright)
British playwright
Stephen Brown is best known as a playwright, but has also been a publisher and writer. Brown was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, and the University
Stephen_Brown_(playwright)
British playwright
Ed Harris is a playwright, radio dramatist, comedy writer, librettist, poet and performer based in Brighton, England. Harris grew up in West London and
Ed_Harris_(playwright)
This is a list of British playwrights. Thomas Kyd Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare Jim Allen John Arden Alan Ayckbourn John Roman Baker Howard
List_of_British_playwrights
British playwright and actor
Henry William Lewis (born 21 November 1988) is a British actor and playwright. He co-founded British comedy theatre company Mischief, and co-wrote and
Henry_Lewis_(playwright)
Irish Playwright
Patricia O'Connor (4 December 1905 – 2 February 1983) was an Irish playwright, novelist and teacher. Patricia O'Connor was born Henrietta Norah O'Connor
Patricia O'Connor (playwright)
Patricia_O'Connor_(playwright)
British literary critic
Frances B. Gray is a literary critic and playwright and former Reader in Drama at the University of Sheffield. She previously taught at Allegheny College
Frances_Gray_(playwright)
English playwright (1941–2020)
Josephine O'Malley (19 March 1941 – 19 September 2020) was an English playwright of Irish-Lithuanian descent. In the 1960s Mary O'Malley studied drama
Mary_O'Malley_(playwright)
American playwright and translator (born 1974)
Aya Ogawa (born 1974) is an American playwright, translator, stage director and actor based in Brooklyn, New York City. They are a translator of plays
Aya_Ogawa_(playwright)
Australian actor, playwright and theatre director
Tim McGarry is an Australian actor, playwright, and theatre director. McGarry was born in the inner Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst and for some time he
Tim McGarry (Australian actor/playwright)
Tim_McGarry_(Australian_actor/playwright)
American playwright and actor (1943–2017)
Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned
Sam_Shepard
American playwright
Paul Armstrong (April 25, 1869 – August 30, 1915) was an American playwright, whose melodramas provided thrills and comedy to audiences in the first fifteen
Paul_Armstrong_(playwright)
Irish-Canadian writer and playwright (1888–1980)
February 1888, Belfast – 1 December 1980, Toronto) was an Irish Canadian playwright and broadcaster. He graduated from the University of Manchester. He taught
John_Coulter_(playwright)
South African playwright and performer (born 1954)
Frederick Buckland (born 4 February 1954) is a South African award-winning playwright, performer, film director, mime, and academic. Born and schooled in Zimbabwe
Andrew_Buckland_(playwright)
Gillot was a 17th/18th-century French theatre manager and playwright about whom we have no information except that he wrote farces and puppets plays for
Gillot_(playwright)
French dramaturge
Triboulet (fl. 1447–1479) was a jester and comedy playwright for René of Anjou. There have been at least three Triboulets, as homonymy was widespread among
Triboulet_(playwright)
British playwright and writer (born 1948)
David Edgar (born 26 February 1948) is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio
David_Edgar_(playwright)
American playwright (born 1973)
Peter Morris (born 9 November 1973) is an American playwright, television writer and critic, best known for his work in British theatre. Morris was born
Peter_Morris_(playwright)
American actor (born 1976)
Hamish Linklater (born July 7, 1976) is an American actor and playwright. He is known for playing Matthew Kimble in The New Adventures of Old Christine
Hamish_Linklater
English playwright and cleric
Wilmot (c. 1550 – by 1608) was a Church of England clergyman, known as a playwright. Wilmot entered the Inner Temple by 1567. He matriculated as a sizar,
Robert_Wilmot_(playwright)
English playwright (1794–1863)
Charles Dance (1794–1863) was an English playwright active in the early 19th century. Dance was the son of George Dance, architect. During thirty years
Charles_Dance_(playwright)
American dramatist (1922–2008)
"Bob" Fisher (September 21, 1922 – September 19, 2008) was an American playwright, and television and film screenwriter mostly of situational comedy. One
Robert_Fisher_(playwright)
English playwright and politician
Sir Robert Howard (January 1626 – 3 September 1698) was an English playwright and politician. He fought for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War
Robert_Howard_(playwright)
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English
William_Shakespeare
Irish writer, playwright and screenwriter
Brenda Murphy is an Irish playwright. Brenda Murphy was born in west Belfast in 1954. She was the eldest of 10 siblings but never knew her father. He was
Brenda_Murphy_(playwright)
Vietnamese Canadian playwright (born 1997)
Nam Nguyen (born August 1997) is a Vietnamese Canadian actor, playwright, and Jeopardy! champion. He has written numerous plays and musicals, most notably
Nam_Nguyen_(playwright)
American playwright (born 1951)
Steppling (born June 18, 1951 in Burbank, California) is an American playwright, screenwriter and teacher. Steppling's plays have been produced in the
John_Steppling_(playwright)
Welsh playwright (born 1972)
Gary Owen (born 1972) is a Welsh playwright, and winner of the 2003 Meyer-Whitworth Award for new writing for the theatre. Owen attended Cambridge University
Gary_Owen_(playwright)
American playwright, poet, essayist, librettist
Dan O’Brien (born 1974) is an American playwright, poet, memoirist, essayist, and librettist. His most prominent works have been the play The Body of an
Dan_O'Brien_(playwright)
American dramatist
Saleem (Saleem Azzouqa) is a Palestinian-American gay Muslim playwright, actor, DJ, and dancer. Saleem was born and raised in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, finished
Saleem_(playwright)
American playwright (born 1970)
Brent Rosen (born September 23, 1970) is an American theater director and playwright. Rosen attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed
Eric_Rosen_(playwright)
American playwright, lyricist, editor, journalist, screenwriter, author and talent agent
Paul West (26 January 1871 – 30 October 1918) was an American playwright, lyricist, newspaper editor, journalist, screenwriter, author, and talent agent
Paul_West_(playwright)
British actor and writer (born 1980)
Simon Woods (born 7 January 1980) is an English actor and playwright best known for his role as Octavian in Season 2 of the British-American television
Simon_Woods
Canadian playwright
OC (born February 14, 1949) is a Canadian playwright, considered to be Canada's most produced playwright. Foster has frequently been referred to as Canada's
Norm_Foster_(playwright)
Alan Gilmour is a playwright and librettist. Born in Edinburgh and raised in Hamilton, Scotland, he studied, lived and worked in London before moving to
Alan_Gilmour_(playwright)
Scottish playwright and jazz pianist
the underground press in London in the 1960's. He was also a prominent playwright and jazz pianist. McGrath was born in Rutherglen, Glasgow in October 1940
Tom_McGrath_(playwright)
French chansonnier, goguettier, publisher, writer (1828–1888)
Vincent (Fontainebleau, 15 April 1828 – 16 August 1888) was a French playwright, chansonnier, goguettier, novelist, journalist and publisher. Coming from
Charles_Vincent_(playwright)
American playwright (born 1983)
Joshua Harmon (born 1983) is a New York City-based playwright, whose works include Bad Jews and Significant Other, both produced Off-Broadway by Roundabout
Joshua_Harmon_(playwright)
American playwright
Leslie Lee (1930 – January 20, 2014) was an American playwright, director and professor of playwriting and screenwriting. Leslie Lee grew up in West Conshohocken
Leslie_Lee_(playwright)
French playwright
Marie-Jules-Émile Moreau (8 December 1852 – 27 December 1922), was a French playwright and librettist. Aged 17 he volunteered for the Franco-Prussian War in
Émile_Moreau_(playwright)
British playwright, screenwriter (active 1996-)
Michael Wynne is an Olivier Award winning playwright and screenwriter. Wynne was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside. He attended St Peter's Primary School
Michael_Wynne_(playwright)
English playwright (1927–2019)
Peter Richard Nichols (31 July 1927 – 7 September 2019) was an English playwright, screenwriter, director and journalist. Born in Bristol, he was educated
Peter_Nichols_(playwright)
English playwright
John Poole (1786–1872), an English playwright, was one of the earliest and best known 19th century playwrights of the comic drama, the farce. Paul Pry
John_Poole_(playwright)
American dramatist
February 3, 1932 – April 5, 1997) was an American playwright. He was the first American Playwright to receive a world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s
Richard_Stockton_(playwright)
American playwright (1930–2018)
Irene Fornés (May 14, 1930 – October 30, 2018) was a Cuban and American playwright, director, and teacher. She was an important figure in the development
María_Irene_Fornés
French poet, playwright and printer
(1723 in Paris – March 1805 in Alençon) was an 18th-century French poet, playwright and printer. Both an author, typographer, or bookbinder, Castaing who
Jean_Castaing_(playwright)
Puerto Rican playwright and screenwriter
José Rivera (born March 24, 1955) is a playwright and the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award for the movie The Motorcycle
José_Rivera_(playwright)
British actor and playwright
Henry Leslie (6 January 1830 – 4 March 1881) was a British actor and playwright active in the mid nineteenth century. Leslie was born in Walsoken, a village
Henry_Leslie_(playwright)
American playwright
Sarah Burgess is an American playwright and screenwriter whose works include Dry Powder, Kings, and the anthology true crime television series American
Sarah_Burgess_(playwright)
Chinese playwright and screenwriter
Hsia Yen; 30 October 1900 – 6 February 1995) was a left-lean Chinese playwright and screenwriter, and the People's Republic of China's Deputy Minister
Xia_Yan_(playwright)
Irish writer
Maolmhuaidh; born May 25, 1961) also known as Honour Kane, is an Irish-American playwright and librettist. Known for her “signature acrobatic language” and “kaleidoscopic
Honor_Molloy
American playwright (born 1984)
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (born 1984) is an American playwright. His play Purpose won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for which his works Gloria and Everybody
Branden_Jacobs-Jenkins
British playwright (born 1983)
David Byrne (b. 1983 in Stevenage) is a British playwright and formerly the artistic director of the New Diorama Theatre in Camden, London, and currently
David_Byrne_(playwright)
English playwright and lawyer (1626–1696)
John Wilson (1626–1696) was an English playwright and lawyer. He was son of Aaron Wilson, a royalist divine, and was born in London in 1626. He matriculated
John_Wilson_(playwright)
American actor, playwright, and producer
Edward Miller is an American actor, playwright, and producer. Several of his original plays have been produced off-Broadway, and he has appeared in a number
Edward_Miller_(playwright)
American playwright
Joseph Bradford (1843–1886) was an American playwright who most famously helped write a landmark production, Out of Bondage, the first African American
Joseph_Bradford_(playwright)
English playwright (1926–1999)
James Allen (7 October 1926 – 24 June 1999) was an English socialist playwright, best known for his collaborations with Ken Loach. Allen was born in the
Jim_Allen_(playwright)
British playwright (1918–1966)
Stannus Cooper, OBE (9 August 1918 – 2 December 1966) was an Anglo-Irish playwright and prolific radio dramatist, writing over sixty scripts for BBC Radio
Giles_Cooper_(playwright)
English screenwriter, actor, playwright, and author
Jonathan Paul Harvey (born 13 June 1968) is an English screenwriter, actor, playwright and author. Harvey was born in Liverpool, Lancashire in 1968 to Maureen
Jonathan_Harvey_(playwright)
British playwright and screenwriter
Rob Young is a British playwright, screenwriter, and artist. His film credits include Miranda (2002). Young was born in North East England. Miranda (2002)
Rob_Young_(playwright)
Welsh playwright
Owen Thomas (born 1976) is a playwright, originally from Mid Wales who is now living and working in Cardiff. His work has been performed in venues around
Owen_Thomas_(playwright)
American playwright, actress and early screenwriter (1882–1951)
Margaret Mayo, born Lillian Elizabeth Slatten, was an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter. She was raised on a farm near Brownsville, Illinois
Margaret_Mayo_(playwright)
American dramatist
1894, Muskego, Wisconsin – May 28, 1977, New York City) was an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, director and producer. His 1927 Broadway play
John_McGowan_(playwright)
New Zealand playwright
Dave Armstrong (born 1961) is a New Zealand playwright, screenwriter, trumpet player and columnist for The Dominion Post. His work has featured on stage
Dave_Armstrong_(playwright)
Canadian writer (1939–2010)
Benson French, OC (January 18, 1939 – December 5, 2010) was a Canadian playwright, most noted for his "Mercer Plays" series of Leaving Home, Of the Fields
David_French_(playwright)
British playwright, filmmaker and poet
Simon Jackson is a British playwright, filmmaker and poet, born in Manchester, UK. His plays deal with themes of redemptive love, the trauma of creation
Simon_Jackson_(playwright)
English theatre director and playwright
(born 1955 in Dulwich, South London) is an English theatre director and playwright. He founded and directed two professional companies in British fringe
Jonathan Holloway (playwright)
Jonathan_Holloway_(playwright)
British playwright and filmmaker (1954–2008)
Anthony Minghella (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British playwright and filmmaker. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film
Anthony_Minghella
British playwright and television dramatist
1959) is a British playwright and television dramatist. In 1982 he won the London Critics' Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for The Lucky Ones
Tony_Marchant_(playwright)
British screenwriter (1931–1998)
Alan Beverley Cross (13 April 1931 – 20 March 1998) was an English playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Born in London into a theatrical family, and
Beverley_Cross
American playwright (1961–2020)
Paul Lucas was an American playwright and producer based in New York City. He was best known for his play, Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women, which won
Paul_Lucas_(playwright)
Scottish playwright (born 1943)
Sue Glover (born 1943, Edinburgh) is a Scottish playwright who has authored fictional works and adaptations for theater, radio and television. In the 1970s
Sue_Glover_(playwright)
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French (western) : from a pet form of Martin 1.English : habitational name from Martineau in France. The name was also taken to England by Huguenot refugees in the 17th century (see below).Harriet Martineau (1802–76), the English writer, was the daughter of a Norwich manufacturer. She was descended from a family of French Huguenots who owned land around Poitou and Touraine in the 15th century. They included a number of surgeons in the 17th century. In the 19th century a branch of the family was firmly established in Birmingham, England; others went to North America.
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n.
A maker or adapter of plays.
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A playwright.
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A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright.