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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)
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)
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
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Italian playwright (born 1980)
Italian playwright, director, filmmaker, translator and actor. Trained as an actor since he was a teenager, Calvani made his debut as a playwright in 2002
Marco_Calvani
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 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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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 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)
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 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)
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 dramatist
Peter Ackerman is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, television writer, television producer, and author. Peter Ackerman began his varied career
Peter_Ackerman_(playwright)
English playwright and theatre director (born 1980)
Duncan Macmillan (born 1980) is an English playwright and theatre director. He is best known for his plays Lungs, People, Places and Things, Every Brilliant
Duncan_Macmillan_(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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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, 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)
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)
American dramatist (born 1954)
Jeff Barker (born 1954) is an American playwright and professor. His plays include Kin, Unspoken for Time, and September Bears. He is an advocate for the
Jeff_Barker_(playwright)
American playwright (1893–1933)
Patrick Kearney (October 9, 1893 – March 28, 1933) was an American playwright. Patrick Kearney was born in Columbus, Ohio on October 9, 1893. He started
Patrick_Kearney_(playwright)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Australian playwright (1908–1973)
James Crawford (6 February 1908 – 11 November 1973) was an Australian playwright and commentator who wrote political plays, feature articles for newspapers
Jim_Crawford_(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)
Australian writer
Sean Riley is an Australian playwright. Riley was born in 1967 in Burnie, Tasmania. In December 1991 he directed a production of his own play, Eat Me,
Sean_Riley_(playwright)
American actor (1925–2003)
1925 – June 2, 2003) was an American actor, documentary filmmaker and playwright. Cusack was born Richard John Cusack on August 29, 1925, in New York City
Dick_Cusack
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)
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)
English playwright, poet, librettist, and minister
James Miller (1704–1744) was an English playwright, poet, librettist, and minister. Miller was born in Bridport, Dorset on 11 August 1704, the son of a
James_Miller_(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)
American playwright and actor (1787–1828)
American playwright and actor. Hutton was born on February 25, 1878, in Philadelphia, and was employed as a schoolmaster while becoming a playwright. He also
Joseph_Hutton_(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 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 dramatist
Preston Jones (April 7, 1936 – September 19, 1979) was an American playwright best known for A Texas Trilogy, a set of three plays. Jones was born in Albuquerque
Preston_Jones_(playwright)
American dramatist
Heather McDonald (born 1959) is an American playwright, director, librettist, and professor. Mcdonald is originally a Canadian citizen. She graduated from
Heather_McDonald_(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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
American playwright (1954–2009)
Susan Elaine Hussey (June 1, 1954 – February 19, 2009) was an American playwright and co-founder of the Gorilla Theatre performing arts venue in Tampa,
Susan_Hussey_(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)
Canadian actor and playwright
Damien Atkins is a Canadian actor and playwright. Born in Australia and raised in St. Albert, Alberta, Atkins graduated from the musical theatre program
Damien_Atkins
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)
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)
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)
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)
Australian playwright
Timothy Daly is an Australian playwright, dramaturg, and teacher, whose plays have won awards and been produced around the world since 1982. Daly graduated
Timothy_Daly_(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)
Canadian playwright
English-born Canadian professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland and playwright known for his plays set in Newfoundland. Cook was born in Fulham, London
Michael_Cook_(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)
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)
Canadian playwright and filmmaker
British Columbia) is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker. After moving to Toronto in 1973, Sally Clark served as playwright/dramaturge for Theatre Passe
Sally_Clark_(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, 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)
New Zealand playwright
1992) was the first New Zealand professional playwright. He was one of the first New Zealand playwrights to have plays produced abroad since Merton Hodge
Robert_Lord_(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
British playwright (1934–2024)
Donald Edward Webb (10 October 1934 – 26 May 2024) was a British playwright and scriptwriter. He wrote for British television and the West End and later
Don_Webb_(playwright)
American playwright and screenwriter (born 1978)
Kenneth Lin (born 1978) is an American playwright and screenwriter. Lin was born in the Bronx, New York to parents of Chinese descent and grew up on Long
Kenneth_Lin_(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)
Welsh playwright and television writer
Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright and television writer. Has written plays for theatres throughout the United Kingdom, including Paines Plough and National
Alan_Harris_(playwright)
American-born Canadian playwright (1945–2019)
(October 15, 1945 – November 11, 2019) was an American-born Canadian playwright. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Murrell moved to Alberta after graduating from
John_Murrell_(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
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)
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)
English-born playwright, screenwriter, actor and director (1894–1960)
Bennett (12 January 1894 – 4 January 1960) was an English-born actor, playwright, screenwriter, director and sportsman who wrote the screenplay for White
Leon_Gordon_(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, 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)
who initially worked as a medical doctor, then an actor and finally a playwright. Pierre-François Camus took the surname of his mother, Villemer, which
Merville_(playwright)
American dramatist
Bruce Norris (born May 16, 1960) is an American character actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His play Clybourne
Bruce_Norris_(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
American dramatist
John Willard (November 28, 1885 – August 30, 1942) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Willard's most famous work is The Cat and the Canary
John_Willard_(playwright)
Norwegian playwright
Alfred Næss (30 November 1927 – 30 November 1997) was a Norwegian playwright and songwriter for revue stages in Oslo, in particular for Chat Noir and the
Alfred_Næss_(playwright)
American playwright
Thomas Bradshaw is an American playwright whose work has been extensively reviewed. He is the recipient of PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for
Thomas_Bradshaw_(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)
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, 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)
Richard Vincent (born 3 September 1969) is an English actor, playwright, theatre director and screenwriter from Croydon in London. Vincent trained as an
Richard_Vincent_(playwright)
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)
Bangladeshi writer, playwright, and educationist
Khalil (1 January 1916 – 19 September 1974) was a Bangladeshi writer, playwright and eminent educationist. He received the Bangla Academy Literary Award
Ibrahim_Khalil_(playwright)
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)
American playwright and writer (1928–2019)
George Adam Herman Jr. (April 12, 1928 – June 22, 2019) was an American playwright and writer. George Adam Herman Jr. was born in Norfolk, Virginia on April
George_Herman_(playwright)
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)
British playwright (20th-21st century)
Lisa Evans is a British playwright and has been a Royal Literary Fund fellow at several universities. She trained as an actor at Guildhall School of Music
Lisa_Evans_(playwright)
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English literary name, created by playwright Colley Cibber in the 17th century, derived from Latin amanda, AMANDA means "lovable."
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Another name of Ali, The generous, The giving
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Portuguese form of Latin Monica, possibly MÔNICA means "advise, counsel."
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Brave.
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Hungarian form of Latin Cæcilia, CILI means "blind."Â
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Abundance.
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Beautiful woman, Goddess Parvati
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A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright.
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A playwright.
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A maker or adapter of plays.