List of playwrights from the United States
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This is a list of playwrights from the United States.
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[edit] 18th century
[edit] 19th century
- Benjamin A. Baker
- Nathaniel H. Bannister
- James Nelson Barker
- Sidney Cole Bateman
- David Belasco
- Robert Montgomery Bird
- George Henry Boker
- Dion Boucicault
- John Brougham
- Oliver Bell Bunce
- George Washington Parke Custis
- Augustin Daly
- Henry C. DeMille
- Elizabeth F. Ellet
- Clyde Fitch
- William Gillette
- Archibald C. Gunter
- Edward Harrigan
- Bret Harte
- James A. Herne
- Bronson Howard
- William Dean Howells
- Washington Irving
- Joseph S. Jones
- David D. Lloyd
- Cornelius A. Logan
- Steele MacKaye
- Cornelius Mathews
- James J. McCloskey
- Joaquin Miller
- Anna Cora Mowatt
- Frank Murdock
- John Howard Payne
- James Pilgrim
- Epes Sargent
- Richard Penn Smith
- John Augustus Stone
- Augustus Thomas
- Denman Thompson
- Edward G.P. Wilkins
- Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Samuel Woodworth
[edit] 20th century
- Edward Albee
- Franco Ambriz
- Jane Anderson
- Jacob M. Appel
- Todd Bash
- Douglas Carter Beane
- Stephen Belber
- Leo Birinski
- Eric Bogosian
- Miranda Brennan
- Murray Burnett
- Percy Jewett Burrell
- Sheila Callaghan
- Linda Chambers
- Constance Congdon
- Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
- Nilo Cruz
- Steven Dietz
- Tom Donaghy
- Christopher Durang
- T. S. Eliot
- Will Eno
- Don Evans
- Charles Evered
- Bob Jude Ferrante
- Horton Foote
- Paul Foster
- D. B. Gilles
- Andrew Glaze
- Ain Gordon
- Richard Greenberg
- David Grimm
- Jason Grote
- Rinne Groff
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
- Rob Handel
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Moss Hart
- Jeffrey Hatcher
- Lillian Hellman
- Glenn Hergenhahn
- George Herman
- Michael Hollinger
- Tina Howe
- Langston Hughes
- David Henry Hwang
- William Inge
- Len Jenkin
- Arthur M. Jolly
- George S. Kaufman
- Adrienne Kennedy
- Stanley Keyes
- Elizabeth Kinman
- Harry Kondoleon
- Tony Kushner
- Neil LaBute
- Warren Leight
- David Lindsay-Abaire
- Romulus Linney
- Craig Lucas
- Archibald MacLeish
- David Mamet
- Donald Margulies
- Charles L. Mee
- Arthur Miller
- Ellen McLaughlin
- Scott McMorrow
- Terrence McNally
- Leonard Melfi
- Langdon Mitchell
- Itamar Moses
- Sean Muir
- Ken Munch
- Josefina Niggli
- Marsha Norman
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Eugene O'Neill
- Eric Overmyer
- Rochelle Owens
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Gordon Porterfield
- Craig Pospisil
- Sarah Ruhl
- Isabella Russell-Ides
- Ayn Rand
- Jonathan Rand
- Ronald Ribman
- William H. Rinn
- Robert Rome
- Robert Schenkkan
- John Schneider
- John Patrick Shanley
- Wallace Shawn
- Jane Shepard
- Sam Shepard
- Robert B. Sherman
- Larry Shue
- Nicky Silver
- Neil Simon
- Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
- Jeffrey Stanley
- Donald Ogden Stewart
- Aoise Stratford
- Adam Szymkowicz
- Lucy Thurber
- Sophie Treadwell
- Rodolfo Usigli
- Paula Vogel
- John Walch
- Ian Walker
- Naomi Wallace
- Eugene Walter
- Wendy Wasserstein
- George Weller
- Mac Wellman
- Thornton Wilder
- Tennessee Williams
- Beau Willimon
- August Wilson
- Lanford Wilson
- David Wiltse
- Lee Wochner
- George C. Wolfe
- John Yearley
- Mary Zimmerman
[edit] See also
[edit] Further reading
- Meserve, Walter J. An Outline History of American Drama, 2nd ed., New York: Feebback Theatrebooks/Prospero Press, 1994.
