List of playwrights
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List of notable playwrights.
See also Literature; Drama; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth; Lists of authors
A
Ab-Al
- George Abbott (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
- José Agustín
- Leopold Ahlsen (born 1927) (Germany)
- Ilse Aichinger
- 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)
- Alejandro Rodriguez Alvarez {redirect to Alejandro Casona}
- Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero [Serafin (1871-1938) and Joaquin (1873-1944)] (Spain)
- Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik
- Angelo Ambrogini {redirect to Angelo Poliziano}
- Denis Amiel (1884-1977) (France)
An-As
- Jane Anderson
- Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959) (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)
- 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
- Marcel Ayme (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/England)
- Jeff Baron
- 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
- Clifford Bax (1886-1962) (England)
- Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) (France)
- Francis Beaumont (1584/85-1616) (England)
- 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
- Jean Bellemère {redirect to Jean Sarment}
- Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez (1587-1650) (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)
- August Blanche
- Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) (United States)
- Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880-1921) (Russia)
Bo-By
- Augusto Boal
- Jean Bodel (died ca. 1210) (France)
- 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 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)
- 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 Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) (England)
- Michelangelo Buonarotti, the Younger (1568-1642) (Italy)
- Waldfried Burggraf {redirect to Friedrich Forster}
- John Burkhardt
- Enrico Annibale Butti (1868-1912) (Italy)
- George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) (England)
- Henry James Byron
C
- Gaston de Caillavet (1869-1915) (France)
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) (Spain)
- Daniel Call
- Joaquín Calvo-Sotelo (1905-1993) (Spain)
- Marc Camoletti
- Bartley Campbell
- David Campton (born 1924) (England)
- Albert Camus (1913-1960) (France)
- 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
- 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
- David W. Christner
- Caryl Churchill
- Colley Cibber (1671-1757) (England)
- Giovanni Battista Cini (died 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)
- George Colman the Elder (1732-1794) (England)
- John Colton (1889-1946) (United States/England)
- Padraic Colum (1881-1972) (Ireland/United States)
- 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)
- 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*
- 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
- Ossie Davis (1917-2005) (United States)
- Owen Davis (1874-1956) (United States)
- Roxann Dawson
- 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)
- Sugathapala de Silva
- Jean Desmaretz de Saint-Sorlin (1595-1676) (France)
- Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680-1754) (France)
- Jacques Deval (1894-1972) (France)
- Juan Bautista Diamante (1625-1687) (Spain)
- Joaquín Dicenta y Benedicto (1863-1917) (Spain)
- Denis Diderot (1713-1784) (France)
- Steven Dietz
- Salvatore Di Giacomo (1860-1934) (Italy)
- 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)
- Michael Drayton (1563-1631) (England)
- 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)
- 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 (1677/78-1707) (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)
- Paolo Ferrari (1822-1889) (Italy)
- Leo Ferrero (1903-1933) (Italy)
- Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958) (Germany)
- Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) (France)
- Nathaniel Field
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) (England)
- Joseph Fields (1895-1966) (United States)
- Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) (United States)
- George Fitzmaurice (1877-1963) (Ireland)
- Gustave Flaubert
- Martin Flavin (1883-1967) (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)
- Rick Fonté
- Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (1744/45-1792) (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)
- Bruno Frank (1887-1945) (Germany)
- Leonhard Frank (1882-1961) (Germany/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 Fuehmann
- Athol Fugard
- 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)
- 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
- Alice Gerstenberg
- Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (1737-1823) (Germany)
- Landen Gessell
- Elke Geurts (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
- 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)
- Olympe de Gouges
- Christian Dietrich Grabbe
- Ed Graczyk
- David Marshall Grant
- Marsha L. Grant
- Harley Granville Barker
- Jörg Graser
- Günter Grass
- Simon Gray
- Richard Greenberg
- Lady Gregory
- Tom Griffin
- Trevor Griffiths
- Franz Grillparzer
- Alan Gross
- Jim Grover
- Andreas Gryphius
- Sacha Guitry
- A.R. Gurney
- Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
H
- Peter Hacks
- Max Halbe
- Ruth Hale
- Wendy Hammond
- Peter Handke
- William Hanley
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Ernst Hardt
- David Hare
- Wilson John Haire
- Robert Harling
- Moss Hart
- Fred Harvey
- Jonathan Harvey
- Walter Hasenclever
- Jeffrey Hatcher
- Carl Hauptmann
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Václav Havel
- Elliott Hayes
- Horst Hawemann
- Friedrich Hebbel
- Jack Heifner
- Christoph Hein
- Lillian Hellman
- Heinrich Henkel
- Beth Henley
- Günter Herburger
- Rudolf Herfurtner
- Nigel Heseltine
- Dorothy Hewett
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- Prince Hoare
- Rolf Hochhuth
- Fritz Hochwaelder
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Ludvig Holberg
- Endesha Ida Mae Holland
- Rupert Holmes
- Gip Hoppe
- Ödön von Horváth
- Sidney Howard
- Tina Howe
- John-Michael Howson
- Hroswitha of Gandersheim
- Dusty Hughes
- Victor Hugo
I
J
- Günter Jankowiak
- Alfred Jarry
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Douglas William Jerrold
- Denis Johnston
- Rick Johnston
- Nick Jones
- Thomas Jonigk
- Ben Jonson
- James Joyce
K
- Georg Kaiser
- Kalidasa
- John Kane
- Sarah Kane
- Manfred Karge
- Girish Karnad
- George S. Kaufman
- Moisés Kaufman
- John B. Keane
- Bernhard Kellermann
- Joseph Kesselring
- Thomas Kilroy
- Sidney Kingsley
- Heinar Kipphardt
- Lisa Kirazian
- Harald Kislinger
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
- Václav Kliment Klicpera
- Alexander Kluge
- Gerd Knappe
- Frederick Knott
- Werner R. Koefler
- Rita Kohn
- Diane Kondrat
- Karl König
- Oskar Kokoschka
- August von Kotzebue
- Karl Kraus
- Helmut Krausser
- Margret Kreidl
- Franz Xaver Kroetz
- Nestor Kukolnik
- Hanif Kureishi
- Tony Kushner
- Fitzgerald Kusz
- Thomas Kyd
L
- Claudia Labin
- Neil LaBute
- Anna Langhoff
- Angeline Larimer
- Jonathon Larson
- Else Lasker-Schüler
- Carl Laszlo
- Rolf Lauckner
- Shirley Lauro
- Briony Lavery
- Kristen Lazarian
- Barbara Lebow
- Warren Leight
- Johann Anton Leisewitz
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Reinhard Lettau
- Ira Levin
- Saunders Lewis
- Nell Leyshon
- K.M. Lickert
- David Lindsay-Abaire
- James Lineberger
- Romulus Linney
- Henry Livings
- Daniel C. Lohenstein
- Dea Loher
- Kenneth Lonergan
- Stephen Lowe
- Craig Lucas
- William Luce
- Charles Ludlam
- Ken Ludwig
- Otto Ludwig
M
- Ewan MacColl
- Michael MacLennan
- Wendy MacLeod
- George Macropedius, (1487-1558)
- Heather McDonald
- Tony McDonald
- Ellen McLaughlin
- Stephen Mallatratt
- David Mamet, (born 1947)
- Klaus Mann
- Andreas Marber
- Jayne Marek
- Donald Margulies
- Pierre de Marivaux
- Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593)
- Anthony Marriott (United Kingdom)
- Christian Martin
- Jane Martin
- William Mastersimone
- Jennifer Mattern
- William Somerset Maugham
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Marius von Mayenburg
- Martin McDonagh, (born 1970)
- Frank McGuinness
- Sally McLean
- Terrence McNally, (born 1939)
- Mark Medoff
- Charles L. Mee
- Menander
- David Mercer
- Thomas Middleton
- Arthur Miller, (1915-2005)
- Ev Miller
- Willy Millowitsch
- Felix Mitterer
- Mothusi Mokoto
- Molière, (1622-1673)
- M. J. Molloy
- Jose Zorrilla y Moral
- Maureen Morley
- Vera Morris
- Melvyn Morrow
- John Mortimer
- Itamar Moses
- Karl O. Mühl
- Sean Muir
- Elfriede Müller
- Harald Müller
- Heiner Müller
- Kaj Munk
- Tommy Murphy
- Robert Musil
- Mohan Rakesh
N
O
- Dan O'Brien
- Michael O'Brien
- Sean O'Casey
- Eugene O'Neill
- Gerlinde Obermeier
- Clifford Odets
- Han Ong
- Joe Orton
- John Osborne
- Peter Oswald
- Albert Ostermaier
- Craig Owens
P
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Angelo Parra
- Elina Patanè
- John Patrick
- Topher Payne
- Jamie Lynn Perry
- Helmut Peschina
- John Petrick
- Eric Pfeffinger
- John Pielmeier
- Carlo Pietzner
- Arthur Wing Pinero
- Winsome Pinnock
- Harold Pinter
- Luigi Pirandello
- Plautus
- Ulrich Plenzdorf
- Klaus Pohl
- Sharon Pollock
- Cora Polsgrove
- Bernard Pomerance
- Ron Popp
- Jenna Porter
- Alf Poss
- Will Power
- Peter Preses
- Toni Press-Coffman
- J. B. Priestley
- Ariel Pytrell
Q
- (none listed)
R
- David Rabe
- Jean Racine
- Ferdinand Raimund
- Jonathan Rand
- Lutz Rathenow
- Terence Rattigan
- James Reaney
- Paul Rebhun
- Yasmina Reza
- Jay Reiss
- Gerlind Reinshagen
- Erwin Riess
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Moritz Rinke
- Lennox Robinson
- Michaela Ronzoni
- Jack Rosenthal
- Edmond Rostand
- Friederike Roth
- David Rudkin
- Paul Rudnick
- Eugen Ruge
- Sarah Ruhl
- Willy Russell
S
Sa-Se
- Hans Sachs
- Nelly Sachs
- Florencio Sánchez
- Susan Sandler
- William Saroyan
- Laddy Sartin
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Peter Sattmann
- Friedrich Schiller
- Roland Schimmelpfennig
- Einar Schleef
- Johannes E. Schlegel
- Horst Schloetelburg
- Arno Schmidt
- Simone Schneider
- Ron Schnitzius
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Manuel Schöbel
- Karl Schoenherr
- Lothar Schreyer
- Stefan Schütz
- Werner Schwab
- Emily Schwartz (United States)
- Brigitte Schwaiger
- Robert Schenkkan
- David Sedaris
- Georg Seidel
- Seneca the Younger
- Christopher Sergel
Sg-Sr
- Nicholas Sgouros
- Anthony Shaffer
- Peter Shaffer, (born 1926)
- William Shakespeare, (1564-1616)
- Patrick Shanahan
- Ntozake Shange
- John Patrick Shanley
- George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950)
- Claudia Shear
- Rob Shearman
- Edward Sheldon
- Sam Shepard, (born 1943)
- Don Sheridan
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Jonathan Marc Sherman
- R. C. Sherriff
- Robert E. Sherwood
- George Shiels
- Del Shores
- Larry Shue
- Neil Simon
- Badal Sircar
- Geoffrey Skelton
- Bernard Slade
- Anna Deavere Smith
- Charles Smith
- Matt Socey
- Diana Son
- Sophocles
- Reinhard Sorge
- Aaron Sorkin
- Wole Soyinka
- Ron Sparks
- Kerstin Specht
- Charmaine Spencer
- Stuart Spencer
- Martin Sperr
- Biljana Srbljanović
St-Sz
- Ginka Steinwachs
- Kathy Stephan
- Shelagh Stephenson
- Carl Sternheim
- Chambers Stevens
- James Still
- Tom Stoppard
- David Storey
- August Stramm
- Botho Strauß
- Marlene Streeruwitz
- August Strindberg
- Thomas Strittmatter
- Preston Sturges
- Patrick Süskind
- Alfred Sutro
- Jeffrey Sweet
- Ted Swindley
- Erwin Sylvanus
- Arthur Symington (1931-1995)
- John Millington Synge
- Gerarld Szyszkowitz
T
- George Tabori
- Jean Tardieu
- Henry Taylor
- John Maxwell Taylor
- Samuel Taylor
- Vijay Tendulkar
- Terence
- Tian Han
- Colin Thomas
- Richard K. Thomas
- Ernest Thompson (b. 1949) (United States)
- Judith Thompson
- Ludwig Tieck
- Jonathan Tolins
- Ernst Toller
- Colorado Tolston
- Bartolomé de Torres Naharro
- Miles Tredinnick
- CA Trueblood
- Kurt Tucholsky
- Peter Turrini
- Shivani Tibrewala
U
V
W
- Friedrich K. Waechter
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner
- Derek Walcott
- Craig Walker
- George F. Walker
- Naomi Wallace
- Martin Walser
- Robert Walser
- Theresia Walser
- Agnes Walsh
- Dale Wasserman
- Wendy Wasserstein
- Keith Waterhouse
- John Webster
- Frank Wedekind
- Peter Weiss
- Theodor Weissenborn
- Scott Wentworth
- Dan Wentzel
- Franz Werfel
- Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Arnold Wesker
- Keeva Westbrook
- Peter Whelan
- John Whiting
- Urs Widmer
- Hubert Wiedfeld
- Adolf von Wilbrandt
- Oscar Wilde
- Thornton Wilder
- Le Wilhelm
- Emlyn Williams
- Jaston Williams
- Tennessee Williams
- David Williamson (b. 1942) (Australia)
- August Wilson
- Lanford Wilson
- Jaimie-Lee Wise (Born 1974)
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
- Marc Wolf
- William Wycherley
X
- (none listed)
Y
- William Butler Yeats, (1865-1939) (Ireland)
- Benjamin Yeoh, (1978- )
- Chay Yew
Z
- Ingeborg von Zadow
- Tom Ziegler
- Paul Zindel (1936-2003) (United States)
- Don Zolidis
- Matthias Zschokke
- Carl Zuckmayer
- Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)
See also
- List of Bosnian playwrights
- List of British 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 Slovenian playwrights
- List of playwrights from the United States