Playwright

This page lists 10,796 biographies of playwrights, covering lives from 600 BC to 2000. Featuring Fleeming Jenkin, Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks and Abel Hermant. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Émile Colliot

1824 – 1881

Kris Haddow

b. 1981

Jacobo Langsner

1927 – 2020

Michele Celeste

Maria Ann Lovell

1803 – 1877

Mark Handley

b. 1956

Falk Richter

b. 1969

Paul Shyre

1926 – 1989

Karoline Leach

b. 1967

Phanuel Bacon

1699 – 1783

Antoine Simonnin

1780 – 1856

Frantsishak Alyakhnovich

1883 – 1944

Min Kahng

Roald Hoffmann

b. 1937

Auguste Lefranc

1814 – 1878

Cipriano Rivas Cherif

1891 – 1967

Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

1945 – 2025

J. B. Fagan

1873 – 1933

Allan Albert

1945 – 1994

Eugène Verconsin

1823 – 1891

George Augustus Conquest

1837 – 1901

Allen Ginsberg

1926 – 1997

Michele Lowe

b. 1957

Frances Anne Kemble

1809 – 1893

Lubize

1800 – 1863

Bienvenido Noriega, Jr.

1952 – 1994

Guillaume Le Breton

b. 1505

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

1838 – 1889

Efo Kodjo Mawugbe

1954 – 2011

Alfredo Balducci

1920 – 2011

Kelly Vincent

b. 1988

Lisa Kron

b. 1961

Joel Horwood

Basil Macdonald Hastings

1881 – 1928

Michael Wynne

b. 1972

Anthony E. Wills

1879 – 1912

Zou Jingzhi

b. 1952

Walter Janka

1914 – 1994

Helen Edmundson

b. 1964

Ed Bullins

1935 – 2021

Bruno Bayen

1950 – 2016

Kendel Hippolyte

b. 1952

Gregory Burke

b. 1968

Mary Pakington

1878 – 1949

Geraldine Aron

b. 1951

Henry Villemot

1796 – 1870

Lila Rose Kaplan

b. 1980

Andrea James

Ahmed Etman

1945 – 2013

jonathan Bayliss

1926 – 2009

Olivier Choinière

b. 1973

Adelaide Matthews

1886 – 1958

Anton Liavicki

1869 – 1922

Madhu Rye

b. 1942

José Pliva

1966 – 2025

Timothy Daly

b. 1954

Christian Dietrich Grabbe

1801 – 1836

Vacłaŭ Ivanoŭski

1880 – 1943

Jean-François Cailhava de L'Estandoux

1730 – 1813

Kate Moira Ryan

b. 1966

Mulshankar Mulani

1867 – 1957

Theopompus

450 – 400 BC

Andy Milligan

1929 – 1991

Uladzimir Karatkievich

1930 – 1984

Jisha Abhinaya

Lou Tellegen

1883 – 1934

Rosa de Eguílaz y Renart

b. 1864

David Edgar

b. 1948

Stephen Wakelam

Fulgence de Bury

1785 – 1845

Irving Fiske

1908 – 1990

Gina Gionfriddo

b. 1969

Michael Morton

1864 – 1931

Robert Courtneidge

1859 – 1939

Gwen Pharis Ringwood

1910 – 1984

Ernst Toller

1893 – 1939

Donald Howarth

1931 – 2020

Juliet Ace

1938 – 2025

Suji Kwock Kim

b. 1969

Christina Quintana

Michel Vinaver

1927 – 2022

Jean Michel

1435 – 1501

Esther McCracken

1902 – 1971

Christopher Fry

1907 – 2005

Nicolas Cammaille-Saint-Aubin

1770 – 1832

Ronald Venetiaan

1936 – 2025

Hélder Prista Monteiro

1922 – 1994

Henri de Tully

1798 – 1846

Yu Shangyuan

1897 – 1970

Jason Hall

b. 1978

Alan Ansen

1922 – 2006

Duncan Ley

Terrence McNally

1938 – 2020

Herman Brusselmans

b. 1957

Louise Page

1955 – 2020

Manuel Pereiras García

b. 1950

Hassan Alaa Eddin

1939 – 1975

Tony Kushner

b. 1956

Kirke La Shelle

1862 – 1905

Nicholas Wright

b. 1940