William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Playwright
1
Julia Donaldson, 75
2
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
3
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)
4
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
5
Rupert Holmes, 77
6
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
7
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
8
Slawomir Mrozek (1930-2013)
9
Marilyn Vos Savant, 77
10
Christopher Durang (1949-2024)
11
Willy Russell, 76
12
Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
13
Robert Greene (1558-1592)
14
Johnathan Larson (1960-1996)
15
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 50
16
August Wilson (1945-2005)
17
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
18
Howard Ashman (1950-1991)
19
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
20
Neil Simon (1927-2018)
21
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
22
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
23
Wole Soyinka, 89
24
Thorbjørn Egner (1912-1990)
25
Martin McDonagh, 54
26
Jeremy O. Harris, 34
27
Jason Miller (1939-2001)
28
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
29
George Middleton (1880-1967)
30
Noel Coward (1899-1973)
31
Thomas Meehan (1929-2017)
32
Trevor Griffiths, 89
33
Tracy Letts, 58
34
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
35
Edward Albee (1928-2016)
36
Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
37
Paula Vogel, 72
38
Saki (1870-1916)
39
William Gilbert (1836-1911)
40
Annie Baker, 42
41
David Henry Hwang, 66
42
Romulus Zachariah Linney IV (1930-2011)
43
Juozas Grusas (1901-1986)
44
David Garrick (1717-1779)
45
Sarah Kane (1971-1999)
46
Tom Stoppard, 86
47
John B. Keane (1928-2002)
48
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