William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Playwright
1
Julia Donaldson, 75
2
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
3
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)
4
Rupert Holmes, 77
5
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
6
Brendan Behan (1923-1964)
7
Slawomir Mrozek (1930-2013)
8
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
9
Christopher Durang (1949-2024)
10
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 50
11
Johnathan Larson (1960-1996)
12
Marilyn Vos Savant, 77
13
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
14
Willy Russell, 76
15
Jeremy O. Harris, 34
16
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
17
Neil Simon (1927-2018)
18
Robert Greene (1558-1592)
19
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
20
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
21
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
22
William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
23
Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
24
Jason Miller (1939-2001)
25
Howard Ashman (1950-1991)
26
August Wilson (1945-2005)
27
Martin McDonagh, 54
28
Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
29
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
30
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
31
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
32
Wole Soyinka, 89
33
Eric Bogosian, 71
34
August Strindberg (1849-1912)
35
Thorbjørn Egner (1912-1990)
36
Tracy Letts, 58
37
Paul Zindel (1936-2003)
38
Jonathan Sayer
39
Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959)
40
Simon Gray (1936-2008)
41
Berlie Doherty, 80
42
Grant Morrison, 64
43
David Mamet, 76
44
Sue Monk Kidd, 75
45
Horton Foote (1916-2009)
46
Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
47
Joseph Stein (1912-2010)
48
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