Playwrights

1
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
2
Julia Donaldson, 70
3
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
4
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
5
Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
6
Willy Russell, 71
7
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 45
8
Liv Hewson, 22
9
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
10
Saki (1870-1916)
11
Paula Vogel, 67
12
Neil Simon (1927-2018)
13
Juozas Grusas (1901-1986)
14
August Strindberg (1849-1912)
15
José Rivera, 63
16
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
17
Rupert Holmes, 71
18
Wole Soyinka, 84
19
Barney Simon (1932-1995)
20
George Middleton (1880-1967)
21
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)
22
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
23
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
24
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
25
Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
26
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
27
William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
28
Howard Ashman (1950-1991)
29
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
30
Thomas Meehan (1929-2017)
31
William Gilbert (1836-1911)
32
Robert Greene (1558-1592)
33
Dennis Kelly, 48
34
Jason Miller (1939-2001)
35
Ann-Marie Macdonald, 60
36
Berlie Doherty, 75
37
Noel Coward (1899-1973)
38
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
39
August Wilson (1945-2005)
40
Edward Albee (1928-2016)
41
Anne Caldwell (1867-1936)
42
Marilyn Vos Savant, 72
43
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
44
David Mamet, 70
45
Owen Davis (1874-1956)
46
Grant Morrison, 58
47
John Patrick (1905-1995)
48
David Henry Hwang, 61
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