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18th century
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
William Dunlap
Robert Hunter
Royall Tyler
Mercy Otis Warren
19th century
George Aiken
Nathaniel Bannister
James Nelson Barker
David Belasco
Robert Montgomery Bird
George H. Boker
Dion Boucicault
John Brougham
William Wells Brown
Bob Cole
Robert T. Conrad
Augustin Daly
Clyde Fitch
Edward Harrigan
Grace Hayward
James A. Herne
Bronson Howard
William Dean Howells
Charles H. Hoyt
Henry James
Cornelius Ambrosius Logan
Steele MacKaye
Fred Marsden
Cornelius Mathews
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
Anna Cora Mowatt
John Neal
John Howard Payne
Cora Scott Pond Pope
Robert E. Sherwood
Harry B. Smith
Samuel Woodworth
William Young
20th century
Zoe Akins
Edward Albee
Eva Allen Alberti
Woody Allen
Franco Ambriz
Jane Anderson
Maxwell Anderson
Robert Woodruff Anderson
Maya Angelou
Jacob M. Appel
Ray Aranha
Larry Atlas
David Auburn
Jon Robin Baitz
Amiri Baraka
Philip Barry
Todd Bash
Jonathan Bayliss
Douglas Carter Beane
Jim Beaver
David Belasco
Stephen Belber
Ruth Bellamy
S. N. Behrman
David Berry
Leo Birinski
Lee Blessing
Marc Blitzstein
Eric Bogosian
Neith Boyce
Kent Broadhurst
Eve Brodlique
Jason Robert Brown
Ed Bullins
Percy Jewett Burrell
Mary P. Burrill
Abe Burrows
Sheila Callaghan
Steve Carter
Linda Chambers
Paddy Chayefsky
Alice Childress
Frank Chin
Donald L. Coburn
George M. Cohan
Betty Comden
Constance Congdon
Marc Connelly
Kia Corthron
Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
Michael Cristofer
Rachel Crothers
Nilo Cruz
Lisa D'Amour
Ossie Davis
Floyd Dell
John Dempsey
Steven Dietz
Owen Dodson
Tom Donaghy
Richard Dresser
John Van Druten
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Christopher Durang
Fred Ebb
Erik Ehn
T. S. Eliot
Will Eno
Don Evans
Charles Evered
Tom Eyen
Jules Feiffer
Edna Ferber
Harvey Fierstein
Clyde Fitch
Horton Foote
María Irene Fornés
Paul Foster
Amy Freed
Ketti Frings
Charles Fuller
George Furth
Herb Gardner
Jack Gelber
Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
Alice Gerstenberg
William Gibson
D. B. Gilles
Susan Glaspell
Andrew Glaze
Ruth Goetz
James Goldman
Frances Goodrich
Ain Gordon
Ed Graczyk
Adolph Green
Paul Eliot Green
Richard Greenberg
Frances Nimmo Greene
Elana Greenfield
David Greenspan
David Grimm
Rinne Groff
John Guare
A. R. Gurney
Albert Hackett
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Oscar Hammerstein II
Stoo Hample
Lorraine Hansberry
Sheldon Harnick
Moss Hart
Jeffrey Hatcher
Marcia Haufrecht
Joseph Hayes
Ben Hecht
Lillian Hellman
Beth Henley
George Herman
Hilly Hicks Jr.
David Hirson
William M. Hoffman
Linda Hogan
Michael Hollinger
Israel Horovitz
Rupert Holmes
Sidney Howard
Tina Howe
Babette Hughes
Langston Hughes
David Henry Hwang
Naomi Iizuka
William Inge
Albert Innaurato
David Ives
Luigi Jannuzzi
Arthur M. Jolly
Preston Jones
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Garson Kanin
George S. Kaufman
Moisés Kaufman
Adrienne Kennedy
Charles Rann Kennedy
Stanley Keyes
Sidney Kingsley
James Kirkwood Jr.
Kevin Kling
Harry Kondoleon
Arthur Kopit
Greg Kotis
Lisa Kron
Larry Kramer
Sherry Kramer
Tony Kushner
Neil LaBute
Tina Landau
Mary Lewis Langworthy
James Lapine
Jonathan Larson
Arthur Laurents
Jerome Lawrence
Robert E. Lee
Warren Leight
Alan Jay Lerner
Ira Levin
David Lindsay-Abaire
Romulus Linney
Kenneth Lonergan
Craig Lucas
Clare Boothe Luce
William Luce
Ken Ludwig
Charles MacArthur
Eduardo Machado
Percy MacKaye
Archibald MacLeish
David Mamet
Emily Mann
Deb Margolin
Donald Margulies
Melanie Marnich
Jane Martin
Joe Masteroff
William Mastrosimone
Ellen McLaughlin
James McLure
Scott McMorrow
Terrence McNally
Scott McPherson
Mark Medoff
Charles L. Mee
Leonard Melfi
Charles Mergendahl
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Marlane Meyer
George Middleton
Arthur Miller
Jason Miller
Susan Miller
John Cameron Mitchell
Langdon Mitchell
Philip Moeller
Cherríe Moraga
Tad Mosel
Itamar Moses
Brighde Mullins
Phyllis Nagy
N. Richard Nash
Josefina Niggli
Marsha Norman
Bruce Norris
Lynn Nottage
Elliott Nugent
Joyce Carol Oates
Clifford Odets
Eugene O'Neill
Han Ong
Dael Orlandersmith
Paul Osborn
Eric Overmyer
Rochelle Owens
William Packard
Steven Christopher Parker
Suzan-Lori Parks
John Patrick
John Pielmeier
Miguel Piñero
David Pinski
Bernard Pomerance
Gordon Porterfield
Craig Pospisil
Reinaldo Povod
Toni Press-Coffman
David Rabe
Ayn Rand
Theresa Rebeck
Keith Reddin
Ronald Ribman
Elmer Rice
Willis Richardson
Lynn Riggs
Lawrence Riley
José Rivera
Paul Rudnick
Mildred Ruiz-Sapp
Isabella Russell-Ides
Peter Sagal
Stephen Sachs
Steven Sapp
William Saroyan
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Robert Schenkkan
Murray Schisgal
John Schneider
Sarah Schulman
Sandra Seaton
Ntozake Shange
John Patrick Shanley
Wallace Shawn
John Shea
Claudia Shear
Edward Sheldon
Jane Shepard
Sam Shepard
Martin Sherman
Robert B. Sherman
Robert E. Sherwood
Christopher Shinn
Dora Adele Shoemaker
Del Shores
Larry Shue
Nicky Silver
Neil Simon
Eric Simonson
Anna Deavere Smith
Evan Smith
Harry B. Smith
Stephen Sondheim
Aaron Sorkin
Jeffrey Stanley
Wilbur Daniel Steele
Joseph Stein
Jean Anderson Sterrett
Donald Ogden Stewart
Kelly Stuart
Jeffrey Sweet
Jo Swerling
Megan Terry
Ernest Thompson
James Thurber
Lucy Thurber
Sophie Treadwell
Grace Hyde Trine
Alfred Uhry
Luis Valdez
Gore Vidal
Paula Vogel
John Walch
Ian Walker
Naomi Wallace
Eugene Walter
Douglas Turner Ward
Anne Washburn
Dale Wasserman
Wendy Wasserstein
John Weidman
George Weller
Mac Wellman
Marion Craig Wentworth
Mae West
Percival Wilde
Thornton Wilder
John Willard
Samm-Art Williams
Tennessee Williams
Beau Willimon
August Wilson
Lanford Wilson
Meredith Willson
Tracey Scott Wilson
David Wiltse
Lee Wochner
George C. Wolfe
Elizabeth Wong
Doug Wright
Chay Yew
Mary Zimmerman
Miriam Shomer Zunser
21st century
David Adjmi
Annie Baker
Ayad Akhtar
Stephen Belber
Brooke Berman
Adam Bock
Thomas Bradshaw
George Brant
Gamal Abdel Chasten
Vicki Caroline Cheatwood
John Clancy
Cusi Cram
Rick Elice
Will Eno
Larissa Fasthorse
Melissa James Gibson
Rebecca Gilman
Gina Gionfriddo
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Danai Gurira
Katori Hall
Joshua Harmon (playwright)
Whit Hertford
Amy Herzog
Lucas Hnath
CJ Hopkins
Samuel D. Hunter
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Julia Jordan
Rajiv Joseph
Aditi Kapil
Stephen Karam
Zoe Kazan
Young Jean Lee
Tracy Letts
Simon Levy
Kirk Lynn
Taylor Mac
Mona Mansour
Melanie Marnich
Richard Maxwell
Tarell Alvin McCraney
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Meg Miroshnik
Anthony Mora
Janet Noble
Bruce Norris
Dan O'Brien
Dael Orlandersmith
Trey Parker
Laura Pedersen
David Rambo
Adam Rapp
Bert V. Royal
Sarah Ruhl
William Ruiz
Carl Hancock Rux
Regina Taylor
Alice Tuan
Marisa Wegrzyn
Leah Nanako Winkler
Craig Wright
Quiara Alegría Hudes
See also
Theater of the United States
List of American plays
List of playwrights
List of playwrights by nationality and year of birth
List of Jewish American playwrights
References
^
"The Stage: New England Repertory Playhouse 'Watch for the Morning'"
.
The Boston Globe
. December 17, 1941. p. 19. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
Further reading
Meserve, Walter J.
An Outline History of American Drama
, 2nd ed., New York: Feedback Theatrebooks/Prospero Press, 1994.
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