Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

male, deceased (1989)
waiting for godot, Happy Days, humour, Death from emphysema, optimism, Aosdána…theatreoftheabsurd, University of Texas at Austin, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally...
Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

male, 79 years old
BAFTA winner, cancer survivor, Playwright, From hackney, Order of the British Empire, Alumni of the Central School of Speech and Drama…The French Lieutenant's Woman, Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, The Birthday Party, The Servant, The Trial
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born 10 October 1930) is an English playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, and political activist, best...
Martin Esslin

Martin Esslin

male, deceased (2002)
adaptor, Wolfgang Bauer, literary adaptation, Radio producer, English, script writer…theatreoftheabsurd, University of Vienna
Martin Julius Esslin (June 6, 1918-February 24, 2002) was a Hungarian-born English producer and script writer, journalist, adaptor and translator,...
Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

male, 72 years old
The Coast of Utopia, Tony Award winner, English, expatriate, Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winner, Order of the British Empire…Order of Merit, The Real Thing, theatreoftheabsurd, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Member of the Order of Merit
Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born as Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937) is an Academy Award winning British playwright of more than 24 plays. Born in...
Jean Genet

Jean Genet

male, deceased (1986)
born in Paris France, les bonnes, poet, political activist, theatreoftheabsurd, French…The Blacks, The Maids, The Thief's Journal, Our Lady of the Flowers, The Balcony
Jean Genet (–), was a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty cr...

Eugène Ionesco

male, deceased (1994)
théatre 5 volumes, le roi se meurt, le piéton de l'air, les rhinocéros, le nouveau locataire, jacques ou la soumission…theatreoftheabsurd, University of Bucharest alumni, Member of the Académie française
Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the "Theatre of the Absurd". B...
Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry

male, deceased (1907)
ubu roi, satirist, theatreoftheabsurd, Playwright, La papesse jeanne 1908, UBU-COCU
Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 - November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was...
N. F. Simpson

N. F. Simpson

male, 90 years old
Edward VIII abdication crisis, From London, Abdication Crisis, One Way Pendulum, Norman Frederick Simpson, Emanuel School…theatreoftheabsurd
Norman Frederick Simpson (born 29 January, 1919) is an English playwright closely associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. To his friends, he is...
Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

male, 66 years old
Illinois actor, American West, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner, Frances, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Samuel Shepard Rogers…A Lie of the Mind, absurd, curse of the starving class, theatreoftheabsurd
Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an award-winning American playwright, writer and actor. His many written works are known for being frank and...