Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

male, deceased (1989)
waiting for godot, Happy Days, humour, Death from emphysema, optimism, Aosdána…Playwright
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally...
Woody Allen

Woody Allen

male, 74 years old
comedian, film actor, actor, Screenwriter, film director, Jewish…Playwright
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of...
Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

male, 53 years old (NYC, New York, United States)
Jewish person, LGBT writer, from the United States, LGBT, Juilliard School faculty, Mother Courage and Her Child…Playwright, Playwright employee
Mr. Kushner is a leading playwright and a major voice in American Theatre who has won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, two Tony Awards for Best Play and...
Neil Simon

Neil Simon

male, 82 years old
lost in yonkers, pulitzer prize, Jewish, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Your Show of Shows…Playwright
Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July_4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the...
August Wilson

August Wilson

male, deceased (2005)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Liver cancer death, American, writer, Playwright, pulitzer prize
August Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. Wilson's singular achievement and literary legacy is a cycle of ten plays—two of wh...
Noel Coward

Noel Coward

male, deceased (1973)
musician, World War II spy, cabaret singer, stage actor, writer, television actor…Playwright
Sir Noel Peirce Coward was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. His forename is sometimes spelled with a diaeresis on the...
Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

male, deceased (1956) (Germany)
das epische Theater, Leben des Galilei, die Gewehre der Frau Carrar, Furcht und Elend des dritten Reiches, die Horatier und die Kuratier, die Rundkoepfe und die Spitzkoepfe…Playwright
"' (born "' February 10, 1898 - August 14, 1956) was an influential German socialist, dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century.
Donald Margulies

Donald Margulies

male (New Haven, Connecticut, United States)
State University of New York at Purchase alumni, Yale University, Obie Award, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Loman Family Picnic, Found a Peanut, Luna Park…Playwright
Donald Margulies (MARG-yoo-leez) is an American playwright whose plays include the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Dinner With Friends". Other plays...
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…Playwright
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...
Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

male, deceased (1906)
norwegian, Playwright, death by stroke, Morality play, Victorian values, Victorian morality
Henrik Johan Ibsen (March 20, 1828 - May 23, 1906) was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He...