J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie

male, deceased (1937)
peter pan, James Matthew Barrie, Glasgow Academy alumni, wendy, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom…Playwright
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937), more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist....
Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

male, 70 years old
Seamus Justin Heaney, Translator, gaelic, Alumni of Queen's University Belfast, lecturer, Translator from Polish…Playwright
Seamus Justin Heaney 's attempts to develop poetic language in which meaning and sound are intimately related result in concentrated, sensually...
Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

male, 75 years old
University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty, Alumni of the University of Leeds, University of Lagos, Nobel laureate in Literature, comparative literature, Abeokuta…Playwright, Nobel prize-winning playwright, poet, and novelist
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. Some consider him Africa's most distinguished...
John Osborne

John Osborne

male, deceased (1994)
Anglican, Look Back in Anger, the establishment, monarchy, Screenwriter, british monarchy…Playwright
John James Osborne (December 12, 1929 - December 24, 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, and critic of The Establishment. The stunning...
John Guare

John Guare

male, 71 years old
Obie Award recipient, Playwright, Yale University alumni, Georgetown University alumni, American, Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare is an American playwright. He is best known as the author of "The House of Blue Leaves" and "Six Degrees of Separation". His style,...
Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn

male, 87 years old
American military personnel of World War II, Marxist, tax resister, American Civil Rights Movement, anarchist, Playwright
Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright, best known as author of...
Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

male, 48 years old
The Matrix, character actor, Emmy, African-American actor, American film actor, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles actor…Playwright
Laurence Fishburne III (born July 30 1961) is an American Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor of screen and stage, playwright, director, and producer.
Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray

male, deceased (2004)
death by drowning, monologue, Emerson College alumni, actor, American, self-consciousness…Playwright
Spalding Gray was an American actor, screenwriter and playwright. Born in Barrington, Rhode Island, he was best known for his performance...
Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan

male, deceased (2003) (New York, United States)
film producer, novelist, Actors Studio, Screenwriter, Academy Honorary Award recipient, Hollywood Walk of Fame…Playwright
Elia Kazan was a Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and cofounder of the influential...
Paula Vogel

Paula Vogel

female, 58 years old
Daniel Sullivan, Women dramatists and playwright, Cornell University alumni, From Providence, Rhode Island, from Washington, D.C., Obie Award…Playwright
Paula Vogel (born November 16 1951, in Washington, D.C.) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and university professor. She is best...