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This is a list of notable playwrights. See also Literature; ... Eva Best (1851–1925, United States) Ugo Betti (1892–1953, Italy) Bahram Beyzai (born 1938, Iran)
Zoe Akins; Edward Albee; Eva Allen Alberti; Woody Allen; Franco Ambriz; Jane Anderson; Maxwell Anderson; Robert Woodruff Anderson; Maya Angelou; Jacob M. Appel
The Best Man (1960), by Gore Vidal; Beyond the Horizon (1918), by Eugene O'Neill; Biloxi Blues (1984), by Neil Simon; Black Bart and the Sacred Hills (1977), by August Wilson; Black Nativity (1961), by Langston Hughes; The Blue Hour (1979), by David Mamet; Bobbi Boland (2001), by Nancy Hasty; Bobby Gould in Hell (1989), by David Mamet
The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, an Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award given to the best new (non-musical) play on Broadway, as determined by Tony Award voters. There was no award in the Tonys' first year. The award goes to the authors and the producers of the play.
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg.
19th-century British playwrights. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2024) 20th-century British playwrights. See also ...
Playwright Matthew López made history by becoming the first Latino to win the Tony Award for Best Play for "The Inheritance."
The best known playwright of farces is Hans Sachs (1494–1576) who wrote 198 dramatic works. In England, The Second Shepherds' Play of the Wakefield Cycle is the best known early farce. However, farce did not appear independently in England until the 16th century with the work of John Heywood (1497–1580).