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| Aaron Hill was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. The son of a country gentleman of... more » |
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 | Abbas Nalbandian was an Iranian playwright who wrote several absurdist plays in 60s and 70s. His... more » |
| Abdallah Zrika is one of the most famous poets of Morocco. His poetry is free, based on spoken... more » |
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| AbdulAmeer AlTorky is a screenwriter and playwright. more » |
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| Abdullah Al Mamun was a renowned playwright, actor and filmmaker of Bangladesh. more » |
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| Abhijat Joshi is an Indian academic and screenwriter particularly known for his work with Vinod... more » |
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| Achaeus of Eretria was a Greek playwright author of tragedies and satyr plays, variously said to... more » |
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 | Achille Campanile was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for... more » |
| Achille Torelli was an Italian playwright. He was born in Naples to Anna Maria Tomasi di... more » |
 | Adalet Ağaoğlu is a Turkish novelist and playwright. more » |
 | Adam Bock is a Canadian playwright currently living in the United States. Adam was born in... more » |
| Adam Brace is a British playwright. His play Stovepipe, performed in promenade, premiered at the... more » |
| Adam LeFevre is an American character actor, poet and playwright who works in cinema,... more » |
| Adam Long was a founding member of The Reduced Shakespeare Company. From 1987-2003 he co-wrote... more » |
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| Adam Rapp is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician and film director. His... more » |
| Adam Rihacek is an actor and a playwright. more » |
| Adam Thorpe is a British poet, novelist and playwright whose works also include short stories... more » |
| Adnan G. Köse is a screenwriter, film director, and actor. more » |
| Adolfo Marsillach Soriano was a Catalan actor, playwright and theatre director. He was known for... more » |
| Ādolfs Alunāns was a Latvian playwright, director and actor. He is considered to be the "father... more » |
 | Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty... more » |
 | Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery or Dennery was a French Jewish dramatist and novelist. more » |
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| Adrian Harris is an English actor, playwright and director. more » |
| Adrian Henri was a British poet and painter best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group... more » |
| Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he... more » |
| Adrian Truss is a British-born actor, writer, and director now living in Canada whose more... more » |
| Adrienne Kennedy is an African-American playwright and was a key figure in the Black Arts... more » |
| Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or... more » |
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| Agnes Walsh is a Canadian actor, poet, playwright and storyteller from Newfoundland. Walsh has... more » |
 | Agneta Pleijel is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. Among... more » |
 | Agnieszka Osiecka was a poet, writer, author of theatre and television screenplays, film... more » |
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| Agustus Horatio Montrose was an English novelist and playwright operating in the northeast of... more » |
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| Ahmed AlEbiary is a playwright. more » |
 | Ahmed Shawqi, also written as Ahmed Chawki, nicknamed Amīr al-Shu‘arā’, was one of the greatest... more » |
| Ahmet Muhip Dıranas was a leading Turkish poet and author. more » |
| Ai Nagai is an actress, playwright, theatre director and a screenwriter. more » |
| Ain Gordon is an American playwright, director and actor based in New York City. His work... more » |
| Aishah Rahman, born Virginia Hughes, is an African-American playwright. Rahman grew up as a... more » |
| AJ Carothers was an American playwright and television writer, best known for his work with Walt... more » |
| Abar Radi who was born in the city of Rasht in 1939 completed his studies at the University of... more » |
| Al Smith is a British writer. Plays for theatre include Chalk, which he wrote and directed for... more » |
 | Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel... more » |
 | Sir Alan Ayckbourn, CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced more than... more » |
 | Alan E. Ball is an American writer, director, and producer for television, film, and theatre. He... more » |
 | Alan Bennett is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. He was born in Leeds and... more » |
 | Alan Bissett is an author and playwright from Hallglen, an area of Falkirk in Scotland. After... more » |
| Alan Bleasdale is an English television dramatist, best known for social realist drama serials... more » |
| Alan Bowne was an American playwright and author. He was a member of the New Dramatists. He... more » |
| Alan Haines was a British actor and playwright who spent four years in the Royal Navy during... more » |
.jpg/240px-Alan_Jay_Lerner_(1962).jpg "Alan Jay Lerner") | Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick... more » |
 | Alan Melville was an English broadcaster, writer, actor, raconteur, producer, playwright and wit. more » |
| Alan Frederick Plater CBE FRSL was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked... more » |
| Alan Seymour, is an Australian playwright and author. His father was killed in a wharf accident... more » |
| Alan Wilkins is an Edinburgh based Scots playwright. His first professionally produced play was... more » |
 | Alan Zweibel is an American producer and writer who has worked on such productions as Saturday... more » |
| Alasdair Middleton is a British playwright and opera librettist. He also teaches the Junior... more » |
| Albert Bessler was a German film actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1942 and 1975. He was... more » |
| Albert Guinon was a French playwright. more » |
 | Albert Maurice Hackett was an American dramatist and screenwriter most noted for his... more » |
| Albert Husson is a playwright and screenwriter. more » |
| Albert Innaurato is an American playwright, theatre director, and writer. Innaurato was born in... more » |
 | Albert Maltz was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the... more » |
 | Albert Vanloo was a Belgian librettist and playwright. Vanloo lived in Paris as a child and was... more » |
| Alberto Bona is an Italian actor, playwright and film director. more » |
 | Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels... more » |
| Albina Shulgina is a screenwriter. more » |
| Alcione Araújo was a playwright, screenwriter and actor. more » |
| Alden Albert Nowlan was a critically acclaimed Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright more » |
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| Aldo Velasco is a playwright, film editor, screenwriter and film director. more » |
| Alec Coppel was an Australian-born screenwriter, novelist and playwright. He spent the majority... more » |
| Alecky Blythe is a British playwright and screenwriter. She has written several plays, including... more » |
| Alejandro Aura was a Mexican writer, essayist, poet, playwright and actor, as well as a culture... more » |
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| Alekos Galanos is a playwright and screenwriter. more » |
 | Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director. He was born in Athens and began to learn... more » |
| Aleksandar Đuričić is a young Serbian novelist and a playwright. Author of the novel Surf na... more » |
 | Aleksander Fredro was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in... more » |
| Aleksander Sergeyevich Griboyedov was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer. He is... more » |
| Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin, was a Soviet Russian film director, best known for his 1934 film... more » |
| Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many... more » |
| Aleksandra Wolska is a theater director and playwright. more » |
 | Aleksei Nikolaevich Arbuzov was a Soviet playwright. more » |
 | Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet,... more » |
 | Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who... more » |
 | Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an... more » |
 | Alexander Brinchmann was a Norwegian children's physician and song writer, novelist, playwright... more » |
| Alexander Broun is an actor and a screenwriter. more » |
 | Alex Finlayson is an American playwright whose sly irreverent plays have found more success on... more » |
 | Alexander Francis Horn, known more often as Alex Horn, was a playwright and actor and the leader... more » |
| Alex Timbers is a two-time Tony-nominated writer and director and the recipient of Drama Desk... more » |
| Aleksander Onisimovich Ablesimov was a Russian opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and... more » |
 | Alexander Nikolayevich Afinogenov was a Russian playwright. more » |
 | Alexander Ahndoril is a Swedish novelist and playwright. His best-selling novel, Regissören,... more » |
| Alexander Dinelaris is a playwright and screenwriter. more » |
| Alexander Galin is a screenwriter, playwright and an actor. more » |
| Alexander Horn, was a Scottish Benedictine monk who became a British secret agent and diplomat... more » |
| Aleksandr Gelman is a screenwriter. more » |
| Alexander Mattock Thompson, sometimes credited as A. M. Thompson, was a German-born English... more » |
| Alexander Preis was a Russian writer of numerous plays and libretti, including those for... more » |
| Alexander Ramati was a playwright, writer, film producer, actor, screenwriter, film director and... more » |
 | Alexander Reid was a Scottish playwright. more » |
 | Alexander Movsesyan, better known by his pen name Shirvanzade was an Armenian playwright and... more » |
 | Aleksandr Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin, was a Russian nobleman, chiefly known for the works he... more » |
 | Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created... more » |
 | Alexander Nikolayevich Zhitinsky was a Russian writer and journalist. He used the pseudonyms... more » |
| Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest... more » |
| Alexandra Cunningham is an American playwright, screenwriter, and television producer. more » |
| Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros is an American playwright and actress. She is the co-author, with... more » |
| Alexandra Wood is a violinist from Cookham, England. She began playing at 3 years old, gaining... more » |
 | Alexandre Charles Auguste Bisson was a French playwright, vaudeville creator, and novelist. Born... more » |
 | Alexandre Dumas, fils was a French writer and dramatist, best known for Camille. He was the son... more » |
 | Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer, best known for his... more » |
| Alexandre Hardy was a French dramatist, one of the most prolific of all time. He claimed to have... more » |
| Alexi Kaye Campbell is an award winning playwright and screenwriter. more » |
| Alexis Zegerman is a British actress and writer. more » |
 | Alfhild Teresia Agrell was a Swedish writer and playwright. She was born to Erik Johan Martin... more » |
| Alfian bin Sa'at is a Singaporean writer, poet and playwright. He is a Muslim of Minangkabau,... more » |
 | Alfonso Sastre is a Spanish playwright, essayist, and critic associated with the Generation of... more » |
| Alfonso Vallejo is a Spanish playwright, poet, painter and neurologist. He has published 34... more » |
| Alfred Blau was a French dramatist and opera librettist. He was a cousin of Édouard Blau,... more » |
| Alfred Capus was a French journalist and playwright, born in Aix-en-Provence and died in... more » |
 | Alfred Victor de Vigny was a French poet, playwright, and novelist. more » |
 | Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer best known for coining the term and philosophical... more » |
 | Alfred Polgar was an Austrian-born journalist, one of the most renowned intellectuals of the... more » |
 | Alfred James Shaughnessy, sometimes known as "Freddy Shaughnessy", was an English scriptwriter... more » |
 | Alfred Fox Uhry is an American playwright, screenwriter, and member of the Fellowship of... more » |
| Alfredo Balducci was an Italian playwright. more » |
.jpg/216px-Alfredo_Castro_(cropped).jpg "Alfredo Castro") | Alfredo Castro is an actor, theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. more » |
| Alfredo Le Pera was a journalist, dramatist, and lyricist, best known for his brief but fruitful... more » |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote... more » |
 | Ali Moeen is a Pakistani dramatist and lyricist. He has written more than a dozen drama serials... more » |
 | Ali Rafie Iranian Theatre, cinema director and stage designer. more » |
 | Ali Salem, also transliterated Ali Salim, is an Egyptian playwright, author, and political... more » |
.jpg/206px-Alice_Brown_(writer).jpg "Alice Brown") | Alice Brown was an American novelist, poet and playwright, best known as a writer of local color... more » |
| Alice Childress was an American playwright, actor, and author. more » |
 | Alicia Ramsey was a British playwright and screenwriter. Her name is sometimes given as Alice... more » |
 | Alireza Koushk Jalali is an Iranian theatre director and playwright. Currently he resides in... more » |
| Alisa Palmer is a Canadian theatre director and playwright. Born and raised in New Brunswick,... more » |
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| Alistair Beaton is a Scottish left-wing political satirist, journalist, radio presenter,... more » |
| Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM was a New Zealand poet, playwright, and novelist. His father... more » |
| Allan Havis is a playwright with pronounced political themes and probes on colliding cultures... more » |
| Allan Knee is a film and television writer and playwright who authored the following: more » |
| Allan B. Lopez is a writer from the Philippines. He graduated from the University of the... more » |
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| Allen Boretz, was an American songwriter, playwright and screenwriter. The great success of his... more » |
| Allyson Adams is an actress and playwright. more » |
| Alma De Groen is an Australian dramatist. She was born in New Zealand in 1941 and moved to... more » |
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| Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo was a Spanish novelist and playwright, born in Madrid, and... more » |
 | Alphonse Boudard was a French novelist and playwright. He won the 1977 Prix Renaudot for Les... more » |
 | Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist. He was the father of writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. more » |
 | Alphonse Royer, was a French author, dramatist and theatre manager, most remembered today for... more » |
 | Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo was a Brazilian novelist, caricaturist, diplomat,... more » |
| Alun Owen was a British screenwriter, predominantly active in television, but best remembered by... more » |
 | Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright... more » |
| Professor Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo is a Ghanaian author, playwright and academic. more » |
| Amanda Gronich is a screenwriter. more » |
| Amiel Gladstone is a Canadian playwright and director. A graduate of the University of Victoria,... more » |
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| Amir Barghashi is a Swedish actor and dramatist. Barghashi was born in Iran, where he received... more » |
 | Amir Reza Koohestani is a screenwriter. more » |
 | Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of... more » |
| Amlin Gray is a playwright. more » |
| Amon Liner was an American poet and playwright. more » |
 | Amos Kenan, also Amos Keinan, was an Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist. more » |
| Amy Freed is an American playwright. She was nominated as a finalist in the drama category of... more » |
| Amy Louise Sedaris is an American actress, author, and comedian. She is known for playing the... more » |
| Anabheri Prabhakar Rao is a Telangana armed struggle martyr and is also considered a foremost... more » |
.jpg/284px-Anand_Gandhi_(cropped).jpg "Anand Gandhi") | Anand Gandhi is an independent filmmaker and screenwriter based in Mumbai. He was initially... more » |
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| Anastasia Traina is a model and playwright. more » |
.jpg/251px-Анатолий_Мариенгоф_(cropped).jpg "Anatoly Marienhof"){kind=spacer} | Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof or Mariengof was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright. He was... more » |
 | Abisin Abbas, better known by his pseudonym Andjar Asmara, was a dramatist and filmmaker active... more » |
| Andjei Petras, the National Film Critics Award "The White Elephant" in the category "Best Music... more » |
.png/189px-Çajupi_(portret).png "Andon Zako Çajupi") | Andon Zako Çajupi was a leading Albanian rilindas, poet, and playwright writer that actively... more » |
 | András Fáy, Slovak: Andrej Fáy, was a Hungarian author, lawyer, politician and businessman. more » |
| André Barsacq was a French theatre director, producer, scenic designer, and playwright. From... more » |
 | Joseph-Edmond-André Laurendeau was a journalist, politician, co-chair of the Royal Commission on... more » |
 | André Mouézy-Éon was a screenwriter and playwright. more » |
| André Vltchek is a radical public intellectual, philosopher, revolutionary novelist,... more » |
 | Andrea Dunbar was a British playwright best known for Rita, Sue and Bob Too, an autobiographical... more » |
| Andrea Hairston is a writer. more » |
| Andreas Gryphius was a German lyric poet and dramatist. Asteroid 496 Gryphia is named in his honour. more » |
| Andreas Mand is a German contemporary author of novels, short storys and essays and a... more » |
 | Andrej Ermenc Skubic is a Slovene writer, playwright and translator. Skubic was born in... more » |
 | Andrej Hieng was a Slovene writer, playwright and theatre director. Hieng was born in Ljubljana... more » |
| Luis Andrés Caicedo Estela was a Colombian writer born in Cali, the city where he would spend... more » |
| Andrew Bovell is a screenwriter and playwright. more » |
.jpg/238px-Andrew_Davies_(writer).jpg "Andrew Davies") | Andrew Wynford Davies is a British writer of screenplays and novels, best known for Marmalade... more » |
 | Andrew Gerle is an American composer and pianist known for his musical adaptation of "Meet John... more » |
| Andrew Glaze is an American poet, playwright, and novelist. About him, Robert Frost wrote, “I... more » |
| Andrew Macdonald, pen name Matthew Bramble, was a Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright. more » |
| Andrew Moodie is an actor and writer. more » |
| Andrew P. Wilson, born 1886 in Edinburgh, Scotland, was a UK director, playwright, teacher, and... more » |
 | Andrew Jordt "Andy" Robinson is an American actor and the Director of the Master of Fine Arts... more » |
| Andrew Upton is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is the husband of the... more » |
 | Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer. He has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories,... more » |
| Andrzej Jarecki was a screenwriter. more » |
| Andrew Neil Hamilton is a British comedian, game show panellist, television director, comedy... more » |
| Andy Milligan was an American playwright, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor, film editor,... more » |
| Andy Paris is an actor and a writer. more » |
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 | Ángel Faretta is an Argentine author of his own theory of cinema, film critic, writer, poet and... more » |
| Angela Jackson is an award-winning poet, playwright and writer based in Chicago. more » |
 | Angelo Parra is an American playwright. He was born in Manhattan and grew up in the Bronx, New... more » |
 | Angelos Sikelianos was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. He wrote on national history,... more » |
| Angus MacLachlan is a playwright and screenwriter most famous for writing the screenplays for... more » |
| Anisia Uzeyman is a Rwandan actress and a playwright. more » |
 | Anisul Hoque is a Bangladeshi screenwriter, novelist, dramatist and journalist. more » |
 | Anita Loos was an American screenwriter, playwright and author, best known for her blockbuster... more » |
| Ann Henry is a playwright. more » |
 | Patricia Ann Jellicoe is a British playwright, theatre director and actress. Although her work... more » |
| Ann Marcus is an American television writer, producer and playwright. She graduated from Western... more » |
| Ann Marie Di Mambro is a Scottish playwright and television screenwriter of Italian extraction... more » |
 | Ann Yearsley née Cromartie was an English poet and writer. Born in Bristol to John and Anne... more » |
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 | Anna Alice Chapin, was American author and playwright. She wrote novels, short stories, fairy... more » |
| Anna Bonacci was a playwright. more » |
| Anna Bro is a Danish playwright. more » |
 | Anna Catharina Materna was a Danish actor and playwright. She belonged to the first... more » |
 | Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie was an author, playwright, public reader, and actress. more » |
.jpg/248px-Anna_Deveare_Smith_in_1999_(49492156342).jpg "Anna Deavere Smith") | Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is currently the... more » |
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| Annabel Knight is an actress, screenwriter and playwright. more » |
 | Anne Commire was an American playwright and editor. She received the Eugene O'Neill Theater... more » |
 | Anne Devlin is a screenwriter. more » |
 | Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, was an English poet, the third child of Sir William... more » |
| Anne Froelick Taylor was an American screenwriter from 1941 to 1950, and later a playwright and... more » |
| Anne Nichols was an American playwright. Born in Dales Mill, Georgia, Nichols penned a number of... more » |
| Anne Plumptre was an English writer and translator. She was born in Norwich. She and her sister,... more » |
 | Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the... more » |
 | Annibale Ninchi was an actor. more » |
 | Annie Baker is an American playwright. more » |
| Sylvia Anne "Annie" Reiner is an American author, playwright and poet. She is the daughter of... more » |
| Annika Idström was a writer, playwright, translator and screenwriter. more » |
| Antanas Škėma was a Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director. His best known work is the... more » |
| Anthony Armstrong was a writer. more » |
 | John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an... more » |
 | Anthony Ernest Gallo [Reference 21] is an American playwright. He has written over 60 dramatic... more » |
 | Anthony Giardina is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and playwright. Anthony... more » |
 | Anthony Kimmins was a director, playwright, screenwriter, producer and actor. Kimmins was born... more » |
| Anthony Marriott is an actor and playwright notable for being joint author, with Alistair Foot... more » |
 | Anthony McCarten, is a New Zealand-born novelist, playwright and filmmaker. more » |
 | Anthony Minghella, CBE was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman... more » |
 | Anthony Mora is a Los Angeles publicist, former journalist and magazine editor, entrepreneur,... more » |
| Anthony Munday was an English playwright and miscellaneous writer. He was baptized on 13 October... more » |
| Anthony Neilson is a Scottish playwright and director commonly associated with the "in-yer-face... more » |
 | Anthony George Newley was an English actor, singer and songwriter. He enjoyed success as a... more » |
| Anthony Joshua Shaffer was an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister and... more » |
| Anthony Sparks is an American television writer-producer, playwright, and essayist. His... more » |
 | Antoine Danchet was a French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet. more » |
| Antoine Jaccoud is a screenwriter, journalist, playwright, writer and sociologist. more » |
 | Antoine Jacob, known as Montfleury, was a French actor and playwright and a rival of Molière. more » |
 | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be... more » |
 | Anton Ingolič was a Slovene writer, playwright, and editor. He is best known for his novels and... more » |
 | Anton Novačan was a Slovene politician, diplomat, author, and playwright. Novačan was born in a... more » |
 | Born in Phalaborwa, South Africa on 28 September 1971, Anton Robert Krueger is a South African... more » |
 | Anton Tomaž Linhart was a Carniolan playwright and historian, best known as the author of the... more » |
_1932.jpg/239px-Anton_Wildgans_(1881–1932)_1932.jpg "Anton Wildgans") | Anton Wildgans was an Austrian poet and playwright. He was born in Vienna, and died in... more » |
 | María Antonieta Rivas Mercado Castellanos was a Mexican intellectual, writer, feminist and arts... more » |
 | Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French playwright, poet,... more » |
 | Antonine Maillet, PC CC OQ ONB FRSC is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was... more » |
 | Antonio Acevedo Hernández was a Chilean writer. Hernández was a self-taught novelist, playwright... more » |
| Antonio Alatorre Chávez was a Mexican writer, philologist and translator, famous due to his... more » |
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/"Retrat_de_l'escriptor_Antonio_Buero_Vallejo_(1916-2000).png/209px-"Retrat_de_l'escriptor_Antonio_Buero_Vallejo_(1916-2000).png "Antonio Buero Vallejo") | Antonio Buero Vallejo was a Spanish playwright associated with the Generation of '36 movement... more » |
| Antônio Callado was a Brazilian journalist, playwright, and novelist. Born in Niterói, Rio de... more » |
_retrato.png/208px-Antonio_de_Solís_(1783)_retrato.png "Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra") | Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra was a Spanish dramatist and historian. His work includes drama,... more » |
| Antonio Enríquez Gómez, Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist of Portuguese-Jewish origin, was... more » |
| Antonio Estrada is an actor, a theatre director and a playwright. more » |
| Antonio García Gutiérrez was a Spanish Romantic dramatist. more » |
 | Antônio Gonçalves Teixeira e Sousa Antônio Gonçalves Teixeira e Sousa was a Brazilian poet, novelist and playwright, whose novel O... more » |
| António José da Silva was a Brazilian dramatist, known as "the Jew". The Brazilian spelling of... more » |
 | António José Enes, commonly known as António Enes, was a Portuguese politician and writer. A... more » |
| Antonio Onetti is a screenwriter, actor, film and theatre director and playwright. more » |
| Antonio Paso Díaz was a playwright. more » |
 | Antonio Porta was an author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement... more » |
| António Rodrigues is a Portuguese actor, screenwriter and director. He is also a dramatist,... more » |
 | Antonio Rodríguez Salvador, is a poet, fiction writer, dramatist and essayist. Salvador was born... more » |
| José Antonio Serrano Argüelles is a Mexican film director, actor, playwright and screenwriter... more » |
 | Antonio Somma was an Italian playwright who is most well known for writing the libretto of an... more » |
| Antony Holland CM is an English actor, playwright, and theatre director. Currently he lives on... more » |
 | Anwar Maqsood Hameedi commonly known as Anwar Maqsood is a Pakistani scriptwriter, television... more » |
| Anya Reiss is a British playwright. A graduate of the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme, she... more » |
 | Aphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration, the first English professional... more » |
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Współpracownicy_"Kłosów"_Pisarze_Korzeniowski_Apollo_(78212).jpg/256px-Współpracownicy_"Kłosów"_Pisarze_Korzeniowski_Apollo_(78212).jpg "Apollo Korzeniowski") | Apollo Korzeniowski was a Polish poet, playwright, clandestine political activist, and father of... more » |
| Appachcha Kavi was an Indian poet and playwright. He belonged to the Kodava community. He is... more » |
| April De Angelis is an English dramatist of part Sicilian descent. She is a graduate of Sussex... more » |
 | Aram Saroyan is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright, who is... more » |
| Aramazd Stepanian is an Iranian actor, producer, director and playwright born in Abadan, Iran... more » |
| Araros was the son of Aristophanes. more » |
 | Arch Oboler was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, and director who was... more » |
 | Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated... more » |
_(cropped).jpg/223px-Ariel_Dorfman_(4115073947)_(cropped).jpg "Ariel Dorfman") | Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and... more » |
| Arif Aliyev is a screenwriter. more » |
 | Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient... more » |
| Aristoteles Picho is an actor, theatre director, playwright and acting coach. more » |
 | Armand Camille Salacrou was a French dramatist. He was born in Rouen, but spent most of his... more » |
 | Armando Discépolo is a playwright and screenwriter. more » |
| Arnaldo Malfatti is a screenwriter. more » |
| Arne Lygre is a Norwegian novelist and playwright. Among his plays are Mamma og meg og menn from... more » |
| Arnold Perl was a screenwriter and film producer. more » |
 | William Arnold Ridley, OBE was an English playwright and actor, first notable as the author of... more » |
| Arnold Schulman is an American playwright, screenwriter, producer, a songwriter and novelist. He... more » |
| Arnolt Bronnen was an Austrian playwright and director. more » |
 | Arnošt Goldflam is a Czech playwright, writer, director, screenwriter, and actor. He appeared in... more » |
 | Arnošt Lustig was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and... more » |
 | Arthur Adamov was a playwright, one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd. more » |
 | Arthur Bernède was a French writer, poet, opera libretist, and playwright. He was born in Redon,... more » |
| Arthur Berry was an English playwright, poet, teacher and artist, who was born in Smallthorne,... more » |
 | Arthur Pelham Collins was an English playwright and theatre manager. He was perhaps best known... more » |
.jpg "Arthur Holitscher") | Arthur Holitscher was a Hungarian playwright, novelist, essayist and writer on traveling. Born... more » |
 | Arthur Hopkins was a Broadway theater director and producer in the early twentieth century. more » |
 | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. was an American film producer. His father, Arthur Hornblow Senior, was a... more » |
.jpg/209px-Arthur_Kopit_(cropped).jpg "Arthur Kopit") | Arthur Lee Kopit is an American playwright. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a... more » |
| Arthur L. Jarrett was an American screenwriter and film actor. He wrote for 70 films between... more » |
 | Arthur Laurents was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter. After writing... more » |
 | William Arthur Law, better known as Arthur Law, was an English playwright, actor and scenic... more » |
| Arthur Washington Lithgow III was an American actor and director. Lithgow, the father of actor... more » |
| Arthur M. Jolly is an American playwright and screenwriter. In 2006, he was awarded an Academy... more » |
 | Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in... more » |
.jpg/235px-Arthur_Murphy_by_Nathaniel_Dance,_(later_Sir_Nathaniel_Dance-Holland,_Bt).jpg "Arthur Murphy") | Arthur Murphy, also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer. more » |
 | Arthur Nersesian is an American novelist, playwright, and poet. Nersesian is of Armenian and... more » |
| Arthur Richman was a screenwriter and a playwright. more » |
 | Arthur Mills Perce Stratton was an American author and traveller. He was a playwright, a... more » |
| Arthur Horace Swinson was a British Army officer, writer, playwright, and historian. Born in St... more » |
 | Arthur Harold Wimperis was an English illustrator, playwright, lyricist and Academy... more » |
 | Sir Arthur Wing Pinero was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director. more » |
 | Artur Nabantino Gonçalves de Azevedo was a Brazilian playwright, short story writer, chronicler,... more » |
| Arun Mukherjee is an Actor. more » |
| Asa Bordages is a writer and playwright. more » |
| Ashfaq Ahmed was a writer, playwright, broadcaster, intellectual and spiritualist from Pakistan... more » |
| Asiedu Yirenkyi is a Ghanaian playwright, the author of Kivuli and Other Plays. In the early... more » |
| Asif Currimbhoy is an Indian playwright writing in English. Currimbhoy is India's first... more » |
_(15252253971).jpg/300px-Portrett_av_Aslaug_Vaa_(utsnitt_av_større_ark)_(15252253971).jpg "Aslaug Vaa") | Aslaug Vaa was a Norwegian poet and playwright. more » |
| Aśvaghoṣa [əɕʋəgʰoːɕə] was an Indian philosopher-poet, born in Saketa in northern India to a... more » |
| Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English... more » |
| Atiqul Haque Chowdhury was a veteran media personality in Bangladesh. His contributions in... more » |
_(cropped).jpg/225px-Ato_Essandoh_(40194937141)_(cropped).jpg "Ato Essandoh") | Ato Essandoh is an American television and film actor. Essandoh, who was born in Schenectady,... more » |
 | August Kitzberg was a playwright. more » |
 | August Stramm was a German poet and playwright who is considered one of the first of the... more » |
 | Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A... more » |
 | August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The... more » |
| Augusta Gregory was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager more » |
.jpg/207px-Augustin_Daly_(portrait_photograph).jpg "Augustin Daly") | John Augustin Daly was an American theatrical manager and playwright active in both the US and UK. more » |
 | Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris, was a British actor, impresario, and dramatist. more » |
 | Augustus Smith was an actor and writer. more » |
 | Augustus Thomas was an American playwright, born in St. Louis, Missouri. The son of a doctor, he... more » |
| Aurin Squire is an award-winning American producer, playwright, screenwriter, and reporter. He... more » |
| Austin Fairman was an actor and playwright. more » |
 | Austin Gary is an American novelist, mostly known as a BMI award-winning songwriter for "The... more » |
 | Austin Pendleton is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre... more » |
 | Awaz Sayeed, full name Awaz Bin Sayeed, was a renowned modern short-story writer, poet,... more » |
| Axel Hellstenius is a film writer. more » |
 | Ayad Akhtar is an American actor and writer. He is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for... more » |
.jpg/247px-Ayn_Rand_(1943_Talbot_portrait).jpg "Ayn Rand") | Ayn Rand was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, who later in her career became... more » |
| Ayub Khan-Din is a British Pakistani actor and playwright. As an actor, Khan-Din participated in... more » |
