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This is a list of notable Jewish American playwrights. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

  • Lynn Ahrens[2]
  • Sholom Aleichem[3]
  • Woody Allen (born 1935), film director, writer, actor, and comedian[4]
  • Jacob M. Appel[5]
  • George Axelrod[6]
  • Jeff Baron
  • S. N. Behrman[7]
  • David Belasco[8]
  • Saul Bellow[9]
  • Leo Birinski
  • Agnes Borinsky
  • Mel Brooks[10]
  • Paddy Chayefsky[11]
  • Betty Comden & Adolph Green[2]
  • Norman Corwin[12]
  • Howard Dietz[13]
  • Edward Einhorn[14]
  • Eve Ensler[15]
  • Harvey Fierstein[16]
  • Edna Ferber[17]
  • Herb Gardner[11]
  • Larry Gelbart[18]
  • Joel Gersmann[19]
  • Josh Greenfeld[20]
  • Oscar Hammerstein II[21]
  • Otto Harbach[2]
  • Yip Harburg[22]
  • Moss Hart[23]
  • Ben Hecht[24]
  • Lillian Hellman[25]
  • Peretz Hirshbein[26]
  • Israel Horovitz[27]
  • George Jessel[28]
  • George S. Kaufman[23]
  • Sidney Kingsley[29]
  • Tony Kushner[30]
  • James Lapine[31]
  • Arthur Laurents[32]
  • H. Leivick[33]
  • Alan Jay Lerner[34]
  • Ira Levin[35]
  • Craig Lucas[36]
  • David Mamet[37]
  • Donald Margulies[38]
  • Arthur Miller[39][40]
  • Cheryl Moch
  • Becky Mode[41]
  • Itamar Moses
  • Clifford Odets[42][43]
  • Carl Reiner[44]
  • Elmer Rice[45]
  • Morrie Ryskind[46]
  • Peter Sagal[47][48]
  • Rod Serling[49]
  • Irwin Shaw[50]
  • Wallace Shawn[51]
  • Sidney Sheldon[52]
  • Martin Sherman[53]
  • Neil Simon[54]
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer[55]
  • Joey Soloway, playwright, television writer[56]
  • Aaron Sorkin (born 1961), screenwriter, producer and playwright[57]
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Joseph Stein[58]
  • Louise Stern[59]
  • Jeffrey Sweet[60]
  • Chaim Towber[61]
  • Alfred Uhry[62]
  • Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University; recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama[63]
  • Jerome Weidman[64]
  • Franz Werfel[65]
  • Norman Wexler, screenwriter of Saturday Night Fever, Joe, Serpico, Mandingo
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  • ^ [13] "The gay, Jewish socialist raised in Louisiana and educated at Columbia and NYU most enjoys addressing audiences that are receptive to ideas for change and progress."
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  • ^ [14] "...the creation of Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, and Stephen Sondheim: four gay Jewish men, all working at the very top of their craft." [15] "Laurents also writes extensively on being gay, Jewish, left-wing..."
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  • ^ [18] "David Mamet is a Jewish writer, though until recently few accounts of his life or work suggested as much..."
  • ^ [19] "he was Donald Margulies, the darling of regional theater, the state-sanctioned "Jewish American Playwright""
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  • ^ [21] "But consider the milieu the show's Jewish creator, Carl Reiner, was trying to portray: the heavily Jewish New York comedy scene out of which came Your Show..."
  • ^ "All About Jewish Theatre - Elmer Rice Revival Now Off-Broadway". Archived from the original on 2006-05-12. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "Elmer Rice, nee Reizenstein, an American/Jewish writer of the ‘20s and ‘30s, did not necessarily focus on Jewish characters and issues..."
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  • ^ Wasserstein[27] "“My father loved me dearly, but I’m not a Jewish American Princess,” playwright Wendy Wasserstein said. “I’m a Jewish mother, but I’m not Molly Goldberg.”"
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