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List of playwrights from the United States





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Notable playwrights from the United States include:

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

18th century

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  • William Dunlap
  • Robert Hunter
  • Royall Tyler
  • Mercy Otis Warren

    • 19th century

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  • Nathaniel Bannister
  • James Nelson Barker
  • David Belasco
  • Eva Best
  • Robert Montgomery Bird
  • George H. Boker
  • Dion Boucicault
  • John Brougham
  • William Wells Brown
  • Bob Cole
  • Robert T. Conrad
  • Augustin Daly
  • Clyde Fitch
  • Edward Harrigan
  • Grace Hayward
  • James A. Herne
  • Bronson Howard
  • William Dean Howells
  • Charles H. Hoyt
  • Henry James
  • Cornelius Ambrosius Logan
  • Steele MacKaye
  • Frederick G. Maeder
  • Fred Marsden
  • Cornelius Mathews
  • Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
  • Anna Cora Mowatt
  • John Neal
  • John Howard Payne
  • Cora Scott Pond Pope
  • Robert E. Sherwood
  • Harry B. Smith
  • Samuel Woodworth
  • William Young

    • 20th century

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  • Edward Albee
  • Eva Allen Alberti
  • Woody Allen
  • Franco Ambriz
  • Jane Anderson
  • Maxwell Anderson
  • Robert Woodruff Anderson
  • Maya Angelou
  • Jacob M. Appel
  • Ray Aranha
  • Larry Atlas
  • David Auburn
  • Jon Robin Baitz
  • Amiri Baraka
  • Philip Barry
  • Todd Bash
  • Jonathan Bayliss
  • Douglas Carter Beane
  • Jim Beaver
  • David Belasco
  • Stephen Belber
  • Ruth Bellamy
  • S. N. Behrman
  • David Berry
  • Leo Birinski
  • Lee Blessing
  • Marc Blitzstein
  • Eric Bogosian
  • Neith Boyce
  • Kent Broadhurst
  • Eve Brodlique
  • Jason Robert Brown
  • Ed Bullins
  • Percy Jewett Burrell
  • Mary P. Burrill
  • Abe Burrows
  • Sheila Callaghan
  • Steve Carter
  • Linda Chambers
  • Paddy Chayefsky
  • Alice Childress
  • Frank Chin
  • Donald L. Coburn
  • George M. Cohan
  • Betty Comden
  • Constance Congdon
  • Marc Connelly
  • Kia Corthron
  • Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
  • Michael Cristofer
  • Rachel Crothers
  • Nilo Cruz
  • Lisa D'Amour
  • Ossie Davis
  • Floyd Dell
  • John Dempsey
  • Steven Dietz
  • Owen Dodson
  • Tom Donaghy
  • Richard Dresser
  • John Van Druten
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Christopher Durang
  • Fred Ebb
  • Erik Ehn
  • T. S. Eliot
  • Will Eno
  • Don Evans
  • Charles Evered
  • Tom Eyen
  • Jules Feiffer
  • Edna Ferber
  • Harvey Fierstein
  • Clyde Fitch
  • Horton Foote
  • María Irene Fornés
  • Paul Foster
  • Amy Freed
  • Ketti Frings
  • Charles Fuller
  • George Furth
  • Herb Gardner
  • Jack Gelber
  • Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
  • Alice Gerstenberg
  • William Gibson
  • D. B. Gilles
  • Susan Glaspell
  • Andrew Glaze
  • Ruth Goetz
  • James Goldman
  • Frances Goodrich
  • Ain Gordon
  • Ed Graczyk
  • Adolph Green
  • Paul Eliot Green
  • Richard Greenberg
  • Frances Nimmo Greene
  • Elana Greenfield
  • David Greenspan
  • David Grimm
  • Rinne Groff
  • John Guare
  • A. R. Gurney
  • Albert Hackett
  • Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
  • Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Stoo Hample
  • Lorraine Hansberry
  • Sheldon Harnick
  • Moss Hart
  • Jeffrey Hatcher
  • Marcia Haufrecht
  • Joseph Hayes
  • Ben Hecht
  • Lillian Hellman
  • Beth Henley
  • George Herman
  • Hilly Hicks Jr.
  • David Hirson
  • William M. Hoffman
  • Linda Hogan
  • Michael Hollinger
  • Israel Horovitz
  • Rupert Holmes
  • Sidney Howard
  • Tina Howe
  • Babette Hughes
  • Langston Hughes
  • David Henry Hwang
  • Naomi Iizuka
  • William Inge
  • Albert Innaurato
  • David Ives
  • Luigi Jannuzzi
  • Arthur M. Jolly
  • Preston Jones
  • Marc Bamuthi Joseph
  • Garson Kanin
  • George S. Kaufman
  • Moisés Kaufman
  • Adrienne Kennedy
  • Charles Rann Kennedy
  • Stanley Keyes
  • Sidney Kingsley
  • James Kirkwood Jr.
  • Kevin Kling
  • Harry Kondoleon
  • Arthur Kopit
  • Greg Kotis
  • Lisa Kron
  • Larry Kramer
  • Sherry Kramer
  • Tony Kushner
  • Neil LaBute
  • Tina Landau
  • Mary Lewis Langworthy
  • James Lapine
  • Jonathan Larson
  • Arthur Laurents
  • Jerome Lawrence
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Warren Leight
  • Alan Jay Lerner
  • Ira Levin
  • David Lindsay-Abaire
  • Romulus Linney
  • Kenneth Lonergan
  • Craig Lucas
  • Clare Boothe Luce
  • William Luce
  • Ken Ludwig
  • Charles MacArthur
  • Eduardo Machado
  • Percy MacKaye
  • Archibald MacLeish
  • David Mamet
  • Emily Mann
  • Deb Margolin
  • Donald Margulies
  • Melanie Marnich
  • Jane Martin
  • Joe Masteroff
  • William Mastrosimone
  • Ellen McLaughlin
  • James McLure
  • Scott McMorrow
  • Terrence McNally
  • Scott McPherson
  • Mark Medoff
  • Charles L. Mee
  • Leonard Melfi
  • Charles Mergendahl[1]
  • Marlane Meyer
  • George Middleton
  • Arthur Miller
  • Jason Miller
  • Susan Miller
  • John Cameron Mitchell
  • Langdon Mitchell
  • Philip Moeller
  • Cherríe Moraga
  • Tad Mosel
  • Itamar Moses
  • Brighde Mullins
  • Phyllis Nagy
  • N. Richard Nash
  • Josefina Niggli
  • Marsha Norman
  • Bruce Norris
  • Lynn Nottage
  • Elliott Nugent
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Clifford Odets
  • Eugene O'Neill
  • Han Ong
  • Dael Orlandersmith
  • Paul Osborn
  • Eric Overmyer
  • Rochelle Owens
  • William Packard
  • Steven Christopher Parker
  • Suzan-Lori Parks
  • John Patrick
  • John Pielmeier
  • Miguel Piñero
  • David Pinski
  • Bernard Pomerance
  • Gordon Porterfield
  • Craig Pospisil
  • Reinaldo Povod
  • Toni Press-Coffman
  • David Rabe
  • Ayn Rand
  • Theresa Rebeck
  • Keith Reddin
  • Ronald Ribman
  • Elmer Rice
  • Willis Richardson
  • Lynn Riggs
  • Lawrence Riley
  • José Rivera
  • Paul Rudnick
  • Mildred Ruiz-Sapp
  • Isabella Russell-Ides
  • Peter Sagal
  • Stephen Sachs
  • Steven Sapp
  • William Saroyan
  • Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
  • Robert Schenkkan
  • Murray Schisgal
  • John Schneider
  • Sarah Schulman
  • Sandra Seaton
  • Ntozake Shange
  • John Patrick Shanley
  • Wallace Shawn
  • John Shea
  • Claudia Shear
  • Edward Sheldon
  • Jane Shepard
  • Sam Shepard
  • Martin Sherman
  • Robert B. Sherman
  • Robert E. Sherwood
  • Christopher Shinn
  • Dora Adele Shoemaker
  • Del Shores
  • Larry Shue
  • Nicky Silver
  • Neil Simon
  • Eric Simonson
  • Anna Deavere Smith
  • Evan Smith
  • Harry B. Smith
  • Stephen Sondheim
  • Aaron Sorkin
  • Jeffrey Stanley
  • Wilbur Daniel Steele
  • Joseph Stein
  • Jean Anderson Sterrett
  • Donald Ogden Stewart
  • Kelly Stuart
  • Jeffrey Sweet
  • Jo Swerling
  • Megan Terry
  • Ernest Thompson
  • James Thurber
  • Lucy Thurber
  • Sophie Treadwell
  • Grace Hyde Trine
  • Alfred Uhry
  • Luis Valdez
  • Gore Vidal
  • Paula Vogel
  • John Walch
  • Ian Walker
  • Naomi Wallace
  • Eugene Walter
  • Douglas Turner Ward
  • Anne Washburn
  • Dale Wasserman
  • Wendy Wasserstein
  • John Weidman
  • George Weller
  • Mac Wellman
  • Marion Craig Wentworth
  • Mae West
  • Percival Wilde
  • Thornton Wilder
  • John Willard
  • Samm-Art Williams
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Beau Willimon
  • August Wilson
  • Lanford Wilson
  • Meredith Willson
  • Tracey Scott Wilson
  • David Wiltse
  • Lee Wochner
  • George C. Wolfe
  • Elizabeth Wong
  • Doug Wright
  • Chay Yew
  • Mary Zimmerman
  • Miriam Shomer Zunser

    • 21st century

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  • Annie Baker
  • Ayad Akhtar
  • Stephen Belber
  • Brooke Berman
  • Adam Bock
  • Thomas Bradshaw
  • George Brant
  • Gamal Abdel Chasten
  • Vicki Caroline Cheatwood
  • John Clancy
  • Cusi Cram
  • Rick Elice
  • Will Eno
  • Larissa Fasthorse
  • Melissa James Gibson
  • Rebecca Gilman
  • Gina Gionfriddo
  • Stephen Adly Guirgis
  • Danai Gurira
  • Katori Hall
  • Joshua Harmon (playwright)
  • Whit Hertford
  • Amy Herzog
  • Lucas Hnath
  • CJ Hopkins
  • Samuel D. Hunter
  • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Julia Jordan
  • Rajiv Joseph
  • Aditi Kapil
  • Stephen Karam
  • Zoe Kazan
  • Young Jean Lee
  • Tracy Letts
  • Simon Levy
  • Kirk Lynn
  • Taylor Mac
  • Mona Mansour
  • Melanie Marnich
  • Richard Maxwell
  • Tarell Alvin McCraney
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Meg Miroshnik
  • Anthony Mora
  • Janet Noble
  • Bruce Norris
  • Dan O'Brien
  • Dael Orlandersmith
  • Trey Parker
  • Laura Pedersen
  • David Rambo
  • Adam Rapp
  • Bert V. Royal
  • Sarah Ruhl
  • William Ruiz
  • Carl Hancock Rux
  • Regina Taylor
  • Alice Tuan
  • Marisa Wegrzyn
  • Leah Nanako Winkler
  • Craig Wright
  • Quiara Alegría Hudes

    • See also

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    References

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    1. ^ "The Stage: New England Repertory Playhouse 'Watch for the Morning'". The Boston Globe. December 17, 1941. p. 19. Retrieved January 15, 2022.

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