List of Playwrights By Nationality and Year of Birth

United States

See also: List of playwrights from the United States; List of African-American writers; List of Jewish American playwrights

(1766–1839) William Dunlap
(1784–1842) Samuel Woodworth
(1784–1858) James Nelson Barker
(1806–1854) Robert Montgomery Bird
(1810–1858) Robert Taylor Conrad
(1819–1870) Anna Cora Mowatt
(c. 1820 – 1890) Dion Boucicault
(1823–1890) George H. Boker
(1830–1876) George Aiken
(1837–1920) William Dean Howells
(1838–1899) Augustin Daly
(1839–1901) James A. Herne
(1840–1908) Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden (Hebrew language and Yiddish language)
(1842–1894) Steele MacKaye
(1842–1908) Bronson Howard
(1843–1916) Henry James
(1845–1911) Edward Harrigan
(1853–1909) Jacob Gordin {Yan} (Russian language and Yiddish language)
(1853–1931) David Belasco
(1855–1937) William Gillette
(1862–1935) Langdon Mitchell
(1865–1909) Clyde Fitch
(1866–1935) George Pierce Baker
(1866–1944) George Ade
(1869–1910) William Vaughn Moody
(1874–1938) Zona Gale
(1874–1956) Owen Davis
(1874–1965) W. Somerset Maugham
(1875–1956) Percy MacKaye
(1876–1962) Jules Eckert Goodman
(1878–1942) George M. Cohan
(1878–1952) Ferenc Molnár (Hungarian language)
(1878–1958) Rachel Crothers
(1880–1948) Peretz Hirschbein (Hebrew language and Yiddish language)
(1880–1957) Sholem Asch (Yiddish language)
(1881–1972) Padraic Colum
(1882–1928) Avery Hopwood
(1882–1948) Susan Glaspell
(1882–1961) Leonhard Frank
(1883–1967) Martin Flavin
(1885–1940) DuBose Heyward
(1886–1958) Zoë Akins
(1887–1961) George S. Kaufman
(1887–1962) Robinson Jeffers
(1887–1968) Edna Ferber
(1887–1974) George Kelly
(1887–1995) George Abbott
(1888–1953) Eugene O'Neill
(1888–1959) Maxwell Anderson
(1888–1962) H. Leivick (Yiddish language)
(1888–1965) T. S. Eliot [United States—England)
(1889–1946) John Colton (United States—England]
(1889–1954) John L. Balderston
(1889–1968) Howard Lindsay
(1890–1980) Marc Connelly
(1890–1984) Frances Goodrich
(1891–1939) Sidney Howard
(1891–1957) Philip Dunning
(1891–1966) Anne Nichols
(1892–1950) Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892–1982) Archibald MacLeish
(1893–1966) Russel Crouse
(1893–1973) S. N. Behrman
(1894–1962) E. E. Cummings
(1894–1964) Ben Hecht
(1894–1977) John Howard Lawson
(1894–1981) Paul Green
(1895–1943) Lorenz Hart
(1895–1952) Alfred Neumann (German language and English language)
(1895–1956) Charles MacArthur
(1895–1960) Oscar Hammerstein, II
(1895–1966) Joseph Fields
(1896–1949) Philip Barry
(1896–1960) Edwin Justus Mayer
(1896–1974) Lawrence Riley
(1897–1958) F. Hugh Herbert
(1899–1967) Edgar Neville (Spanish language and English language)
(1899–1980) Elliott Nugent
(1900–1998) Julien Green (French language and English language)
(1901–1969) Jack Kirkland
(1901–1984) Denis Johnston
(1901–1988) Paul Osborn
(February 1902–1967) Langston Hughes
(June 1902–1967) Joseph Kesselring
(1903–1987) Clare Boothe
(1904–1961) Moss Hart
(1904–1972) Arthur Arent
(1904–1986) Christopher Isherwood
(1905–1964) Marc Blitzstein
(1905–1984) Lillian Hellman
(1906–1963) Clifford Odets
(1906–1995) Sidney Kingsley
(1907–1973) W. H. Auden
(1907–1981) Mary Coyle Chase
(1908–1981) William Saroyan
(1909–1981) Ketti Frings
(1909–1984) Norman Krasna
(1910–1961) Antanas Škėma (Lithuanian language)
(1911–1983) Tennessee Williams
(1911–2004) Jerome Chodorov
(1911–2007) Gian Carlo Menotti (Italian language and English language)
(1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy (French language and Creole language)
(1912–1999) Garson Kanin
(1913–1973) William Inge
(1913–2000) N. Richard Nash
(1914–2008) William Gibson
(1915–2005) Arthur Miller
(1914–1956) John La Touche
(1917–1970) William Archibald
(1917–1967) Carson McCullers
(1917–2009) Robert Anderson
(1918–1993) Louis O. Coxe
(born 1918) Arthur Laurents
(1919–1949) Thomas Heggen
(1922–1999) William Alfred
(1922–2003) George Axelrod
(1922–2006) Jay Presson Allen
(1922–2008) Tad Mosel
(1923–1981) Paddy Chayefsky
(1923–1995) Michael V. Gazzo
(1924–1987) James Baldwin
(1925–1995) Charles Gordone
(born 1925) Frank D. Gilroy
(1927–1998) James Goldman
(born 1927) Neil Simon
(born March 1928) Edward Albee
(born April 1928) George Herman
(born 1929) Jules Feiffer
(1930–1965) Lorraine Hansberry
(born 1930) Bruce Jay Friedman
(1932–2003) Jack Gelber
(born July 1934) Wole Soyinka
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(born 1935) Mart Crowley
(born 1937) Arthur Kopit
(born 1937) Tina Howe
(born February 1938) John Guare
(born August 1938) Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
(born September 1938) Janusz Głowacki (Polish language and English language)
(born 1939) Terrence McNally
(1943–1987) Charles Ludlam
(born 1945) Mac Wellman
(born 1947) David Mamet
(born 1956) Tony Kushner
(born 1958) Jane Shepard
(born 1961) CJ Hopkins
(born 1962) Michael Hollinger
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