Biljana Srbljanovic
Biljana Srbljanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Србљановић, pronounced [bǐʎanasr̩bʎǎːnoʋitɕ]; born 15 October 1970) is a Serbian playwright and university professor. She […]
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. His plays include: DOCTOR CERBERUS (South Coast Rep, LA […]
Jen Silverman
Jen Silverman is a playwright, novelist, poet and screenwriter. Jen’s plays include Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (Woolly […]
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. Her plays include The Oldest Boy, Dear Elizabeth, Stage […]
Cherrie Moraga
Julia Alvarez’s statement about the place of Cherríe Moraga’s work in Latina letters refers to a series of remarkable, blazing […]
Tanya Saracho
Tanya Saracho was born in Sinaloa, México. She is a playwright and television writer who’s worked on How To Get […]
Terry Gomez
Terry Gomez is from the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. She is a published and produced playwright, published writer, theater director, […]
Yolanda Bonell
olanda Bonnell(She/They) is a Bi/Pan/Queer 2 Spirit Ojibwe, South Asian mixed (Scottish & English) storyteller. Originally from Fort William First […]
Tarell Alvin McCraney
Tarell Alvin McCraney is best known for his acclaimed trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red and […]
Douglas Carter Beane
Douglas Carter Beane’s THE NANCE recreates the naughty, raucous world of burlesque’s heyday and tells the backstage story of Chauncey […]
Maria Irene Fornes
María Irene Fornés, considered by many to be the mother of Latinx playwriting, was an influential and award-winning playwright, director, […]
Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for TALLEY’S FOLLY. […]
Doug Wright
Doug Wright wrote the book for the Broadway production of THE LITTLE MERMAID. In 2006, he received Tony and Drama […]
Lucy Thurber
Lucy Thurber is the author of seven plays: WHERE WE’RE BORN, ASHVILLE, SCARCITY, KILLERS AND OTHER FAMILY, STAY, BOTTOM OF […]
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was born in Dublin to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane. While studying at […]
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among […]
Joe Orton
Joe Orton (1933 – 1967) was born John Kingsley Orton in Leicester and from the age of two, lived on […]
A.Rey Pamatmat
A. Rey Pamatmat’s play after all the terrible things I do premiered at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and runs at […]
Charles Ludlam
Charles Ludlam grew up in Queens, New York, just a few subway stops from Greenwich Village, and the heart of […]
Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally was awarded the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. He is the winner of Tony Awards for […]
Tony Kushner
Born in New York City in 1956, and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Tony Kushner is best known for his […]
Samuel Hunter
Samuel D. Hunter’s plays include The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama […]
David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang’s plays include M. BUTTERFLY (1988 Tony Award, 1989 Pulitzer Finalist), GOLDEN CHILD (1998 Tony nomination, 1997 OBIE […]
William Inge
Born on May 3, 1913, in Independence, Kansas, William Motter Inge was the youngest of five children. He would get […]