Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally was awarded the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. He is the winner of Tony Awards for […]
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 […]
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ plays include NEIGHBORS (Public Theater), APPROPRIATE (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Victory Gardens Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and […]
Stephen Karam
Stephen Karam’s plays include THE HUMANS (Tony Award, Obie Award for Playwriting, Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and Pulitzer Prize finalist), […]
Tony Kushner
Born in New York City in 1956, and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Tony Kushner is best known for his […]
Josh Harmon
Joshua Harmon’s plays include Bad Jews (Roundabout Underground; Roundabout/Laura Pels; West End), Significant Other (Roundabout; Broadway/Booth Theatre), Admissions (Lincoln Center […]
John Herbert
John Herbert was the pen name of John Herbert Brundage, a Canadian playwright, drag queen, and theatre director best known […]
Richard Greenberg
Richard Greenberg is the author of TAKE ME OUT (Drama Desk Award; NY Drama Critics Circle Award; Outer Critics Circle […]
Paul Downs Colaizzo
Paul’s first play REALLY REALLY ran Off-Broadway to glowing reviews at MCC Theater. The plays starred Zosia Mamet and Matt […]
Christopher Durang
Christopher Durang’s plays include The Idiots Karamazov (coauthored with Albert Innaurato), A History of the American Film (Tony nom.), Sister […]
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein made his professional acting debut at La Mama ETC in 1971 in Andy Warhol’s only play, Pork. He […]
Adam Bock
Adam Bock’s plays include Phaedra (Shotgun Players), A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nomination), book for We Have Always […]
Edward Albee
Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928, and began writing plays 30 years later. His plays include The Zoo […]
Aziza Barnes
Aziza Banres is the winner of the 2015 Pamet River Prize; their first full length collection, i be but i […]