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List Of Playwrights
This is a list of notable playwrights. See also Literature; Drama; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth; Lists of authors. A Ab–An Ap–Ay B Ba–Be Bi–By C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Sa–Se Sg–Sr St–Sz T U * Nicholas Udall (1504–1556, England) *Alfred Uhry (born 1936, United States) * Rodolfo Usigli (1905–1979, Mexico) * Ken Urban (born 1974, United States) V W Y Z See also * List of Bosnian playwrights * List of British playwrights since 1950 * List of Canadian playwrights * List of French playwrights * List of German playwrights * List of Irish dramatists * List of Jewish American playwrights * List of Slovenian playwrights *List of playwrights from the United States Notable playwrights from the United States include: 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century See also * Theater of the United States * List of American plays * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Playwrights By Nationality And Date Of Birth
Dramatists listed in chronological order by country and language: ''See also'': List of playwrights; List of early-modern British women playwrights; Lists of writers Albania ''See also'': List of Albanian writers *(1850–1904) Sami Frashëri Assyrian homeland, Assyria ''See also'': List of Assyrian writers *(born 1965) Rosie Malek-Yonan *(born 1969) Monica Malek-Yonan Australia *(1799–1873) Henry Melville *(1813–1868) Charles Harpur *(1822–1878) William Akhurst *(1842–1880) Walter Cooper (New South Wales politician), Walter Cooper *(1843–1913) Garnet Walch *(1843–1908) Alfred Dampier *(1846–1881) Marcus Clarke *(1846–1918) Mary Foott *(1860–1921) Charles Haddon Chambers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon Chambers *(1862–1938) Edmund Duggan *(1865–1944) Alex Melrose *(1867–1905) Guy Boothby *(1869–1942) George Beeby *(1873–1953) Dora Wilcox *(1877–1946) Harry Tighe *(1878–1943) Louis Esson *(1865–1935) Carlton Dawe *(1881–1917) Sumner Locke *(1884� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Adjmi
David Adjmi (born 1973) is an American playwright. He is the recipient of a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the inaugural Steinberg Playwright Award, a Bush Artists Fellowship, and the Kesselring Prize for Drama. In 2020, he released a memoir about the struggle to become an artist, titled ''Lot Six''. His plays include '' Stunning'' (2008) and ''Stereophonic'' (2023), the latter winning the Tony Award for Best Play. Life Adjmi grew up in a Syrian Jewish family in Midwood, Brooklyn. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (1995), the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa (MFA 2001), and the Juilliard School's American Playwrights Program (2003). As of 2010, he resided in Brooklyn Heights. Career Adjmi's play ''The Evildoers'' was developed at the Sundance Institute and the Royal Court Theatre in London. It premiered in January 2008 at the Yale Repertory T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Ruiz De Alarcón
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (c. 1581 – 4 August 1639) was a New Spain, New Spanish writer of the Spanish Golden Age, Golden Age who cultivated different variants of dramaturgy. His works include the comedy ''La verdad sospechosa'' (:es:La verdad sospechosa, es), which is considered a masterpiece of Latin American Baroque theater. Family Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was born in Real de Taxco, later named Taxco de Alarcón in his honour. His family was of old Asturias, Asturian nobility. The name ''Alarcón'' had been given to his ancestor :es:Fernán Martínez de Ceballos, Ferren Martínez de Ceballos by Alfonso VIII of Castile after he had successfully driven the Moors from the fortress of Alarcón near Cuenca, Spain, Cuenca in 1177. Juán Ruiz de Alarcón's maternal grandparents Hernando and María de Mendoza were among the first Spaniards to arrive in Mexico in 1535, when they established themselves in Taxco. Their daughter Leonor de Mendoza married Pedro Ruiz de Alarcón who was descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov
Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov ( rus, Васи́лий Па́влович Аксёнов, p=vɐˈsʲilʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ɐˈksʲɵnəf; August 20, 1932 – July 6, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of ''The Burn'' (''Ожог'', ''Ozhog'', from 1975) and of '' Generations of Winter'' (''Московская сага'', ''Moskovskaya Saga'', from 1992), a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953. Early life Vasily Aksyonov was born to Pavel Aksyonov and Yevgenia Ginzburg in Kazan, USSR on August 20, 1932. His mother, Yevgenia Ginzburg, was a successful journalist and educator and his father, Pavel Aksyonov, had a high position in the administration of Kazan. Both parents "were prominent communists." In 1937, however, both were arrested and tried for her alleged connection to Trotskyists. They were both sent to the Gulag and then into exile, and "each served 18 years, but remarkably survive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoë Akins
Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for '' The Old Maid''. Early life Zoe Byrd Akins was born in Humansville, Missouri, second of three children of Thomas Jasper and Sarah Elizabeth Green Akins. Her family was heavily involved with the Missouri Republican Party, and for several years her father served as the state party chairman. Through her mother, Akins was related George Washington and Duff Green. Her family moved to St. Louis, Missouri when Akins was in her early teens. She was sent to Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois for her education and later Hosmer Hall preparatory school in St. Louis. While at Hosmer Hall she was a classmate of poet Sara Teasdale, both graduating with the class of 1903. It was at Monticello Seminary that Akins wrote her first play, a parody of a Greek tragedy. Following graduation Akins began writing a series of plays, poetry and critici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He has received numerous accolades including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as nominations for two Tony Awards. Akhtar is known as a playwright covering various themes including the American-Muslim experience, racism, religion, economics, immigration, and identity. For his work on Broadway, Akhtar received Tony Award for Best Play nominations for '' Disgraced'' (2015) and '' Junk'' (2017). He also authored the plays ''The Who & The What'', '' The Invisible Hand'' and '' McNeal''. His plays have been produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in London. He earned acclaim for authoring two novels '' American Dervish'' (2012) and '' Homeland Elegies'' (2020). He received numerous awards including the American Book Award for the later. He co-wrote and starred in the political drama film '' The War Within'' (2005) for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Aiken (playwright)
George L. Aiken (December 19, 1830April 27, 1876) was a 19th-century American playwright and actor best known for writing the most popular of the numerous stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''. Aiken was a writer of dime novel The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century American popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term ''dime novel'' has been used as a catchall term for several different but related form ...s before he turned to theatre. He became an actor in the troupe of his cousin George C. Howard. In 1852, shortly after the publication of Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'', Aiken wrote his stage adaptation. It was performed by Howard's company, with Aiken playing the hero George Harris. The play became a spectacular success. His other works include a dramatization of Ann S. Stephens' novel ''The Old Homestead''. He retired from the stage in 1867. Aiken's original manuscripts for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Coast (British Colony)
The Gold Coast was a British Empire, British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana. The term Gold Coast is also often used to describe all of the four separate jurisdictions that were under the administration of the Governor of the Gold Coast. These were the Gold Coast itself, Ashanti (Crown Colony), Ashanti, the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, Northern Territories protectorate and the British Togoland, British Togoland trust territory. The first European explorers to arrive at the coast were the Portuguese in 1471. They encountered a variety of African kingdoms, some of which controlled substantial deposits of gold in the soil. In 1483, the Portuguese came to the continent for increased trade. They built the Castle of Elmina, the first European settlement on the Gold Coast. From here they acquired slavery, slaves and gold in trade for European goods, such as metal knives, beads, mirrors, rum, and guns. News ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo (23 March 1942 — 31 May 2023) was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was a Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration. Her first play, '' The Dilemma of a Ghost'', was published in 1965, making Aidoo the first published female African dramatist. As a novelist, she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992 with the novel ''Changes''. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation in Accra to promote and support the work of African women writers. Early life Christina Ama Ata Aidoo was born on 23 March 1942 in Abeadzi Kyiakor, near Saltpond, in the Central Region of Ghana. She was initially called Christiana Ama Aidoo. Some sources ( including Megan Behrent, Brown University, and ''Africa Who's Who'') have stated that she was born on 31 March. She had a twin brother, Kwame Ata. Aidoo was raised in a Fante royal household, the daughter of Nana Yaw Fama, chief of Abeadzi Kyia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bola Agbaje
Bola Agbaje (born 1981) is a British playwright of Nigerian descent."The Write Stuff: Stenham & Other Courtiers" ''What's on Stage'', 28 April 2008. Biography Agbaje was born at in the Waterloo area of London to Nigerian parents, her father a civil servant and her mother a cook, and grew up in on the North Peckham Estate. She briefly ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of . Athens is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BCE. According to Greek mythology the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agathon
Agathon (; ; ) was an Athenian tragic poet whose works have been lost. He is best known for his appearance in Plato's '' Symposium,'' which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416. He is also a prominent character in Aristophanes' comedy the '' Thesmophoriazusae''. Life and career Agathon was the son of Tisamenus, and the lover of Pausanias, with whom he appears in both the ''Symposium'' and Plato's '' Protagoras''. Together with Pausanias, around 407 BC he moved to the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, who was recruiting playwrights; it is here that he probably died around 401 BC. Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the '' Poetics'' (1451b21) that the characters and plot of his '' Anthos'' were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological or historical subjects. Agathon was also the first playwright to write choral pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
