Broadway Play Publishing Inc (BPPI) was established in New York City in 1982 to publish and license the stage performance rights of contemporary American play

The Broadway Play Publishing Inc catalog consists of over 1,200 plays and over 400 authors, such as: Constance Congdon,

María Irene Fornés María Irene Fornés (May 14, 1930 – October 30, 2018) was a Cuban-American playwright, theater director, and teacher who worked in off-Broadway and experimental theater venues in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Her plays range w ...

, A. R. Gurney,

Tony Kushner Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Among his stage work, he is most known for ''Angels in America'', which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, as well as its subsequent acclaime ...

Neil LaBute Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American playwright, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for a play that he wrote and later adapted for film, ''In the Company of Men'' (1997), which won awards from the Sundance Film Fest ...

, Richard Nelson,

Eric Overmyer Eric Ellis Overmyer (born September 25, 1951) is an American writer and producer. He has written and/or produced numerous TV shows, including '' St. Elsewhere'', '' Homicide: Life on the Street'', ''Law & Order'', ''The Wire'', ''New Amsterdam'', ...

, José Rivera,

Naomi Wallace Naomi Wallace (born 1960) is an American playwright, screenwriter and poet from Kentucky. She is widely known for her plays, and has received several distinguished awards for her work. Biography Naomi Wallace was born in Prospect, Kentucky, ...

, and many others. Its authors have been produced on

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and

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, in

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, and in theaters across the United States and around the world. They have won

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, Obie Awards, the

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s, and

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grants. Christopher W.D. Gould is the current publisher, and Michael Q. Fellmeth is the current executive director.

Playwrights

JoAnne Akalaitis JoAnne Akalaitis (born June 29, 1937, in Cicero, Illinois) is an avant-garde American theatre director and writer. She has won five Obie Awards for direction (and sustained achievement) and was a co-founder of the New York theater company Mabou ...

Phil Austin Philip Baine Austin (April 6, 1941 – June 18, 2015) was an American comedian and writer, best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre. Early life and education Austin was born in Denver, Colorado, and later grew up in Fresno, California, at ...

Thomas Babe Thomas Babe (March 13, 1941 – December 6, 2000) was an American playwright, "one of Joseph Papp's most prolific resident playwrights at the New York Shakespeare Festival," with seven of his plays premiered at the Public Theatre. His work ...

Eric Bentley Eric Russell Bentley (September 14, 1916 – August 5, 2020) was a British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor, and translator. In 1998, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the New ...

* Glen Berger *

Peter Bergman Peter Michael Bergman (born June 11, 1953) is an American television actor best known for his portrayals on soap operas: as Cliff Warner on ''All My Children'' (1979–89) on ABC and as Jack Abbott on ''The Young and the Restless'' (1989–pre ...

Brooke Berman Brooke Berman (born 1969/1970) is an American playwright and author. Her play ''Hunting and Gathering'', which premiered at Primary Stages, directed by Leigh Silverman, was named one of the Ten Best of 2008 by ''New York'' magazine. Her memoir, ...

Alan Bowne Alan Bowne (1945–1989) was an American playwright and author. He was a member of the New Dramatists. He wrote a number of plays including ''Beirut'', ''Forty-Deuce'', ''Sharon and Billy'', and ''The Beany and Cecil Show'', many of which are a ...

* Victor Bumbalo * Jack Canfora * Steve Carter * Suzy McKee Charnas * Robert Chesley *

Anthony Clarvoe Anthony Clarvoe is an American playwright born in 1958. Education and training Princeton University, A.B. English, magna com laude, 1981 (studied with Daniel Seltzer, Michael Goldman, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Carol Rosen, Lawrence Danson) Padua ...

* Daniel Damiano *

Christopher Denham Christopher Denham is an American actor and director. He is known for supporting roles in '' Oppenheimer'', '' Shutter Island'', ''Argo'', '' Being the Ricardos'', '' Charlie Wilson's War'' and '' Sound of My Voice.'' Television credits include ...

* Charles Evered *

* Judy GeBauer * Anthony Giardina * Jeff Goode * David Greenspan * A. R. Gurney *

Mark Harelik Marcus Frank Harelik (born June 5, 1951) is an American television, film, and stage actor, and playwright. Early life Harelik was born in Hamilton, Texas. In 1909, Harelik's Russian Jewish grandfather, Haskell Harelik—upon whom Harelik's ...

* Allan Havis *

Davey Holmes Davey Holmes (born October 4, 1969, in Massachusetts) is an Americans, American screenwriter, Television producer, producer and Television director, director. He is the creator and executive producer of the television show ''Get Shorty (TV series ...

* Willy Holtzman * CJ Hopkins * Tom Jacobson * Sherry Kramer *

Elaine Lee Elaine Lee is an American actress, playwright, producer, and writer, who specializes in Comic book, graphic novels. She has also received recognition and awards for her work as a creator and producer of audio books and dramas. Her comics have b ...

* Adam Long * Emily Mann * Marlane Meyer * Richard Nelson * Brett Neveu * Qui Nguyen * Dan O'Brien *

David Ossman David Ossman (born December 6, 1936, in Santa Monica) is an American writer and comedian, best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre and screenwriter of such films as '' Zachariah''. Early life Ossman attended Pomona College, where he star ...

* Rochelle Owens *

Robert Patrick Robert Hammond Patrick (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor. Known for portraying villains and authority figures, Patrick is a Saturn Award winner with four other nominations. Patrick dropped out of college when drama class sparked his ...

* Sybille Pearson * John Pielmeier *

Phil Proctor Philip George Proctor (born July 28, 1940) is an American actor and a member of the Firesign Theatre. He has performed voice-over work for video games, films and television series. Early life Proctor was born in Goshen, Indiana, on July 2 ...

* Frank Pugliese * Aishah Rahman *

Adam Rapp Adam Rapp (born June 15, 1968) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician and film director. His play ''Red Light Winter'' was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006. Early life Rapp was born in Chicago to Mary Lee (née Baird; died ...

Phil Reeves Phil Reeves (born January 12, 1953) is an American film and television actor and screenwriter. He is known for the roles of Charles Swedelson on the sitcom '' Girlfriends'', new Vice President Andrew Doyle in HBO's '' Veep'', as Chairman of the ...

* José Rivera * Jonathan J. Samarro *

Anne Sexton Anne Sexton (born Anne Gray Harvey; November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional poetry, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book ''Live or Die (book ...

* Betty Shamieh * Daniel Singer * John Strand * Bryan Stubbles * Joe Sutton * Daniel Therriault *

Megan Terry Marguerite Duffy (July 22, 1932 – April 12, 2023), known professionally as Megan Terry, was an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatre artist. Terry produced over fifty works for theater, radio, and television, and is best known for her ...

* Trish Vradenburg *

David Wiltse David Wiltse is an American novelist and playwright. He is the author of 12 novels, 14 plays and numerous screenplays and teleplays, including the CBS series " Ladies Man". Career In 1986, his thriller ''Home Again'' was published by Macmillan ...

* Jess Winfield • Jo
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Plays

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Angels In America ''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes'' is a 1991 American two-part Play (theatre), play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The two parts of the play, ''Millennium Approaches'' and ''Perestroika'', may be presented separate ...

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'' *'' Bash: Latter-Day Plays'' *'' A Bright Room Called Day'' *'' Cloud Tectonics'' *'' The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)'' *'' Crazy Mary'' *'' Day of the Dog'' *''

Far East The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including North Asia, North, East Asia, East and Southeast Asia. South Asia is sometimes also included in the definition of the term. In mod ...

'' *'' Fat Pig'' *'' Fefu and Her Friends'' *'' The Illusion'' *'' In a Dark Dark House'' *'' Indian Blood (play)'' *'' The Mercy Seat'' *'' More Lies About Jerzy'' *'' On The Verge'' *''

One Flea Spare ''One Flea Spare'', by Naomi Wallace, is a play set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London. Synopsis A wealthy couple is preparing to flee their home when a mysterious sailor and a young girl appear sneaking into their boarded up house. Now, q ...

'' *'' Pecong'' *''

Post Mortem An autopsy (also referred to as post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause, mode, and manner of death; ...

'' *'' Sarita'' *'' The Shape of Things'' *'' Slaughter City'' *'' Slavs!'' *'' Some Girl(s)'' *'' Starstruck'' *'' This Is How It Goes'' *''

To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday ''To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday'' is a 1996 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Michael Pressman and adapted by David E. Kelley from the play of the same name by Michael Brady. It stars Peter Gallagher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Cla ...

'' *'' Underneath the Lintel'' *''

Viet Rock ''Viet Rock'' is a rock musical by Megan Terry that served as inspiration to the musical ''Hair (musical), Hair''. A violent denunciation of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, the play was described by its author as a "folk war movie" co ...

'' *'' Wrecks''

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