Martin McDonagh26 March 1970, Irish, British
Playwright, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
Danai Gurira14 February 1978, American, Zimbabwean
Actress
Sam Shepard05 November 1943, American
Actor
Arthur Miller17 October 1915, American
Neil Simon04 July 1927, American
Playwright & Screenwriter
Tennessee Williams26 March 1911, American
American playwright
Robby Benson21 January 1956, American
Actor
Rod Serling25 December 1924, American
Screenwriter, TV Producer, Narrator
Gore Vidal03 October 1925, American
Lashana Lynch27 November 1987, British
Actress
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
Nora Ephron19 May 1941, American
Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Tracy Letts04 July 1965, American
Actor, Screenwriter
Mark Rylance18 January 1960, British
Actor
Yukio Mishima14 January 1925, Japanese
Playwright
Joseph Heller01 May 1923, American
Novelist
Roxann Dawson11 September 1958, American
Actress
David Mamet30 November 1947, American
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Tom Stoppard03 July 1937, Czech, British
Playwright
Joyce Carol Oates16 June 1938, American
Writer
Yolanda King17 November 1955, American
Activist
Doris Lessing22 October 1919, British
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Dick Cusack29 August 1925, American
Actor
Lillian Hellman20 June 1905, American
Dramatist and Screenwriter
Naguib Mahfouz11 December 1911, Egyptian
Novelist
Humayun Ahmed13 November 1948, Bangladeshi
Writer, Filmmaker
Brendan Behan09 February 1923, Irish
Irish poet
Patrick White28 May 1912, Australian
Australian Writer
Dario Fo24 March 1926, Italian
Playwright
Elfriede Jelinek20 October 1946, Austrian
Novelist & Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Caryl Churchill03 September 1938, British
Dramatist, Women's Rights Activist
Robertson Davies28 August 1913, Canadian
Author and Journalist
Irwin Shaw27 February 1913, American
Illness
Adrian Mitchell24 October 1932, British
Poet
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A. B. Yehoshua19 December 1936, Israeli
Israeli Faulkner
James Wong20 April 1959, American
Television producer
Girish Karnad19 May 1938, Indian
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Crazy Mohan16 October 1952, Indian
screenwriter
Russell Tovey14 November 1981, British
Actor, Playwright
Lisa Edelstein21 May 1966, American
Playwright, Television actor, Actor, Film actor,
Jeffrey Archer15 April 1940, British
Politician, Novelist, Writer, Playwright, Science
Amanda Palmer30 April 1976, American
Singer, Street artist, Composer, Pianist,
Elaine May21 April 1932, American
Actor, Film director, Screenwriter, Stage actor,
Ernie Hudson17 December 1945, American
Actor
Philip Pullman19 October 1946, British
Writer, Novelist, University teacher, Playwright,
Sally Wainwright1963 AD, British
television producer, screenwriter, playwright
Leslie Jordan29 April 1955, American
Actor, Playwright, Stage actor, Television actor
Pier Paolo Pasolini05 March 1922, Italian
Film director, Writer, Actor, Poet, Screenwriter,
Matthew Cowles28 September 1944, American
Television actor, Film actor, Stage actor
Clive Barker05 October 1952, British
Film director, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Alejandro Jodorowsky17 February 1929, Chilean, French
Writer, Film director, Actor, Playwright,
Andrew Upton01 February 1966, Australian
Film director, Screenwriter, Librettist
Jim Beaver12 August 1950, American
Actor
Stephen Poliakoff01 December 1952, British
Writer, Screenwriter, Playwright
Anthony Minghella06 January 1954, British
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Film
Alan Bennett09 May 1934, British
Actor, Screenwriter, Playwright, Diarist, Writer
Ian McEwan21 June 1948, British
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright, Film
Ruby Dee27 October 1922, American
Actress
Thomas Harris11 April 1940, American
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright,
Peter Morgan10 April 1963, British
screenwriter, playwright, writer
Grant Morrison31 January 1960, Scottish
Comics writer, Writer, Science fiction writer
Anthony Newley24 September 1931, British
Actor, Songwriter, Singer-songwriter, Composer,
Morgan Spurlock07 November 1970, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Journalist
Beverley Cross13 April 1931, British
Screenwriter, Librettist
Howard Zinn24 August 1922, American
Playwright, Political scientist, Historian of the
Sidney Sheldon11 February 1917, American
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright, Film
Christine Jorgensen30 May 1926, American
Actor
Steven Berkoff03 August 1937, British
Actor
Terrence McNally03 November 1938, American
playwright, screenwriter, librettist, writer
Ben Elton03 May 1959, Australian, British
Actor, Comedian, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Roberto Rossellini08 May 1906, Italian
Film director, Actor, Film producer, Playwright,
Howard Ashman17 May 1950, American
Composer, Screenwriter, Lyricist, Songwriter, Film
Rainer Werner Fassbinder31 May 1945, German
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Actor,
Saul Rubinek02 July 1948, Canadian
Actor
Ron Palillo02 April 1949, American
Actor, Stage actor, Television actor
Lorraine Hansberry19 May 1930, American
Writer, Theatre director, Screenwriter,
Mike Leigh20 February 1943, British
Film director, Actor, Playwright, Theatre
J. Michael Straczynski17 July 1954, American
Screenwriter, Film producer, Novelist, Journalist,
William Goldman12 August 1931, American
Novelist
Dan Butler02 December 1954, American
Actor, Television actor
Anna Deavere Smith18 September 1950, American
Stage actor, Film actor, Television actor, Writer,
Don DeLillo20 November 1936, American
Writer, Playwright, Screenwriter, Novelist,
Irvine Welsh27 September 1958, British
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright,
Eve Ensler25 May 1953, American
Artist, Actor, Playwright, Autobiographer, Writer,
Matt Letscher26 June 1970, American
Stage actor, Film actor, Television actor
Jonathan Larson04 February 1960, American
Composer, Writer
Piyush Mishra13 January 1963, Indian
Screenwriter, Music director, Actor, Singer,
Evan Chandler25 January 1944, American
Dentist, Playwright
Edward Albee12 March 1928, American
Playwright, Writer, Screenwriter, University
Austin Pendleton27 March 1940, American
Actor, Playwright, Writer, Stage actor, Television
Tovah Feldshuh27 December 1952, American
Television actor, Film actor, Writer, Playwright,
Jean Genet19 December 1910, French
Writer, Playwright, Poet, Film director,
John Osborne12 December 1929, British
Actor, Playwright, Screenwriter, Writer
Leigh Lawson21 July 1945, British
Actor
Tony Kushner16 July 1956, American
Playwright, Screenwriter, Writer, Music educator