William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Playwright
1
Julia Donaldson, 75
2
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)
3
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
4
Marilyn Vos Savant, 77
5
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
6
Eric Bogosian, 71
7
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
8
Willy Russell, 76
9
Slawomir Mrozek (1930-2013)
10
Howard Ashman (1950-1991)
11
Neil Simon (1927-2018)
12
Rupert Holmes, 77
13
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 50
14
Johnathan Larson (1960-1996)
15
Cyrano De Bergerac (1619-1655)
16
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
17
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
18
William Nicholson, 76
19
Jason Miller (1939-2001)
20
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
21
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
22
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
23
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)
24
Thorbjørn Egner (1912-1990)
25
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
26
Irvine Welsh, 65
27
Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
28
Brian Clark (1932-2021)
29
Tom Stoppard, 87
30
Alfred Douglas (1870-1945)
31
Tracy Letts, 59
32
Robert Greene (1558-1592)
33
Barney Simon (1932-1995)
34
Martin McDonagh, 54
35
Craig Lucas, 73
36
David Shiner, 70
37
Katori Hall, 43
38
Wole Soyinka, 89
39
Paul Foster (1931-2021)
40
Eve Ensler, 71
41
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
42
Humayun Ahmed (1948-2012)
43
Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
44
Hatcher Hughes (1881-1945)
45
Brian Friel (1929-2015)
46
José Rivera, 69
47
August Wilson (1945-2005)
48
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