playwrights
67 notable playwrights on file — 6 still here, 61 not.
still with us
John Leguizamo
aliveAmerican actor, comedian, producer, and writer (born 1960)
born 1964
Greta Gerwig
aliveAmerican actress and filmmaker (born 1983)
born 1983
Zawe Ashton
aliveBritish actress
born 1984
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Jack Thorne
aliveBritish screenwriter
born 1978
Leslye Headland
aliveAmerican playwright, screenwriter and director
born 1980
Marco Calvani
aliveItalian playwright
born 1980
gone (30 of 61)
William Shakespeare
deadEnglish playwright and poet
1564 – 1616
Carrie Fisher
deadAmerican actress, writer and screenwriter
1956 – 2016
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
deadKenyan writer
1938 – 2025
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Chadwick Boseman
deadAmerican actor
1976 – 2020
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James Baldwin
deadAmerican writer
1924 – 1987
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Cormac McCarthy
deadAmerican novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
1933 – 2023
Tom Stoppard
deadCzech–English playwright
1937 – 2025
Ronald Venetiaan
deadSurinamese politician
1936 – 2025
Dag Solstad
deadNorwegian writer
1941 – 2025
Ivan Klíma
deadCzech playwright, author, publicist, and university educator
1931 – 2025
Frits Bolkestein
deadDutch politician
1933 – 2025
Robert Wilson
deadAmerican stage director and playwright
1941 – 2025
Antonine Maillet
deadplaywright working in Quebec
1929 – 2025
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Elias Khoury
deadContemporary Lebanese novelist, critic publisher
1948 – 2024
Edward Bond
deadEnglish writer best known as a dramatist
1934 – 2024
David Seidler
deadBritish-American playwright, film, and television writer
1937 – 2024
Wiesław Myśliwski
deadPolish writer
1932 – 2026
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Tor Åge Bringsværd
deadNorwegian author
1939 – 2025
Aidan Chambers
deadBritish children's writer
1934 – 2025
Slobodan Šnajder
deadCroatian writer and publicist
1948 – 2026
Ivan Ivanji
deadSerbian writer
1929 – 2024
Lina Brockdorff
deadMaltese writer
1930 – 2026
Zoya Boguslavskaya
deadRussian literary critic
1924 – 2026
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Yuriy Tarnawsky
deadUkrainian-American poet
1934 – 2025
Goran Petrović
deadSerbian writer
1961 – 2024
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Alek Popov
deadBulgarian writer
1966 – 2024
Astrid Roemer
deadSurinamese author
1947 – 2026
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Tony Harrison
deadBritish poet and playwright
1937 – 2025
René Pollesch
deadGerman author and playwright
1962 – 2024
Valère Novarina
deadSwiss choreographer and photographer
1942 – 2026