- (NZ) Goodman, Bruce
 - Author of full-length and one-act plays and musicals. - (AU) Prior, Judith
- Playwright for amateur theatre productions.
- (AU) Williamson, David (3)
- Abbott, George (1887-1995)@
- Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE) (16)
- Albee, Edward (16)
- Alletson, Al Jr.
- Passion for words and ability to deliver stirring performances resonates in his every endeavor.
- Anouilh, Jean (1910-1987) (3)
- Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BCE) (6)
- Armstrong, Ken
- Writer of theatre and radio plays, films, stories, and more.
- Artaud, Antonin@
- Auburn, David (2)
- Ayckbourn, Alan (3)
- Babel, Isaac (1894-1941)@
- Bagnold, Enid (1889-1981)@
- Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones)@
- Find out about Imamu Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones), the American poet, playwright, music critic, and writer of essays through sites featuring biography, photos, poems, and filmography.
- Barnes, David-Matthew
- Overview of the award-winning author of stage plays, fiction, screenplays, and poetry.
- Barnes, Peter
- With educational guides, gossip, jokes.
- Barrie, James M. (1860-1937)@
- Barrie, Shirley
- Playwright for adults, children, and communities. Co-founder of the Tricycle Theatre in London, England, and Straight Stitching Productions in Toronto, Canada.
- Bartholomew, Vicki
- Author of youth plays such as Aunt Alice's Summer, Cool Mike, Someone to Love, Friends Forever, and The Last Gift.
- Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron De (1732-1799)
- Biography of the 18th century playwright.
- Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) (13)
- Behan, Brendan (1923-1964) (3)
- Belich, T James
- Original plays of playwright T. James Belich. All scripts available for download.
- Bennett, Alan (5)
- Bennett, Enoch Arnold (1867-1931)@
- Berkoff, Steven (2)
- Bettencourt, Michael
- Seeks to fuse the political and emotional in order to create a theatre that prompts audiences to re-think their lives.
- Bogosian, Eric
- Creator of monologues and solo shows.
- Bolt, Robert (1924-1999) (1)
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1835-1915)
- Victorian novelist and playwright.
- Brecht, Bertolt (1898-1956) (11)
- Brenton, Howard
- Works include Brassneck, Pravda, and The Churchill Play.
- Brook, Doug
- The DJ Booth. Offering a biography, resumes, and information on the actor, writer, director, and designer.
- Budbill, David
- Vermont-based poet, essayist, and playwright. Features calendar of events, biography, and bibliography.
- Burns, Kitty
- Playwright whose works include "Psycho Night at the Paradise Lounge" and "A Slice of the Blarney." Also the writer and guide of "The Vampire Tour of San Francisco."
- Burrows, Abe (1910-1985) (3)
- Busch, Charles (3)
- Capek, Karel (1890-1938)@
- Césaire, Aimé@
- Chekhov, Anton P. (1860-1904) (21)
- Churchill, Caryl (3)
- Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963)@
- Coetzee, Greig
- South African actor, director, and playwright.
- Cohan, George M. (1878-1942)@
- Comden, Betty (1919-2006) and Adolph Green (1915-2002)@
- Connelly, Marc (1890-1980) (4)
- Find sites for Marc Connelly, the American humorist-playwright and one of the wittiest members of Algonquin Round Table. Sites feature biography, film and television credits, film reviews, and theatre credits for the Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote The Green Pastures, a re-telling of Old Testament.
- Cook, Pat
- Biography and information on works.
- Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) (2)
- Costa, Carol
- Playwright and author of fiction and nonfiction books.
- Coward, Noël (1899-1973) (7)
- Crisp, Quentin (1909-1999)@
- Cruz, Nilo (1)
- Cruz, Sor Juana Ines de la (1651-1695)@
- Find sites for Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the Mexican scholar and writer, often called the first feminist of the Western world. Sites include biography, poems, and book reviews of the outspoken Spanish poet whose main theme was freedom.
- Cutler, Ivor@
- Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619) (1)
- Davis, Bill C.
- Official site for the author of Mass Appeal, Dancing in the End-Zone, Avow, and other plays.
- Djerassi, Carl@
- Dryden, John (1631-1700)@
- Dumas, Alexandre Jr. (1824-1895)
- Playwright and novelist also known as Dumas fils, the son of novelist Alexander Dumas père.
- Durang, Christopher (7)
- Edson, Margaret (2)
- Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965)@
- Elliott, Naneki
- Author of spiritual growth books and a play about equal rights.
- Ensler, Eve (5)
- Euripides (c. 484-406 BCE) (9)
- Farah, Nuruddin
- Somalian novelist and playwright.
- Feiffer, Jules@
- Learn more about Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic-strip cartoonist and author, through sites featuring biography, television and film credits, cartoons, art gallery, and bibliography.
- Fenn, John
- Reflections on performing arts, theatre, education and the infinite ambiguities and delights of life in the techno-age by playwright and teacher.
- Ferber, Edna (1887-1968)@
- Learn about Edna Ferber, the American playwright and member of Algonquin Round Table. Sites offer biography, photos, quotes, film and TV credits, Broadway productions, and online texts of the works of the Pulitzer Prize winner who was also considered the greatest American woman novelist of her day.
- Fields, Dorothy (1905-1974)@
- Fo, Dario (12)
- Foote, Horton (3)
- Fraser, Brad (2)
- Frayn, Michael@
- French, David
- Author of Leaving Home, Of the Fields Lately, Jitters, Salt-Water Moon, and That Summer, among others.
- Friel, Brian (2)
- Fugard, Athol (6)
- Gabridge, Patrick
- Author of Blinders, Reading the Mind of God, and other plays
- Gage, Carolyn
- Information about the lesbian performer and playwright. Booking, plays, musicals, one-acts, and monologues.
- Gallardo, Edward
- Playwright and actor.
- Galsworthy, John (1867-1933)@
- Gao, Xingjian (2)
- Gardner, Herb (1934-2003) (4)
- Gelbart, Larry@
- Genet, Jean (1910-1986)@
- Gilbert, William Schwenk (1836-1911) (9)
- Glancy, Diane@
- Glaspell, Susan (1876-1948) (9)
- Gobeil Taylor, David
- Gay playwright. Texts of his plays, links, bio.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)@
- Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774) (9)
- Goodrich, Frances (1890-1984)@
- Gordon, Ruth (1896-1985)@
- Gorky, Maxim (1868-1936)@
- Gormley, Paddy
- Features information about the artist, including a mini-biography and his works.
- Gotanda, Philip Kan
- Playwright, director, and filmmaker. Author of Ballad of Yachiyo and Floating Weeds. Site includes an online journal and images.
- Gray, Spalding (1941-2004)@
- Grimsley, Jim@
- Guirgis, Stephen Adly (1)
- Hackett, Albert@
- Haehnel, Alan
- Specialising in large-cast one-act plays.
- Hall, Sands
- Official site for the novelist, playwright, and teacher whose works include Catching Heaven and Fair Use.
- Hansberry, Lorraine (1930-1965) (7)
- Hare, David (4)
- Hart, Moss (1904-1961) (5)
- Havel, Václav (20)
- Hecht, Ben (1894-1964)@
- Hellman, Lillian (1905-1984) (8)
- Henley, Beth (4)
- Herman, George
- About the author and his plays, including ordering information.
- Higgins, Rita Ann
- Gutsy, anarchic poet and dramatist who has been a literary outsider writing from inside Irish society.
- Hilton, Paula
- Offering comic murder mystery dinner theatre scripts for performance.
- Hogan, Linda@
- Holmes, Rupert
- Tony award winning playwright.
- Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906) (8)
- Inge, William (1913-1973) (6)
- Ionesco, Eugene (1909-1994) (2)
- Jarry, Alfred (1873-1907) (2)
- Johnson, Denis@
- Jones, Sarah@
- Jonson, Ben (1572-1637) (8)
- Kahn, Barbara
- Playwright, director, and actor; offering catalogue of plays available for production.
- Kaufman, George S. (1889-1961) (5)
- Learn about George Kaufman, the American playwright-director and a key member of Algonquin Round Table who influenced 20th century American comedy. Sites offer biography, film and TV credits, and Broadway credits for the Pulitzer Prize winner whose works include You Can't Take it With You, Once in a Lifetime, and The Man Who Came to Dinner.
- Kennedy, Adrienne (3)
- Kuo, Pao Kun (1939-2002)@
- Kureishi, Hanif@
- Kushner, Tony (2)
- LaBute, Neil@
- Lardner, Ring (1885-1933)@
- Laurents, Arthur
- Biography of the librettist of West Side Story, Gypsy, and Anyone Can Whistle.
- Lawrence, Jerome (1)
- Lee, Robert Edwin (1918-1994) (1)
- Leight, Warren (1)
- Levin, Ira@
- Loftus, Albert
- Novelist, essayist, and playwright. Includes excerpts.
- Loh, Sandra Tsing@
- Lonergan, Kenneth (3)
- Luce, Claire Booth (1903-1987)
- 1987 New York Times obituary for playwright and politician Clare Booth Luce.
- Lyly, John (1554-1606)@
- MacColl, Ewan (1915-1989)@
- MacDonald, Ann-Marie (3)
- MacLeish, Archibald (1892-1982)@
- Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949) (6)
- Mamet, David (8)
- Marber, Patrick (2)
- Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593) (7)
- Marquis, Don (1878-1937)@
- Martin, Steve@
- Marturano, Tony
- Photographer, playwright, and author. Features excerpts from novel, Nimbus.
- May, Elaine@
- McNally, Terrence (6)
- Mee, Charles
- Archive of plays.
- Meiselman, Arthur
- Excerpts from his plays and latest work.
- Middleton, Thomas
- Jacobean playwright. Plays are personally edited and glossed.
- Miller, Arthur (1915-2005) (43)
- Mitchell, W.O. (1914-1998)@
- Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673) (7)
- Mueller, Lavonne
- Plays include Letters to a Daughter From Prison and Violent Peace.
- Mullin, Paul
- Includes information about current and past productions.
- Murphy, James B.
- Features information on his dramatic plays, paintings, and drawings.
- Narita, Jude
- Official site for the actor/writer of award-winning one-woman plays about Asian and Asian-American women.
- Nashe, Thomas (1567-1601) (1)
- Nelson, Tim Blake@
- Nicholson, William@
- Noonan, Tom
- Site presents the script of What Happened Was..., a play by Tom Noonan that was adapted into an award-winning movie.
- O'Casey, Sean (1880-1964) (4)
- O'Morrison, Kevin
- Includes a list of his works, with reviews from both sides of the Atlantic.
- O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953) (23)
- O'Sullivan, David
- Includes sample scripts of comedy and tragedy, farce and surrealism.
- Odets, Clifford (1906-1963) (5)
- Osborne, John (1929-1994) (1)
- Pachino, Jamie
- Official site for the award-winning playwright and screenwriter.
- Parks, Suzan-Lori (5)
- Peace, Steve
- Online plays and screenplays.
- Pendleton, Austin@
- Perry, Tyler (8)
- Pinero, Miguel (1946-1988)@
- Pinter, Harold (18)
- Pirandello, Luigi (1867-1936) (6)
- Plautus, Titus Maccius (c.254-184 BCE) (7)
- Post, Sam
- Synopses, excerpts, production histories, reviews, and more.
- Priestly, J.B. (1894-1984)@
- Racine, Jean (1639-1699) (6)
- Rattigan, Terence (1911-1977) (6)
- Redhill, Michael@
- Rice, Elmer (1892-1967) (3)
- Robbins, Tim@
- Rodwin, David
- Information about the composer, actor, and playwright and his works.
- Rostand, Edmond (1868-1918) (4)
- Rowland, Phelim
- Portsmouth based writer of plays for theatre and radio.
- Russell, Willy (2)
- Sartre, Jean Paul (1905-1980)@
- Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von (1759-1805) (4)
- Schneider, Pat
- Poet, author, playwright, and librettist.
- Seltzer, Richard
- Text of Seltzer's play about Mercy Otis Warren and General Johnny Burgoyne.
- Shaffer, Peter (6)
- Shange, Ntozake@
- Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) (27)
- Learn about George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, novelist, critic, essayist, and politician. Sites offer biography, plays, novels, essays, quotes, speeches, and letters of the socialist spokesman known for his caustic tongue.
- Shepard, Sam (5)
- Sherwood, Robert William
- Play descriptions, productions, and reviews of his plays.
- Sideras, Stavros
- Writer of books and lyrics; composer, producer and director of musical/rock operas.
- Simon, Neil (15)
- Smith, Anna Deavere (3)
- Smith, Dodie (1896-1990)@
- Sophocles (496-406 BCE) (19)
- Soyinka, Wole (5)
- Stemple, Beth Campbell
- Writer of comedy sketches, provocative one-acts, and Fly Gals, a play about women pilots in WWII.
- Stoppard, Tom (7)
- Strindberg, August (1849-1912) (4)
- Sturges, Preston (1898-1959)@
- Synge, John Millington (1871-1909) (7)
- Tan, Kelvin
- Singer-songwriter, author, playwright, co-founder of Aporia Society, and member of The Oddfellows.
- Teller, Neville
- Writes abridgements and dramatisations of works for radio.
- Thain, Paul
- Stage, radio, and film plays by Paul Thain.
- Townsend, Sue@
- Uhry, Alfred (1)
- Valdez, Luis (5)
- Vallejo, Alfonso
- Analysis of his plays, books, and paintings.
- van Itallie, Jean-Claude
- Photos, reviews, excerpts, script, and rights information about numerous plays, books, and performance pieces by the playwright, teacher, and performer.
- Vemmer, Ryan
- Writer of progressive/experimental theatre works. Site presents samples of plays, poems, and short fiction.
- Vere, Aubrey de (1814-1902)@
- Vogel, Paula (3)
- Walcott, Derek@
- Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814)@
- Wasserstein, Wendy (1950-2006) (13)
- Webster, John (1580?-1632?) (10)
- Wilbur, Richard@
- Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) (30)
- Find Oscar Wilde quotes, poems, stories, and plays, including The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Also find biographies, photos, and information on the playwright¿s legal troubles.
- Wilder, Thornton (1897-1975) (7)
- Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983) (30)
- Browse sites about Tennessee Williams, the award-winning playwright of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Sites provide biography and profile, film and theatre credits, articles, reviews, and bibliography of the Pulitzer Award winner.
- Wilson, August (1945-2005) (9)
- Wilson, Doric
- Author of such plays as Street Theatre, Now She Dances!, and A Perfect Relationship. Member of the gay theatre movement.
- Winfield, Jess
- Information about his past works and current projects.
- Wolfe, George C.@
- Zarko, David
- Resume of professional and academic directing credits, and a list of plays written with brief descriptions.
- Zindel, Paul (1936-2003)@
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