# List of playwrights from the United States

Notable playwrights from the United States include:

## 18th century

* Hugh Henry Brackenridge
* William Dunlap
* Robert Hunter
* Royall Tyler
* Mercy Otis Warren

## 19th century

* George Aiken
* Nathaniel Bannister
* James Nelson Barker
* David Belasco
* Eva Best
* Robert Montgomery Bird
* George H. Boker
* Dion Boucicault
* John Brougham
* William Wells Brown
* Bob Cole
* Robert T. Conrad
* Augustin Daly
* Anna M. Fitch
* Clyde Fitch
* Edward Harrigan
* Grace Hayward
* James A. Herne
* Bronson Howard
* William Dean Howells
* Charles H. Hoyt
* Henry James
* Cornelius Ambrosius Logan
* Steele MacKaye
* Frederick G. Maeder
* Fred Marsden
* Cornelius Mathews
* Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
* Anna Cora Mowatt
* John Neal
* John Howard Payne
* Cora Scott Pond Pope
* Robert E. Sherwood
* Harry B. Smith
* Samuel Woodworth
* William Young

## 20th century

* Zoe Akins
* Edward Albee
* Eva Allen Alberti
* Woody Allen
* Franco Ambriz
* Jane Anderson
* Maxwell Anderson
* Robert Woodruff Anderson
* Maya Angelou
* Jacob M. Appel
* Ray Aranha
* Larry Atlas
* David Auburn
* Jon Robin Baitz
* Amiri Baraka
* Lillian Barrett
* Philip Barry
* Todd Bash
* Jonathan Bayliss
* Douglas Carter Beane
* Jim Beaver
* David Belasco
* Stephen Belber
* Ruth Bellamy
* S. N. Behrman
* David Berry
* Leo Birinski
* Lee Blessing
* Marc Blitzstein
* Eric Bogosian
* Neith Boyce
* Kent Broadhurst
* Eve Brodlique
* Jason Robert Brown
* Ed Bullins
* Percy Jewett Burrell
* Mary P. Burrill
* Abe Burrows
* Sheila Callaghan
* Steve Carter
* Linda Chambers
* Paddy Chayefsky
* Alice Childress
* Frank Chin
* Donald L. Coburn
* George M. Cohan
* Betty Comden
* Constance Congdon
* Marc Connelly
* Kia Corthron
* Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
* Michael Cristofer
* Rachel Crothers
* Nilo Cruz
* Lisa D'Amour
* Ossie Davis
* Floyd Dell
* John Dempsey
* Steven Dietz
* Owen Dodson
* Tom Donaghy
* Richard Dresser
* John Van Druten
* Paul Laurence Dunbar
* Christopher Durang
* Fred Ebb
* Erik Ehn
* T. S. Eliot
* Will Eno
* Don Evans
* Charles Evered
* Tom Eyen
* Jules Feiffer
* Edna Ferber
* Harvey Fierstein
* Clyde Fitch
* Horton Foote
* María Irene Fornés
* Paul Foster
* Amy Freed
* Ketti Frings
* Charles Fuller
* George Furth
* Herb Gardner
* Jack Gelber
* Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
* Alice Gerstenberg
* William Gibson
* D. B. Gilles
* Susan Glaspell
* Andrew Glaze
* Ruth Goetz
* James Goldman
* Frances Goodrich
* Ain Gordon
* Ed Graczyk
* Adolph Green
* Paul Eliot Green
* Richard Greenberg
* Frances Nimmo Greene
* Elana Greenfield
* David Greenspan
* David Grimm
* Rinne Groff
* John Guare
* A. R. Gurney
* Albert Hackett
* Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
* Oscar Hammerstein II
* Stoo Hample
* Lorraine Hansberry
* Sheldon Harnick
* Moss Hart
* Jeffrey Hatcher
* Marcia Haufrecht
* Joseph Hayes
* Ben Hecht
* Lillian Hellman
* Beth Henley
* George Herman
* Hilly Hicks Jr.
* David Hirson
* William M. Hoffman
* Linda Hogan
* Michael Hollinger
* Avery Hopwood
* Israel Horovitz
* Rupert Holmes
* Sidney Howard
* Tina Howe
* Babette Hughes
* Langston Hughes
* David Henry Hwang
* Naomi Iizuka
* William Inge
* Albert Innaurato
* David Ives
* Luigi Jannuzzi
* Arthur M. Jolly
* Preston Jones
* Marc Bamuthi Joseph
* Garson Kanin
* George S. Kaufman
* Moisés Kaufman
* Adrienne Kennedy
* Charles Rann Kennedy
* Stanley Keyes
* Sidney Kingsley
* James Kirkwood Jr.
* Kevin Kling
* Harry Kondoleon
* Arthur Kopit
* Greg Kotis
* Lisa Kron
* Larry Kramer
* Sherry Kramer
* Tony Kushner
* Neil LaBute
* Tina Landau
* Mary Lewis Langworthy
* James Lapine
* Jonathan Larson
* Arthur Laurents
* Jerome Lawrence
* Robert E. Lee
* Warren Leight
* Alan Jay Lerner
* Ira Levin
* David Lindsay-Abaire
* Romulus Linney
* Kenneth Lonergan
* Craig Lucas
* Clare Boothe Luce
* William Luce
* Ken Ludwig
* Charles MacArthur
* Eduardo Machado
* Percy MacKaye
* Archibald MacLeish
* David Mamet
* Emily Mann
* Deb Margolin
* Donald Margulies
* Melanie Marnich
* Jane Martin
* Joe Masteroff
* William Mastrosimone
* Ellen McLaughlin
* James McLure
* Scott McMorrow
* Terrence McNally
* Scott McPherson
* Mark Medoff
* Charles L. Mee
* Leonard Melfi
* Charles Mergendahl
* Marlane Meyer
* George Middleton
* Arthur Miller
* Jason Miller
* Nellie Burget Miller
* Susan Miller
* John Cameron Mitchell
* Langdon Mitchell
* Philip Moeller
* Cherríe Moraga
* Tad Mosel
* Itamar Moses
* Brighde Mullins
* Phyllis Nagy
* N. Richard Nash
* Josefina Niggli
* Marsha Norman
* Bruce Norris
* Lynn Nottage
* Elliott Nugent
* Joyce Carol Oates
* Clifford Odets
* Eugene O'Neill
* Han Ong
* Dael Orlandersmith
* Paul Osborn
* Eric Overmyer
* Rochelle Owens
* William Packard
* Steven Christopher Parker
* Suzan-Lori Parks
* John Patrick
* John Pielmeier
* Miguel Piñero
* David Pinski
* Bernard Pomerance
* Gordon Porterfield
* Craig Pospisil
* Reinaldo Povod
* Toni Press-Coffman
* David Rabe
* Ayn Rand
* Theresa Rebeck
* Keith Reddin
* Ronald Ribman
* Elmer Rice
* Willis Richardson
* Lynn Riggs
* Lawrence Riley
* José Rivera
* Paul Rudnick
* Mildred Ruiz-Sapp
* Isabella Russell-Ides
* Peter Sagal
* Stephen Sachs
* Steven Sapp
* William Saroyan
* Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
* Robert Schenkkan
* Murray Schisgal
* John Schneider
* Sarah Schulman
* Sandra Seaton
* Ntozake Shange
* John Patrick Shanley
* Wallace Shawn
* John Shea
* Claudia Shear
* Edward Sheldon
* Jane Shepard
* Sam Shepard
* Martin Sherman
* Robert B. Sherman
* Robert E. Sherwood
* Christopher Shinn
* Dora Adele Shoemaker
* Del Shores
* Larry Shue
* Nicky Silver
* Neil Simon
* Eric Simonson
* Anna Deavere Smith
* Evan Smith
* Harry B. Smith
* Stephen Sondheim
* Aaron Sorkin
* Jeffrey Stanley
* Wilbur Daniel Steele
* Joseph Stein
* Jean Anderson Sterrett
* Donald Ogden Stewart
* Kelly Stuart
* Jeffrey Sweet
* Jo Swerling
* Megan Terry
* Ernest Thompson
* James Thurber
* Lucy Thurber
* Sophie Treadwell
* Grace Hyde Trine
* Alfred Uhry
* Luis Valdez
* Gore Vidal
* Paula Vogel
* John Walch
* Ian Walker
* Naomi Wallace
* Eugene Walter
* Douglas Turner Ward
* Anne Washburn
* Dale Wasserman
* Wendy Wasserstein
* John Weidman
* George Weller
* Mac Wellman
* Marion Craig Wentworth
* Mae West
* Percival Wilde
* Thornton Wilder
* John Willard
* Samm-Art Williams
* Tennessee Williams
* Beau Willimon
* August Wilson
* Lanford Wilson
* Meredith Willson
* Tracey Scott Wilson
* David Wiltse
* Lee Wochner
* George C. Wolfe
* Elizabeth Wong
* Doug Wright
* Chay Yew
* Mary Zimmerman
* Miriam Shomer Zunser

## 21st century

* David Adjmi
* Annie Baker
* Ayad Akhtar
* Stephen Belber
* Brooke Berman
* Adam Bock
* Thomas Bradshaw
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* George Brant
* Gamal Abdel Chasten
* Vicki Caroline Cheatwood
* John Clancy
* Cusi Cram
* Rick Elice
* Will Eno
* Larissa Fasthorse
* Melissa James Gibson
* Rebecca Gilman
* Gina Gionfriddo
* Stephen Adly Guirgis
* Danai Gurira
* Katori Hall
* Joshua Harmon (playwright)
* Whit Hertford
* Amy Herzog
* Lucas Hnath
* CJ Hopkins
* Samuel D. Hunter
* Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
* Julia Jordan
* Rajiv Joseph
* Aditi Kapil
* Stephen Karam
* Zoe Kazan
* Young Jean Lee
* Tracy Letts
* Simon Levy
* Kirk Lynn
* Taylor Mac
* Mona Mansour
* Melanie Marnich
* Richard Maxwell
* Cary M. Mazer
* Tarell Alvin McCraney
* Lin-Manuel Miranda
* Meg Miroshnik
* Anthony Mora
* Janet Noble
* Bruce Norris
* Dan O'Brien
* Dael Orlandersmith
* Trey Parker
* Laura Pedersen
* David Rambo
* Adam Rapp
* Bert V. Royal
* Sarah Ruhl
* William Ruiz
* Carl Hancock Rux
* John Strand
* Regina Taylor
* Alice Tuan
* Marisa Wegrzyn
* Leah Nanako Winkler
* Craig Wright
* Quiara Alegría Hudes