Question: Who wrote the play, Panic, that featured Orson Wells, American actor, director, writer, and producer?
Context: Ava Lazar is an American actress most notable for her role as the first Santana Andrade in NBC's soap opera "Santa Barbara".  She has been seen in numerous roles in Film and Television.  Some of the most notably, Rocky Two, starring Sylvester Stallone, Fast Times at Ridgemont High starring Sean Penn, Scarface, starring Al Pacino, Forever Young, starring Mel Gibson and Where's Parsifal starring Tony Curtis, Orson Wells, Peter Lawford, Donald Pleasence, Ron Moody and various other co starring roles in television.  Ava Lazar is also a producer of three feature-length films, Nature of the Beast with Eric Roberts and Lance Hendrickson, Mic and the Claw and Trafficking. The War of the Worlds is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series "The Mercury Theatre on the Air".  It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on Sunday, October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network.  Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds" (1898).  It became famous for allegedly causing mass panic, although the scale of the panic is disputed as the program had relatively few listeners. W.O.S. Thorne, more generally known as Oakleigh Thorne (July 31, 1866 − May 23, 1948), was an American businessperson, a publisher of tax guides, a banker, and a philanthropist.  Among his early ventures were the consolidation of brickyards on the Hudson River, and later he was president of the National Switch and Signal Company and Westinghouse Electric's vice president.  In 1900 he came to New York City as vice president of the International Banking and Trust Company, becoming president.  That company became the Trust Company of America, of which Thorne was serving as president.  He helped the company survive a bank run during the Panic of 1907, securing the backing of J. Pierpont Morgan and European sources.  He served as a director of Wells Fargo & Company from 1902 to 1918.  In addition to his connection with Commerce Clearing House, Wells Fargo, and the Trust Company of America, Thorne was a director of the Corporation Trust Company and of the Bank of Millbrook.  After purchasing Briarcliff Farms in 1918, he became a breeder of champion Angus cattle.  He was inducted into the Angus Heritage Foundation Hall of Fame in 1934. The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a black-and-white 1936 British fantasy-comedy film directed by the German-born American director Lothar Mendes.  Reputedly the best-known of Mendes' 20 films, it's a greatly expanded version of H. G. Wells’s short story of the same name and stars Roland Young with a cast of supporting players including Sir Ralph Richardson and in a London Films production from the famous Hungarian-born British producer, Sir Alexander Korda.  H.G. Wells himself worked on the adaptation, the plot revised to reflect Wells's socialist frustrations with the British upper class, and the growing threat of Communism, Fascism and Nazism in Europe at the time, something to which Mendes, Korda and Wells were all committed to combating in their creative work. George Orson Welles ( ; May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.  He is remembered for his innovative work in all three: in theatre, most notably "Caesar" (1937), a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"; in radio, the legendary 1938 broadcast "The War of the Worlds"; and in film, "Citizen Kane" (1941), consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever made. Edward Page Mitchell (1852–1927) was an American editorial and short story writer for "The Sun", a daily newspaper in New York City.  He became that newspaper's editor in 1897, succeeding Charles Anderson Dana.  Mitchell was recognized as a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre.  Mitchell wrote fiction about a man rendered invisible by scientific means ("The Crystal Man", published in 1881) before H.G. Wells's "The Invisible Man", wrote about a time-travel machine ("The Clock that Went Backward") before Wells's "The Time Machine", wrote about faster-than-light travel ("The Tachypomp"; now perhaps his best-known work) in 1874, a thinking computer and a cyborg in 1879 ("The Ablest Man in the World"), and also wrote the earliest known stories about matter transmission or teleportation ("The Man without a Body", 1877) and a superior mutant ("Old Squids and Little Speller").  "Exchanging Their Souls" (1877) is one of the earliest fictional accounts of mind transfer.  Mitchell retired in 1926, a year before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. Panic is a 1935 verse play by Archibald MacLeish.  A tragedy that is one of the author's least-known works, it was written during the sixth year of the Great Depression.  The drama is set during the bank panic of 1933 and concerns the fall of the world's richest man, a banker named McGafferty.  First presented March 14–16, 1935, at the Imperial Theatre in Manhattan, the production featured Orson Welles's first leading performance on the American stage.  "Panic" was produced by John Houseman and Nathan Zarkin as the first project of their new Phoenix Theatre.  Sets and lighting were designed by Jo Mielziner; Martha Graham directed the movements of the chorus. The Fall of the City by Archibald MacLeish is the first American verse play written for radio.  The 30-minute radio play was first broadcast April 11, 1937, at 7 p.m. ET over the Columbia Broadcasting System (today CBS) as part of the "Columbia Workshop" radio series.  The cast featured Orson Welles and Burgess Meredith.  Music was composed and directed by Bernard Herrmann.  It is an allegory on the rise of Fascism. Georgia Belden Backus (October 13, 1901 – September 7, 1983) was an American character actress on stage, radio and screen, and a writer, director and producer of radio dramas.  In 1930 she was named dramatic director of the Columbia Broadcasting System, to guide the development of the new art of the radio play.  A member of the repertory company presenting Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre radio programs, she played supporting roles in some 30 films during the 1940s and 1950s.  Her first screen credit was "Citizen Kane" (1941), in which she played the severe assistant in the Thatcher library.  Her career was ended by the Hollywood blacklist. Orson Welles is an impact crater in the Coprates quadrangle of Mars, located at 0.2° S and 45.9° W.  It is 124.5 kilometers in diameter and was named after Orson Welles (1915–1985), an American radio and motion picture actor and director.  He is famous for, among other things, his radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells in which Martians invade Earth.  The layers and the clay minerals found in Orson Welles Crater are evidence that it once contained a lake.
Answer: Archibald MacLeish