Question: A 1967 one-act play that is an absurdist drama about 5 people waiting in line for an event, was written by an American playwright, director, and actor, who was born in what year?
Context: Karnabharam or "The Anguish of Karna" (literally: "The Burden of Karna") is a Sanskrit one-act play written by the Indian dramatist Bhasa, an Indian playwright complimented even by the famous Kalidasa in the beginning of his play Malavikagnimitram .  The play describes the mental pain of Karna on the previous day of the Kurukshetra War.  Karnabharam is essentially the retelling of an episode of the Indian epic Mahabharata but the story is presented in a different perspective in the play.  It is perhaps the only potential tragedy in the classic Sanskrit literature, presented in a form that comes closest to the "Vyayoga" (Sanskrit: व्यायोग) form of one-act play.  That is so perhaps because the Natya Shastra ordains the playwrights to create plays for recreation, and essentially create happy endings .  In Karnabharam, the tragedy does not occur on-stage (Unlike Urubhanga, a tragedy that shows Duryodhana dying - again, written by Bhasa).  Karnabharam shows the valiant, generous, righteous Karna riding out towards the battle-ground, where his death under heart-wrenching circumstances is certain.  The basic plot of this play is inspired by Mahabharata. The Bus Stop is a Chinese absurdist play written in 1981 by Gao Xingjian.  Though originally completed in 1981, a second draft wasn't completed until 1982, and the play was not performed on stage until 1983.  The play premiered at the Beijing People's Art Theatre and was directed by Lin Zhaohua, the Deputy Director of the People's Art Theatre.  Though appreciated by many audiences, the original run was shut down by the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign after only 13 performances.  Now banned from performance in mainland China, "The Bus Stop" remains an influential text in Chinese absurdist drama. The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee.  His first play, it was written in 1958 and completed in just three weeks.  The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a commercial world.  Now, professional theatre companies can only produce "The Zoo Story" as a part of "Edward Albee's at Home at the Zoo" (originally titled "Peter and Jerry"). The Death of Bessie Smith is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee, written in 1959 and premiered in West Berlin the following year.  The play consists of a series of conversations between Bernie and his friend Jack, Jack and an off-stage Bessie, and black and white staff of a 'whites-only' hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on the death date of the famous blues singer, Bessie Smith, who died in a car wreck. Line is a 1967 one-act play by Israel Horovitz, his first play produced.  It is an absurdist drama about 5 people waiting in line for an event (what event it is, is never made clear—several of the characters' stated expectations contradict the others).  Each of the characters uses their wiles in an attempt to be first in line, getting more and more vicious as the play continues. Black Children's Day is a one-act play play written in 1980 by Adrienne Kennedy.  It was commissioned by Brown University, and was revised in 1988.  Kennedy is an African American playwright.  Her plays often use surrealism as an element to explore the American experience from a non-white perspective, drawing on symbolism, mythical and historical figures, and themes of race, violence, and family to create her works.  Specifically, "Black Children's Day" draws on elements of Metatheatre and surrealism to explore non-realistic characters in a chaotic sense.  Many of Kennedy's plays are "autobiographically inspired". Bobby Gould in Hell is a play by the American playwright David Mamet.  It premiered Off-Broadway in 1989 and also ran in London in 1991.  The one-act play (45-minutes) updates the life of character Bobby Gould, from Mamet's 1988 play "Speed-the-Plow". Israel Horovitz (born March 31, 1939) is an American playwright, director, and actor. Wit (also styled as W;t) is a one-act play written by American playwright Margaret Edson, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  Edson used her work experience in a hospital as part of the inspiration for her play. Chamber Music is a 1962 one-act play by absurdist playwright Arthur Kopit.  The story is set in 1938 and concerns eight famous women from different historical periods who all are interned in the same insane asylum.
Answer: 1939