• David Benson French, OC (January 18, 1939 – December 5, 2010) was a Canadian playwright, most noted for his "Mercer Plays" series of Leaving Home, Of...
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    Sir David Rippon Hare FRSL (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also...
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  • Americans David French (playwright) (1939–2010), Canadian playwright best known for Leaving Home (1971) and other plays about the Mercer family Dawn French (born...
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  • anthropologist and linguist David H. French (archaeologist) (1933–2017), British archaeologist David French (playwright) (1939–2010), Canadian writer...
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    David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York...
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    David Alan Mamet (/ˈmæmɪt/; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, author, and filmmaker. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations...
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  • Richard France (born Richard Zagami, May 5, 1936) is an American playwright, author, actor, and film and drama critic. He is a recognized authority on...
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  • David Byrne (b. 1983 in Stevenage) is a British playwright and formerly the artistic director of the New Diorama Theatre in Camden, London, and currently...
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  • 20th-century mime (and member of the French Resistance in World War II) René Maran Pierre de Marivaux, playwright Clément Marot, poet Guy de Maupassant...
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  • David Ives (born July 11, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is perhaps best known for his comic one-act plays; The New York...
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  • This is a list of notable playwrights. See also Literature; Drama; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth; Lists of authors. Contents:  A...
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    Edna O'Brien (category David Cohen Prize recipients)
    DBE (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. O'Brien's works often revolve around the...
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  • Madame X (1966 film) (category Films directed by David Lowell Rich)
    drama film directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Lana Turner. It is based on the 1908 play Madame X by French playwright Alexandre Bisson. Holly...
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  • Réjean Ducharme (category Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French)
    (August 12, 1941 – August 21, 2017) was a Canadian writer, novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal. He was known for his reclusive personality and...
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    L'auteur et poète trans José Claer est décédé (in French) Richard Foreman, Iconoclastic Playwright and Impresario, Dies at 87 (registration required)...
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    Françoise Sagan (category 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights)
    Françoise Sagan (French: [fʁɑ̃swaz saɡɑ̃]; born Françoise Delphine Quoirez; 21 June 1935 – 24 September 2004) was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter...
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  • Prayer for the French Republic is a 2022 dramatic stage play by American playwright Joshua Harmon. It centers on a Jewish family living in France as they struggle...
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  • and actor (Airplane!, The Naked Gun) (born 1926) December 5 – David French, playwright (Leaving Home) December 6 – Mark Dailey, television journalist...
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    Michel Tremblay (category Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French)
    is a Canadian writer, novelist and playwright. Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau...
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  • Henry Jaglom (category 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights)
    Henry David Jaglom (born January 26, 1938) is an English-born American actor, film director and playwright. Jaglom was born to a Jewish family in London...
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    Maryland. As a playwright, Paterson has published over one dozen titles with Samuel French, Inc.. He holds the record for being the only playwright ever to have...
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  • Monsieur Eek is a short novel by American playwright David Ives, intended for ages 9–12. It was first published September 1, 2001 by HarperCollins. Set...
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    Jean Genet (category 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights)
    Jean Genet (/ʒəˈneɪ/; French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; (1910-12-19)19 December 1910 – (1986-04-15)15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and...
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    William Gibson (November 13, 1914 – November 25, 2008) was an American playwright and novelist. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for The Miracle Worker...
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  • David Farr (born 29 October 1969) is a British writer, theatrical director and Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Farr was brought up...
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  • Michel Marc Bouchard (category Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French)
    Michel Marc Bouchard, OC CQ (born February 2, 1958) is a Canadian playwright. He has received the Prix Journal de Montreal, Prix du Cercle des critiques...
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    Marcel Pagnol (category 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights)
    US: /pɑːˈnjɔːl/ pah-NYAWL; French: [maʁsɛl pɔl paɲɔl]; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as...
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    Schine's death, playwright Tony Kushner, who previously wrote the Pulitzer-prize winning Angels in America, wrote a one-act play titled G. David Schine in Hell...
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    David Shiner (born September 13, 1953) is an American actor, clown, physical comedian, playwright and theater director. David Shiner is an American clown...
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    Antonine Maillet (category Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French)
    OQ ONB FRSC (10 May 1929 – 17 February 2025) was an Acadian novelist, playwright and scholar. Maillet was born on 10 May 1929 in Bouctouche, New Brunswick...
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