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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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 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 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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2025 in literature (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
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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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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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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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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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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Leaving Home (play) (category Plays by David French)
Leaving Home is a drama in two acts by Canadian playwright David French. The work is the first presented of what has come to be known as the Mercer Plays...
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Edna O'Brien (category Irish women dramatists and playwrights)
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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Marcel Pagnol (category French satirical 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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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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Françoise Sagan (category French women 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yasmina Reza (category French women dramatists and playwrights)
Yasmina Reza (French: [ʁeza]; born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays 'Art' and God of Carnage...
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David Paquet is a Canadian playwright, who won the Governor General's Award for French-language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards, and the Prix...
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Marguerite Duras (category 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights)
Donnadieu (French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit ʒɛʁmɛn maʁi dɔnadjø], 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit dyʁas]), was a French novelist...
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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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2025 in film (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
2025. Petski, Denise (21 January 2025). "Jules Feiffer Dies: Cartoonist, Playwright & 'Carnal Knowledge' Screenwriter Was 95". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved...
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