title: List of playwrights from the United States
text: # 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
  * Robert Montgomery Bird
  * George H. Boker
  * Dion Boucicault
  * John Brougham
  * William Wells Brown
  * Bob Cole
  * Robert T. Conrad
  * Augustin Daly
  * Clyde Fitch
  * Edward Harrigan
  * Grace Hayward
  * James A. Herne
  * Bronson Howard
  * William Dean Howells
  * Charles H. Hoyt
  * Henry James
  * Cornelius Ambrosius Logan
  * Steele MacKaye
  * 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
  * Philip Barry
  * Todd Bash
  * Jonathan Bayliss
  * Douglas Carter Beane
  * Jim Beaver
  * David Belasco
  * Stephen Belber
  * 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
  * 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
  * 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
  * 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
  * 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
  * Regina Taylor
  * Alice Tuan
  * Marisa Wegrzyn
  * Leah Nanako Winkler
  * Craig Wright
  * Quiara Alegría Hudes
  