1.
Tennessee Williams
Perhaps the best-known American playwright, Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on Hot Tin Roof; he won Pulitzer Prizes for Streetcar and Cat.
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2.
Edward Albee
You’re probably most familiar with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? or The Zoo Story, but Albee won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for three other plays (A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women).
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3.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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4.
Eugene O’Neill
O’Neill won four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936.
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5.
Arthur Miller
Miller is best known for Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, a scathing allegory to post-World War II McCarthyism.
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6.
David Mamet
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7.
Neil Simon
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8.
Tony Kushner
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9.
Neil LaBute
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10.
August Wilson
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won the pulitzer prize for drama twice with the plays 'The Piano Lesson' and 'Fences'. One of the greatest African American (or maybe just American) Playwrights of the century.
Added 13 years ago by guest, 0 points
11.
Sam Shepard
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12.
Caryl Churchill
Churchill is a contemporary feminist playwright whose work borders on the surreal and has consistently won critical praise over the last 30 years. If you aren’t familiar with her play, start with Top Girls or Serious Money.
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13.
Lillian Hellman
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14.
Christopher Durang
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15.
Ntozake Shange
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16.
Anna Deveare Smith
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17.
Lanford Wilson
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18.
Judith Malina
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19.
John Patrick Shanley
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20.
George Abbott
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21.
Lynn Nottage
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