Dramatist
Discover the renowned playwrights and dramatists who have shaped the world of theater. Explore their iconic works and contributions to the art of storytelling.

Giovan Battista Corniani
Italy
ItalyItalian lawyer, playwright and literary historian

William Gilbert
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish playwright, librettist, poet and illustrator.

Francisco Candamo
Spain
SpainSpanish playwright

Jacques Etienne Victor Arago
France
FranceA famous French playwright, writer, artist and traveler of the 19th century

Einar Christiansen
Denmark
DenmarkDanish playwright and theatre figure

Yasmina Reza
France
FranceFrench playwright, actress, screenwriter and novelist

Guy Bolton
Great Britain
Great BritainAnglo-American playwright and writer of musical comedies

Mikhail Kozakov
Russian Soviet prose writer and playwright

Ignaz Franz Castelli
Austria
AustriaAustrian poet and playwright.

Adrien-Pierre-Henri Decourcelle
France
FranceFrench playwright

Francis Beaumont
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet and playwright.

Abdulah Sidran
Bosnian writer, poet and playwright

Wole Soyinka
Nigeria
NigeriaNigerian playwright, writer, poet. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1986.

Jose Zorrilla y Moral
Spain
SpainSpanish poet and playwright

Nazib Asanbayev
Bashkir prose writer, poet and playwright

Jonas Zaborsky
Slovakia
SlovakiaSlovak playwright and poet.

Vitaly Korolev
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian playwright and prose writer

Ivo Vojnovic
Serbia
SerbiaCroatian writer and playwright.

Josef Julius Wecksell
Finland
FinlandFinnish poet and playwright

Pierre Corneille
France
FranceFrench playwright, representative of classicism

Joachim Wilhelm Brawe
Germany
GermanyGerman playwright

Pier Marivaux (de Chamblan)
France
FranceFrench playwright and novelist

Jean-Batiste Rasine
France
FranceFrench playwright, poet, representative of classicism.

Johan Nordahl Brun
Norway
NorwayNorwegian poet, playwright, politician, Bishop of Bergen

Rudolf Kneisel
Germany
GermanyGerman playwright

William Saroyan
USA
USAAmerican novelist and playwright

Jahn Moliere
France
FranceGreat French playwright and actor. His most famous plays are: "Tartuffe", "The Misanthrope", "The Misanthrope", "The Bourgeois in the Nobility", "The Imaginary Invalid". (53)

Ariel Dorfman
USA
USAAmerican Argentine-Chilean writer, playwright, essayist, scholar and human rights activist

Nagib Mahfuz
Egypt
EgyptEgyptian fiction writer and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1988

Lev Barskiy
Moldova
MoldovaMoldovan prose writer and playwright.

Alan Bennett
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish playwright, screenwriter and novelist

Rafail Eristov
Georgian poet, playwright and ethnographer

Adolphe Ribbing de Leuven
France
FranceFrench playwright and theater director

Efim Brill
Ukraine
UkraineRussian Soviet theater director

Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Great Britain
Great BritainWriter, playwright, journalist, biographer and historian

Jean-Nicolas Bouilly
France
FranceFrench writer, playwright and librettist

Eugene Cormon
France
FranceFrench playwright

Hans Carl Artmann
Austria
AustriaAustrian poet, novelist, playwright, translator

Richard Paul Jodrell
Great Britain
Great BritainA little-known English playwright.

Michel Carre
France
FranceFrench playwright and librettist

Richard Cumberland
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish playwright and essayist

Bo Pu
China
ChinaChinese playwright (in the “zaju” genre) and poet (in the “tsi” and “qu” genres).

Anton Langer
Austria
AustriaAustrian playwright, novelist, journalist and translator

Jan Zawicki
Poland
PolandPolish poet and playwright of the era of Sigismund III.

Adrian Mitchell
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, talented playwright and screenwriter.

Nurlan Abdykadyrov
Kyrgyzstan
KyrgyzstanPlaywright, director, producer

Heinrich Kruse
Germany
GermanyGerman playwright and journalist, writer.

Alain Bosquet
France
FranceFrench writer and playwright.

Heinrich Laube
Germany
GermanyGerman writer, playwright

Vittorio Alfieri, conte di Cortemiglia
Italy
ItalyItalian poet and classicist playwright, “father of Italian tragedy.”