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.

English writer, playwright, screenwriter.

French playwright and author of situation comedies

Vittorio Alfieri, conte di Cortemiglia

Italian poet and classicist playwright, “father of Italian tragedy.”

American Argentine-Chilean writer, playwright, essayist, scholar and human rights activist

Jaroslav Vrchlicky

Czech poet, playwright, translator

English playwright

Russian and Soviet actor, director, theater teacher

Casimir Delavigne

French poet and playwright

English playwright, actor, theatre director and screenwriter

Benjamin Galemiri

Chilean playwright, theater and film director

Arvids Grigulis

Latvian Soviet writer, poet and playwright

English poet and playwright

Irish playwright

Jewish playwright

Galiasgar Kamal

Tatar Soviet writer, classic of Tatar drama and public figure

French playwright and archaeologist

Guillen de Castro

An outstanding Spanish playwright

Theatre director

American poet, playwright and natural philosopher

Alfonso Vallejo

Playwright, poet, artist and neurologist

German dramatic writer, actor and theatre director of the 19th century.

Lithuanian playwright, philosopher, cultural figure.

Hella Wuolijoki

Finnish writer of Estonian origin.

Maxim Kurochkin

Ukrainian playwright and screenwriter.

Fyodor Komissarzhevsky

Russian theater director

German playwright.

Czech writer and playwright.

Prominent Chinese prose writer, playwright, publicist

French writer, member of the French Academy since 1763. He began as a playwright, a follower of Voltaire.

Wincenty Kosiakiewicz

Polish poet, short story writer, playwright

Romanian poet, essayist, playwright and journalist

American playwright, representative of the “theater of the absurd”.

Arthur Laurents

American playwright, theater director and screenwriter

William Somerset Maugham

English prose writer, playwright, short story writer. A connoisseur of the human soul and character, who knew how to express them with rare stylistic precision.

English writer, playwright

George Etherege

English playwright

English playwright, screenwriter and novelist

Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero

Dutch poet and playwright

Giovanni Testori

Writer, art and literary critic, playwright, screenwriter

Christoph Friedrich Bretzner

German playwright

Ion Luca Caragiale

Romanian writer and playwright.

Moris Maeterlinck

Belgian playwright

Jonathan Larson

Poet, playwright, composer and librettist.

Japanese writer, playwright

Italian librettist and playwright

Friedrich Kaiser

Austrian playwright

Luigi Squarzina

Italian playwright and director

Konstantin Kondrya

Moldovan poet, playwright, satirical writer, translator

Jean-Richard Bloch

French writer, playwright, public and theater activist, anti-fascist.

Christopher Alden

Theater director