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.

Fyodor Komissarzhevsky

Russian theater director

Pierre Corneille

French playwright, representative of classicism

Slovak and Ukrainian writer.

German poet, writer, playwright, author of books and screenplays, song lyrics and librettos

Spanish playwright

German playwright, poet, novelist, theater figure

Alexander Abelyan

Armenian playwright and theatre figure

Nurlan Abdykadyrov

Playwright, director, producer

Peter Ulrich Weiss

German writer and artist, playwright

French playwright, actress, screenwriter and novelist

Japanese postmodernist writer and playwright.

William Gilbert

British playwright, librettist, poet and illustrator.

Theatre director

Indian playwright, probably 12th century

Marguerite Duras

French writer, playwright and film director.

Wendy Wasserstein

American playwright

English playwright and screenwriter

Isabelle Augusta Gregory

Irish writer, playwright and folklore collector

French playwright and librettist

Spanish playwright, poet and novelist

Lithuanian director

Nigerian playwright, writer, poet. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1986.

Wallace Stevens

American poet, playwright

Etienne Jodelle

French playwright

Jewish playwright, literary scholar, critic

Paolo Giacometti

Italian writer and playwright.

French writer and playwright.

Ion Luca Caragiale

Romanian writer and playwright.

Jewish Soviet poet, playwright

Giuseppe Costetti

Italian playwright.

Moris Maeterlinck

Belgian playwright

Jonathan Larson

Poet, playwright, composer and librettist.

Christopher Alden

Theater director

Semen Zlotnikov

Soviet and Russian playwright, screenwriter, prose writer

Jean-Francois Bayard

French playwright

Ignaz Franz Castelli

Austrian poet and playwright.

Hungarian playwright.

Rudolf Krupicka

Czech poet and playwright.

Belarusian Soviet poet, playwright

Stefan Zeromski

Polish novelist and playwright

English playwright

Vittorio Alfieri, conte di Cortemiglia

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

Mihail Lakerbay

Writer, playwright, theatre critic

Aldo De Benedetti

Italian playwright and screenwriter.

American playwright

Richard Cumberland

English playwright and essayist

Kazimierz Zalewski

Polish playwright and publicist

Richard Critchett

English playwright

Alexandr Fredro

Polish playwright, known to us from the film adaptation of his comedy "Ladies and Hussars".

Reinaldo Arenas

Cuban poet, novelist, playwright