He became known as " The Playboy Playwright " and specialized in comedies and farces, some of them with material considered risqué at the time.

Sloane tied for first in the Variety Critics ' Poll for " Best New Play " and Orton came second for " Most Promising Playwright.

* 1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of " committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons " and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

* 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.

The term playwright appears to have been coined by Ben Jonson in his Epigram 49, To Playwright, as an insult, to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre.

Playwright Tennessee Williams said of its actors: " They act from the inside out.

Playwright Alfred Uhry collaborated with Martha Clarke on " Angel Reapers " and used Shaker texts as source material.

" Playwright Arthur Miller commented that Muni " was pursued by a fear of failure.

* American Playwright Tennessee Williams's older sister Rose received a lobotomy which left her incapacitated for life ; the episode is said to have inspired characters and motifs in certain of his works.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

In 2007, he produced the play, Shakespeare's Will by Canadian Playwright Vern Thiessen.

* Arthur C. Sidman Playwright and vaudevillian.

Playwright Charles MacArthur, co-author of the play The Front Page was a former City Press reporter ; several of the characters in the play were based on City Press personalities, notably the skittish managing editor Larry Mulay.

* Playwright Erik Jackson acquired King's consent to stage a non-musical spoof, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2006 with female impersonator Keith Levy ( also known as Sherry Vine ) in the lead role.

* Stanley Weintraub ( ed. l ), The Playwright and the Pirate, Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris: A Correspondence.

In 2010 The Playwright, a collaboration with Daren White, was published.

" Playwright August Wilson used the term " ghetto " in Ma Rainey ’ s Black Bottom ( 1984 ) and Fences ( 1987 ), both of which draw upon the author ’ s experience growing up in the Hill district of Pittsburgh, a black ghetto.

Playwright Martin McDonagh and his brother, writer / director John Michael McDonagh, live in Camberwell.

* Playwright Alan Bennett has lived in Gloucester Crescent for the last forty years.

" Playwright Terrence McNally, a gay man, received death threats when it was played in the United States.

Actress / Playwright / lyricist Gretchen Kiger-Cryer, mother of actor Jon Cryer, was born and raised in Dunreith.

* Anthony E. Gallo – Playwright.

* Jane Wagner – Playwright and actress who wrote The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

In 2003, North Carolina Playwright Keith Smith wrote a one act musical play entitled " My Name is Johnny Appleseed ", which is presented to school children to show that the true story of John Chapman is just as interesting as the mythical figure, who is shrouded in legend.

Playwright John Guare became interested in Hampton's story through his friendship with two of his duped hosts — Osborn and Inger Elliott, who were outraged to find " David Poitier " in bed with another man the morning after they let him into their home.

Playwright William Goodhart was commissioned to write the screenplay, titled The Heretic, and based it around the theories of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( the Jesuit paleontologist / archaeologist who inspired the character of Father Merrin when Blatty wrote The Exorcist ).

* Playwright Jean Giraudoux combined tragedy, humor and fantasy in Intermezzo ( 1937 ), where a timid ghost revolutionizes a small town, and Ondine ( 1939 ) about a water sprite who falls in love with a mortal.

* Editor Charles Wintour ( who as deputy-editor in 1955, launched the awards after a ' nod from the then proprietor, Lord Beaverbrook ') for Most Promising Playwright.

Playwright Tad Mosel, who wrote four teleplays for Playhouse 90, recalled, " My first Playhouse 90 was glamour ... Glamour had come to television because CBS had built this magnificent Television City in Los Angeles ... Television had come to deserve buildings for itself.

* Playwright James Bridie, who wrote the screenplay for Under Capricorn, is famous for his Biblical plays, such as his Jonah and the Whale.

Playwright / musician Lawrence Bullock, who lives in Mendocino, California recently ( 2 / 27 / 11 ) found a copy of the LP in Very Good condition at a local thrift shop, bringing the total of known copies to exist in private record collections to three.

Playwright Beth Henley, who had been encouraged by friends four years earlier to put her script into production, would later win a Pulitzer Prize for the play, the first of several successful efforts.

Diary of a Mad Playwright: Perilous Adventures on the Road with Mary Martin and Carol Channing, about production of the play " Legends " ( Dutton )

* Playwright Daniel Caffrey's play Gregor and the Squonk is loosely based on the tale of J. P. Wentling.

Playwright Shirley Gee has written two fictional dramatisations of Snell's life: a radio play, Against the Wind ( 1988 ) and a stage play, Warrior ( 1989 ).

Janice Johnston directed the same play for In Good Company at the Aeolian Hall in October 2006 and in November 2006 “ Country ” travelled to Jakarta, Indonesia to the Women Playwright ’ s International conference.

Her play Comfort me with Apples won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright award in 2005, and was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Playwright and lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Rabbit Hole.

* In the film Star Trek Generations, the villain Tolian Soran quotes from Schwartz's poem, “ Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day ”, telling Captain Jean-Luc Picard, “ They say time is the fire in which we burn .” Playwright Philip Ridley uses the same line as one of the epigraphs for his 2012 play Shivered.

Playwright Max Sparber's play The Older Gentleman set in rural Nebraska in the early ' 60s, includes a scene in which college students are shown Boys Beware in class.

In 1980 Hughes won the London Theatre Critics Award for ' Most Promising Playwright ' for his play Commitments.

* Playwright and author Terence Frisby of the 1960s play and movie There's a Girl in My Soup was born in New Cross in 1932 but spent the majority of his childhood in Welling.

American Playwright Ken Ludwig wrote a play inspired by the details of Twelfth Night ; called Leading Ladies.

In 1973, Tesich won the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright for the play Baba Goya, which is also known under the title Nourish the Beast.

Playwright Horton Foote met actor Robert Duvall at Neighborhood Playhouse when Duvall starred in a 1957 production of Foote's play, The Midnight Caller.

Playwright Terence Rattigan, an intimate companion of his father, dedicated his play The Winslow Boy ( 1946 ) to him.

Playwright John Sable's Multiple O, a play adaptation of The Ethical Slut, opened on May 2, 2008, at the Broom Street Theater.

George Bernard Shaw praised the play saying " Mr. Wilde is to me our only thorough Playwright.

Buntline presented Cody as a " compendium of cliches ", however this did not stop New York Playwright Frank Meader from using Buntline's novel as the basis of a play about Cody's life in 1872.

Playwright Greenberg has stated that one of the compulsions for creating a baseball play was his complete immersion into the sport in 1999 after following the New York Yankees ' ( then -) record 114-win season the previous year, beginning with David Wells ' perfect game.

Playwright Tom Stoppard used this phrase as the title of a 1981 farce, On the Razzle, which he adapted from an earlier play by Johann Nestroy.