* 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 A. Stein who in his Last Parade play used several of Vysotsky ’ s songs, was chastised by a Ministry of Culture official for " providing a tribune for this anti-Soviet scum ".

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 Samuel Foote remarked that he had known Garrick to have only three quarts of vinegar in his cellar and still calling himself a wine merchant.

) Playwright Gardner, however, actually preferred Selleck to Robards in the part, and even said that Selleck was the way he had always envisioned Murray.

Playwright Mario Fratti had written the book, but the producers and Tune eventually decided his script did not work, and brought in Arthur Kopit in 1981 to write an entirely new book.

Playwright Green, however, was not happy with the more hopeful, upbeat ending that the Group had imposed on his brooding work.

Playwright Ed Bullins and poet Marvin X had established Black Arts West, and Dingane Joe Goncalves had founded the Journal of Black Poetry ( 1966 ).

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 Patrick Marber, whose early collaborations with Coogan included The Day Today and being the principal writer of both radio and TV versions of Knowing Me, Knowing You ... with Alan Partridge, has also been working on the script, but the pair put their plans on hold following the London bombings, for fear the screenplay would appear in bad taste.

Playwright Tom Stoppard made a public denunciation, and Brian Sewell ( art critic of the Evening Standard ) has consistently been hostile, as has David Lee, the editor of Jackdaw.

Playwright David Lan has been the theatre's artistic director since 2000.

Playwright William Congreve encouraged and guided her dramatic writing.

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

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.

Playwright Hugh Leonard said: " I am not a member by choice.

*" Films by Harold Pinter: Accident 1966 " – At HaroldPinter. org: The Official Website of the International Playwright Harold Pinter.

In 1705, Chikamatsu became a " Staff Playwright " as announced by early editions of The Mirror of Craftsmen of the Emperor Yōmei.

Martin and Tichenor's second book, " Reduced Shakespeare: The Attention Impaired Reader's Guide to the World's Best Playwright ( abridged )" was published by Hyperion in 2006.

Odets was the subject of a critically acclaimed biography by psychoanalyst Margaret Brenman-Gibson, wife of playwright William Gibson: Clifford Odets – American Playwright – The Years from 1906 – 1940.

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

National Public Radio called Mee the " Public-Domain Playwright " in 2000 and credited him with touching " a raw cultural nerve " by making his work freely available.

Playwright and novelist Eliza Haywood, by George Vertue, 1725.

*" Films by Harold Pinter: The Servant 1963 " at HaroldPinter. org – The Official Website of the International Playwright Harold Pinter

Playwright Alan Bennett was particularly repulsed by Witchfinder.

Playwright Terrence McNally, a gay man, received death threats when it was played in the U. S. Its production in New York City was canceled then reinstated, finally opening on 13 October 1998, directed by Joe Mantello.

* Palestinian-Born Playwright Offers Insight and Hope for the Peace in the Middle East ( September 9, 2003 )-Article on Saleem by Michael Austin.

* Playwright Larry Shue's 1983 comedy The Foreigner revolves around Charlie, a shy Englishman, and his accidental discovery of a plot by local Klansmen to appropriate a young woman's inheritance money to fund their endeavors.

Playwright John Sable chose Women on Top ( another book by Nancy Friday ) as the play's title largely due to its more provocative connotation.

The theatre company strives to be integral part of the cultural life of the city, and has sought to develop new writing through its biennial Corcadorca Playwright Award, and by commissioning new work from more established writers (" Disco Pigs ", Enda Walsh, and " Bruen's Twist ", Eamonn Sweeney ).

Playwright Matthew Hancock is the author of several stage adaptations, including Window, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami, and The Body Artist, taken from the novella by Don DeLillo.

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.

Awards include an Emmy nomination, the American Alliance for Theatre and Education Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, the AT & T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, the AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, two TCG Extended Collaboration Grants, Aristophanes Award for Best Off-Broadway Comedy, First Place in the Southwest Festival of New Plays, Heideman Finalist for Actors Theatre Louisville, Best of the CATCO Shorts Festival, the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Creative Workforce Fellowship, and four Ohio Arts Individual Excellence Awards.