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

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.

* John Guare ( Playwright )

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

Sir John Vanbrugh: The Playwright as Architect.

* John C. Russell – Playwright

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

* John Laurence Seymour, University of California Berkeley, Alpha Chapter, American Composer and Playwright

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

Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955.

With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the " Playwright of the Midwest ".

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

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 Girish Karnad's debut play Yayati ( 1961 ) is based on the story of King Yayati found in the Mahabharat.

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 ).

* 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.

Playwright Jane Taylor, responsible for the acclaimed Ubu and the Truth Commission, found fault with the Commission's lopsided influence:

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

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

* 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.

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

* The Playwright ( with Daren White, 2010 )

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 Judy Upton was born in Shoreham-by-Sea in 1966 and has written several plays associated with Brighton Beach.

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

* 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.

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 George Bernard Shaw was impressed with his acting, casting him in the first production of Man and Superman, and subsequently in five more of his plays.

Each year VSA sponsors many notable programs such as the " International Young Soloists Program ," " Playwright Discovery " program, Call for Children's art, internships across the nation for students with disabilities.

Playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was also descended from this family, while othor reputable Virginian's from the nineteenth century were Thomas Fitzpatrick a noted London physician, and entrepreneur Joseph Rathborne the son of local mill owner Henry Talbot Rathborne, Joseph went to America and created the world's biggest lumber mill with the Rathborne Cypress Lumber Company in Louisiana.

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.

She is an Emerging Voice with the California Indian Storytellers Association and a mentor for the Native Voices Youth Playwright Project.

In 1955, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll gained first prize in the Playwright Advisory Board Competition with Oriel Gray ’ s The Torrents and was subsequently presented by the Union Theatre.

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.

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 ).

* Bill Naughton — Playwright ; wrote Alfie ( 1963 ), the basis of two film adaptations.

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.

Bogart has won two Best Director Obie Awards, one for No Plays No Poetry But Philosophical Reflections Practical Instructions Provocative Opinions and Pointers From a Noted Critic and Playwright ( 1988 ) based on the theories of Bertolt Brecht and the other for Paula Vogel ’ s The Baltimore Waltz ( 1990 ).

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

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 ).

* 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.