* 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 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.

Playwright Tennessee Williams, writer of A Streetcar Named Desire, said of Strasberg's actors, " They act from the inside out.

Playwright Tennessee Williams grew up in the neighborhood, and the house of the renowned poet T. S. Eliot is located in the Central West End.

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

) 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 Arthur Miller said " the Group Theatre was unique and probably will never be repeated.

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 ).

* 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.

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 Anthony Neilson's 1991 work Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper is a fictional account of Kürten's life, is told from the point of view of his defense lawyer.

* Playwright Arthur Miller grew up in a modest house not far from Washington Cemetery in Gravesend.

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.

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.

Depending on culture the differences between the meaning of " Dramatist " and the meaning of " Playwright " are perceived otherwise, so please do not use the " Playwrights " and " Dramatists " subcategories of this category any more, but move articles from either " Dramatists " or " Playwrights " to this category instead.

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.

" Born in Chicago, raised in Toronto, she now lives in Calgary where she was Playwright in Residence at Alberta Theatre Projects from 2009 to 2012.

* 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 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.

Kemsley studied acting at the Independent Theatre of Dramatic Art from 1969-1972 under Doris Fitton and attended the Playwright Forum at the National Institute of Dramatic Art ( NIDA ) in 1973 under the directorship of David Whittaker.

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.

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 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.

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.