* Playwright / Composer Lionel Bart lived the latter part of his life in an apartment on Churchfield Road, citing the area as the closest thing he could find to the community feel of the East London " of old ".

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

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

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 ).

* 2001 – PEN / Laura Pels Master American Playwright Award

Playwright and television writer / producer Eric Overmyer joined the crew of The Wire in the show's fourth season as a consulting producer and writer.

* 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 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 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.

" 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.

Playwright David Auburn skillfully introduces an oddly balanced group of characters whose lives merge on the rooftop of an old Chicago building marked for demolition.

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

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

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

*"‘ Miracle Worker ’ Playwright Dies ", The New York Times ArtsBeat blog, November 27, 2008

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

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

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.

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

Playwright Tony Kushner protesting at his 1978 graduation

Playwright, Westminster Parliament member, and son of Thomas, Richard Brinsley Sheridan was born on this street at number 12 in 1751 ; Brinsley Sheridan's works include The Critics and A School for Scandal.

I decided to make that weekend all about studying my body issues ”— and went on to include another frequently cited reaction: “ I ’ ve always used Mich as a place to charge my batteries for the rest of the year, planning my life around being there in August and learning my lessons, both fun and hard .” Playwright Carolyn Gage would later give voice to another key appeal motivating campers to return: “ At Michfest, she can experience a degree of safety that is not available to any woman any time anywhere except at the festival.

*" Mountain Language " at HaroldPinter. org – The Official Website for the International Playwright Harold Pinter.

He also published a book on his work Playwright at Work just after World War II.

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

From 2007 to 2010, he was Lee Playwright in Residence at University of Alberta.

Playwright and corporate communications consultant Syl Jones suggested that Minnesota nice isn't really about being " nice " at all.

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

* Tim Loane Actor, Director, Playwright and currently Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen ’ s University, Belfast.

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.

*" Yusuf Idris of Egypt, Playwright, Dies at 64 ", New York Times, August 3, 1991.

Playwright Richard Bean adapted Mamet's script for a production at the Almeida Theatre, London, in September 2010.

Playwright Ruth Margraff performed at No Shames in Iowa City and the one at HOME.

Playwright Naomi Wallace frequently attended No Shame while doing her graduate work in the Playwright's Workshop in Iowa City, and first wrote for No Shame while in residence at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke for the developmental production of her play Fever Chart.

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 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.