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David Mamet (1947- ? )

Wrote: -Sexual Perversity in Chicago -American Buffalo -Glengarry Glen Ross -Oleanna

August Wilson (1945-2005)

Wrote: -Fences -Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom -The Piano Lesson

Tennesse Williams (1911-1983)

Wrote: -A Streetcar Named Desire -The Glass Menagerie -Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)

1st play written by a black woman and produced on Broadway Wrote: -A Raisin in the Sun

Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

Wrote: -The Death of a Salesman -The Crucible

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)

Wrote: -Our Town -The Skin of Our Teeth

Royal Tyler (1757-1826)

Writer of the 1st American play to be professionally performed Wrote: -The Contrast

Terrence McNally (1939- ? )

Wrote: -Love! Valour! Compassion! -Frankie and Johnny at the Claire de Lune -The Ritz

Eugene O’Neil (1888-19530

America’s foremost dramatist 1st American playwright to receive Nobel Prize for literature Wrote: -Desire Under the Elms -Mourning Becomes Electra -The Iceman Cometh -Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Edward Albee (1928- ? )

Wrote: -Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -Three Tall Women

Neil Simon (1927- ? )

Wrote: -The Odd Couple -Lost in Yonkers -Promises Promises -Sweet Charity

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

Wrote: -The Children’s Hour -The Little Foxes

William Gibson (1914- ? )

Wrote two plays that were produced on Broadway and made into big screen films -The Miracle Worker -Two for the Seesaw