1. David Mamet
(1947- ? )

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

3. August Wilson
( )

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

5. Tennesse Williams
( )

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

7. Lorraine Hansberry
( )

8. 1st play written by a black woman and produced on Broadway
Wrote:
-A Raisin in the Sun

9. Arthur Miller
( )

10. Wrote:
-The Death of a Salesman
-The Crucible

11. Thornton Wilder
( )

12. Wrote:
-Our Town
-The Skin of Our Teeth

13. Royal Tyler
( )

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

15. Terrence McNally
(1939- ? )

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

17. Eugene O’Neil (

18. 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

19. Edward Albee
(1928- ? )

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

21. Neil Simon
(1927- ? )

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

23. Lillian Hellman
( )

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

25. William Gibson
(1914- ? )

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