This is a list of playwrights from the United States.

[edit] 20th century playwrights

• Edward Albee
• Franco Ambriz
• Jane Anderson
• Jacob M. Appel
• Todd Bash
• Leo Birinski
• Eric Bogosian
• Percy Jewett Burrell
• Sheila Callaghan
• Linda Chambers
• Constance Congdon
• Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
• Nilo Cruz
• Steven Dietz
• Tom Donaghy
• Christopher Durang
• T. S. Eliot
• Don Evans
• Charles Evered
• Bob Jude Ferrante
• Horton Foote
• D. B. Gilles
• Ain Gordon
• Rinne Groff
• Jason Grote
• Rob Handel
• Lorraine Hansberry
• Moss Hart
• Jeffrey Hatcher
• Lillian Hellman
• Glenn Hergenhahn
• George Herman
• Tina Howe
• Langston Hughes
• David Henry Hwang
• William Inge
• Len Jenkin
• Arthur M. Jolly
• George S. Kaufman
• Adrienne Kennedy
• Stanley Keyes
• Elizabeth Kinman
• Harry Kondoleon
• Tony Kushner
• Neil LaBute
• Warren Leight
• David Lindsay-Abaire
• Romulus Linney
• Craig Lucas
• Archibald MacLeish
• David Mamet
• Charles L. Mee
• Arthur Miller
• Ellen McLaughlin
• Scott McMorrow
• Terrence McNally
• Leonard Melfi
• Itamar Moses
• Sean Muir
• Ken Munch
• Marsha Norman
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Eugene O'Neill
• Eric Overmyer
• Gordon Porterfield
• Sarah Ruhl
• Isabella Russell-Ides
• Suzan-Lori Parks
• Ayn Rand
• Jonathan Rand
• John Schneider
• Robert Schenkkan
• John Patrick Shanley
• Sam Shepard
• Robert B. Sherman
• Larry Shue
• Nicky Silver
• Aoise Stratford
• Neil Simon
• Adam Szymkowicz
• Sophie Treadwell
• Rodolfo Usigli
• Paula Vogel
• Naomi Wallace
• Wendy Wasserstein
• George Weller
• Mac Wellman
• Tennessee Williams
• Thornton Wilder
• August Wilson
• Lanford Wilson
• David Wiltse
• Lee Wochner
• Mary Zimmerman
• Robert Rome
• Jane Shepard
• John Yearley
• William H. Rinn
• Ronald Ribman

[edit] See also

• List of Jewish American playwrights