List of dramatists includes George Abbott, JoAnne Akalaitis, Edward Albee, William Alfred, Robert Anderson, Robert Ardrey, George Axelrod, Thomas Babe, Jon Robin Baitz, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Djuna Barnes, S.N. Behrman, Eric Bentley, George Birimsia, Lee Blessing, Eric Bogosian, Julie Bovasso, Lee Breuer, Kenneth H. Brown, Ed Bullins, Charles Busch, Lewis John Carlino, Lonnie Carter, Mary Chase, Paddy Chayefsky, Alice Childress, Frank Chin, Darrah Cloud, Rick Cluchey, Constance S. Congdon, Marc Connelly, Ron Cowen, Michael Cristofer, Rachel Crothers, Mart Crowley, Ossie Davis, Phillip Hayes Dean, Steven Dietz, Charles Dizenzo, Rosalyn Drexler, Martin Duberman, Christopher Durang, Lonne Elder III, Ules Feiffer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Harvey Fierstein, Horton Foote, Richard Foreman, Mar铆a Irene Forn茅s, Paul Foster, Mario Fratti, Bruce Jay Friedman, Charles Fuller, George Furth, Frank Gagliano, Herb Gardner, Larry Gelbart, William Gibson, Frank D. Gilroy, James Goldman, Paul Go odman, Charles Gordone, Philip Kan Gotanda, Spalding Gray, Paul Green, Richard Greenberg, David Greenspan, John Guare, A.R. Gurney Jr., Oliver Hailey, William Hanley, Lorraine Hansberry, William Hauptman, Allan Havis, Lillian Hellman, Beth Henley, James Leo Herlihy, Errol Hill, Robert Hivnor, William Hoffman, Joan Holden, Israel Horovitz, Tina Howe, David Henry Hwang, Willian Inge, Albert Innaurato, Len Jenkin, Lee Kalcheim, Garson Kanin, Adrienne Kennedy, Wedny Kesselman, Sidney Kingsley, Kenneth Koch, Harry Kondoleon, Arthur Kopit, H.M Koutoukas, Ruth Krauss, Tony Kushner, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Lawrence, John Howard Lawson, Robert E. Lee, Romulus Linney, Robert Lowell, Craig Lucas, Charles Ludlam, Ken Ludwig, Eduardo Machado, ARchibald MacLeish, Jackson MacLow, David Mamet, Emily Mnn, William Mastrosimone, Elaine May, Michael McClure, James McLure, Terrence McNally, Murray Mednick, Mark Medoff, Leonard Melfk, Arthur Miller, Jason Miller, Susan Miller, Ron Milner, Loften Mitchell, T ad Mosel, Richard Nelson, John Ford Noonan, Marsha Norman, Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, Eric Overmyer, Rochelle Owens, OyamO, Suzan-Lori Parks, John Patrick, Robert Patrick, John Peilmeier, Miguel Pinero, Bernard Pomerance, David Rabe, Dennis J. Reardon, Keith Reddin, Ronald Ribman, Jack Richardson, Howard Sackler, Arthur Sainer, Milcha S谩nchez-Scott, William Saroyan, Joan M. Schenkar, James Schevill, Murray Schisgal, Ntozake Shange, John Patrick Shanley, Wallace Shawn, Sam Shepard, Martin Sherman, Stuart Sherman, Neil Simon, Michael T. Smith, David Starkweather, Barrie Stavis, John Steppling, Karen Sunde, Ted Tally, Ronald Tavel, Megan Terry, Steve Tesich, Alfred Uhry, Luis Valdez, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Gore Vidal, Paula Vogel, Joseph A. Walker, Douglas Turner Ward, Wendy Wasserstein, Jerome Weidman, Arnold Weinstein, Michael Weller, Mac Wellman, Richard Wesley, Edgar Nkosi White, John White, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson, Doric Wilson, Lanford Wilson, Robe rt M. Wilson, George C. Wolfe, Olwen Wymark, Susan Yankowitz, Paul Zindel.