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This is a list of notable Jewish American playwrights. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. * David Adjmi * Lynn Ahrens * Sholom Aleichem * Woody Allen (born 1935), film director, writer, actor, and comedian * Jacob M. Appel * George Axelrod * Jeff Baron * S. N. Behrman * David Belasco * Saul Bellow * Leo Birinski * Mel Brooks * Paddy Chayefsky * Betty Comden & Adolph Green * Norman Corwin * Howard Dietz * Edward Einhorn * Eve Ensler * Harvey Fierstein * Edna Ferber * Herb Gardner * Larry Gelbart * Joel Gersmann * Josh Greenfeld * Oscar Hammerstein II * Otto Harbach * Yip Harburg * Moss Hart * Ben Hecht * Lillian Hellman * Peretz Hirshbein * Israel Horovitz * George Jessel * George S. Kaufman * Sidney Kingsley * Tony Kushner * James Lapine * Arthur Laurents * H. Leivick * Alan Jay Lerner * Ira Levin * Craig Lucas * David Mamet * Donald Margulies * Arthur Miller * Cheryl Moch * Becky Mode * Itamar Moses * Clifford Odets * Carl Reiner * Elmer Rice * Morrie Ryskind * Peter Sagal * Rod Serling * Irwin Shaw * Wallace Shawn * Sidney Sheldon * Martin Sherman * Neil Simon * Isaac Bashevis Singer * Joey Soloway, playwright, television writer * Aaron Sorkin (born 1961), screenwriter, producer and playwright * Gertrude Stein * Joseph Stein * Louise Stern * Jeffrey Sweet * Alfred Uhry * Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University; recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama * Jerome Weidman * Franz Werfel * Norman Wexler, screenwriter of Saturday Night Fever, Joe, Serpico, Mandingo * Rory Winston, playwright, poet, comedy writer, reviewer (en) |
