Playwrights Quoted in The Seminars

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'It's very hard with cutbacks not to feel that our theatres, our work, is not as important as it should be. . . . But I also know that nothing creates vital theatrical energy like anger.'

-- Wendy Wasserstein

1. Ariel Dorfman
2. Ntozake Shange
3. Amlin Gray
4. Harold Pinter
5. Richard Toscan
6. Jon Robin Baitz
7. D. H. Lawrence
8. Wakako Yamauchi
9. David Henry Hwang
10. William Shakespeare
11. Wendy Kesselman
12. John Guare
13. Jean-Claude van Itallie
14. Charles Fuller
15. Horton Foote
16. Velina Hasu Houston
17. Tina Howe
18. Athol Fugard
19. Tom Stoppard
20. Caryl Churchill
21. David Mamet
22. Arthur Miller
23. Joan Holden
24. John Huston
25. Adrienne Kennedy
26. Steve Tesich
27. Tennessee Williams
28. Henrik Ibsen
29. Lanford Wilson
30. Beth Henley
31. August Wilson
32. Lisa Loomer
33. David Ives
34. Eugene O'Neill
35. Craig Lucas
36. Philip Kan Gotanda
37. Edward Albee
38. Terrence McNally
39. Anna Deavere Smith
40. Robert Schenkkan
41. Paul Bowles
42. Jane Martin
43. Tony Kushner
44. William Hoffman
45. Peter Weiss
46. Emily Mann
47. Michael Weller
48. Lee Blessing
49. Marsha Norman
50. Anton Chekhov
51. John Patrick Shanley
52. Robert Altman
53. Arthur Kopit
54. Ping Chong
55. Lorrie Moore
56. Luis Valdez
57. Woody Allen
58. Fran Lebowitz
59. A. R. Gurney
60. Philip Levine
61. Wendy Wasserstein
62. James Michener
63. Luis Santeiro
64. Eugene Ionesco
65. Shelagh Delaney
66. María Irene Fornés
67. Peter Shaffer
68. Megan Terry
69. José Rivera
70. Samuel Beckett
71. Christopher Durang
72. Adam Sorkin
73. Graham Greene
74. Jason Miller
75. Wallace Shawn
76. David Rabe
77. David Hare
78. Suzan-Lori Parks
79. Alan Ayckbourn
80. Michelangelo Antonioni
81. George C. Wolfe
82. Ted Tally
83. Sharon Ott
84. Israel Horovitz
85. Sam Shepard
86. Bertolt Brecht
87. John Osborne
88. Claude Lelouch
89. Arnold Wesker
90. Joan Tewkesbury
91. David Storey
92. Alan Bennett
93. Keith Glover
94. Françoise Sagan
95. Frank Galati
96. Larry Kramer
97. Steven Bochco
98. Steve Martin
99. Maya Lin
100. Terry Southern
101. Octavio Solis
102. Chay Yew
103. Migdalia Cruz
104. Robert Towne
105. Elizabeth Egloff
106. John Weidman
107. Shirley Lauro
108. Declan Donnellan
109. Sir Alec Guinness
110. Camron Mackintosh
111. Scott Elliott
112. Kazuo Ishiguro
113. Louis Malle
114. Steven Dietz
115. Ricardo Khan
116. Theresa Rebeck
117. Al Hirschfeld
118. Stephen Daldry
119. Jack Heifner
120. Naomi Wallace
121. Carlyle Brown
122. Martha Coolidge
123. Kevin Heelan
124. David O. Selznick
125. Nick Reed
126. Peter Brook
127. François Truffaut
128. Joseph Chaikin
129. Jamaica Kincaid
130. Mario Vargas Llosa
131. Nicky Silver
132. Janet Blake
133. W. H. Auden
134. Liz Swados
135. Oskar Eustis
136. Joseph Brodsky
137. Edwin Sanchez
138. Tom Noonan
139. Ismail Merchant
140. James Nicola
141. Jeanette Winterson
142. Frank Pierson
143. Richard Nelson
144. Joel Coen
145. Jon Jory
146. Abelardo Estorino
147. Milos Forman
148. Lynn Manning
149. Robert Auletta
150. André Téchiné
151. Milos Forman
152. Leslie Ayvazian
153. Ellen McLaughlin
154. Scott Rudin
155. Moisés Kaufman
156. Pam Gems
157. Neil LaBute
158. Sebastian Barry
159. Yasmina Reza
160. Peter Weir
161. Lars van Trier
162. Carole Eastman
163. Jo Bonney
164. George Lucas
165. Robert Alexander
166. James Oseland
167. Mac Wellman
168. Romulus Linney
169. Stanley Kubrick
170. Margaret Edson
171. Jim Grimsley
172. Alfred Uhry
173. Roberto Benigni
174. Patrick Marber
175. Ayub Khan-Din
176. Naomi Iizuka