Are both Lydia Davis and Neil Simon playwrights?
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Lydia Davis Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American writer noted for literary works of extreme brevity (commonly called "flash fiction"). Davis is also a short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including "Swann’s Way" by Marcel Proust and "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert.
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Neil Simon Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He has written more than thirty plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.
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Stephen Adly Guirgis Stephen Adly Guirgis is an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He is a member and a former co-artistic director of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced both Off-Broadway and on Broadway as well as in the UK. His play "Between Riverside and Crazy" won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Samuel D. Hunter Samuel D. Hunter (born 1981) is an American playwright living in New York City.
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Joanna Laurens Joanna Laurens (born 21 April 1978) is an English playwright.
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Sugar Daddies (play) Sugar Daddies is a 2003 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is about a student who forms a friendship with a rich man over three times her age, who has a sinister past, and maybe a sinister present too.
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Sarah Daniels Sarah Daniels (born 1957 in London ) is a British dramatist. She has been a prolific writer since her first performed play was given a production at the Royal Court in 1981.
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Rebecca Lenkiewicz Rebecca Lenkiewicz (born 1968) is a British playwright. She is best known as the author of "Her Naked Skin" (2008), which was the first original play written by a living female playwright to be performed on the Olivier stage of the Royal National Theatre.
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Peter Davis (theater historian) Peter A. Davis is a professor of theatre history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with specialties in early American theatre, Restoration theatre and Eighteenth Century cultural history. His research interests include the economic and social influences of theatre in addition to First Amendment and censorship issues related to live performance. His articles and reviews are found in the leading theatre journals, including, "Theatre Survey", "Theatre History Studies", "Journal of American Drama and Theatre", "Modern Drama", "Theatre Research International", "Restoration & 18th century Studies", "Journal of American History" and "Theatre Journal". He was a major contributor to "The Cambridge History of American Theatre" (1999), winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research and the Special Jury Award of the Theatre Library Association. He also contributed major essays to "The American Stage", Engle and Miller, eds. (Cambridge), "The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre", Wilmeth, ed. and "Inventing Times Square", William R. Taylor, ed. (Russell Sage Foundation). He was a 1988 recipient of an NEH research grant to study in effects of the Panic of 1873 on the American theatre industry.
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Levy Lee Simon Levy Lee Simon is an American playwright, actor, director and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his trilogy about the struggle for Haitian independence, "For the Love of Freedom".
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Simon Wallace Simon Wallace (born 1957) is a British composer and pianist.
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The Goodbye Girl (musical) The Goodbye Girl is a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by David Zippel, and music by Marvin Hamlisch, based on Simon's original screenplay for the 1977 film of the same name.
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Neil Landau Neil Landau is an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and director. His film and television credits include the teen comedy "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead", "Melrose Place", "The Magnificent Seven", "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "The Secret World of Alex Mack" and MTV's "Undressed". He has developed numerous one-hour drama TV pilots for several studios and networks including Warner Bros., Touchstone, CBS, ABC Family, and Lifetime, and has written movies for Universal Pictures, Disney, Columbia Pictures, and 20th Century Fox.
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Alex Oates Alex Oates (born Newcastle, 1987) is an English playwright from the North East.
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Simon Gantillon Simon Gantillon (7 January 1887, Lyon –– 9 September 1961, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was an 20th-century French screenwriter and playwright.
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Calabi-Yau (play) Calabi-Yau is a 2001 play written by playwright Susanna Speier with songs and music by Stefan Weisman, based on physicist Brian Greene's national bestseller "The Elegant Universe".
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My Zinc Bed (play) My Zinc Bed is a play by the British playwright David Hare. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2000 and its three characters were played in that production by Tom Wilkinson, Julia Ormond and Steven Mackintosh, with Hare himself directing. It was adapted into a television film in 2008.
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Merrill Denison Merrill Denison (23 June 1893 — 13 June 1975) was a Canadian playwright.
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I Ought to Be in Pictures I Ought to Be in Pictures is a comedy-drama play by Neil Simon, his 18th.
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Amy Freed Amy Freed (born 1958) is an American playwright. Her play
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John Simon (critic) John Ivan Simon (born May 12, 1925) is an American author and literary, theater, and film critic.
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Octavio Solis Octavio Solis (1958–present) is a Latino playwright and director who has had his productions shown in A-list theaters and small companies across the United States. He has written over 25 plays, including his most famous works "Lydia", "Santos & Santos" and "Man of the Flesh". His works have earned numerous awards and grants.