The following article focused on the Woody Allen bibliography which consists of a list of published (and some unpublished) works by or about him. Woody Allen is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is known for his writing on film, television and theater, both off-Broadway and on Broadway. He is also known for his novels, short stories, pieces in The New Yorker (from 1966 to 2013) and his memoir.
He started his career on television writing for various comedy specials and variety shows for Sid Caesar. He wrote alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, Neil Simon and Danny Simon. He earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series nomination for his work on The Sid Caesar Show (1959). He transitioned to stand-up comedy where he released the comedy albums Woody Allen (1964), Woody Allen Vol. 2 (1965) and The Third Woody Allen Album (1968), the former of which earned him a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nomination.
Allen has written numerous humorous short stories and pieces for The New Yorker in the "Shouts and Murmurs" section since 1966 with his latest being published in 2013. He has also published several books of popular short stories, such as Getting Even (1971), Without Feathers (1975) and Side Effects (1980). He released his autobiography, Apropos of Nothing (2020), and his first novel, What's With Baum? (2025).
On stage, he wrote his first Broadway play Don't Drink the Water (1966), Play It Again, Sam (1969), which would be his first ever collaboration with actress Diane Keaton, who received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for her work, and The Floating Light Bulb (1981) which received Tony Award nominations for its actors Jack Weston and Brian Backer. He was part of the off-Broadway three-play compilation Death Defying Acts alongside Elaine May and David Mamet and the Broadway three-play anthology Relatively Speaking with May and Ethan Coen. He adapted his 1994 film into the musical Bullets Over Broadway (2014) earning a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical nomination.
Theatre In addition to directing, writing, and acting in films, Allen has written and performed in several Broadway, off-Broadway, and other theatrical productions. Year Title Credit Venue 1960 From A to Z Writer (book)Plymouth Theatre, Broadway1966 Don't Drink the Water WriterCoconut Grove Playhouse, FloridaMorosco Theatre, Broadway 1969 Play It Again, Sam Writer Performer (Allan Felix)Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway 1975 God Writer 1975 Death Writer 1981 The Floating Light Bulb WriterVivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway 1995 Death Defying Acts: Central Park West WriterVariety Arts Theatre, Off-Broadway 2003 Old Saybrook (one-act play) Writer and directorAtlantic Theatre Company, Off-Broadway 2003 Riverside Drive (one-act play) Writer and director 2004 A Second-Hand Memory Writer and director 2008 Gianni Schicchi Director Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles 2011 Honeymoon Motel (one-act play) WriterBrooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway 2014 Bullets Over Broadway Writer (book) St. James Theatre, Broadway 2015Gianni Schicchi Director Teatro Real, Madrid 2019 Director La Scala, Italy2024A Brooklyn FairytaleWriterBudapest, Hungary2025Pure MadnessWriterCentrál Theater, Budapest, Hungary
Books Novels What's With Baum? (2025), Short Story Collections Getting Even (1971), Without Feathers (1975), Side Effects (1980), Mere Anarchy (2007), Zero Gravity (2022), New York: Arcade Publishing You Do to My Heart and Other New York Stories (2026),
Autobiography Apropos of Nothing (2020), New York: Arcade Publishing
Compilation The Complete Prose of Woody Allen: Without feathers, Getting even and Side effects (1991) The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007, .
Interviews Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman (2005) Woody Allen: Interviews (2006)
Chapbook Lunatic's Tale (1986), (Short story previously included in Side Effects.)
The New Yorker pieces Since 1966, Allen has written more than 38 humorous pieces for The New Yorker.
Biography
Critical studies
Woody Allen: Conversations with Filmmakers Series, ed. R. E. Kapsis and K. Coblentz, (2006) Ava Cahen, Woody Allen : Profession : cynique, L'Archipel, 2015 () Brook, Vincent and Grinberg, Marat (Eds.): Woody on Rye. Jewishness in the films and plays of Woody Allen, Brandeis University Press, 2014 Essay by Victoria Loy on Woody Allen's career, Senseofcinema.com
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