List of Jewish American playwrights

This is a list of notable Jewish American playwrights. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

David Adjmi Lynn Ahrens Sholom Aleichem "Recognized as the best Jewish writer who ever lived in Russia and wrote in Yiddish..." Woody Allen (born 1935), film director, writer, actor, and comedian Jacob M. AppelJM Appel Phoning Home University of South Carolina Press 2014 George AxelrodNotable Jewish deaths in 2003 Jeff Baron S. N. Behrman "He was the third child of Joseph and Zelda Behrman, Jewish immigrants living on Worcester's East Side." David Belasco "It was staged by the young David Belasco, a Sephardic Jew..." Saul Bellow Leo Birinski Agnes Borinsky Mel Brooks "as the 77-year-old Brooklyn-born Jewish comedian put it unrepentantly..." Paddy ChayefskyJewishAmThea Betty Comden & Adolph Green Norman Corwin "Corwin, who is Jewish, started his journalism career sans a high school..." Howard Dietz Edward Einhorn Eve Ensler "The celebrated actress-playwright, born to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother, sees herself as “a Jewish being. My mother looked like Doris Day. I was a dead ringer for Anne Frank. I came out Jewish.”" Harvey Fierstein "Harvey Fierstein, nice Jewish boy from Bensonhurst, dressed in holiday finery..." Edna Ferber Herb Gardner Larry Gelbart "Besides writing the Oscar-nominated screenplay "Oh, God!" the Jewish comedy screenwriter is famous..." Joel Gersmann Josh Greenfeld "He, Josh Greenfeld, was a Jewish writer from Greenwich Village." Oscar Hammerstein II "When American Jewish songwriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote Oklahoma!, they were, Felstiner argues, doing what all children of immigrant parents do: desiring to possess the new land." Otto Harbach Yip Harburg Moss Hart Ben Hecht "Ben Hecht was an American Jewish journalist, novelist, and playwright. Lillian Hellman "She is Jewish." Peretz Hirshbein Israel Horovitz George Jessel George S. Kaufman Sidney Kingsley "second-generation American Jewish writers: Miller, Odets, Sidney Kingsley" Tony Kushner "The gay, Jewish socialist raised in Louisiana and educated at Columbia and NYU most enjoys addressing audiences that are receptive to ideas for change and progress." James Lapine "finest Jewish playwrights, including Elizabeth Swados, William Finn and James Lapine, Herb Gardner..." Arthur Laurents "...the creation of Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, and Stephen Sondheim: four gay Jewish men, all working at the very top of their craft." "Laurents also writes extensively on being gay, Jewish, left-wing..." H. Leivick Alan Jay Lerner Ira Levin "Dickens wasn’t Jewish, in case you were wondering. But Bette just did a remake of The Stepford Wives, based on the novel by Ira Levin, who is." Craig Lucas "Besides the mainstage premiere of a major new work by acclaimed Jewish playwright Craig Lucas..." David Mamet "David Mamet is a Jewish writer, though until recently few accounts of his life or work suggested as much..." Donald Margulies "he was Donald Margulies, the darling of regional theater, the state-sanctioned "Jewish American Playwright"" Arthur Miller "Let's have a look. Miller, like myself, (and like Ed Siegel) is a Jewish-American, meaning, simply..." Cheryl Moch Becky Mode Itamar Moses Clifford Odets "...introduced the work of Jewish playwrights Aaron Hoffman, Clifford Odets, and Paddy Chayefsky to contemporary audiences..." Carl Reiner "But consider the milieu the show's Jewish creator, Carl Reiner, was trying to portray: the heavily Jewish New York comedy scene out of which came Your Show..." Elmer Rice "Elmer Rice, nee Reizenstein, an American/Jewish writer of the ‘20s and ‘30s, did not necessarily focus on Jewish characters and issues..." Morrie Ryskind "George and Ira Gershwin team up with another Jewish team—George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind..." Peter Sagal Rod Serling "Rod was Jewish and that doesn't necessarily mean that it should have meant more..." Irwin Shaw "Amis and I often talked about Jewish matters, such as novels by American Jews, like Irwin Shaw – that dates it." Wallace ShawnJUF : Tweens : Celebrities : Wallace Shawn Sidney SheldonJewish Literature Month – Palm Beach County Library System Martin Sherman""Being Jewish and being gay are the most important parts of me," he explains, "and they’re the DNA in my bones."" Neil Simon "Broadway Bound is the least known play of prolific Jewish playwright Neil Simon’s trio of comical semi-autobiographical dramas." Isaac Bashevis Singer Joey Soloway, playwright, television writerSoloway — "One aspect of herself that Soloway reveals in her book, due out in paperback next month (published by Free Press), is that she, a self-described "Jewess," feels a sisterly solidarity with Monica Lewinsky, as well as Chandra Levy" Aaron Sorkin (born 1961), screenwriter, producer and playwrightSorkin — "...says the Jewish Sorkin..." Gertrude Stein Joseph Stein Louise Stern Jeffrey SweetAll About Jewish Theatre - The Sins of the Father, Another Holocaust Play Chaim Towber Alfred Uhry "I’ve probably come late to the party accepting, and being proud of, the fact that I’m Jewish. But I’m here. Am I an observant Jew? No. Maybe I’ll get there." Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) Jerome Weidman Franz Werfel Norman Wexler

List of Jewish American playwrights

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