List of Jewish American playwrights
This is a list of famous Jewish American playwrights. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- David Adjmi[1]
- Lynn Ahrens[2]
- Sholom Aleichem[3]
- Woody Allen (born 1935) Academy Award-winning film director, writer, actor, and comedian[4]
- Jacob M. Appel[5]
- George Axelrod[6]
- Jeff Baron
- S. N. Behrman[7]
- David Belasco[8]
- Saul Bellow[9]
- Leo Birinski
- Mel Brooks[10]
- Paddy Chayefsky[11]
- Betty Comden & Adolph Green[2]
- Norman Corwin[12]
- Howard Dietz[13]
- Edward Einhorn[14]
- Eve Ensler[15]
- Harvey Fierstein[16]
- Edna Ferber[17]
- Herb Gardner[11]
- Larry Gelbart[18]
- Joel Gersmann[19]
- Josh Greenfeld[20]
- Oscar Hammerstein II[21]
- Otto Harbach[2]
- Yip Harburg[22]
- Moss Hart[23]
- Ben Hecht[24]
- Lillian Hellman[25]
- Peretz Hirshbein[26]
- Israel Horovitz[27]
- Sidney Howard[28]
- George Jessel[29]
- George S. Kaufman[23]
- Sidney Kingsley[30]
- Tony Kushner[31]
- James Lapine[32]
- Arthur Laurents[33]
- H. Leivick[34]
- Alan Jay Lerner[35]
- Ira Levin[36]
- Craig Lucas[37]
- David Mamet[38]
- Donald Margulies[39]
- Arthur Miller[40]
- Becky Mode[41]
- Itamar Moses
- Clifford Odets[42]
- Jonathan Rand[43]
- Carl Reiner[44]
- Elmer Rice[45]
- Morrie Ryskind[46]
- Rod Serling[47]
- Irwin Shaw[48]
- Wallace Shawn[49]
- Sidney Sheldon[50]
- Martin Sherman[51]
- Neil Simon[52]
- Isaac Bashevis Singer[53]
- Jill Soloway — playwright, television writer[54]
- Aaron Sorkin (born 1961) screenwriter, producer and playwright[55]
- Gertrude Stein
- Joseph Stein[56]
- Louise Stern[57]
- Jeffrey Sweet[58]
- Alfred Uhry[59]
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University, also the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama[60]
- Jerome Weidman[61]
- Franz Werfel[62]
- Norman Wexler screenwriter of "Saturday Night Fever","Joe", "Serrpic", "Mandingo"
- Rory Winston Playwright, poet, comedy writer, reviewer[63]
See also
- List of Jewish American authors
- List of Jewish American poets
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
- Before Columbus Foundation
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/theater/17stunning.html
- 1 2 3 Jewish-Composed Musicals
- ↑ "Recognized as the best Jewish writer who ever lived in Russia and wrote in Yiddish..."
- ↑ "Motion Pictures". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Keter Publishing House. 1971–1972.
- ↑ JM Appel Phoning Home University of South Carolina Press 2014
- ↑ Notable Jewish deaths in 2003
- ↑ "He was the third child of Joseph and Zelda Behrman, Jewish immigrants living on Worcester's East Side."
- ↑ "It was staged by the young David Belasco, a Sephardic Jew..."
- ↑ Liukkonen, Petri. "Saul Bellow". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015.
- ↑ "as the 77-year-old Brooklyn-born Jewish comedian put it unrepentantly..."
- 1 2 JewishAmThea
- ↑ "Corwin, who is Jewish, started his journalism career sans a high school..."
- ↑ Hebrew Melodies
- ↑ Edward Einhorn - Novelist, Playwright, Director
- ↑ "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, nice Jewish boy from Bensonhurst, dressed in holiday finery..."
- ↑ Edna Ferber
- ↑ "Besides writing the Oscar-nominated screenplay "Oh, God!" the Jewish comedy screenwriter is famous..."
- ↑ Peterson, Gary (November 4, 1982). "Donna Peckett: a tap dancing fool". The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin). pp. 6–7, Off Hours section.
- ↑ "He, Josh Greenfeld, was a Jewish writer from Greenwich Village."
- ↑ "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."
- ↑
- 1 2 (on Hart and George S. Kaufman) "Both were tall, dark and Jewish, and both had private demons..."
- ↑ "Ben Hecht was an American Jewish journalist, novelist, and playwright.
- ↑ "She is Jewish."
- ↑ National Foundation for Jewish Culture
- ↑
- ↑ "Sidney Howard was of course Jewish having emigrated to the United States from Germany twenty years before.
- ↑ This article is unavailable - HighBeam Research
- ↑ "second-generation American Jewish writers: Miller, Odets, Sidney Kingsley"
- ↑ "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."
- ↑ "finest Jewish playwrights, including Elizabeth Swados, William Finn and James Lapine, Herb Gardner..."
- ↑ "...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..."
- ↑ MET's Past Productions: The Golem - Notes on the Play
- ↑
- ↑ "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."
- ↑ "Besides the mainstage premiere of a major new work by acclaimed Jewish playwright Craig Lucas..."
- ↑ "David Mamet is a Jewish writer, though until recently few accounts of his life or work suggested as much..."
- ↑ "he was Donald Margulies, the darling of regional theater, the state-sanctioned "Jewish American Playwright""
- ↑ "Let's have a look. Miller, like myself, (and like Ed Siegel) is a Jewish-American, meaning, simply..."
- ↑ Time Magazine "Best Theater 2000" #4
- ↑ "...introduced the work of Jewish playwrights Aaron Hoffman, Clifford Odets, and Paddy Chayefsky to contemporary audiences..."
- ↑ JonathanRand.com - The official website of playwright Jonathan Rand
- ↑ "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, nee Reizenstein, an American/Jewish writer of the ‘20s and ‘30s, did not necessarily focus on Jewish characters and issues..."
- ↑ "George and Ira Gershwin team up with another Jewish team—George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind..."
- ↑ "Rod was Jewish and that doesn't necessarily mean that it should have meant more..."
- ↑ "Amis and I often talked about Jewish matters, such as novels by American Jews, like Irwin Shaw – that dates it."
- ↑ JUF : Tweens : Celebrities : Wallace Shawn
- ↑ Jewish Literature Month - Palm Beach County Library System
- ↑ ""Being Jewish and being gay are the most important parts of me," he explains, "and they’re the DNA in my bones.""
- ↑ "Broadway Bound is the least known play of prolific Jewish playwright Neil Simon’s trio of comical semi-autobiographical dramas."
- ↑ Isaac Bashevis Singer
- ↑ Soloway — "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"
- ↑ Sorkin — "...says the Jewish Sorkin..."
- ↑ 350th Play List
- ↑ "Deaf writer shines at RADAR festival". Hearing Times. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ All About Jewish Theatre - The Sins of the Father, Another Holocaust Play
- ↑ "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."
- ↑ Wasserstein — "“My father loved me dearly, but I’m not a Jewish American Princess,” playwright Wendy Wasserstein said. “I’m a Jewish mother, but I’m not Molly Goldberg.”"
- ↑ Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists — www.greenwood.com
- ↑ Liukkonen, Petri. "Franz Werfel". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015.
- ↑ "Survivor's Dictionary". 2003.
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