Global InformationList of Jewish American playwrights information
This is a list of notable Jewish American playwrights. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
- David Adjmi[1]
- Lynn Ahrens[2]
- Sholom Aleichem[3]
- Woody Allen (born 1935), 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
- Agnes Borinsky
- 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]
- George Jessel[28]
- George S. Kaufman[23]
- Sidney Kingsley[29]
- Tony Kushner[30]
- James Lapine[31]
- Arthur Laurents[32]
- H. Leivick[33]
- Alan Jay Lerner[34]
- Ira Levin[35]
- Craig Lucas[36]
- David Mamet[37]
- Donald Margulies[38]
- Arthur Miller[39][40]
- Cheryl Moch
- Becky Mode[41]
- Itamar Moses
- Clifford Odets[42][43]
- Carl Reiner[44]
- Elmer Rice[45]
- Morrie Ryskind[46]
- Peter Sagal[47][48]
- Rod Serling[49]
- Irwin Shaw[50]
- Wallace Shawn[51]
- Sidney Sheldon[52]
- Martin Sherman[53]
- Neil Simon[54]
- Isaac Bashevis Singer[55]
- Joey Soloway, playwright, television writer[56]
- Aaron Sorkin (born 1961), screenwriter, producer and playwright[57]
- Gertrude Stein
- Joseph Stein[58]
- Louise Stern[59]
- Jeffrey Sweet[60]
- Chaim Towber[61]
- Alfred Uhry[62]
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University; recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama[63]
- Jerome Weidman[64]
- Franz Werfel[65]
- Norman Wexler, screenwriter of Saturday Night Fever, Joe, Serpico, Mandingo
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- ^ "Sholom-Aleichem". Archived from the original on 2006-10-26. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "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 Archived 2006-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Worcester Area Writers - S. N. Behrman - Bio". Archived from the original on 2006-09-13. Retrieved 2006-07-05. "He was the third child of Joseph and Zelda Behrman, Jewish immigrants living on Worcester's East Side."
- ^ "All About Jewish Theatre - News". Archived from the original on 2006-05-12. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "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 24 April 2006.
- ^ "All About Jewish Theatre - Mel Brooks take his musical "The Producers" to Germany". Archived from the original on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2010-12-17. "as the 77-year-old Brooklyn-born Jewish comedian put it unrepentantly..."
- ^ a b JewishAmThea Archived 2006-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [1] "Corwin, who is Jewish, started his journalism career sans a high school..."
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- ^ "Edward Einhorn - Novelist, Playwright, Director". www.edwardeinhorn.com.
- ^ [2] [3] "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.”"
- ^ [4] Archived 2006-07-21 at the Wayback Machine "Harvey Fierstein, nice Jewish boy from Bensonhurst, dressed in holiday finery..."
- ^ "Edna Ferber". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
- ^ "The comic gift of Larry Gelbart". Archived from the original on 2006-05-17. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "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.
- ^ [5] "He, Josh Greenfeld, was a Jewish writer from Greenwich Village."
- ^ [6] "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."
- ^ [7] "MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: American Jewish Songs". Archived from the original on 2006-07-02. Retrieved 2006-05-18.
- ^ a b [8][dead link](on Hart and George S. Kaufman) "Both were tall, dark and Jewish, and both had private demons..."
- ^ [9] "Ben Hecht was an American Jewish journalist, novelist, and playwright.
- ^ [10] Archived 2006-09-05 at the Wayback Machine "Hellman1960". Archived from the original on 2006-09-07. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "She is Jewish."
- ^ "National Foundation for Jewish Culture".
- ^ "JewishAmThea". Archived from the original on 2006-09-02. Retrieved 2006-05-18. [11]
- ^ "This article is unavailable - HighBeam Research".[permanent dead link]
- ^ [12] "second-generation American Jewish writers: Miller, Odets, Sidney Kingsley"
- ^ [13] "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."
- ^ "JewishAmThea". Archived from the original on 2006-09-02. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "finest Jewish playwrights, including Elizabeth Swados, William Finn and James Lapine, Herb Gardner..."
- ^ [14] "...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." [15] "Laurents also writes extensively on being gay, Jewish, left-wing..."
- ^ "MET's Past Productions: The Golem - Notes on the Play". Archived from the original on 2006-05-11. Retrieved 2006-05-18.
- ^ [16] "JewishAmThea". Archived from the original on 2006-09-02. Retrieved 2006-05-18.
- ^ "Celebrities". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "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."
- ^ [17] "Besides the mainstage premiere of a major new work by acclaimed Jewish playwright Craig Lucas..."
- ^ [18] "David Mamet is a Jewish writer, though until recently few accounts of his life or work suggested as much..."
- ^ [19] "he was Donald Margulies, the darling of regional theater, the state-sanctioned "Jewish American Playwright""
- ^ [20] "Let's have a look. Miller, like myself, (and like Ed Siegel) is a Jewish-American, meaning, simply..."
- ^ Chametzky, Jules; Felstiner, John; Flanzbaum, Hilene; Hellerstein, Kathryn (2001). Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology. W.W. Norton & Company. p. 558. ISBN 9780393048094.
- ^ "Best Theater 2000". 17 May 2001. Archived from the original on December 16, 2007 – via www.time.com.
- ^ "National Yiddish Book Center - Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays Ellen Schiff, editor". Archived from the original on 2006-05-24. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "...introduced the work of Jewish playwrights Aaron Hoffman, Clifford Odets, and Paddy Chayefsky to contemporary audiences..."
- ^ Chametzky, Jules; Felstiner, John; Flanzbaum, Hilene; Hellerstein, Kathryn (2001). Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology. W.W. Norton & Company. p. 451. ISBN 9780393048094.
- ^ [21] "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..."
- ^ "All About Jewish Theatre - Elmer Rice Revival Now Off-Broadway". Archived from the original on 2006-05-12. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "Elmer Rice, nee Reizenstein, an American/Jewish writer of the ‘20s and ‘30s, did not necessarily focus on Jewish characters and issues..."
- ^ [22] Archived 2005-05-26 at the Wayback Machine "George and Ira Gershwin team up with another Jewish team—George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind..."
- ^ Kaplan, Ron. "NJ native hosts game show with twist of the news". New Jersey Jewish News Life and Times Feature. New Jersey Jewish News. Archived from the original on 20 September 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
- ^ "Peter Sagal". Dramatic Publishing. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
- ^ [23] "Rod was Jewish and that doesn't necessarily mean that it should have meant more..."
- ^ "JCR-UK - Amis and the Oriental in Swansea - Article by H. Pollins". Archived from the original on 2007-05-30. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "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 Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jewish Literature Month – Palm Beach County Library System Archived 2006-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Martin Sherman". Archived from the original on 2005-02-12. Retrieved 2006-05-18.""Being Jewish and being gay are the most important parts of me," he explains, "and they’re the DNA in my bones.""
- ^ [24] "Broadway Bound is the least known play of prolific Jewish playwright Neil Simon’s trio of comical semi-autobiographical dramas."
- ^ "Isaac Bashevis Singer". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
- ^ Soloway — [25] "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 — [26] Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine "...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 Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Zylbercweig, Zalmen. "Lives in the Yiddish Theatre. Short biographies of those involved in the Yiddish theatre". Museum of Family History. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "PerformInk Online". Archived from the original on 2006-03-19. Retrieved 2006-05-18. "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 — [27] "“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.”"
- ^ ABC-CLIO. "ABC-CLIO/Greenwood - Reference - Home". www.greenwood.com.
- ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Franz Werfel". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 24 April 2006.