A Greek playwright who is famous plays include The Trojan Women and Media.

An American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story, A Seascape, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Three Tall Women, The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, and A Delicate Balance. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.

The ancient God of wine, fertility, and theatre. He may have been celebrated by the ancient Greeks in their play festivals.

An American composer and lyricist who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Band's Visit, and Tootsie. He won a Tony Award for The Band's Visit.

A German playwright who was the main proponent of the epic theatre. During World War II, he lived in exile in the United States. His famous plays include The Threepeeny Opera, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Good Person of Szechwan, and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

A Greek philosopher who wrote about for theatre in the Poetics. He identified the parts of theatre: plot, characters, thought, diction, melody, spectacle.

A Greek playwright, often called the father of comedy, who wrote Lysistrata and The Frogs.

A Greek playwright, often called the father of tragedy, whose Oresteia is the only example of a Greek trilogy to have survived.

A Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. One of the founders of modernism in theatre, he is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, A Doll's House, and Hedda Gabler.