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
"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
"Corwin, who is Jewish, started his journalism career sans a high school..." "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.”" Archived 2006-07-21 at the Wayback Machine "Harvey Fierstein, nice Jewish boy from Bensonhurst, dressed in holiday finery..." 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." [dead link](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. "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." "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..." "...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..." "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." "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..." "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..." Archived 2005-05-26 at the Wayback Machine "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..." "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."" "Broadway Bound is the least known play of prolific Jewish playwright Neil Simon’s trio of comical semi-autobiographical dramas." 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" "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 — "“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.”"
