Writers
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Akhtar, Ayad
Albee, Edward (3)
Allen, Jay Presson
Allen, Woody
Anders, Mark
Apolinar, Danny
Asch, Sholom
Ashman, Howard (2)
Ayckbourn, Alan (11)
B
Bagley, Ben
Baitz, Jon Robin
Baizley, Doris (3)
Barber, Matthew
Barnes, Peter (2)
Barton, John (2)
Beckett, Samuel (2)
Bentley, Eric
Berney, William
Berrigan, Fr. Daniel
Bethell, Nicholas
Black, Lewis
Blair, Kellen
Blau, Eric
Blessing, Lee (3)
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bolton, Guy
Bradford, Michael
Brecht, Bertolt (2)
Brel, Jacques
Breuer, Lee
Broad, Jay
Brogger, Erik (2)
Brown, Jason Robert
Butler, Michael
Buzo, Alexander
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Cain, Chris
Cain, James M.
Cavander, Kenneth (3)
Chekhov, Anton
Childress, Alice
Churchill, Caryl (3)
Clark, Brian
Cleage, Pearl
Coburn, D.L.
Cook, Roderick
Corbett, Bill
Corman, Roger
Corneille, Pierre
Coward, Noël (2)
Crawley, Brian
Creech, Andrew Lee
Cristofer, Michael
Crouse, Russel
Crowley, Mart
D
Daisey, Mike
Dale, Jim
Danielsen, Carl
de Filippo, Eduardo
Dee, Ruby
DeLappe, Sarah
Devine, Sean
Didion, Joan
Dietz, Steven (12)
Dinerman, Barry
Donahoe, Jonny
Doran, Bathsheba
Dresser, Richard (2)
Driver, Donald
Duberman, Martin B.
Dunlop, Frank
Durang, Christopher (3)
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
E
Eason, Bo
Edgar, David (2)
Egan, Robert
Elder III, Lonne
Eno, Will
F
Fillinger, Selina
Finn, William
Foote, Horton
Forgette, Katie (2)
Frankel, Scott
Friedman, Gary William
Friel, Brian (2)
Fugard, Athol (2)
Fuller, Charles
Furth, George (2)
G
Genet, Jean
Gershe, Leonard
Gersten-Vassilaros, Alexandra
Gesner, Clark
Gibson, William
Gien, Pamela
Gilroy, Frank
Gionfriddo, Gina
Glass, Joanna
Glass, Philip
Glover, Keith
Goldman, James
Goldstein, David Ira
Gordon, John
Gordone, Charles
Gotanda, Philip Kan
Gray, John
Gray, Simon (2)
Griffith, Charles
Gruenthal, Lola
Guindi, Yussef El (5)
Gurney, A.R. (2)
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Hall, Lee
Hampton, Christopher (2)
Hanes, Mary
Hanley, William
Hare, David (3)
Harmon, Peggy
Hart, Moss
Harwood, Ronald
Hatcher, Jeffrey
Havis, Allan
Heffron, Elizabeth
Heifner, Jack
Henley, Beth
Herzog, Amy
Hester, Hal
Hnath, Lucas
Hochhuth, Rolf
Hollmann, Mark
Holt, Will
Houston, Velina Hasu
Howard, Zora
Howe, Tina
Hoyt, Gabrielle
Hunter, Samuel D.
I
Ibsen, Henrik
Ingham, Robert E.
Ionesco, Eugène (2)
Ives, David
J
Jackson, Reginald André
Jiler, John
Johns, Andrew
Jones, Tom (3)
Joseph, Marc Bamuthi
Joseph, Steven M.
Jung, Hansol
K
Kafka, Fanz
Kani, John
Kanin, Garson
Kauffman, George S.
Kesey, Ken
Kesselring, Joseph
Kinosian, Joe
Klein, Jon (3)
Kling, Kevin
Kopit, Arthur (3)
Korie, Michael
Kotis, Greg
Kron, Lisa
Kushner, Tony
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Laclos, Choderlos de
Lapine, James
Lauris, Anna
Lawrence, Jerome
Lee, Robert E.
Leight, Warren
Leonard, Hugh
Leonard, Jr., Jim
Leslee, Ray
Levitt, Saul
Lindsay, Howard
Lindsay-Abaire, David
Linney, Romulus
Livings, Henry
Livingston, Robert
Lopez, Matthew
Luce, Claire Booth
Luigs, Jim
Luke, Peter
M
Macmillan, Duncan
Maltby, Jr., Richard
Mamet, David (2)
Marans, Jon
Margulies, Donald (3)
Market Theatre Company, The
Marks, Laura
Martin, Jane (2)
Martin, Steve (2)
Massini, Stefano
Maxwell, Brooke
McCraney, Tarell Alvin
McDonagh, Martin (3)
Medoff, Mark
Mee, Charles L. (2)
Menken, Alan (2)
Merriam, Eve
Miller, Arthur (5)
Mitchell, Adrian
Molière (2)
Moody, William Vaughn
Moore, Brian
Moore, Edward J.
Moses, Itamar
Mrożek, Sławomir
Murray-Smith, Joanna
Murrell, John
Myles, Lynda
Myrow, Fredric
N
Nash, N. Richard
Near, Timothy
Nelson, Richard (2)
Nestroy, Johann
Neville, Michael
Newman, Randy
Nichols, Peter
Nicholson, William
Norman, Marsha
Nottage, Lynn
Ntshona, Winston
Nwandu, Antoinette
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Olive, John (2)
O'Morrison, Kevin
O'Neill, Eugene (3)
Orlandersmith, Dael (2)
Orton, Joe
Osborne, John
Ostrovsky, Alexander
Oswald, Peter
Overmyer, Eric
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Park, Jiehae
Patch, Jerry
Pattison, John
Peaslee, Richard
Peltoniemi, Eric Bain
Pen, Polly
Peterson, Eric
Pichette, David
Pielmeier, John (2)
Pinter, Harold (7)
Poliakoff, Stephen
Pomerance, Moby
Porter, Cole
Posner, Aaron
Power, Ben
Pritchard, Barry
R
Rabe, David
Rahman, Aishah
Raine, Nina
Rambo, David
Ramirez, Marco
Ramsey, Bobbin
Rebeck, Theresa
Reddin, Keith
Reynolds, Jonathan
Richardson, Howard
Richmond, Jacob
Robinson, R.T.
Rogers, J.T.
Ross, Lisette Lecat
Rossetti, Christina
Roth, Michael
Rothenberg, Jerome
Ruhl, Sarah (3)
Russell, Willy
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Sakata, Jeanne
Saroyan, William
Schaffer, Anthony
Schapiro, Herb
Schiller, Friedrich
Schisgal, Murray (2)
Schmidt, Harvey (3)
Schulz, Charles M.
Schwartz, Delmore
Schwartz, Stephen
Severo, Vanessa
Shaffer, Peter (4)
Shakespeare, William (7)
Shange, Ntozake
Shaw, George Bernard
Shear, Claudia
Shepard, Sam (5)
Shephard-Massat, S.M.
Shire, David
Shuman, Mort
Simon, Barney
Simon, Neil (6)
Simons, Beverly
Simpson, Thomas
Skelton, Geoffrey
Sondheim, Stephen (2)
Spark, Muriel
St. Matthew
Steinbeck, John
Stendahl
Stevenson, Robert Lewis
Stoker, Bram (2)
Stoppard, Tom (8)
Storey, David (2)
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Tabori, George
Tebelak, John-Michael
Telson, Bob
Temperley, Stephen
Tesori, Jeanine
Thurber, James
Tikhomirov, Dmitry
Tiller, Ted
Timm, Stephanie
Topor, Tom
Tran, Trieu
Tuichiev, Elkin
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Unsoeld, Willi
V
Villarreal, Edit
von Arnim, Elizabeth
W
Wagoner, David
Warrender, Scott
Washburn, Anne
Wasserman, Dale
Weedman, Lauren
Weidman, John
Weil, Mark
Weiner, Michael
Weiss, Peter
Weller, Michael (2)
Wertenbaker, Timberlake
Wilcox, Patricia
Williams, Tennessee (5)
Wilson, Lanford (3)
Wiltse, David
Winsberg, Austin
Wodehouse, P.G.
Woodard, Charlayne
Wright, Doug (2)
Wright, Nicholas
Wright, R. Hamilton
Wurlitzer, Rudolph
Y
Yee, Lauren (2)
Z
Zachary, Alan
Zindel, Paul
Vanessa Severo
Vanessa Severo was a writer of the following ACT productions:

2025-26 Frida...a self portrait
Playwright
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