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Broadway Playwrights

1,108 playwrights across 1883 Broadway shows

Min scored:
EA

Edward Albee

14 shows

14

85
CM

Conor McPherson

4 shows

4

85
HW

Hugh Wheeler

9 shows

9

82
GF

George Furth

12 shows

12

81
LH

Lucas Hnath

3 shows

3

80
OH

Oscar Hammerstein II

7 shows

7

79
PV

Paula Vogel

3 shows

3

79
AM

Arthur Miller

25 shows · 1 running

25

78
TS

Tom Stoppard

16 shows

16

78
AW

August Wilson

15 shows

15

78
AL

Arthur Laurents

9 shows

9

78
MM

Martin McDonagh

7 shows

7

78
MN

Marsha Norman

7 shows

7

78
DI

David Ives

4 shows

4

78
RH

Robert Horn

3 shows

3

78
KL

Kenneth Lonergan

3 shows

3

78
JM

Joe Masteroff

6 shows

6

77
TL

Tracy Letts

5 shows

5

77
JB

Jez Butterworth

4 shows

4

77
JL

James Lapine

13 shows

13

76
LN

Lynn Nottage

3 shows · 1 running

3

76
SS

Simon Stephens

3 shows

3

76
HP

Harold Pinter

11 shows

11

75
AU

Alfred Uhry

7 shows

7

75
DA

David Auburn

4 shows

4

75
SB

Samuel Beckett

3 shows

3

75
NC

Noël Coward

20 shows

20

74
PM

Peter Morgan

3 shows

3

74
JL

John Logan

5 shows · 1 running

5

73
DC

Douglas Carter Beane

5 shows

5

73
SA

Stephen Adly Guirgis

3 shows

3

73
LH

Lee Hall

3 shows

3

73
HF

Harvey Fierstein

11 shows

11

71
DL

David Lindsay-Abaire

6 shows

6

71
JT

Jack Thorne

3 shows · 1 running

3

71
TM

Terrence McNally

21 shows · 1 running

21

70
DW

Doug Wright

6 shows

6

70
CB

Chad Beguelin

3 shows · 1 running

3

70
CO

Clifford Odets

9 shows

9

69
AS

Aaron Sorkin

5 shows

5

69
WS

William Shakespeare

41 shows

41

68
CL

Craig Lucas

8 shows

8

68
JG

John Guare

8 shows

8

68
BM

Bob Martin

6 shows

6

68
SB

Scott Brown

4 shows

4

68
AK

Anthony King

4 shows

4

68
TW

Tennessee Williams

27 shows

27

67
EO

Eugene O'Neill

27 shows

27

67
RE

Rick Elice

6 shows

6

67
BY

Brian Yorkey

3 shows

3

67
HI

Henrik Ibsen

12 shows

12

66
DH

David Henry Hwang

7 shows

7

66
SW

Sharr White

3 shows

3

66
CH

Christopher Hampton

9 shows

9

65
DM

Donald Margulies

6 shows

6

65
AA

Ayad Akhtar

3 shows

3

65
JG

James Graham

4 shows

4

64
DM

David Mamet

19 shows

19

63
TM

Thomas Meehan

12 shows

12

63
AC

Anton Chekhov

12 shows

12

63
RH

Rupert Holmes

7 shows

7

63
TR

Theresa Rebeck

5 shows

5

62
AJ

Alan Jay Lerner

13 shows

13

61
JD

Joe DiPietro

5 shows

5

57
NS

Neil Simon

30 shows

30

56
RG

Richard Greenberg

12 shows

12

56
ES

Eric Simonson

3 shows

3

56

67 playwrights with 3+ scored shows