Update: As of 2023, I now have about twenty years worth of suggested playwrights, and have broken out the musical lyricists and composters into their own category.
These are composed from all the suggestions I can remember ever getting from Seattle audiences, although I have added a few that I think the biases of our audiences tend to leave out.
- Traditional Playwrights
- Edward Albee
- Aristophanes
- Samuel Beckett
- Bertolde Brecht
- Albert Camus
- Anton Chekhov
- Ins Choi
- Agatha Christie
- Caryl Churchill
- Noel Coward
- Christopher Durang
- Euripides
- Graham Greene
- David Hare
- Lorraine Hansberry
- David Henry Hwang
- Henrik Ibsen
- William Inge
- Eugène Ionesco
- Jane Jones and Myra Platt
- Ben Jonson
- Kalidasa
- Sarah Kane
- Tony Kushner
- Tracy Letts
- David Mamet
- Christopher Marlowe
- Martin McDonagh
- Arthur Miller
- Lin Manuel Miranda
- Molière
- Clifford Odets
- Eugene O’Neill
- Lynn Nottage
- Harold Pinter
- David Rabe
- Jean Racine
- William Shakespeare
- George Bernard Shaw
- Sam Shepherd
- JP Sartre
- John Patrick Shanley
- Neil Simon
- Sophocles
- Tom Stoppard
- August Strindberg
- Paula Vogel
- Wendy Wasserstein
- Oscar Wilde
- Thorton Wilder
- Tennessee Williams
- August Wilson
- Musical Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers
- Michael Bennett
- Leonard Bernstein
- Boublil and Schönberg
- Irving Berlin
- Leonard Bernstein
- Abe Borrows
- Jason Robert Brown
- Disney
- Geroge and Ira Gershwin
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Jerry Herman
- Jerome Kern
- George Kaufman
- John Kander and Fred Ebb
- Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
- Jonathan Larson
- Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
- Frank Loesser
- Frederick Loewe
- Lorenz Hart
- Cameron Mackintosh
- Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Pasek and Paul
- Cole Porter
- Tim Rice
- Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein
- Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
- Stephen Schwartz
- Stephen Sondheim
- Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin
- Jule Styne
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Meredith Willson
Tony Beeman has lived in Seattle as a writer, performer, director and software developer since 1998. In addition to performing, directing and serving as Artistic Associate at Unexpected Productions in Pike Place Market, Tony performs regularly with 4&20 Improv, Seattle Experimental Theater, and Improv Anonymous. He has taught workshops in seven countries. His Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is INFP.
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