John Guare

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1. Edward Albee

   Author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The American Dream and The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance

2. David Mamet

   Author of Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

3. Tony Kushner

   Author of Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika, Homebody/Kabul: Revised Version

4. Lanford Wilson

   Author of Fifth of July, The Hot L Baltimore, Angels Fall

5. Tom Stoppard

   Author of Arcadia, The Invention of Love, The Real Thing

6. Harold Pinter

   Author of The Homecoming, Betrayal, Old Times

7. Neil Simon

   Author of Rumors, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, They're Playing Our Song

8. Christopher Durang

   Author of Christopher Durang Explains It All for You: 6 Plays, Christopher Durang Volume I: 27 Short Plays, Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater: Two Plays

9. Eugene O'Neill

   Author of Long Day's Journey into Night, The Iceman Cometh, A Touch of the Poet

10. Wendy Wasserstein

    Author of The Heidi Chronicles: Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic, The Heidi Chronicles, The Sisters Rosensweig

11. Marsha Norman

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12. Jean Genet

    Author of The Balcony, The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays

13. Terrence McNally

    Author of Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Master Class, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

14. David Rabe

    Author of Hurlyburly, Streamers, Hurlyburly and Those the River Keeps: Two Plays

15. John Patrick Shanley

    Author of Doubt: A Parable, 13 by Shanley: Thirteen Plays (Applause American Masters Series)

16. Bertolt Brecht

    Author of Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, Baal, A Man's a Man, and the Elephant Calf: Early Plays

17. David Auburn

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18. A. R. Gurney

    Author of The Dining Room, Sweet Sue: A Play In Two Acts

19. Eric Lane

    Author of Plays for Actresses

20. John Guare

    Author of Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare, Vol. 1: The War Against the Kitchen Sink (Contemporary American Playwrights), Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and Other Plays