Christopher Hampton

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1. Tom Stoppard

   Author of Travesties, The Real Thing, Jumpers

2. Christopher Hampton

   Author of Tales from Hollywood, Savages, Plays: "Total Eclipse", "The Philanthropist", "Savages", "Treats" v. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics)

3. Bertolt Brecht

   Author of Saint Joan of the Stockyards, Baal, A Man's a Man, and the Elephant Calf: Early Plays, The Messingkauf Dialogues

4. Edward Albee

   Author of A Delicate Balance, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Tiny Alice

5. Caryl Churchill

   Author of Cloud 9, Churchill: Plays One

6. Lanford Wilson

   Author of Burn This, Fifth of July

7. Peter Shaffer

   Author of Amadeus, Lettice and Lovage: A Comedy

8. Tony Kushner

   Author of Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

9. David Mamet

   Author of The Cryptogram, House of Games, Boston Marriage

10. Alan Ayckbourn

    Author of The Norman conquests : a trilogy of plays, House & Garden: Two Plays

11. Jean Genet

    Author of The Balcony, The Blacks : a clown show

12. Stephen Sondheim

    Author of Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981), With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Applause Musical Library)

13. Michael Frayn

    Author of Noises Off

14. Arthur Kopit

    Author of Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, End of the World (With a Symposium to Follow), Road to Nirvana

15. Garson Kanin

    Author of Born Yesterday

16. Noël Coward

    Author of Blithe Spirit

17. James Goldman

    Author of The Lion in Winter

18. Larry Shue

    Author of The Foreigner

19. Peter Nichols

    Author of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

20. Peter Weiss

    Author of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade