21st-century American dramatists and playwrights

Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning eight decades, he has written for film, television, and theater. Allen has received many accolades, including the most wins and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Allen has also received numerous honors, including an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

American author and screenwriter (1920–2012)

American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

American writer (1925–2012)

American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)

American filmmaker (1925–2006)

American actor

Stephen Glenn Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. Known for his work in comedy films, television, and recording, he has received many accolades, including five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for eight Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards. Martin received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, the Honorary Academy Award in 2013 and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2015. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics.

American playwright (1928–2016)

American author (born 1938)

American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker (1922–2010)

American actor

American playwright, writer, academic (1927-2018)

American songwriter and composer (born 1980)

American actress

American novelist, screenwriter and playwright (1931-2018)

American playwright, filmmaker and author (born 1947)

American actor, director and writer (born 1964)

American actor

American actor and playwright

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1956)

American actor

American author

American actress

Colman Jason Domingo is an American actor, playwright and director. Prominent on both screen and stage since the 2010s, Domingo has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Tony Awards. Time magazine named him among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.

American actor and screenwriter

American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)

American screenwriter, novelist, essayist, playwright, LGBT-rights and AIDS activist (1935–2020)

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

American comedian and actor

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1961)

American writer

American actor and director

American playwright (1938–2020)

American cartoonist, screenwriter and playwright (1929–2025)

American screenwriter, producer and director

American author, screenwriter, and staff writer (1947-)

American actor (born 1953)

American rabbi and author (1929–2002)

American playwright (1950–2006)

American actor and director

American playwright (born 1977)

American actor and playwright

American screenwriter (born 1952)

American playwright

American playwright and screenwriter (1916–2009)

American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist

American actor and playwright

American screenwriter (1939–2024)

Nicaraguan-American playwright, screenwriter, comic book writer and showrunner

American playwright

American actress, screenwriter and director

American author and playwright

American film director and screenwriter (born 1945)

American writer (born 1958)

American playwright (born 1964)

American playwright

actor, dramatist, playwright, screenwriter (1941–2004)

American actress, film director and writer

American actor and playwright