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*Larry Gelbart<ref>[http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/021108/comic.shtml] "Besides writing the Oscar-nominated screenplay "Oh, God!" the Jewish comedy screenwriter is famous..."</ref> | *Larry Gelbart<ref>[http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/021108/comic.shtml] "Besides writing the Oscar-nominated screenplay "Oh, God!" the Jewish comedy screenwriter is famous..."</ref> | ||
| − | * Les Golden comedy/murder mysteries<ref>Zorn, Eric. (1995) “This candidate is a "Cut the Taxes" above the rest,” ''Chicago Tribune'' (Metrowest), October 3, p. 1</ref><ref>http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-10-03/news/9510030038_1_wallace-gator-bradley-candidates-taxes</ref> | + | * [[Les Golden]] comedy/murder mysteries<ref>Zorn, Eric. (1995) “This candidate is a "Cut the Taxes" above the rest,” ''Chicago Tribune'' (Metrowest), October 3, p. 1</ref><ref>http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-10-03/news/9510030038_1_wallace-gator-bradley-candidates-taxes</ref> |
*Josh Greenfeld<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,903557,00.html] "He, Josh Greenfeld, was a Jewish writer from Greenwich Village."</ref> | *Josh Greenfeld<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,903557,00.html] "He, Josh Greenfeld, was a Jewish writer from Greenwich Village."</ref> | ||
*Oscar Hammerstein II<ref>[http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2001/february28/jewishlit-228.html] "When American Jewish songwriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote Oklahoma!, they were, Felstiner argues, doing what all children of immigrant parents do: desiring to possess the new land."</ref> | *Oscar Hammerstein II<ref>[http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2001/february28/jewishlit-228.html] "When American Jewish songwriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote Oklahoma!, they were, Felstiner argues, doing what all children of immigrant parents do: desiring to possess the new land."</ref> | ||
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*Sidney Sheldon<ref>[http://www.pbclibrary.org/story-jewishlit.htm Jewish Literature Month - Palm Beach County Library System<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> | *Sidney Sheldon<ref>[http://www.pbclibrary.org/story-jewishlit.htm Jewish Literature Month - Palm Beach County Library System<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> | ||
*Martin Sherman<ref>[http://citypaper.net/articles/042700/cw.critpick.martin.shtml]""Being Jewish and being gay are the most important parts of me," he explains, "and they’re the DNA in my bones.""</ref> | *Martin Sherman<ref>[http://citypaper.net/articles/042700/cw.critpick.martin.shtml]""Being Jewish and being gay are the most important parts of me," he explains, "and they’re the DNA in my bones.""</ref> | ||
| − | *Neil Simon<ref>[http:// | + | *Neil Simon<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040825212037/http://www.juf.org/news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=4571] "Broadway Bound is the least known play of prolific Jewish playwright Neil Simon’s trio of comical semi-autobiographical dramas."</ref> |
*Isaac Bashevis Singer<ref>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Singer.html Isaac Bashevis Singer<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> | *Isaac Bashevis Singer<ref>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Singer.html Isaac Bashevis Singer<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> | ||
*Jill Soloway — playwright, television writer<ref>'''Soloway''' — [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16466] "One aspect of herself that Soloway reveals in her book, due out in paperback next month (published by Free Press), is that she, a self-described "Jewess," feels a sisterly solidarity with Monica Lewinsky, as well as Chandra Levy"</ref> | *Jill Soloway — playwright, television writer<ref>'''Soloway''' — [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16466] "One aspect of herself that Soloway reveals in her book, due out in paperback next month (published by Free Press), is that she, a self-described "Jewess," feels a sisterly solidarity with Monica Lewinsky, as well as Chandra Levy"</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 16:40, 22 August 2013
This is a list of famous Jewish American playwrights. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Lynn Ahrens[1]
- Sholom Aleichem[2]
- Woody Allen (1935–) Academy Award-winning film director, writer, actor, and comedian[3]
- George Axelrod[4]
- Jeff Baron
- S. N. Behrman[5]
- David Belasco[6]
- Saul Bellow[7]
- Leo Birinski
- Mel Brooks[8]
- Paddy Chayefsky[9]
- Comden and Green|Betty Comden & Adolph Green[1]
- Norman Corwin[10]
- Howard Dietz[11]
- Edward Einhorn [12]
- Eve Ensler[13]
- Harvey Fierstein[14]
- Edna Ferber[15]
- Herb Gardner[9]
- Larry Gelbart[16]
- Les Golden comedy/murder mysteries[17][18]
- Josh Greenfeld[19]
- Oscar Hammerstein II[20]
- Otto Harbach[1]
- Yip Harburg[21]
- Moss Hart[22]
- Ben Hecht[23]
- Lillian Hellman[24]
- Peretz Hirshbein[25]
- Israel Horovitz[26]
- Sidney Howard[27]
- George Jessel (actor)|George Jessel[28]
- George S. Kaufman[22]
- Sidney Kingsley[29]
- Tony Kushner[30]
- James Lapine[31]
- Arthur Laurents[32]
- H. Leivick[33]
- Alan Jay Lerner[34]
- Ira Levin[35]
- Craig Lucas[36]
- David Mamet[37]
- Donald Margulies[38]
- Arthur Miller[39]
- Becky Mode [40]
- Itamar Moses
- Clifford Odets[41]
- Jonathan Rand[42]
- Carl Reiner[43]
- Elmer Rice[44]
- Morrie Ryskind[45]
- Rod Serling[46]
- Irwin Shaw[47]
- Wallace Shawn[48]
- Sidney Sheldon[49]
- Martin Sherman[50]
- Neil Simon[51]
- Isaac Bashevis Singer[52]
- Jill Soloway — playwright, television writer[53]
- Aaron Sorkin (1961–) screenwriter, producer and playwright[54]
- Gertrude Stein
- Joseph Stein[55]
- Jeffrey Sweet[56]
- Alfred Uhry[57]
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University, also the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama[58]
- Jerome Weidman[59]
- Franz Werfel[60]
- Norman Wexler screenwriter of "Saturday Night Fever","Joe", "Serrpic", "Mandingo"
- Turn left at Gilgamesh|Rory Winston Playwright, poet, comedy writer, reviewer[61]
See also
- List of Jewish American authors
- List of Jewish American poets
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
- Before Columbus Foundation
Footnotes
- ^ a b c Jewish-Composed Musicals
- ^ [1] "Recognized as the best Jewish writer who ever lived in Russia and wrote in Yiddish..."
- ^ "Motion Pictures". Encyclopaedia Judaica. (1971–1972). Keter Publishing House. Retrieved on 2006-11-17.
- ^ Notable Jewish deaths in 2003
- ^ [2] "He was the third child of Joseph and Zelda Behrman, Jewish immigrants living on Worcester's East Side."
- ^ [3] "It was staged by the young David Belasco, a Sephardic Jew..."
- ^ [4] "American author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, one of the major representatives of Jewish-American writers..."
- ^ [5] "as the 77-year-old Brooklyn-born Jewish comedian put it unrepentantly..."
- ^ a b JewishAmThea
- ^ [6] "Corwin, who is Jewish, started his journalism career sans a high school..."
- ^ Hebrew Melodies
- ^ Edward Einhorn - Novelist, Playwright, Director
- ^ [7] [8] "The celebrated actress-playwright, born to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother, sees herself as “a Jewish being. My mother looked like Doris Day. I was a dead ringer for Anne Frank. I came out Jewish.”"
- ^ [9] "Harvey Fierstein, nice Jewish boy from Bensonhurst, dressed in holiday finery..."
- ^ Edna Ferber
- ^ [10] "Besides writing the Oscar-nominated screenplay "Oh, God!" the Jewish comedy screenwriter is famous..."
- ^ Zorn, Eric. (1995) “This candidate is a "Cut the Taxes" above the rest,” Chicago Tribune (Metrowest), October 3, p. 1
- ^ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-10-03/news/9510030038_1_wallace-gator-bradley-candidates-taxes
- ^ [11] "He, Josh Greenfeld, was a Jewish writer from Greenwich Village."
- ^ [12] "When American Jewish songwriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote Oklahoma!, they were, Felstiner argues, doing what all children of immigrant parents do: desiring to possess the new land."
- ^ [13] [14]
- ^ a b [15] (on Hart and George S. Kaufman) "Both were tall, dark and Jewish, and both had private demons..."
- ^ [16] "Ben Hecht was an American Jewish journalist, novelist, and playwright.
- ^ [17] [18] "She is Jewish."
- ^ National Foundation for Jewish Culture
- ^ [19] [20]
- ^ [21] "Sidney Howard was of course Jewish having emigrated to the United States from Germany twenty years before.
- ^ This article is unavailable - HighBeam Research
- ^ [22] "second-generation American Jewish writers: Miller, Odets, Sidney Kingsley"
- ^ [23] "The gay, Jewish socialist raised in Louisiana and educated at Columbia and NYU most enjoys addressing audiences that are receptive to ideas for change and progress."
- ^ [24] "finest Jewish playwrights, including Elizabeth Swados, William Finn and James Lapine, Herb Gardner..."
- ^ [25] "...the creation of Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, and Stephen Sondheim: four gay Jewish men, all working at the very top of their craft." [26] "Laurents also writes extensively on being gay, Jewish, left-wing..."
- ^ MET's Past Productions: The Golem - Notes on the Play
- ^ [27] [28]
- ^ [29] "Dickens wasn’t Jewish, in case you were wondering. But Bette just did a remake of The Stepford Wives, based on the novel by Ira Levin, who is."
- ^ [30] "Besides the mainstage premiere of a major new work by acclaimed Jewish playwright Craig Lucas..."
- ^ [31] "David Mamet is a Jewish writer, though until recently few accounts of his life or work suggested as much..."
- ^ [32] "he was Donald Margulies, the darling of regional theater, the state-sanctioned "Jewish American Playwright""
- ^ [33] "Let's have a look. Miller, like myself, (and like Ed Siegel) is a Jewish-American, meaning, simply..."
- ^ Time Magazine "Best Theater 2000" #4
- ^ [34] "...introduced the work of Jewish playwrights Aaron Hoffman, Clifford Odets, and Paddy Chayefsky to contemporary audiences..."
- ^ JonathanRand.com - The official website of playwright Jonathan Rand
- ^ [35] "But consider the milieu the show's Jewish creator, Carl Reiner, was trying to portray: the heavily Jewish New York comedy scene out of which came Your Show..."
- ^ [36] "Elmer Rice, nee Reizenstein, an American/Jewish writer of the ‘20s and ‘30s, did not necessarily focus on Jewish characters and issues..."
- ^ [37] "George and Ira Gershwin team up with another Jewish team—George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind..."
- ^ [38] "Rod was Jewish and that doesn't necessarily mean that it should have meant more..."
- ^ [39] "Amis and I often talked about Jewish matters, such as novels by American Jews, like Irwin Shaw – that dates it."
- ^ JUF : Tweens : Celebrities : Wallace Shawn
- ^ Jewish Literature Month - Palm Beach County Library System
- ^ [40]""Being Jewish and being gay are the most important parts of me," he explains, "and they’re the DNA in my bones.""
- ^ [41] "Broadway Bound is the least known play of prolific Jewish playwright Neil Simon’s trio of comical semi-autobiographical dramas."
- ^ Isaac Bashevis Singer
- ^ Soloway — [42] "One aspect of herself that Soloway reveals in her book, due out in paperback next month (published by Free Press), is that she, a self-described "Jewess," feels a sisterly solidarity with Monica Lewinsky, as well as Chandra Levy"
- ^ Sorkin — [43] "...says the Jewish Sorkin..."
- ^ 350th Play List
- ^ All About Jewish Theatre - The Sins of the Father, Another Holocaust Play
- ^ [44] "I’ve probably come late to the party accepting, and being proud of, the fact that I’m Jewish. But I’m here. Am I an observant Jew? No. Maybe I’ll get there."
- ^ Wasserstein — [45] "“My father loved me dearly, but I’m not a Jewish American Princess,” playwright Wendy Wasserstein said. “I’m a Jewish mother, but I’m not Molly Goldberg.”"
- ^ Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists — www.greenwood.com
- ^ [46] "Werfel was a German-speaking Jew and never forgot his Jewish background..."
- ^ Template:Cite article
