List of Canadian playwrights

Playwrights from Canada include:

A

 * Marianne Ackerman
 * Kawa Ada
 * Evan Adams
 * Carmen Aguirre
 * André Alexis
 * Hrant Alianak
 * Martha Allan
 * Anne-Marie Alonzo
 * Karim Alrawi
 * Kanika Ambrose
 * Janet Amos
 * Debra Anderson
 * Hugh Abercrombie Anderson
 * John Murray Anderson
 * Ben Antao
 * Trey Anthony
 * Salvatore Antonio
 * Leslie Arden
 * Anthony Armstrong
 * Daniel Arnold
 * Lawrence Aronovitch
 * Nina Arsenault
 * Damien Atkins
 * Napoléon Aubin
 * Suzanne Aubry
 * Barry Avrich
 * Caroline Azar

B

 * Bilal Baig
 * Catherine Banks
 * Keith Barker
 * Jean Basile
 * Mary Elizabeth Bayer
 * Tara Beagan
 * Christine Beaulieu
 * Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
 * Charles William Bell
 * Martin Bellemare
 * John Bemrose
 * Carolyn Bennett
 * Janette Bertrand
 * Lillian Beynon Thomas
 * Yvan Bienvenue
 * Geneviève Billette
 * Nicolas Billon
 * Marthe Blackburn
 * Mark Blagrave
 * William Rufus Blake
 * Seymour Blicker
 * Laurie Block
 * Peter Blue Cloud
 * Columpa Bobb
 * Adam Bock
 * Carol Bolt
 * Yolanda Bonnell
 * Walter Borden
 * Gary Botting
 * Michel Marc Bouchard
 * Denise Boucher
 * Pan Bouyoucas
 * Gail Bowen
 * Leah-Simone Bowen
 * George Boyd
 * Diana Braithwaite
 * Ken Brand
 * Marie Brassard
 * Morwyn Brebner
 * Baba Brinkman
 * Fanny Britt
 * Cecil Broadhurst
 * Leanna Brodie
 * Eve Brodlique
 * Daniel Brooks
 * Kenneth Brown
 * Mark Brownell
 * Walter Bruno
 * Ronnie Burkett
 * Aaron Bushkowsky
 * Alec Butler

C

 * Chantal Cadieux
 * Jason Cadieux
 * Morley Callaghan
 * George Frederick Cameron
 * Silver Donald Cameron
 * Normand Canac-Marquis
 * Cliff Cardinal
 * Dave Carley
 * Franco Catanzariti
 * Kate Cayley
 * Catherine Chabot
 * Rick Chafe
 * Robert Chafe
 * Anna Chatterton
 * Normand Chaurette
 * Martha Chaves
 * Shirley Cheechoo
 * Évelyne de la Chenelière
 * Leah Cherniak
 * Charly Chiarelli
 * Herménégilde Chiasson
 * Mary-Colin Chisholm
 * Anne Chislett
 * Ins Choi
 * Olivier Choinière
 * Sally Clark
 * Cheril N. Clarke
 * George Elliott Clarke
 * Marie Clements
 * Fabien Cloutier
 * George Clutesi
 * Lisa Codrington
 * Joy Coghill
 * Susan G. Cole
 * Megan Gail Coles
 * Kathryn Colquhoun
 * Germaine Comeau
 * Tom Cone
 * Darla Contois
 * Christopher Cook
 * Michael Cook
 * Beverley Cooper
 * Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
 * Amanda Cordner
 * Belinda Cornish
 * Michel Côté
 * Louise Cotnoir
 * John Coulter
 * Douglas Coupland
 * Gracia Couturier
 * Susan Coyne
 * Archie Crail (Exile)
 * Mark Crawford
 * Seán Cummings
 * Peter Cureton
 * Colleen Curran
 * Sheldon Currie
 * Sarah Anne Curzon
 * Eliza Lanesford Cushing
 * May Cutler
 * René Richard Cyr

D

 * Jean-Marc Dalpé
 * Joseph A. Dandurand
 * Daniel Danis
 * Jill Daum
 * Robertson Davies
 * TJ Dawe
 * Tracy Dawson
 * Claire Dé
 * Mazo de la Roche
 * Vincent de Tourdonnet
 * Jeanne-Mance Delisle
 * David Demchuk
 * Sandra Dempsey
 * Merrill Denison
 * Charles Dennis
 * Denise Desautels
 * Peter Desbarats
 * Aurore Dessureault-Descôteaux
 * Claudia Dey
 * David Di Giovanni
 * Ned Dickens
 * Dick Diespecker
 * Dorothy Dittrich
 * Sean Dixon
 * Emma Donoghue
 * Catherine Dorion
 * Chris Doty
 * Clive Doucet
 * Nathalie Doummar
 * Bruce Dowbiggin
 * Brian Drader
 * Claire Drainie Taylor
 * Don Druick
 * Jasmine Dubé
 * Marcel Dubé
 * René-Daniel Dubois
 * Réjean Ducharme
 * Paul Dunn
 * Louise Dupré
 * Louisette Dussault
 * Ted Dykstra

E

 * Chris Earle (Radio :30)
 * Gwaai Edenshaw
 * Mary Susanne Edgar
 * Matthew Edison
 * Caterina Edwards
 * Tom Edwards
 * Kris Elgstrand
 * Cathy Elliott
 * Richard Epp
 * Josh Epstein
 * Rose-Maïté Erkoreka
 * Gloria Escomel
 * Gérard Étienne
 * Hubert Evans

F

 * Abla Farhoud
 * David Fennario (Balconville, Joe Beef)
 * Ian Ferguson
 * Trevor Ferguson
 * Timothy Findley (Elizabeth Rex, The Stillborn Lover)
 * Lois Fine
 * Larry Fineberg
 * Thom Fitzgerald (Cloudburst)
 * Diane Flacks
 * Waawaate Fobister (Agokwe)
 * Cheryl Foggo
 * Dennis Foon (The Short Tree and the Bird That Could Not Sing)
 * Honor Ford-Smith
 * Norm Foster (Sinners, The Affections of May)
 * Brian Francis (Box 4901)
 * Brad Fraser (Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Poor Super Man)
 * Carole Fréchette
 * Louis-Honoré Fréchette
 * Pauline Fréchette
 * David French (Leaving Home, Salt-Water Moon)
 * William Fruet
 * Robin Fulford (Steel Kiss, Whitewash)
 * Janine Fuller

G

 * Linda Gaboriau
 * Lorena Gale
 * Brendan Gall
 * Mavis Gallant
 * Steve Galluccio
 * Ken Garnhum
 * Bill Gaston
 * C. E. Gatchalian
 * Jean-Rock Gaudreault
 * Connie Gault
 * Gratien Gélinas
 * Jean-Claude Germain
 * Samuel Gesser
 * Melissa James Gibson
 * Florence Gibson MacDonald
 * Sky Gilbert
 * Joanna Glass
 * François Godin
 * Mathieu Gosselin
 * Alexandre Goyette
 * Gwethalyn Graham
 * Rachel Graton
 * Robert Gravel
 * Carolyn Gray
 * John MacLachlan Gray
 * Jeff Green
 * Nick Green
 * Richard Greenblatt
 * Brit Griffin
 * Linda Griffiths
 * Larry Guno
 * David Gurr
 * Paul Gury

H

 * Alexandria Haber
 * Emma Haché
 * Brigitte Haentjens
 * Abby Hagyard
 * Medina Hahn
 * Jason Hall
 * Jordan Hall
 * Marie-Lynn Hammond
 * Don Hannah
 * Herschel Hardin
 * Allana Harkin
 * Don Harron
 * Kim Senklip Harvey
 * Elliott Hayes
 * Michael Healey
 * Charles Heavysege
 * Marie-Francine Hébert
 * Terence Heffernan
 * David Hein
 * Matthew Heiti
 * Tom Hendry
 * Kate Hennig
 * John Herbert
 * Catherine Hernandez
 * Kate Hewlett
 * Tomson Highway
 * Brian Hill
 * John Stephen Hill (Steve Hill)
 * Ernest Hillen
 * Karen Hines
 * Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
 * Susan Holbrook
 * Arthur Holden
 * Norah M. Holland
 * Margaret Hollingsworth
 * Michael Hollingsworth
 * Hilda Mary Hooke
 * Raymond Hull
 * J. Timothy Hunt
 * Maureen Hunter
 * Joel Thomas Hynes

I

 * John Ibbitson
 * Neamat Imam
 * Anosh Irani
 * Steve Ivings

J

 * Donald Jack
 * Ted Johns
 * Becky Johnson
 * Terry Jordan
 * Patricia Joudry

K

 * Hiro Kanagawa
 * Margo Kane
 * M. J. Kang
 * Greg Kearney
 * Jillian Keiley
 * Adam Kelly
 * M. T. Kelly
 * Olivier Kemeid
 * Kevin Kerr
 * Paul Kimball
 * Deborah Kimmett
 * Gary Klang
 * Robert Knuckle
 * Andrew Kooman
 * Greg Kramer
 * John Krizanc
 * Daniel Krolik
 * Sunil Kuruvilla
 * Andrew Kushnir

L

 * Marie Laberge
 * Rosa Labordé
 * Jonathan Lachlan-Stewart
 * Robert Lalonde
 * Ann Lambert
 * Betty Lambert
 * André Langevin
 * Gilbert La Rocque
 * Rina Lasnier
 * Jesse LaVercombe
 * Mishka Lavigne
 * John Lazarus
 * Marie-Christine Lê-Huu
 * Walter Learning
 * Suzanne Lebeau
 * Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
 * Catherine Léger
 * Mark Leiren-Young
 * Anne Legault
 * Stewart Lemoine
 * Suvendrini Lena
 * Robert Lepage
 * François Létourneau
 * Léo Lévesque
 * Raymond Lévesque
 * Georgina Lightning
 * Hillar Liitoja
 * Wendy Lill
 * James Long
 * Françoise Loranger
 * Kevin Loring
 * Otto Lowy
 * Kate Lynch

M

 * Greg MacArthur
 * Andrew MacBean
 * Ann-Marie MacDonald
 * Bryden MacDonald
 * Maggie MacDonald
 * Lee MacDougall
 * Matthew MacFadzean
 * David Macfarlane
 * Daniel MacIvor
 * Cory Mack
 * Isabel Mackay
 * Matthew MacKenzie
 * Michael Mackenzie
 * Michael MacLennan
 * Joan MacLeod
 * Andrew Macphail
 * Michèle Magny
 * Gilles Maheu
 * Louise Maheux-Forcier
 * Antonine Maillet
 * André Major
 * Kevin Major
 * Anita Majumdar
 * Robert Majzels
 * Ahdri Zhina Mandiela
 * Stanley Mann
 * Vera Manuel
 * Barbara March
 * Josephine Marchand
 * Jovette Marchessault
 * Robert Marinier
 * Tanya Marquardt
 * Alexis Martin
 * Bob Martin
 * Paul Nicholas Mason
 * Stephen Massicotte
 * Catherine Mavrikakis
 * Maxim Mazumdar
 * Tawiah M'carthy
 * Drew McCreadie
 * Kathleen McDonnell
 * Peter McGehee
 * Berend McKenzie
 * Ian McLachlan
 * Mike McLeod
 * Rick McNair
 * Mike McPhaden
 * Maureen Medved
 * Mary Melfi
 * Billy Merasty
 * Robert Merritt
 * Claude Meunier
 * Andrée A. Michaud
 * Pauline Michel
 * Marco Micone
 * John Mighton
 * Jean-Louis Millette
 * Michael Mirolla
 * Fawzia Mirza
 * W. O. Mitchell
 * Boonaa Mohammed
 * Frank Moher
 * Monique Mojica
 * Émilie Monnet
 * Andrew Moodie
 * Ellie Moon
 * Fiona Moore
 * Mavor Moore
 * Robert Moore
 * Greg Morrison
 * Kim Morrissey
 * Hannah Moscovitch
 * Daniel David Moses
 * Arthur Motyer
 * Wajdi Mouawad
 * Grace Helen Mowat
 * Neil Munro
 * Janet Munsil
 * Colleen Murphy
 * Rory Mullarkey
 * John Murrell

N

 * Tony Nardi
 * Michael Nathanson
 * Yvette Naubert
 * Dan Needles
 * Louis Negin
 * James W. Nichol
 * Eric Nicol
 * Francine Noël
 * Yvette Nolan
 * Alden Nowlan

O

 * Darren O'Donnell
 * Sean Harris Oliver
 * Anne-Marie Olivier
 * Leo Orenstein
 * Cathy Ostlere
 * Mieko Ouchi

P

 * André Paiement
 * Alisa Palmer
 * John Palmer
 * Morris Panych
 * David Paquet
 * Jivesh Parasram
 * Amanda Parris
 * Evalyn Parry
 * Ngozi Paul
 * Teresa Pavlinek
 * Corey Payette
 * Deborah Pearson
 * Howard Pechet
 * Soraya Peerbaye
 * Maryse Pelletier
 * Len Peterson
 * Pierre Petitclair
 * Adam Pettle
 * M. NourbeSe Philip
 * Marjorie Pickthall
 * Joseph Jomo Pierre
 * Gordon Pinsent
 * Jean-Paul Pinsonneault
 * Lorraine Pintal
 * Al Pittman
 * Richard Pochinko
 * Sharon Pollock
 * Helen Fogwill Porter
 * Paul David Power
 * Peter Pringle
 * Stefan Psenak

Q

 * Joseph Quesnel
 * Sina Queyras
 * Christine Quintana

R

 * Gyllian Raby
 * Lara Rae
 * Gord Rand
 * Karin Randoja
 * James Reaney
 * Kelly Rebar
 * Michael Redhill
 * Kim Renders
 * Sean Reycraft
 * Charlie Rhindress
 * Christopher Richards
 * Jael Richardson
 * Gwen Pharis Ringwood
 * Harry Rintoul
 * Erika Ritter
 * William Harris Lloyd Roberts
 * Marie-Colombe Robichaud
 * Ajmer Rode
 * Jean-Pierre Ronfard
 * Michael E. Rose
 * Ian Ross
 * Vittorio Rossi (Little Blood Brother, Backstreets, The Chain, The Last Adam, Paradise By The River, A Carpenter's Trilogy)
 * Anusree Roy
 * Baņuta Rubess
 * Saul Rubinek
 * Armand Garnet Ruffo
 * Rusty Ryan
 * George Ryga

S

 * Oren Safdie
 * Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
 * Rick Salutin (1837, Les Canadiens)
 * Kat Sandler (Mustard)
 * Irene Sankoff
 * Paolo Santalucia
 * Booth Savage
 * Marie Savard
 * Emmanuel Schwartz
 * Munroe Scott
 * Djanet Sears (Harlem Duet, The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God)
 * Adam Seelig
 * Lorraine Segato
 * Goh Poh Seng
 * Sandra Shamas (My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry)
 * Jason Sherman (The League of Nathans, Reading Hebron)
 * Erin Shields (If We Were Birds)
 * Tetsuro Shigematsu
 * Rick Shiomi
 * Reuben Ship
 * Alfred Silver
 * Beverley Rosen Simons
 * Lister Sinclair
 * Jaspreet Singh (Speak, Oppenheimer)
 * Pamela Mala Sinha (Crash, Happy Place)
 * Christine Sioui-Wawanoloath
 * Sonja Skarstedt
 * Bernard Slade
 * Annabel Soutar
 * Ron Sparks
 * Harry Standjofski
 * Kate Sterns
 * Kent Stetson (The Harps of God, Warm Wind in China)
 * Aurora Stewart de Peña
 * Raymond Storey (The Saints and Apostles, The Glorious 12th)
 * Allan Stratton (Rexy!, 72 Under the O)
 * Cordelia Strube
 * Addena Sumter-Freitag
 * Olivier Sylvestre

T

 * Mariko Tamaki
 * Ian Tamblyn
 * Jordan Tannahill
 * Drew Hayden Taylor
 * Deanne Taylor
 * Bobby Theodore
 * Vern Thiessen
 * Colin Thomas
 * Andy Thompson (Broken Sex Doll, The Birth of Freedom)
 * Judith Thompson
 * Paul Thompson
 * Peggy Thompson
 * Scott Thompson
 * Kristen Thomson (I, Claudia)
 * Shannon Thunderbird
 * Charles Tidler
 * Sara Tilley
 * Jackie Torrens
 * Paul Toupin
 * Theresa Tova
 * Jennifer Tremblay
 * Larry Tremblay (The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi)
 * Lise Tremblay
 * Michel Tremblay (Les Belles-sœurs, Albertine in Five Times)
 * Roland Michel Tremblay
 * Terry Tweed

U

 * Priscila Uppal
 * Geoffrey Ursell

V

 * Lise Vaillancourt
 * Guy Vanderhaeghe
 * R. M. Vaughan
 * Royce Vavrek
 * Guillermo Verdecchia
 * Mary Vingoe
 * Padma Viswanathan
 * Herman Voaden

W

 * Michael Wade
 * Colleen Wagner
 * Stephen Waldschmidt
 * Craig Walker
 * George F. Walker
 * Tom Walmsley
 * Agnes Walsh
 * Chris Ward
 * Dianne Warren
 * David Watmough
 * Wilfred Watson
 * Irene N. Watts
 * Alison Wearing
 * Jennifer Wynne Webber
 * Helen Weinzweig
 * Michael Wex
 * David Widdicombe
 * Randall Wiebe
 * Gina Wilkinson
 * Alan Williams
 * Kenneth T. Williams
 * Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
 * Jonathan Wilson
 * Lance Woolaver
 * Rachel Wyatt
 * Betty Jane Wylie

Y

 * J. Michael Yates
 * David Yee (lady in the red dress)
 * Michael Yerxa
 * Marcus Youssef
 * Jean Yoon
 * d'bi young
 * David Young
 * Josée Yvon