List of Jewish American playwrights

This is a list of notable Jewish American playwrights. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.


 * David Adjmi
 * Lynn Ahrens
 * Sholom Aleichem
 * Woody Allen (born 1935), film director, writer, actor, and comedian
 * Jacob M. Appel
 * George Axelrod
 * Jeff Baron
 * S. N. Behrman
 * David Belasco
 * Saul Bellow
 * Leo Birinski
 * Agnes Borinsky
 * Mel Brooks
 * Paddy Chayefsky
 * Betty Comden & Adolph Green
 * Norman Corwin
 * Howard Dietz
 * Edward Einhorn
 * Eve Ensler
 * Harvey Fierstein
 * Edna Ferber
 * Herb Gardner
 * Larry Gelbart
 * Joel Gersmann
 * Josh Greenfeld
 * Oscar Hammerstein II
 * Otto Harbach
 * Yip Harburg
 * Moss Hart
 * Ben Hecht
 * Lillian Hellman
 * Peretz Hirshbein
 * Israel Horovitz
 * George Jessel
 * George S. Kaufman
 * Sidney Kingsley
 * Tony Kushner
 * James Lapine
 * Arthur Laurents
 * H. Leivick
 * Alan Jay Lerner
 * Ira Levin
 * Craig Lucas
 * David Mamet
 * Donald Margulies
 * Arthur Miller
 * Cheryl Moch
 * Becky Mode
 * Itamar Moses
 * Clifford Odets
 * Carl Reiner
 * Elmer Rice
 * Morrie Ryskind
 * Peter Sagal
 * Rod Serling
 * Irwin Shaw
 * Wallace Shawn
 * Sidney Sheldon
 * Martin Sherman
 * Neil Simon
 * Isaac Bashevis Singer
 * Joey Soloway, playwright, television writer
 * Aaron Sorkin (born 1961), screenwriter, producer and playwright
 * Gertrude Stein
 * Joseph Stein
 * Louise Stern
 * Jeffrey Sweet
 * Chaim Towber
 * Alfred Uhry
 * Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University; recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
 * Jerome Weidman
 * Franz Werfel
 * Norman Wexler, screenwriter of Saturday Night Fever, Joe, Serpico, Mandingo