Playwrites

Question 1

David Mamet

1947- ?

Answer 1

Wrote:

• Sexual Perversity in Chicago
• American Buffalo
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Oleanna

Question 2

August Wilson

1945-2005

Answer 2

Wrote:

• Fences
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• The Piano Lesson

Question 3

Tennesse Williams

1911-1983

Answer 3

Wrote:

• A Streetcar Named Desire
• The Glass Menagerie
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Question 4

Lorraine Hansberry

1930-1965

Answer 4

1st play written by a black woman and produced on Broadway
Wrote:
-A Raisin in the Sun

Question 5

Arthur Miller

1915-2005

Answer 5

Wrote:

• The Death of a Salesman
• The Crucible

Question 6

Thornton Wilder

1897-1975

Answer 6

Wrote:

• Our Town
• The Skin of Our Teeth

Question 7

Royal Tyler

1757-1826

Answer 7

Writer of the 1st American play to be professionally performed
Wrote:
-The Contrast

Question 8

Terrence McNally

1939- ?

Answer 8

Wrote:

• Love! Valour! Compassion!
• Frankie and Johnny at the Claire de Lune
• The Ritz

Question 9

Eugene O’Neil

(1888-19530

Answer 9

America’s foremost dramatist
1st American playwright to receive Nobel Prize for literature
Wrote:
-Desire Under the Elms
-Mourning Becomes Electra
-The Iceman Cometh
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Question 10

Edward Albee

1928- ?

Answer 10

Wrote:

• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Three Tall Women

Question 11

Neil Simon

1927- ?

Answer 11

Wrote:

• The Odd Couple
• Lost in Yonkers
• Promises Promises
• Sweet Charity

Question 12

Lillian Hellman

1905-1984

Answer 12

Wrote:

• The Children’s Hour
• The Little Foxes

Question 13

William Gibson

1914- ?

Answer 13

Wrote two plays that were produced on Broadway and made into big screen films
Wrote:
-The Miracle Worker
-Two for the Seesaw