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Steve Martin
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.
Andy Samberg
American comedian and actor (born 1978)
Stuart Gordon
American filmmaker (1947-2020)
Regina Taylor
American actress and playwright
Anna Deavere Smith
American actress, playwright and professor
Zoë Akins
Playwright, poet, author (1886–1958)
Scott Haze
American actor
Marvin Kaplan
American actor (1927-2016)
Michael Goldenberg
American dramatist
Anaïs Mitchell
American singer-songwriter
Sidney Toler
American actor, playwright and theatre director (1874-1947)
John Guare
American playwright and screenwriter (born 1938)
Elizabeth Robins
actress, producer, playwright, novelist and feminist (1862-1952)
Gilbert Emery
American actor (1875-1945)
David Pinski
Yiddish language writer (1872 – 1959)
Lewis John Carlino
American film director and screenwriter (1932–2020)
William LeBaron
American film producer (1883–1958)
Felton Perry
American actor
Jesse Lynch Williams
American dramatist (1871–1929)
Ntare Mwine
Ugandan-American actor
Robert Buckner
American filmmaker (1906–1989)
Erin Cressida Wilson
American playwright, screenwriter, professor and author
Marian de Forest
American journalist and playwright (1864-1935)
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
American playwright (1862–1935)
Frank Bacon
American actor and playwright (1864-1922)
Adam Frederick Goldberg
American film producer
Zelda Sears
actress, novelist, screenwriter and businesswoman (1873-1935)
Augustus Thomas
American playwright
Willard Mack
American actor, film director (1873-1934)
Edward Harrigan
American actor (1844-1911)
Floyd Mutrux
American actor, author, director and producer
Jeff Goode
American writer
Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy
American writer
Gordon Dahlquist
American writer
Lee Chamberlin
American actress (1938-2014)
Brian Letscher
American actor, stage actor and television actor
Michael Aronov
American actor and playwright
Noel Alumit
American novelist, actor, and activist
Francis Powers
American actor and director (1865-1940)
Laurence Yep
American children's writer
Erik Jendresen
American screenwriter
Clay Meredith Greene
American playwright (1850-1933)
Edwin Milton Royle
American writer
Henry Blossom
American writer and lyricist (1866–1919)
Andrew Carroll
American military historian, writer and activist
Tanya Saracho
Mexican-American actress, playwright and showrunner
Joseph R. Grismer
American stage actor (1849-1922)
Ted Key
American cartoonist (1912–2008)
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
American writer
John Pollono
American playwright, screenwriter and actor
Orlagh Cassidy
American actress
John Daly Burk
Irish historian and writer
Sewell Collins
American dramatist and artist (1876-1934)
Lauren LoGiudice
American actress
Julie Herne
American actress and screenwriter (1880-1955)
John Dilson
American actor (1891-1944)
Lee Summers
American actor, composer and producer
Tina Satter
American dramatist
Jeff Baron
Playwright/Screenwriter
Gladys Huntington
Austrian writer