Jewish American dramatists and playwrights

Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning eight decades, he has written for film, television, and theater. Allen has received many accolades, including the most wins and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Allen has also received numerous honors, including an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)

American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

Polish-American writer (1904–1991)

American film director and writer (1941–2012)

American writer

American actor

German writer (1906–1949)

American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker (1922–2010)

American actor

American filmmaker (born 1961)

American comedian and actor (born 1978)

Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist (1878-1952)

American playwright, writer, academic (1927-2018)

American novelist, short story writer and playwright (1885–1968)

American writer (1913–1984)

American dramatist and screenwriter (1905-1984)

American novelist, screenwriter and playwright (1931-2018)

American writer and producer (born 1970)

American playwright, filmmaker and author (born 1947)

American actor, director and writer (born 1964)

American writer, director, and producer (1894–1964)

American actor and playwright

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1956)

American comedian and actress (1929–2015)

American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist (born 1953)

American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright (1923–2015)

American author

American actress

Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language (1880-1957)

American film director, playwright, and screenwriter

American composer and playwright (1960–1996)

American playwright, screenwriter and novelist (1923-1981)

American playwright, screenwriter, and actor (1906–1963)

American screenwriter, novelist, essayist, playwright, LGBT-rights and AIDS activist (1935–2020)

German-born American theater and film actress, writer and director

American actress and writer

American writer (1889-1961)

American playwright (1892–1967)

American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright (1853-1931)

American screenwriter and writer (1916-1997)

American cartoonist, screenwriter and playwright (1929–2025)

Polish American Yiddish novelist and translator (1893-1944)

American comedian, actor, writer, and teacher (1925–2017)

American playwright, theatre director and screenwriter (1917–2011)

American rabbi and author (1929–2002)

American playwright (1950–2006)

American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist

American playwright (b.1937)

American novelist, playwright (1917–1973)

British-American playwright, film, and television writer

American screenwriter (1909-1952)

playwright, essayist and author

American chess player (1907–1973)

American screenwriter, playwright and film producer (1909–1991)

American film director and screenwriter (born 1945)

American writer (born 1958)

American writer (1906-1995)

American radio producer and screenwriter (1910-2011)

American feminist writer, poet