Editing List of playwrights (section)

===Ab–An===
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*[[George Francis Abbott]] (1887–1995, United States)
*[[Catherine Obianuju Acholonu]] (1951–2014, Nigeria)
*[[Kjeld Abell]] (1901–1961, Denmark)
*[[Paul Ableman]] (1927–2006, England)
*[[Marcel Achard]] (1899–1974, France)
*[[Herbert Achternbusch]] (1938–2022, Germany)
*[[J. R. Ackerley]] (1896–1967, England)
*[[Rodney Ackland]] (1908–1991, England)
*[[Adam de la Halle]] (c. 1237 – c. 1288, France)
*[[Arthur Adamov]] (1908–1970, France)
*[[Arthur Henry Adams]] (1872–1936, New Zealand/Australia)
*[[Francis Adams (writer)|Francis Adams]] (1862–1893, England)
*[[Marion Adams-Acton]] (1846–1928, Scotland)
*[[Joseph Addison]] (1672–1719, England)
*[[George Ade]] (1866–1944, United States)
*[[Mirza Adeeb]] (1914–1999, Pakistan)
*[[David Adjmi]] (born 1973, United States)
*[[Aeschylus]] (c. 525–456 BCE, Ancient Greece)
*[[Max Afford]] (1906–1954, Australia)
*[[Aleksandr Nikolayevich Afinogenov]] (1904–1941, Russia)
*[[Agathon]] (c. 448 – c. 400 BCE, [[Athens]]) 
*[[Bola Agbaje]] (born c. 1981, England)
*[[Ama Ata Aidoo]] (1940–2023, [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]], now Ghana)
*[[George Aiken (playwright)|George L. Aiken]] (1830–1876, United States)
*[[Ayad Akhtar]] (born 1970, United States)
*[[Zoë Akins]] (1886–1958, United States)
*[[Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov]] (1932–2009, Russia/Soviet Union)
*[[Juan Ruiz de Alarcón]] (c. 1581–1639, New Spain, now Mexico)
*[[Edward Albee]] (1928–2016, United States)
*[[Rafael Alberti]] (1902–1999, Spain)
*[[James Albery]] (1838–1889, England)
*[[Vasile Alecsandri]] (1821–1890, Romania)
*[[Grace Alexander]] (1872–1951, United States)
*[[Vittorio Alfieri]] (1749–1803, Italy)
*[[William Alfred]] (1922–1999, United States)
*[[Jay Presson Allen]] (1922–2006, United States)
*[[Jim Allen (playwright)|Jim Allen]] (1926–1999, England)
*[[Woody Allen]] (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg 1935, United States)
*[[Almeida Garrett|Viscount of Almeida Garrett]] (1799–1854, Portugal)
*[[Robert Altman]] (1925–2006, United States)
*[[Alejandro Rodriguez Alvarez]] (1903–1965, Spain)
*[[Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero]] (1871–1938 and 1873–1944, Spain)
*[[Mark Ambient]] (1860–1937, England)
*[[Franco Ambriz]] (living, [[Brooklyn]], New York)
*[[Angelo Ambrogini]] {redirect to [[Angelo Poliziano]]}
*[[Freddie Anderson (writer)|Freddie Anderson]] (1922–2001, Ireland/Scotland)
*[[Jane Anderson]] (born c. 1954, United States)
*[[Maxwell Anderson]] (1888–1959, United States)
*[[Robert W. Anderson]] (1917–2009, United States)
*[[Stefan Andres]] (1906–1970, Germany)
*[[Leonid Andreyev]] (1871–1919, Russia)
*[[Livius Andronicus|Lucius Livius Andronicus]] (c. 284 – c. 205 BCE, Ancient Rome)
*[[Maya Angelou]] (1928–2014, United States)
*[[Innokenty Fyodorovich Annensky]] (1856–1909, Russia)
*[[Jean Anouilh]] (1910–1987, France)
*[[S. Ansky]] (1863–1920, Russia) in Russian and Yiddish
*[[Ludwig Anzengruber]] (1839–1889, Austria)
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