This is a list of notable Jewish American playwrights. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
- David Adjmi[1]
- Lynn Ahrens[2]
- Sholom Aleichem[3]
- Woody Allen (born 1935), film director, writer, actor, and comedian[4]
- Jacob M. Appel[5]
- George Axelrod[6]
- Jeff Baron
- S. N. Behrman[7]
- David Belasco[8]
- Saul Bellow[9]
- Leo Birinski
- Agnes Borinsky
- Mel Brooks[10]
- Paddy Chayefsky[11]
- Betty Comden & Adolph Green[2]
- Norman Corwin[12]
- Howard Dietz[13]
- Edward Einhorn[14]
- Eve Ensler[15]
- Harvey Fierstein[16]
- Edna Ferber[17]
- Herb Gardner[11]
- Larry Gelbart[18]
- Joel Gersmann[19]
- Josh Greenfeld[20]
- Oscar Hammerstein II[21]
- Otto Harbach[2]
- Yip Harburg[22]
- Moss Hart[23]
- Ben Hecht[24]
- Lillian Hellman[25]
- Peretz Hirshbein[26]
- Israel Horovitz[27]
- George Jessel[28]
- George S. Kaufman[23]
- Sidney Kingsley[29]
- Tony Kushner[30]
- James Lapine[31]
- Arthur Laurents[32]
- H. Leivick[33]
- Alan Jay Lerner[34]
- Ira Levin[35]
- Craig Lucas[36]
- David Mamet[37]
- Donald Margulies[38]
- Arthur Miller[39][40]
- Cheryl Moch
- Becky Mode[41]
- Itamar Moses
- Clifford Odets[42][43]
- Carl Reiner[44]
- Elmer Rice[45]
- Morrie Ryskind[46]
- Peter Sagal[47][48]
- Rod Serling[49]
- Irwin Shaw[50]
- Wallace Shawn[51]
- Sidney Sheldon[52]
- Martin Sherman[53]
- Neil Simon[54]
- Isaac Bashevis Singer[55]
- Joey Soloway, playwright, television writer[56]
- Aaron Sorkin (born 1961), screenwriter, producer and playwright[57]
- Gertrude Stein
- Joseph Stein[58]
- Louise Stern[59]
- Jeffrey Sweet[60]
- Chaim Towber[61]
- Alfred Uhry[62]
- 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[63]
- Jerome Weidman[64]
- Franz Werfel[65]
- Norman Wexler, screenwriter of Saturday Night Fever, Joe, Serpico, Mandingo