| 100% | BEHAN | 5 | "The Hostage" playwright, 1958 |
| 70% | BEHAN | 5 | "The Hostage" playwright |
| 52% | GENET | 5 | The Balcony playwright Jean |
| 52% | MILLER | 6 | The Crucible playwright Arthur __ |
| 52% | EDWARDALBEE | 11 | The Zoo Story playwright |
| 52% | ONEILL | 6 | The Hairy Ape playwright |
| 51% | BRECHT | 6 | Playwright of the Threepenny Opera |
| 51% | ONEILL | 6 | The Iceman Cometh playwright Eugene |
| 49% | ROWE | 4 | Playwright who coined the term "lothario" |
| 49% | IBSEN | 5 | Playwright Henrik, the "Father of Realism" |
| 49% | NTOZAKESHANGE | 13 | Playwright who coined the term “choreopoem” |
| 49% | DHARMABUMS | 10 | The —, 1958 novel by Jack Kerouac |
| 48% | JMSYNGE | 7 | Playwright who co-founded the Abbey Theatre |
| 48% | HOSTAGE | 7 | The —, 1958 stage play by Brendan Behan |
| 48% | ORTON | 5 | "What the Butler Saw" playwright |
| 48% | FRENCH | 6 | Nationality of the playwright Moliere |
| 48% | RICE | 4 | "We, the People" playwright |
| 48% | MARLOWE | 7 | "Tamburlaine the Great" playwright |
| 48% | SHAW | 4 | "Bury the Dead" playwright |
| 48% | ALBEE | 5 | "Finding the Sun" playwright |
| 47% | ORTON | 5 | Playwright Joe who wrote "What the Butler Saw" |
| 47% | OCASEY | 6 | Playwright Sean who wrote "Juno and the Paycock" |
| 47% | IBSEN | 5 | Playwright Henrik, who wrote The Doll's House |
| 47% | SYNGE | 5 | "The Playboy of the Western World" playwright |
| 46% | TEARSONMYPILLOW | 15 | 1958 hit by Little Anthony and the Imperials |
| 46% | SYNGE | 5 | "Playboy of the Western World" playwright |
| 46% | ORTON | 5 | "What the Butler Saw" playwright, 1969 |
| 46% | ODETS | 5 | Group Theatre playwright of the 1930s |
| 46% | ORTON | 5 | "What the Butler Saw" playwright, Joe ___ |
| 46% | SHERIDAN | 8 | Irish-born playwright of The Rivals |