| 100% | ODETS | 5 | Clifford —, author of stage play Waiting for Lefty |
| 96% | ODETS | 5 | Clifford —, author of stage plays Waiting for Lefty and Clash by Night |
| 84% | ODETS | 5 | Clifford —, author of the stage plays Waiting for Lefty and Clash by Night |
| 52% | BOLT | 4 | Robert —, author of 1960 stage play A Man for All Seasons |
| 49% | ODETS | 5 | Waiting for Lefty playwright Clifford |
| 49% | WRIGHT | 6 | Doug —, author of Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning 2003 stage play I Am My Own Wife |
| 48% | ALAN | 4 | Author of stage plays Allelujah! and The Habit of Art |
| 48% | BENTRAVERS | 10 | Author of stage plays Thark and The Bed Before Yesterday |
| 48% | STOPPARD | 8 | Tom —, author of stage plays Jumpers and Travesties |
| 48% | BUTTERWORTH | 11 | Jez —, author of stage plays Mojo and Jerusalem |
| 48% | SHAFFER | 7 | Peter —, author of stage plays Equus and Amadeus |
| 48% | SNOOWILSON | 10 | Author of stage plays The Grass Widow and The Glad Hand |
| 48% | WESKER | 6 | Arnold —, author of stage plays Roots and The Kitchen |
| 48% | BECKETT | 7 | Samuel —, author of stage plays Not I and Breath |
| 48% | DUNN | 4 | Nell —, author of stage plays Steaming and Cancer Tales |
| 48% | MERCER | 6 | David —, author of stage plays After Haggerty and Flint |
| 47% | OSCARWILDE | 10 | Author of stage plays An Ideal Husband and Lady Windermere's Fan |
| 47% | BENJONSON | 9 | Author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 |
| 47% | FRAYN | 5 | Michael —, author of stage plays Alphabetical Order and Noises Off |
| 47% | MCPHERSON | 9 | Conor —, author of stage plays The Weir and Port Authority |
| 47% | SCHNITZLER | 10 | Arthur —, author of stage plays Reigen and The Green Cockatoo |
| 47% | GENET | 5 | Jean —, author of stage plays The Balcony and The Maids |
| 47% | HARE | 4 | David —, author of stage plays Gethsemane and The Vertical Hour |
| 47% | ORCZY | 5 | Baroness Emma —, author of stage play and novel The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| 47% | ALAN | 4 | & 14D Author of stage plays Allelujah! and The Habit of Art |
| 47% | RATTIGAN | 8 | Terence —, author of stage plays French Without Tears and Separate Tables |
| 47% | MAMET | 5 | David —, author of stage plays American Buffalo and Speed-the-Plow |