| 100% | SEANOCASEY | 10 | Irish playwright who wrote "Cock-a-Doodle Dandy" |
| 71% | SEAN | 4 | Irish playwright who wrote "The Shadow of a Gunman" |
| 54% | OSCAR | 5 | ___ Wilde, the Irish playwright who wrote "De Profundis" during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol |
| 53% | SHAW | 4 | Playwright who wrote "Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi" |
| 45% | MAMET | 5 | Playwright who wrote "Glengarry Glen Ross" |
| 44% | IONESCO | 7 | Absurdist playwright who wrote Rhinoceros |
| 44% | MOLIERE | 7 | French playwright who wrote Tartuffe |
| 44% | OSBORNE | 7 | Playwright who wrote Look Back in Anger, John __ |
| 44% | IBSEN | 5 | Henrik ___ (Norwegian playwright who wrote "Ghosts") |
| 44% | PINTER | 6 | Harold, playwright who wrote The Caretaker |
| 44% | INGE | 4 | William ___, American playwright who wrote "Picnic" |
| 43% | SHAW | 4 | Playwright who wrote "Hell is full of musical amateurs" |
| 43% | SHAW | 4 | Playwright who wrote "All great truths begin as blasphemies" |
| 43% | AESCHYLUS | 9 | Ancient playwright who wrote the Oresteian Trilogy |
| 43% | IONESCO | 7 | Romanian playwright who wrote The Bald Soprano |
| 43% | SOPHOCLES | 9 | Ancient Greek playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex |
| 43% | JONSON | 6 | English playwright who wrote The Alchemist, Ben __ |
| 43% | VACLAVHAVEL | 11 | Playwright who became a president |
| 42% | OSCARWILDE | 10 | Irish poet and playwright who wrote only one novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in his lifetime: 2 wds. |
| 42% | IBSEN | 5 | Playwright Henrik who wrote "A Doll's House" |
| 42% | MAMET | 5 | David, US playwright who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross |
| 42% | EURIPIDES | 9 | Ancient Greek playwright who wrote tragedies, including "Medea" |
| 42% | YEATS | 5 | Irish poet who wrote "Easter, 1916" |
| 42% | SAMUELBECKETT | 13 | Playwright who wrote "We are all born mad. Some remain so" |
| 42% | ODETS | 5 | Playwright who wrote the screenplay for The Sweet Smell of Success |
| 41% | ARISTOPHANES | 12 | Ancient Greek playwright who wrote comedies, including "The Frogs" |
| 41% | SOPHOCLES | 9 | Ancient Greek playwright who wrote tragedies, including "Oedipus Rex" |
| 41% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | Irish author who wrote "Ulysses": 2 wds. |
| 41% | BRAMSTOKER | 10 | Irish author who wrote "Dracula": 2 wds. |
| 41% | SIMON | 5 | Playwright who got a Mark Twain Prize |