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1. Marisa Smith

   Author of Seattle Children's Theatre: Six Plays for Young Audiences Volume I, Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1995, The Actor's Book of Movie Monologues
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2. Tom Stoppard

   Author of The Real Thing, Jumpers, Travesties
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3. Jack Sharrar

   Author of Great Monologues for Young Actors, Vol. II, Great Scenes for Young Actors (Young Actors Series)
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4. Norman A. Bert

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5. David Mamet

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6. Nina Shengold

   Author of The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues: More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights, Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays
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7. Viola Spolin

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8. Eugene O'Neill

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9. David Ives

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10. Edward Albee

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11. Paul Zindel

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12. Constantin Stanislavski

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13. Eugène Ionesco

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14. Patrick Marber

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15. Marsh Cassady

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16. Michael Bigelow Dixon

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17. Lorraine Cohen

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18. Michael Schulman

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19. David Auburn

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20. Beth Henley

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21. Marsha Norman

    Author of 'night, Mother: A Play, The Secret Garden: The Musical
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22. Jerzy Grotowski

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23. Adam Long

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24. John Millington Synge

    Author of The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays
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25. Peter Shaffer

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26. Michael Shurtleff

    Author of Audition
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27. Harold Pinter

    Author of The Homecoming, The Birthday Party & The Room
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28. Anton Chekhov

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29. Sam Shepard

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30. Michael Frayn

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31. Alan Bennett

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32. John Byrne

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33. Michael Cristofer

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34. Roger Karshner

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35. Christopher Durang

    Author of Christopher Durang Volume I: 27 Short Plays
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36. Peter Weiss

    Author of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
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37. Neil Simon

    Author of California Suite, Broadway Bound
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38. Uta Hagen

    Author of Respect for Acting
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39. Charles Ludlam

    Author of The Mystery of Irma Vep and Other Plays
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40. Sonia Moore

    Author of The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of an Actor
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41. George Bernard Shaw

    Author of Major Barbara, Arms and the Man
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42. Jerome Lawrence

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43. Thornton Wilder

    Author of Three Plays by Thornton Wilder
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44. Clare Boothe Luce

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45. Stephen Sondheim

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46. Herb Gardner

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47. Luigi Pirandello

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48. Laura Harrington

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49. Acting Co.

    Author of Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired By Seven Shakespearean Sonnets
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50. Bertolt Brecht

    Author of The Caucasian chalk circle
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