Theatre Arts Extra Credit: Playwright Biography
Choose one of the following playwrights and write a biography about them. MUST be
typed, 12 point font, double spaced. It should be at least one page in length.
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Tennessee Williams
Arthur Miller
Henrik Ibsen
Thornton Wilder
William Shakespeare
August Wilson
Your paper MUST include the following:
a. Information about their life and death (if they are dead)
b. famous works and style of plays
c. Choose one of their plays and include a brief plot summary and where it was
recently produced.