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Also Known As Alfred Lee Willmore
Born October 25, 1899 • London • England
Died March 6, 1978 (aged 78) • Dublin • Ireland
Founder Gate Theatre
Notable Works “Diarmuid agus Gráinne”
Movement / Style Irish literary renaissance
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
Lennox Robinson
Irish playwright
Behan
Brendan Behan
Irish author
Sean O’Casey
Irish dramatist
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
British actor, author, and director
George M. Cohan.
George M. Cohan
American composer and dramatist
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Edward Gordon Craig, 1890.
Edward Gordon Craig
British actor and director
Dion Boucicault
Irish playwright
Thomas William Robertson
British playwright
Macklin, detail from an engraving by John Condé, 1792
Charles Macklin
Irish actor and playwright
Patrick Kavanagh
Irish poet
William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
J.M. Synge
J.M. Synge
Irish author
Augusta, Lady Gregory, 1911.
Augusta, Lady Gregory
Irish writer
Edward Martyn
Irish dramatist
Saint John Ervine
British dramatist
Colum, Padraic
Padraic Colum
Irish poet
Robert Lepage
Canadian writer, director, designer, and actor
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry
American playwright, actor, screenwriter, producer, and director

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