Major Indian theatre directors Edit

Prithviraj Kapoor ,Habib Tanvir ,Ebrahim Alkazi ,Utpal Dutta ,B.V. Karanth ,K.V. Akshara ,Sambhu Mitra ,Prasanna ,Ratan Thiyam ,Arvind Gaur ,Rudraprasad Sengupta ,Satyadev Dubey ,K.V. Subbanna ,Safdar Hashmi ,Gursharan Singh ,Ram Gopal Bajaj ,B.M. Shah ,Naseeruddin Shah ,Rohini Hattangadi

Notable playwrights Edit

Bharata ,Kalidasa ,Śudraka ,Bhāsa ,Bhavabhuti ,Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ,Dinabandhu Mitra ,Michael Madhusudan Dutta ,Rabindranath Tagore ,Bharatendu Harishchandra ,Jaishankar Prasad ,Utpal Dutta ,Mahesh Dattani ,Ramesh Mehta ,Girish Karnad ,Vijay Tendulkar ,Badal Sarkar ,Swadesh Deepak ,Bhisham Sahni ,Dharamvir Bharati ,Mahesh Elkunchwar ,Mohan Rakesh ,Habib Tanvir ,Govind Deshpande ,Sharad Joshi ,Dr. Narendra Mohan ,Asghar Wajahat ,Manjula Padmanabhan ,Javed Siddiqui ,B.M. Shah ,Partap Sharma ,Poile Sengupta ,Gurucharan Das