All ASW Library database resources require a username and password if you are using them outside of school. These usernames and passwords can be found here. Use your school email and password to login to the library password page.
Scripts appropriate for Upper School can be found on this list. Please visit the library if you have questions about these or other library resources.
Find Drama for Students articles and ASW Library books with plays from the American and Canadian 
playwrights listed below. Also see:
Digital Theatre Plus - for films of theatre productions
Writers with plays in the ASW library are marked with: 
Joan Ackermann ( 19??- )
Edward Albee ( 1928 - )
Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959)
David Auburn (1970 - )
James Baldwin ( 1924 - 1987 )
Amiri Baraka ( 1934 - 2014 )
Philip Barry ( 1896 - 1949 )
Douglas Carter Beane (1959 - )
Norman Beim (1923 - )
Jessica Blank (1975 - )
Lee Blessing (1949 - )
Marita Bonner ( 1899 - 1971 )
Mel Brooks ( 1926 - )
Mary Chase ( 1907 - 1981 )
Paddy Chayefsky ( 1923 - 1981 )
Alice Childress ( 1916 - 1994 )
Pearl Cleage ( 1948 - )
D. L. Coburn ( 1938 - )
Marc Connelly ( 1890 - 1980 )
Michael Cristofer ( 1945 - )
Russel Crouse ( 1893 - 1966 )
Mart Crowley ( 1935 - )
Migdalia Cruz (1958 - )
Nilo Cruz (1961 - )
Ariel Dorfman ( 1942 - )
Christopher Durang (1949 - )
Margaret Edson (1961 - )
T. S. Eliot ( 1888 - 1965 )
Eve Ensler (1953 - )
Nora Ephron ( 1941 - 2012 )
Harvey Fierstein ( 1954 - )
Lucille Fletcher ( 1912 - 2000 )
Horton Foote ( 1916 - 2009 )
Maria Irene Fornes (1930 - )
Charles H. Fuller ( 1939 - )
Zona Gale ( 1874 - 1938 )
Herb Gardner ( 1934 - 2003 )
Alice Gerstenberg ( 1885 - 1972 )
William Gibson ( 1914 - 2008 )
Rebecca Gilman ( 1965 - )
Frank D. Gilroy ( 1925 - 2015 )
Susan Glaspell ( 1876 - 1948 )
James A. Goldman ( 1927 - 1998)
Frances Goodrich ( 1890? - 1984 )
Richard Greenberg ( 1958 - )
John Guare ( 1938 - )
Albert Hackett ( 1900 - 1995 )
Helene Hanff ( 1916 - 1997 )
Lorraine Hansberry ( 1930 - 1965 )
Bill Harris ( 1941 - )
Moss Hart (1904 - 1961 )
Joseph Hayes ( 1918 - 2006 )
Ben Hecht ( 1894 - 1964 )
Thomas Heggen ( 1919 - 1949 )
Lillian Hellman ( 1905 - 1984 )
Beth Henley ( 1952 - )
Tomson Highway ( 1951 - )
Mark Hollman ( 1963 - )
Langston Hughes ( 1902 - 1967 )
Zora Neale Hurston ( 1891 - 1960 )
David Henry Hwang ( 1957 - )
Naomi Iizuka ( 1965 - )
William Inge ( 1913 - 1973 )
Erik Jensen ( 1970 - )
George S. Kaufman ( 1889 - 1961 )
Moisés Kaufman ( 1963 - )
Adrienne Kennedy ( 1931 - )
Joseph Kesselring ( 1902 - 1967 )
Sidney Kingsley ( 1906 - 1995 )
Arthur Kopit ( 1937 - )
Greg Kotis ( 1966 - )
Joseph Kramm ( 1907 - 1991 )
Tony Kushner ( 1956 - )
James Lapine ( 1949 - )
Jonathan Larson ( 1961 - 1996 )
Arthur Laurents ( 1918 - 2011 )
Jerome Lawrence ( 1915 - 2004 )
Robert E. Lee ( 1918 - 1994 )
Warren Leight ( 1957 - )
Howard Lindsay ( 1889 - 1968 )
Kenneth Lonergan ( 1962 - )
Clare Boothe Luce ( 1903 - 1987 )
Charles MacArthur ( 1895 - 1956 )
Ann-Marie MacDonald ( 1958 - )
Archibald MacLeish ( 1892 - 1982 )
David Mamet ( 1947 - )
Donald Margulies ( 1954 - )
Steve Martin ( 1945 - )
Carson McCullers ( 1917 - 1967 )
Terrence McNally ( 1939 - )
Karen Jones Meadows ( 1953 - )
Mark Medoff ( 1940 - )
Edna St. Vincent Millay ( 1892 - 1950 )
Arthur Miller ( 1915 - 2005 )
Jason Miller ( 1939 - 2001 )
Marsha Norman ( 1947 - )
Lynn Nottage ( 1964 - )
Eugene O'Neill ( 1888 - 1953 )
Clifford Odets ( 1906 - 1863 )
Suzan-Lori Parks ( 1963 - )
John Patrick ( 1905 - 1995 )
Sharon Pollock ( 1936 - )
Bernard Pomerance ( 1940 - )
Dolores Prida ( 1943 - 2013 )
David Rabe ( 1940 - )
Heather Raffo ( 1970 - )
Celeste Raspanti ( 1928 - )
Theresa Rebeck ( 1958 - )
Elmer Rice (1892 - 1967 )
Richard Rodgers (1902 - 1979 )
Reginald Rose (1920 - 2002 )
Paul Rudnick ( 1957 - )
Howard Sackler ( 1929 - 1982 )
William Saroyan ( 1908 - 1981 )
Dore Schary ( 1905 - 1980 )
Robert Schenkkan ( 1953 - )
Ntozake Shange ( 1948 - )
John Patrick Shanley (1950 - )
Claudia Shear ( 1963 - )
Sam Shepard ( 1943 - )
Martin Sherman (1938 - )
Robert E. Sherwood ( 1896 - 1955 )
Larry Shue ( 1946 - 1985 )
Neil Simon ( 1927 - )
Anna Deavere Smith ( 1950 - )
Gary Soto ( 1952 - )
Joseph Stein ( 1912 - 2010 )
Megan Terry ( 1932 - )
Ernest Thompson ( 1949 - )
Judith Thompson ( 1954 - )
Sophie Treadwell ( 1885 - 1970 )
Alfred Uhry ( 1936? - )
Luis Valdez ( 1940 - )
Gore Vidal ( 1925 - 2012 )
Paula Vogel ( 1951 - )
Joseph A. Walker ( 1935 - 2003 )
Wendy Wasserstein ( 1950 - 2006 )
Eudora Welty ( 1909 - 2001 )
Hugh Wheeler ( 1912 - 1987 )
Barbara Wiechmann ( 1960 - )
Thornton Wilder ( 1897 - 1975 )
Tennessee Williams ( 1911 - 1983 )
August Wilson (1945 - 2005 )
Lanford Wilson (1937 - 2011 )
Doug Wright ( 1962 - )
Paul Zindel ( 1936 - 2003 )