Charlie Kaufman is one of the most well-known screenwriters in American cinema, a rare position in a field dominated by directors. His work is known for being highly inventive, self-referential, postmodern, and surreal. He wrote Being John Malkovich and Adaptation (both directed by S

Absurd, Clever, Ironic, Neurotic, Playful, Surreal

Absurd, Angry, Baroque, Beautiful , Bright, Bubblicious, Cartoonish, Clean, Clever, Cool, Dark, Decorative, Dissonant, Distorted, Dramatic, Ecstatic, Excessive, Experimental, Fantastic, Figurative, Glamour, Grand, Improvised, Intense, Intimate, Masculine, Moody, Neurotic, Organic, Political, Pop, Primal, Psychedelic, Psychological, Rebel, Religious, Serene, Sophisticated, Spiritual, Surreal, Technology, Tranquil, Trippy, Violent, Whimsical, Wise assy, Witty

According to some, "the voice of a generation" echoes through the pen of playwright Wendy Wasserstein. More specifically, her plume speaks for the generation of women who were first caught up in the women's liberation movement. Too educated and too driven to be satisfied as housewives and mothers, th

Contemporary plays, Feminist, Feminist theater, Ironic, Jewish theater, Neurotic, Witty

Spalding Gray splashed into the national consciousness with the epic monologue-cum-performance piece "Swimming to Cambodia" (1985), a distinctive solo show that has been on the road in some incarnation for well-nigh 20 years. He cut his teeth on Postmodern performance theory with SoHo's experimental

Agitated, Epic, Neurotic, Solo performance