American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Mark Twain
Horton Foote
Jean Shepherd
Eugene O'Neill
Michael Roemer
Arthur Miller
James Lapine
Samm-Art Williams
Robert M. Young
Tennessee Williams
Clifford Odets
Stephen Sondheim
Edgar Allan Poe
Ntozake Shange
Hal Hartley
Philip Roth
Sam Shepard
Richard Greenberg
Victor Nuñez
John Ford Noonan
Arthur Kopit
Peter Wang
Matty Rich
Bryan Gordon
David Birney
Joanne Woodward
Michael Dinner
Anna Deavere Smith
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Tristram Powell
Jose Rivera
Whit Stillman
Ruby Dee
Bill D'Elia
Howard Brookner
Ettore Scola
Kenneth Bowser
Jan Egleson
Jesús Salvador Treviño
Jeff Scher
Jay Presson Allen
Tom Kempinski
Julie Taymor
John Hanson
Keith Reddin
David Henry Hwang
Jan Oxenberg
Michael Fields
Marva Nabili
Tina Rathborne
Charles Lane
Anthony Herrera
Richard Kiley
Julian Barry
Michael Hadley
Rob Nilsson
Ossie Davis
Rudyard Kipling
Ralph Bakshi
Philip Haas
Thornton Wilder
Terrence McNally
T. S. Eliot
Stephen Schwartz
Cynthia Scott
Robert Anderson
Stephen Tolkin
Jill Godmilow
Robert Uricola
Stephen Vincent Benet
Julie Dash
Gregory Nava
Errol Morris
Ramón Menéndez
John Cheever
Fred Barron
Lewis Carroll
Stephen Sondheim
Craig Safan
George Gershwin
W. Michael Lewis
Alexander Bălănescu
James Mtume
Todd Boekelheide
Gerald Fried
Russ Kunkel
Edward James Olmos
Gordon Parks
Elizabeth Swados
Pat Metheny