Mansfield was the childhood home of Joshua Logan, an award winning director, producer, playwright and screenwriter for film and stage.

Nakkiah Lui: award winning indigenous playwright.

Sally McKenzie is an award winning Australian actress, director, playwright and producer.

Carole Fréchette (b. Montreal, Quebec) is an award winning Canadian playwright.

Oriel Gray (26 March 1920 - 30 June 2003) is an award winning Australian dramatist and playwright who wrote from the 1940s to 1960's.

Fredrik Brattberg is an award winning Norwegian playwright.

Alexi Kaye Campbell is an award winning playwright and actor.

March 17 - Paul Green, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (died 1981)

Travis Cotton (born 18 May 1975) is an award winning Australian actor and playwright.

Ewen Glass (born 25 December 1982) is an award winning Irish playwright and screenwriter.