Some writers make this list on the exceptional strength of one popular title—this year that’s the case with the Come From Away writing team of Irene Sankoff & David Hein and Primary Trust author Eboni Booth, whose titles headline this year’s Top 10 Most-Produced Plays list—but the ones who stay on the list year after year tend to be playwrights with multiple titles in the mix. This has been the case over the years with everyone from Lynn Nottage to Sarah Ruhl, from Kate Hamill to Rajiv Joseph, the latter two of whom tied last year for the top spot.

No one proves that better than the still busy Lauren Gunderson, who, depending on how you count it, makes her third or fourth appearance at the top of this list (she was the clear winner in 2017 and in 2019, and in 2022 she tied for the top spot with Lynn Nottage). This year, in addition to such previous Gunderson favorites as The Revolutionists (2 productions) and a few of the Jane Austen holiday shows she co-penned with Margot Melcon (two productions of Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley and one of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley), there are two stagings of her new adaptation of the popular children’s book series Ada Twist, Scientist & Friends (with composer Bree Lowdermilk and lyricist by Kait Kerrigan); two of Lady Disdain, a new Much Ado-esque rom-com about rival romantasy audiobook narrators; four of her new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women; and two of her thriller Anthropology. There’s also a single production of her newish A Room in the Castle, which retells Hamlet from the women characters’ point of view, as well as one-offs of a few of her previous staples: Silent Sky, The Book of Will, The Half-Life of Marie Curie. In a fun twist, there are two productions of her shape-shifting two-hander, I and You, but one is of the play—and the other is of a new musical version Gunderson is premiering at the McCarter Theatre Center this month, with songs by Ari Afsar.

Indeed, it’s a mark of Gunderson’s large catalogue that, part from Little Women, you won’t see any of individual plays on the Top 10 Most-Produced Plays list. Others on this list whose titles you won’t see there include such prolific adaptors as Hamill, whose Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – APT 2B has proven nearly as popular as her many Austen adaptations; Ken Ludwig, whose version of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express adds to a few of his originals (Lend Me a Tenor, Dear Jack and Louise); and Jeffrey Hatcher, whose update of Dial M for Murder remains a hit, along with his takes on Rope, The Turn of the Screw, and Wait Until Dark. Rajiv Joseph is on the list mostly for King James, though we there also two stagings of his new Archduke and of Mr. Wolf; Katori Hall is here based on the persistent strength of The Mountaintop, with an assist from The Hot Wing King; Joe DiPietro has a variety of titles, including two stagings each of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and Conscience; and Fat Ham author James Ijames shows up not only for the staying power of that disarming comedy but for his plays Good Bones and The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington, as well as two new productions: The Wildness Generation and the musical Saturday Church.

Meanwhile, the team of Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer are, of course, the brains behind The Play That Goes Wrong, which keeps going right for them.