Four More Laureates! Four More Laureates!

Lauren Gunderson, over at the Huffington Post, wonders why there’s no Playwright Laureate. Her argument stems from the fact that the job of Poet Laureate entails “raising the status of poetry in the everyday conscience of the American public,” and drama, in her view, is also in need of some status-raising. Furthermore, she argues that the force of American drama has been global:

The tidal force of Broadway on the world's stages is thanks to the generative spirit of American dramatists, lyricists, directors, and on and on through the dedicated teams that make original plays and musical happen.

The country that invented musical theater should have a representational dramatist in its highest official center of literature.

What other sorts of laureates do we need? Any?