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Milo Rau, the Swiss playwright and director who began staging this pungent project back in 2011, and who has toured it worldwide, has made a specialty of examining atrocity onstage.
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Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
Throughout her nine-decade career, Lee won awards as a dancer, actor, teacher, author, stage director, playwright, theater and film consultant and painter.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026
That’s a rhythm of Barron’s that many a playwright has imitated.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
Following his unexpected death, Jacobsen started working on the documentary project with Tijuana playwright and actor Alan Márquez Lobato to tell Paco’s story.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
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Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
Throughout her nine-decade career, Lee won awards as a dancer, actor, teacher, author, stage director, playwright, theater and film consultant and painter.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026
That’s a rhythm of Barron’s that many a playwright has imitated.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
Following his unexpected death, Jacobsen started working on the documentary project with Tijuana playwright and actor Alan Márquez Lobato to tell Paco’s story.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
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“Playwright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playwright. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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playwright
noun
play·wright
ˈplā-ˌrīt 
: a person who writes plays
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