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Over the ensuing decades, Giard photographed writers working across many genres—playwrights, poets, novelists, theorists, memoirists, critics, even cookbook authors.
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Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
Five years later, playwright and producer Vanessa Lynn filed a lawsuit against TPS, accusing the mogul of idea theft over his TV series The Have and Have Nots.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
Her mission statement was to work with living American and international playwrights as a director and a producer, to present their plays at various stages of development, and to attract top-level stage talent.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Occasionally, playwrights like me used the room to workshop stuff.
—Helen Schulman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
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Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
Five years later, playwright and producer Vanessa Lynn filed a lawsuit against TPS, accusing the mogul of idea theft over his TV series The Have and Have Nots.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
Her mission statement was to work with living American and international playwrights as a director and a producer, to present their plays at various stages of development, and to attract top-level stage talent.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Occasionally, playwrights like me used the room to workshop stuff.
—Helen Schulman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
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“Playwright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playwright. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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playwright
noun
play·wright
ˈplā-ˌrīt 
: a person who writes plays
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