Definition of playwright
: a person who writes plays
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As of this past spring, producing company Second Stage has expanded and now runs a small Broadway theater dedicated to the work of living American playwrights.
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King Liz' So many contemporary themes — power, gender, race and class — crowd the court in playwright Fernanda Coppel's story about agent Liz Rico, a powerful woman in a man's world of professional sports.
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Audiences want one thing, the original playwrights another—and, in both cases, the adapters something else.
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Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse has written a clever, biting script about the near pathological fear of liberal-minded Americans to make racial, gender and ethnic faux pas and offend people unintentionally.
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Young Jean Lee is making Broadway history as the first Asian American woman playwright to have her play appear on a Broadway stage.
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Media: Leslie Koerdt, Houston Chronicle Play festival showcasing African-American playwrights.
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American playwright Eugene O'Neill was awarded the 1936 prize a year later, in 1937, at the same time as that year's winner received his prize.
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Williams is one of the most noteworthy American playwrights of his time.
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