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Jackie Patillo and Justin Fratt serve as showrunners and executive producers, Curtis Stoneberger and Paul Wright as producers, and JoAnna Illingworth and Shama Mrema as scriptwriters.
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Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2025
Many people with ideas for films or music or stories may never have the resources to create them—the lyricist who wants to put music to words, the scriptwriter who craves to see their lines spoken on a screen.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2025
The scriptwriter is Marek Epstein.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Both play it perfectly straight, which only adds to the enjoyment of a near-perfect people pleaser, and scriptwriter Ben Hopkins is clearly having a field day.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
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Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2025
Many people with ideas for films or music or stories may never have the resources to create them—the lyricist who wants to put music to words, the scriptwriter who craves to see their lines spoken on a screen.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2025
The scriptwriter is Marek Epstein.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Both play it perfectly straight, which only adds to the enjoyment of a near-perfect people pleaser, and scriptwriter Ben Hopkins is clearly having a field day.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Scriptwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scriptwriter. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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scriptwriter
noun
script·writ·er
ˈskrip-ˌtrīt-ər 
: a person who writes scripts (as screenplays for television or movies)
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