How to Use playwright in a Sentence

playwright

noun

• Van Hove is many things, but the least of them is a playwright.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
• And playwrights do get some things right: The long hours.
  — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
• Lee wrote the new film’s script with Alan Fox, the playwright of 2019’s Safe Space.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2024
• Cao Yu, whom Miller met in 1978, was one of its star playwrights.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• This has been a year of great loss for the playwright — one shaped by inequity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• Which is a lot to ask of an avatar, and certainly of a play, or a playwright.
  — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
• But for Brook, not even the playwright was granted the final word.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
• The playwright, Matthew López, became the first Latino to ever win the award.
  — Sam Sussman, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2021
• Advertisement The playwrights do plan to re-work the script.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
• His wife, agent and playwright Judith Leverone, died in 2019.
  — Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
• Lou Sy, a playwright from Baguio City who lives in Brooklyn, told me via email.
  — Sara Tardiff, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2021
• He is survived by his wife, the playwright Paula Fourie, and three children.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025
• He is survived by his wife, the playwright Paula Fourie, and three children.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025
• The playwright, who also acts, came to Yale from Houston, Texas.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2025
• The playwright performed it at Long Wharf herself in 1993.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 30 July 2021
• Local fans of British playwright Simon Stephens were in for a rare treat this month.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2022
• Former alderman and playwright Wayne Frank launched the board's Artists of the Year program in 1995.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2023
• That work is more of a Chekhovian mash-up, drawing freely from the Russian playwright’s body of work.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• O’Neill was the most acclaimed playwright of the 20th century.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• In the film, a Broadway playwright plots murder to try to take credit for a student's play.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 29 Dec. 2022
• The play was written by award-winning playwright Nikkole Salter.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2021
• Former alderman and playwright Wayne Frank launched the board's Artists of the Year program in 1995.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
• At that, all four actors sharing the role of Aya — the playwright — raise their hands, in character.
  — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2021
• Blank stars as a version of herself who’s a playwright, but hasn’t had one of her plays produced in a very long time.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
• Poet and playwright Langston Hughes died in New York at age 65.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
• Dario Fo, an Italian playwright who died in 2016, is right up that alley.
  — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• One person who had their palm read at this time was the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde.
  — Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
• After the play, stick around and be a part of the development of new works by joining in on a talkback with the playwright.
  — cleveland, 3 Dec. 2021
• The 17th-century period piece follows a playwright in the court of King Charles II, whose rare medical conditions leaves her covered in hair.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 May 2025
• The remaining four episodes were written by Metzler and her husband, Colin McKenna, also a playwright.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025