How to Use playwright in a Sentence
playwright
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Van Hove is many things, but the least of them is a playwright.
—David Benedict, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
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And playwrights do get some things right: The long hours.
—Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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Lee wrote the new film’s script with Alan Fox, the playwright of 2019’s Safe Space.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2024
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Cao Yu, whom Miller met in 1978, was one of its star playwrights.
—Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
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This has been a year of great loss for the playwright — one shaped by inequity.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
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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
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But for Brook, not even the playwright was granted the final word.
—Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
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The playwright, Matthew López, became the first Latino to ever win the award.
—Sam Sussman, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2021
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Advertisement The playwrights do plan to re-work the script.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
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Now, a living playwright can be both a blessing and a curse.
—Sarah Paulson, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
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His wife, agent and playwright Judith Leverone, died in 2019.
—Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
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Lou Sy, a playwright from Baguio City who lives in Brooklyn, told me via email.
—Sara Tardiff, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2021
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What’s not to like about the greatest playwright who ever lived?
—Terry Teachout, WSJ, 20 May 2021
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He is survived by his wife, the playwright Paula Fourie, and three children.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025
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He is survived by his wife, the playwright Paula Fourie, and three children.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025
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The playwright, who also acts, came to Yale from Houston, Texas.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2025
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The script is by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Tracy Letts.
—Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
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The playwright performed it at Long Wharf herself in 1993.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 30 July 2021
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Local fans of British playwright Simon Stephens were in for a rare treat this month.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2022
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Former alderman and playwright Wayne Frank launched the board's Artists of the Year program in 1995.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2023
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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
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O’Neill was the most acclaimed playwright of the 20th century.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2021
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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
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The play was written by award-winning playwright Nikkole Salter.
—Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2021
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Former alderman and playwright Wayne Frank launched the board's Artists of the Year program in 1995.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
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At that, all four actors sharing the role of Aya — the playwright — raise their hands, in character.
—New York Times, 3 Oct. 2021
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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
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Poet and playwright Langston Hughes died in New York at age 65.
—BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
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Occasionally, playwrights like me used the room to workshop stuff.
—Helen Schulman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
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But local playwright Jacques Lamarre has written a lengthy comedy/drama with many different moods that starts as a long funny monologue and ends as a heavy drama with a final comic twist of an ending.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
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