dramatist

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Recent Examples of dramatist British playwright Tom Stoppard, widely regarded as one of the greatest dramatists of his generation, has died at age 88. Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025 Shields reunited with Goold – and James Graham – for the BBC/ Left Bank Pictures television adaptation of the dramatist’s National Theatre hit, the Olivier award-winning Dear England, about Gareth Southgate’s revolutionary tenure as England’s men’s team manager. Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 27 Nov. 2025 Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow. Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025 Nevertheless, this is a very rewarding production that presents an eloquent argument for why Ibsen is considered one of history’s great dramatists. Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dramatist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatist
Noun
  • All the more so in the case of the characters in the British playwright Joe White’s Blackout Songs, who can’t remember any details of their first night together.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Buckley plays the wife of a struggling playwright named William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal, whose Oscar omission was a surprise).
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Brenda Looper joined the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as a news clerk in April 1997, and worked as a feature writer, reviewer and copy editor on the news side before moving to the opinion section in July 2011.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Ryan Collett is a writer, animator, and knitter.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin made his feature directorial debut with this, and his fingerprints are all over it, particularly his signature snappy dialogue.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The jury of the new Perspectives section dedicated to first works is made up of Moroccan screenwriter and director Sofia Alaoui; German director and screenwriter Frédéric Hambalek; and Dorota Lech, director of Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • And because the scriptwriters love a good story, the Rams must return to the same field as their penance.
    Jeff Howe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But for all those American fans who plan to watch the Cortina Olympics, be forewarned: Hollywood’s best scriptwriters are sitting at their typewriters, pounding out the bones of a sports movie about Lindsey Vonn.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021

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