dramatist

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Recent Examples of dramatist The 2016 election and the COVID pandemic: the two major moments of the past eight years that are irresistible to dramatists but are notoriously tricky to get right. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024 The literary award went to Norwegian dramatist and author Jon Fosse in 2023 and French author Annie Ernaux in 2022. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024 But folklorists, anthropologists, dramatists and, in the post-Mao period, rap artists believed the local forms of speech expressed the authentic culture of the common people. Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021 Carreira has a docu-realistic eye for setting and a dramatist’s instinct for pacing and mood. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dramatist 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatist
Noun
  • The Book of Will, in CCA’s Black Box Theatre, written by one of America’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights, Lauren Gunderson, takes the audience to thepost-Shakespearean world of Elizabethan England.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The comedy by American playwright Joseph Kesserlring, opened on Broadway Jan. 10, 1941.
    Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • According to Deadline, the show is looking to begin a writer's room, meaning the streamer and the studios — 20th Television and Searchlight TV — think the pilot could be greenlit into a series.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • At the time of his first face-to-face with Stiller, the unknown writer was still driving for Postmates.
    Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Watch the Trailer for Laverne Cox's Clean Slate, The Last Show From a Late Sitcom Legend The series is the last one from the late Norman Lear, a pioneering screenwriter and producer known for creating socially relevant sitcoms.
    James Factora, Them, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Stone’s mother was an actress, screenwriter, and newspaper columnist who wrote under the name Spellman Stone, so pseudonyms were a family tradition.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The industry should take care of them and treat them as talent, like directors and scriptwriters.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025
  • That means dads and uncles, teachers and political leaders, Hollywood scriptwriters and podcast hosts—all could stand to get in on the game.
    Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • Even his name, not to mention his author photo, had an aura of toughness more suggestive of a prizefighter than a litterateur.
    Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019

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