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Recent Examples of dramatist
White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.
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Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.
—Matt Wolf, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 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
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Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.
—Matt Wolf, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatist
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To reflect the current moment — when discrimination against not only the LGBTQ community but also the non-binary and transgender communities — is on the rise, playwright Lee rewrote parts of his 2022 play earlier this year in San Francisco.—
David L. Coddon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Nov. 2025
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If a computer can knock off a script in a matter of minutes, what does the future look like for playwrights?—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Nov. 2025
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Famed writer and director David Mamet, who cameos in Marty Supreme, is also said to have attended Marty's clubs.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Jan. 2026
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Here's a look at those astronaut medical issues and others from the history of human spaceflight by our writer Josh Dinner.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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The author, director and screenwriter grew up in a Chinese immigrant household, moving around the United States frequently throughout her childhood.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Volpe, who studied at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, has established herself as both a director and screenwriter.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
8 Jan. 2026
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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
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On this occasion, there were no jostling journalists, no opportunistic influencers and no sign of the Hollywood scriptwriter looking to buy the rights to a story that has resonated around the world.—
Esme Nicholson,
NPR,
18 Dec. 2025
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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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
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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
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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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“Dramatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramatist. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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