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Ackermann, like Ford, is one of fashion’s dramatists, deftly wielding strong shoulders, sinuous draping, and an audacious use of rich color in both his women’s and men’s work, an approach that garnered him the adoration of the likes of Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet—and, clearly, Mr. Ford.
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Mark Holgate, Vogue, 6 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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Mark Holgate, Vogue, 6 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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Also like Lockwood, the narrator is working with a playwright to adapt a story about her family into a television series.—
Bekah Waalkes,
The Atlantic,
25 Sep. 2025
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Finley is an actor-playwright — a good one, too, having been recognized multiple times by the statewide Jerry Awards and Jerry Ensemble for excellence in high school musical theater.—
Kylie Volavongsa,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Coming after his success as a co-writer on partner Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar hit Barbie (2023), Jay Kelly appears to signal a new chapter for the Baumbach, one less defined by fracture and regret than by celebration.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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Every article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of personal finance.—
Brian Sloan,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
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The screenwriter, Nora Garrett, has achieved an amusingly florid Hollywood simulacrum—one that tilts into knowing parody—of an intensely self-regarding world.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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Buzzy emerging screenwriter Morgan Lehmann has sold the pitch for an untitled WAGs comedy to Amazon MGM Studios‘ United Artists and Scott Stuber, Deadline has learned.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
29 Sep. 2025
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Many people with ideas for films or music or stories may never have the resources to create them—the lyricist who wants to put music to words, the scriptwriter who craves to see their lines spoken on a screen.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
7 Sep. 2025
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The scriptwriter is Marek Epstein.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
6 Sep. 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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