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Noun
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Curated by IndieWire’s editorial team, the annual event recognizes the creators, performers, and storytellers behind the season’s most distinctive and culture-shaping television.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
11 May 2026 -
Power in our storytellers, our champions, our leaders, our taste makers.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
10 May 2026
Noun
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If a dozen new works over four days isn’t enough, try cramming 50 plays by 50 playwrights into a single day.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
1 May 2026
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Funds raised from Miscast26 support MCC Theater’s Off-Broadway productions, its Youth Company and education programs for New York City high school students, as well as the organization’s literary development work with emerging playwrights.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2026
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More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived.—
Rosemary Counter,
Vanity Fair,
19 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The second edition of Pitch Talent, organized with the screenwriting labs IsLABentura Canarias, CIMA Impulsa and DAMA Ayuda, will showcase emerging screenwriters and creatives selected by each lab, joined by Mallorcan screenwriter-director Ferrán Bex.—
Emiliano de Pablos,
Variety,
11 May 2026
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