as in writer
a person who writes plays
The actor perfectly captured the unique cadences employed by the playwright.
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Recent Examples of playwright
If the surprisingly rough-and-tumble world of 16th-century playwrights doesn’t immediately compel you, know that this is the kind of book in which every page is filled with an unexpected twist or insight (however speculative or hard to prove these conclusions may turn out to be).
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Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026
No playwright can duplicate the poignancy of that.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
The play concerns an average guy named Berenger (a character name that Ionesco used in other works, and who seems to share some background details with the playwright) who sees the people around him acting strangely and spouting odd sentiments.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2026
Milo Rau, the Swiss playwright and director who began staging this pungent project back in 2011, and who has toured it worldwide, has made a specialty of examining atrocity onstage.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
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Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026
No playwright can duplicate the poignancy of that.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
The play concerns an average guy named Berenger (a character name that Ionesco used in other works, and who seems to share some background details with the playwright) who sees the people around him acting strangely and spouting odd sentiments.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2026
Milo Rau, the Swiss playwright and director who began staging this pungent project back in 2011, and who has toured it worldwide, has made a specialty of examining atrocity onstage.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for playwright
Noun
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Jim Davis, a Democrat, is a retired businessman and political writer from Rome and has worked on both Democratic and Republican political campaigns.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
11 Mar. 2026
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Times staff writer Christie D’Zurilla contributed to this report.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Hammerstein is much more of a musical dramatist, and Hart is much more of a lyrical craftsman or a lyrical comedian.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2026
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He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block.—
Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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For Duprat, being an architect himself has, however, facilitated his work as a screenwriter.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2026
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It is named for Walter Bernstein, an American screenwriter who was blacklisted during Hollywood’s Red Scare in the 1950s, and has only been given twice before.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2026
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The seventh annual San Diego Writers Festival is set to return to the Coronado Public Library and surrounding venues later this month, and three of the many authors participating in the event are La Jollans.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
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Obvious comparisons will be drawn between Project Hail Mary and other space survival movies like Gravity or The Martian, the latter also based on a sci-fi novel by the same author, Andy Weir.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Mar. 2026
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