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
Other plays in the festival were selected from the Susan J. Westfall National Short Playwriting Contest, which is a nationwide call for playwrights to submit short scripts of any style or genre.
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Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
This question led famed librarian, critic, novelist, and book advocate Nancy Pearl and writer, playwright, editor, and producer Jeff Schwager to converse with twenty-two writers about books that have transformed them.
—Donna Seaman
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
But local playwright Jacques Lamarre has written a lengthy comedy/drama with many different moods that starts as a long funny monologue and ends as a heavy drama with a final comic twist of an ending.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
She was frequently caught short by the playwright’s winking ambush.
—Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
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Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
This question led famed librarian, critic, novelist, and book advocate Nancy Pearl and writer, playwright, editor, and producer Jeff Schwager to converse with twenty-two writers about books that have transformed them.
—Donna Seaman
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
But local playwright Jacques Lamarre has written a lengthy comedy/drama with many different moods that starts as a long funny monologue and ends as a heavy drama with a final comic twist of an ending.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
She was frequently caught short by the playwright’s winking ambush.
—Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for playwright
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Instead the line was conceived after the script writers, Al Reinert and Bill Broyles, interviewed Kranz at his home Texas, south of Johnson Space Center.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2025
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Alexandra Koch is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
29 June 2025
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Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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Brooks and Bancroft had one son together, Max, now a screenwriter himself.—
Alex Apatoff,
People.com,
28 June 2025
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With Villeneuve onboard, the search is now underway for a screenwriter, and eventually, the next famous face brave enough to accept the mission of playing the suave super spy.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
26 June 2025
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Back in the 1940s, science fiction author Isaac Asimov and Astounding Science Fiction editor John W. Campbell Jr. came up with the Three Laws of Robotics that state: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.—
David Szondy
June 28,
New Atlas,
28 June 2025
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Bond is based on British author Ian Fleming's character, who first appeared in the 1953 novel Casino Royale.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
28 June 2025
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“Playwright.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playwright. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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