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
Lemieux and her husband discussed starting a theater company, one that specialized in local playwrights and actors, but after COVID, the performing arts were decimated.
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Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
An early dramatization of Pride and Prejudice by the socialist feminist playwright Margaret Macnamara retitles her adaptation Elizabeth Refuses (1926), which highlights this very point.
—Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Actor George Wendt, producer Paul Libin, director Mark Brokaw and Take Me Out playwright Richard Greenberg will be among the luminaries honored with Broadway‘s second group light-dimming next week.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Star playwright William Shakespeare saw a golden opportunity to get into the king’s good graces and wrote a play with witches as a main plot driver.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
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Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
An early dramatization of Pride and Prejudice by the socialist feminist playwright Margaret Macnamara retitles her adaptation Elizabeth Refuses (1926), which highlights this very point.
—Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Actor George Wendt, producer Paul Libin, director Mark Brokaw and Take Me Out playwright Richard Greenberg will be among the luminaries honored with Broadway‘s second group light-dimming next week.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Star playwright William Shakespeare saw a golden opportunity to get into the king’s good graces and wrote a play with witches as a main plot driver.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for playwright
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In crafting Christy, the biopic of boxer Christy Salters Martin that just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, director David Michôd and his co-writer Mirrah Foulkes wanted to hew as close to the real-life story as possible.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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Mark Herbert and Gwen Gorst are executive producers for Warp, alongside series writer Mager, with Rebecca Ferguson and Jo McClellan for the BBC.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 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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Michael Attenborough, Richard Attenborough’s son, and Emma Forbes, daughter of the original movie’s screenwriter, Bryan Forbes, are also exec producing.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
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It’s been a while since Bigelow was a major player on the Oscar scene, but working off of a script from the screenwriter of Jackie (and, um, The Maze Runner), interest will be piqued.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
2 Sep. 2025
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This enrapturing novel follows the fever dream aftermath of an author who wins a national literary award while another author visits a university that’s just experienced a mass shooting.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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This is obviously aligned with the entrepreneurial philanthropy practiced by Feld, my co-author Seth Levine and others.—
Elizabeth MacBride,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Playwright.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playwright. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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