Synonyms of playwright

playwright

noun

as in writer

a person who writes plays

The actor perfectly captured the unique cadences employed by the playwright.

Related Words

• writer
• dramatist
• screenwriter
• author
• storyteller
• poet
• scriptwriter
• stylist
• scenarist
• pen
• litterateur
• bard
• novelist
• wordsmith
• cowriter
• biographer
• auteur
• coauthor
• ghostwriter
• scribbler
• penman
• autobiographer
• memoirist
• essayist
• scrivener
• scribe
• hagiographer
• fictionist
• journalist
• belletrist
• reporter
• memorialist
• fabulist
• hatchet man
• satirist
• hack
• coscenarist
• pamphleteer
• romancer
• fictioneer
• columnist
• wordmonger
• sportswriter
• versifier
• blogger
• newspaperman
• rhymer
• paragrapher
• proser
• prosateur
• prosaist

Dissimilar Words

• nonwriter
• nonauthor

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of playwright

His final credit was the 2008 British TV film My Zinc Bed, written by playwright David Hare and starring Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce and Paddy Considine. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2026

Bass-Moore, now an actress and playwright in New York, worked in community engagement at Texas and was the co-founder and director of the university’s Fearless Leadership Institute. — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

His third album, 2001’s Phantom Moon, made with poet and playwright Steven Sater, pushed further into that territory. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 18 Sep. 2026

Guiding the playwright’s implementation of the Indigenous language was Cal State Northridge professor Fermín Herrera — one of the few experts in the continent on classical Nahuatl. — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026