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

This was in 1824, in London, and Shelley, twenty-seven, and two years the widow of Percy Bysshe Shelley, spent a season begging a mutual friend, the playwright and actor John Howard Payne, to set them up. — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026

The group have publicly endorsed the letter on behalf of The Brigade, a group of over a thousand Jewish filmmakers, executives, playwrights, agents, publicists and allies in the media, music and entertainment industries. — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026

Benevolent, the latest work from playwright Sophie McIntosh (Macbitches), tells the story of four young women at Inwood’s Benevolent Home—a reformatory house for fallen and friendless girls—in 1917. — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2026

Davis’ work as an actor and a playwright has contributed to a textured career. — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026