as in writers
a person who writes plays
The actor perfectly captured the unique cadences employed by the playwright.
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Recent Examples of playwrights
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
Those fin de siècle playwrights, activists, and actors were recognizing something important about this remarkable heroine.
—Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
The new plays were the result of an open call to playwrights for 10-minute plays.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2025
There are acting classes on Monday nights, and a playwrights circle every other Wednesday.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 Aug. 2025
With a team based across New York, London, Los Angeles and Austin, ILP works closely with book authors, playwrights, lyricists and composers, along with their representatives, heirs and estate managers to protect legacies and bring classic works to new international audiences.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
Those fin de siècle playwrights, activists, and actors were recognizing something important about this remarkable heroine.
—Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
The new plays were the result of an open call to playwrights for 10-minute plays.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2025
There are acting classes on Monday nights, and a playwrights circle every other Wednesday.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 Aug. 2025
With a team based across New York, London, Los Angeles and Austin, ILP works closely with book authors, playwrights, lyricists and composers, along with their representatives, heirs and estate managers to protect legacies and bring classic works to new international audiences.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for playwrights
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Yet that hardly mattered, since what was forming was a community that the players now liken to the artists and writers of Paris in the ’20s.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2025
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These writers will work under the latest Public Television Freelance Agreement, which the WGA East ratified in December after a lengthy and sometimes contentious negotiation cycle with PBS, narrowly avoiding a strike.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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The rapidly changing publishing environment has opened opportunities for players like Publishizer, as well as crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, where authors also run preorder campaigns.—
Elaine Pofeldt,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The authors of the Cheyava Falls paper spent a year in the peer-review process, and during that time their discovery was publicly known.—
David W. Brown,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Playwrights.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playwrights. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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