playwrights

plural of playwright

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Recent Examples of playwrights During her five-decade tenure at MTC, Meadow has guided acclaimed shows by such playwrights as Christopher Durang, John Guare, Beth Henley, Terrence McNally, Eureka Day‘s Jonathan Spector and many others. Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025 Since his death more than two hundred years ago, Christophe’s tragic story has interested a broad array of playwrights, artists, novelists, and filmmakers across the world. Marlene L. Daut september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025 Along the way, Sundance filmmakers and actors in the cinema won Oscars, and playwrights and performers in the theater won Pulitzer and Tony awards. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025 Leguizamo hopes that his play will help universalize the Latino experience, in the same way that works by Black playwrights like Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson have become part of the theatrical canon. Raul A. Reyes, NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025 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. Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for playwrights
Noun
  • That also applies to a steady supply of writers who imagine the place to be haunted.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Nobody protected writers like this guy.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The study authors looked at 13 samples and found no traces of typhus, but their work does not discredit the findings of the 2006 study, the researchers noted.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As this heatwave persisted, the authors tracked the health of 52,356 wild and restored Acropora coral colonies across the 350-mile length of Florida's coral reef.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025

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