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a person who writes plays
The actor perfectly captured the unique cadences employed by the playwright.
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Recent Examples of playwrights
Few British playwrights have been compared to Shakespeare, but Tom Stoppard was.
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Lee Cowan, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
The theater has produced several generations of playwrights, including Brian Friel and Conor McPherson, who have helped the Irish public understand the changing nation.
—Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
And, of course, Cook’s regular playwrights around this time—Shepard, Murray Mednick, Tony Barsha, Walter Hadler, Leonard Melfi, and Tom Sankey—were all men.
—Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
As a result, audiences get a closer look at how plays develop, and both veteran and up-and-coming playwrights have an opportunity to further their work.
—Gqlshare, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2025
Tom Stoppard, often hailed as one of the greatest playwrights of his generation, has died aged 88.
—Richard Hall, Time, 29 Nov. 2025
Yet in these posthumous rewritings, the Shepardian frisson only intensifies when the playwrights shift away from the straight and narrowly masculine.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2025
If a computer can knock off a script in a matter of minutes, what does the future look like for playwrights?
—David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2025
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
Lee Cowan, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
The theater has produced several generations of playwrights, including Brian Friel and Conor McPherson, who have helped the Irish public understand the changing nation.
—Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
And, of course, Cook’s regular playwrights around this time—Shepard, Murray Mednick, Tony Barsha, Walter Hadler, Leonard Melfi, and Tom Sankey—were all men.
—Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
As a result, audiences get a closer look at how plays develop, and both veteran and up-and-coming playwrights have an opportunity to further their work.
—Gqlshare, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2025
Tom Stoppard, often hailed as one of the greatest playwrights of his generation, has died aged 88.
—Richard Hall, Time, 29 Nov. 2025
Yet in these posthumous rewritings, the Shepardian frisson only intensifies when the playwrights shift away from the straight and narrowly masculine.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2025
If a computer can knock off a script in a matter of minutes, what does the future look like for playwrights?
—David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for playwrights
Noun
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Every credit card review is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors.—
Harlan Vaughn,
CNBC,
8 Nov. 2025
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The series, which (understandably) resulted in a high-stakes bidding war, was given a two-season order by the streamer, with Gilligan noting that the writers’ room for the sophomore installment is already open.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
8 Nov. 2025
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The authors say the results could help doctors make more accurate diagnoses, reduce unnecessary, restrictive gluten-free diets and help shift messaging away from the idea that gluten is inherently harmful.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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The authors say the discovery does more than offer a promising material tweak.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Playwrights.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playwrights. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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