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Recent Examples of screenwriter
Veteran screenwriter and novelist Kazuki Nakashima penned the screenplay, with character designs by Takashi Okazaki and music by Yugo Kanno.
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Sara Merican, Deadline, 13 June 2025
Contributing Writer Jeff Spry is an award-winning screenwriter and veteran freelance journalist covering TV, movies, video games, books, and comics.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 June 2025
Alien: Covenant followed in 2017, also helmed by Scott, but The Leftovers' Damon Lindelof was swapped out as screenwriter for a team comprised of John Logan (Gladiator) and Michael Green (Logan), among others.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 5 June 2025
The show was created by Scream screenwriter and Dawson’s Creek creator Kevin Williamson.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
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Sara Merican, Deadline, 13 June 2025
Contributing Writer Jeff Spry is an award-winning screenwriter and veteran freelance journalist covering TV, movies, video games, books, and comics.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 June 2025
Alien: Covenant followed in 2017, also helmed by Scott, but The Leftovers' Damon Lindelof was swapped out as screenwriter for a team comprised of John Logan (Gladiator) and Michael Green (Logan), among others.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 5 June 2025
The show was created by Scream screenwriter and Dawson’s Creek creator Kevin Williamson.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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Louise Silverio, scriptwriter, and Anne Raffin, art director and director, are leading development.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
10 June 2025
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The award-winning actor remains the only artist in Golden Horse Awards history to have collected trophies for best actress, best scriptwriter and best director.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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She was frequently caught short by the playwright’s winking ambush.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
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Hamilton was married to poet and playwright Frank Jenkins (Driving While Black in Beverly Hills) from 1964 until his death in 2014.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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The platform hosts literary fiction writers like George Saunders alongside genre novelists, debut authors and even publishing’s ultimate commercial titan, James Patterson.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2025
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Previously, Sahadev was a national baseball writer for Baseball Prospectus and ESPN Chicago.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2022
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Depending on the style of tracer paper, it typically can be written on with different types of drawing media, including markers, ink pens and other sketching stationery that easily bleeds.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
27 June 2025
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Pictured: a pen shell, both closed (left) and open (right), showing the byssus from which the material for the sea silk is taken.—
Ian Randall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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