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Recent Examples of screenwriter
The 29-year-old actor and screenwriter remembers the feeling clearly.
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Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
The screenwriter served as the showrunner for the first season of the modern show starring Christopher Eccleston in 2005, as well as the subsequent three seasons (and specials) starring David Tennant from 2005 to 2010.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now digs into the making of that biopic (which stars Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen), with host Brian Hiatt talking to both Graham and director/screenwriter Scott Cooper.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
The film’s screenplay, adapted from real events by first-time screenwriter Austin Kolodney, is infused with humanism and dark wit, standing as one of the year’s finest.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
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Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
The screenwriter served as the showrunner for the first season of the modern show starring Christopher Eccleston in 2005, as well as the subsequent three seasons (and specials) starring David Tennant from 2005 to 2010.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now digs into the making of that biopic (which stars Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen), with host Brian Hiatt talking to both Graham and director/screenwriter Scott Cooper.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
The film’s screenplay, adapted from real events by first-time screenwriter Austin Kolodney, is infused with humanism and dark wit, standing as one of the year’s finest.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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Pamir Güroğlu, chief growth officer & partner at Vitpepper Studios, and Erim Şişman, film director, scriptwriter, and director of AI Studio at Vitpepper, took to the MIP Creative Hub to premiere the trailer to the international market.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
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Many people with ideas for films or music or stories may never have the resources to create them—the lyricist who wants to put music to words, the scriptwriter who craves to see their lines spoken on a screen.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
7 Sep. 2025
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Teller took to heart the classic Greek playwright Aristophanes’ myth of love — that humans were born as a fusion of two bodies and later separated as punishment from the gods, only to spend their lives looking — and longing — for their other half.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
31 Oct. 2025
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Stage directors and performers have attempted to excavate and animate that ambiguity, first dreamed up by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in Hedda Gabler, for over a century.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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Hutchins died at age 42 in October 2021 after a gun Baldwin was holding during Rust rehearsals discharged, striking her and the film’s writer-director, Joel Souza.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Every personal finance article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of financial products.—
Lori Zaino,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 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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Starting out as a fact-checker, Wallace was eventually able to use his pen.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Nov. 2025
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Big Papi was courteous and gentlemanly, unlike Grabby, who snatched at pens, glasses, hair—whatever was in sight.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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