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Stone, Plemons, Lanthimos and the rest of the cast, including Alicia Silverstone, as well as the film’s screenwriter Will Tracy, took in the applause while bowing multiple times.
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Then Will Tracy, a screenwriter of ‘Succession,’ came on board and wrote the story.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
Australian playwright Tony McNamara has turned his side hustle as a screenwriter into a blessing for Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite), and viewers of The Great, his bawdy historical farce for Hulu, can attest to his love of layered, lacerating insults.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
Baena — a screenwriter and director best known for projects like Life After Beth (2014) and The Little Hours (2017), both of which starred Plaza — died at the age of 47 in January of this year as a result of suicide.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 23 Aug. 2025
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Then Will Tracy, a screenwriter of ‘Succession,’ came on board and wrote the story.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
Australian playwright Tony McNamara has turned his side hustle as a screenwriter into a blessing for Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite), and viewers of The Great, his bawdy historical farce for Hulu, can attest to his love of layered, lacerating insults.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
Baena — a screenwriter and director best known for projects like Life After Beth (2014) and The Little Hours (2017), both of which starred Plaza — died at the age of 47 in January of this year as a result of suicide.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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The competition jury features director Joko Anwar, director Aditya Ahmad, scriptwriter Alim Sudio, and actor Asmara Abigail, who recently served on the Locarno Film Festival jury.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
29 Aug. 2025
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The Japanese drama, based on the manga Mr. Ben and His Igloo, A View of the Seaside by Yoshiharu Tsuge, follows Lee, a scriptwriter who is processing what is happening in her life.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Aug. 2025
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Today, with talk of a second Oscar nomination, the actor slips into a fatherly role in Hamnet playing the legendary playwright William Shakespeare, based on Maggie O'Farrell’s bestselling 2020 novel of the same name.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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This Boston run will feature playwright Ins Choi in the title role, the family father running his Toronto store at the crossroads of two cultures and generations.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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In crafting Christy, the biopic of boxer Christy Salters Martin that just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, director David Michôd and his co-writer Mirrah Foulkes wanted to hew as close to the real-life story as possible.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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Mark Herbert and Gwen Gorst are executive producers for Warp, alongside series writer Mager, with Rebecca Ferguson and Jo McClellan for the BBC.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 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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But does Detroit have enough in the ‘pen to win in a five- or seven-game series?—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Attractions include kitschy traditions such as a butter-sculpting demonstration, in which a master carver crafts a bust of the winner of the annual Princess Kay of the Milky Way pageant, and the Miracle of Birth Center, displaying pens of expectant farm animals.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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