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Recent Examples of screenwriter
In the decade since his first comedy special, Nanjiani has been a TV star, an Oscar-winning screenwriter, even a member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
The undergrad acting program offers an annual showcase and other industry connections, including having Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney as a visiting professor.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026
The interface of film and music is key to the creative process of Esmir Filho, a director-producer-screenwriter.
—Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 22 May 2026
As a director and screenwriter, Spiro’s debut feature film Night Comes On premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the Sundance Innovator Award and the Jury Prize at the Deauville Film Festival.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 May 2026
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Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
The undergrad acting program offers an annual showcase and other industry connections, including having Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney as a visiting professor.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026
The interface of film and music is key to the creative process of Esmir Filho, a director-producer-screenwriter.
—Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 22 May 2026
As a director and screenwriter, Spiro’s debut feature film Night Comes On premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the Sundance Innovator Award and the Jury Prize at the Deauville Film Festival.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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Text assembled by the playwright Anna Deavere Smith voices the sentiments of past dancers while the current Ailey crew demonstrates its strength.—
Zoë Hopkins,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Highlights include a world premiere starring acclaimed actress Judith Ivey, a fresh take on Jane Austen by popular playwright Ken Ludwig and an autobiographical one-woman show by Broadway performer Sharone Sayegh.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
28 May 2026
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Turn ChatGPT into a strategist, an analyst, a hook researcher, a structural editor, and a scriptwriter trained on your voice.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
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But then, just as the scriptwriters were smelling another famous European night in Liverpool, Mariani was sent to the monitors by the VAR.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Ed Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University, a staff writer for Lit Hub, and the editor of Belt Magazine.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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Ernest Chambers, a prolific TV writer-producer whose 60-year career working on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, My Three Sons, The Dick Van Dyke Show and dozens of specials and variety shows that landed him 11 Emmy nominations, has died.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
2 June 2026
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The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2026
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In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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Director Wincer and scenarist Wittliff have created a big-hearted epic that sits tall in the saddle, a vivid video display of cowboy iconography that’s got the Emmy brand all over it, and that thrillingly shows how the West can be magnificently won by Hollywood.—
Miles Beller,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Feb. 2026
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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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Each volunteer was asked to complete various writing exercises using an ink pen on a specialized digital tablet that tracked their precise hand movements.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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What once required an expensive printing press can now be done with a smartphone—paper, a pen, and a copy machine still work in a pinch too.—
Adrienne LaFrance,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
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