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Recent Examples of scriptwriter
But for all those American fans who plan to watch the Cortina Olympics, be forewarned: Hollywood’s best scriptwriters are sitting at their typewriters, pounding out the bones of a sports movie about Lindsey Vonn.
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Frederick Dreier, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
On this occasion, there were no jostling journalists, no opportunistic influencers and no sign of the Hollywood scriptwriter looking to buy the rights to a story that has resonated around the world.
—Esme Nicholson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
Head scriptwriter Erik Ahrnbom (Thin Blue Line, Keep It Together) joins for season 2 alongside writers Maria Nygren (Meaning of Life, Love & Anarchy) and Martin Larsson (Keep It Together).
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Dec. 2025
Both play it perfectly straight, which only adds to the enjoyment of a near-perfect people pleaser, and scriptwriter Ben Hopkins is clearly having a field day.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
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Frederick Dreier, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
On this occasion, there were no jostling journalists, no opportunistic influencers and no sign of the Hollywood scriptwriter looking to buy the rights to a story that has resonated around the world.
—Esme Nicholson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
Head scriptwriter Erik Ahrnbom (Thin Blue Line, Keep It Together) joins for season 2 alongside writers Maria Nygren (Meaning of Life, Love & Anarchy) and Martin Larsson (Keep It Together).
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Dec. 2025
Both play it perfectly straight, which only adds to the enjoyment of a near-perfect people pleaser, and scriptwriter Ben Hopkins is clearly having a field day.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scriptwriter
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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.—
Rachel Brodsky,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
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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
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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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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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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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