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Recent Examples of scriptwriter
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).
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Dec. 2025
Ramsay and fellow scriptwriters Edna Walsh and Alice Birch decamped the story from France to the US, added some humor and fleshed out the role of Grace’s partner, Jackson.
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
The scriptwriter is Marek Epstein.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Sep. 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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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Dec. 2025
Ramsay and fellow scriptwriters Edna Walsh and Alice Birch decamped the story from France to the US, added some humor and fleshed out the role of Grace’s partner, Jackson.
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
The scriptwriter is Marek Epstein.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Sep. 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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Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin made his feature directorial debut with this, and his fingerprints are all over it, particularly his signature snappy dialogue.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026
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The jury of the new Perspectives section dedicated to first works is made up of Moroccan screenwriter and director Sofia Alaoui; German director and screenwriter Frédéric Hambalek; and Dorota Lech, director of Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2026
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Brenda Looper joined the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as a news clerk in April 1997, and worked as a feature writer, reviewer and copy editor on the news side before moving to the opinion section in July 2011.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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Ryan Collett is a writer, animator, and knitter.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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All the more so in the case of the characters in the British playwright Joe White’s Blackout Songs, who can’t remember any details of their first night together.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2026
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Buckley plays the wife of a struggling playwright named William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal, whose Oscar omission was a surprise).—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block.—
Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
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The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.—
Amanda Stanfield,
Southern Living,
10 Jan. 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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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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It can be done with a pen and pad, or using your phone camera if ICE doesn’t object.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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Bring a pen, a notebook, and your curiosity—you’ll be amongst friends.—
Kris Slugg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Scriptwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scriptwriter. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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