How to Use playwright in a Sentence

playwright

noun

• Van Hove is many things, but the least of them is a playwright.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
• Cao Yu, whom Miller met in 1978, was one of its star playwrights.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• Advertisement The playwrights do plan to re-work the script.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
• Former alderman and playwright Wayne Frank launched the board's Artists of the Year program in 1995.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2023
• That work is more of a Chekhovian mash-up, drawing freely from the Russian playwright’s body of work.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• The chef Ruth Rogers named Nina Raine, a playwright and director.
  — Vivian Ewing, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• This is the second novel by Feeney, who is also a playwright and poet.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• Blues and jazz are essential to Wilson's work; the playwright used to listen to a lot of music, Parson said.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
• The play will be directed by Rosina Reynolds, a specialist in the works of English playwrights and farce.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
• The nineteenth century Russian playwright famously wrote that if a gun appears in the first act of a script, in the next act it should be fired.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• In the years leading up to his voice work for the wicked prince hoping to woo Fiona, Everett worked as a writer, playwright and TV presenter.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
• But one way or another, the 29-year-old playwright seemed destined to shake things up in the nation’s capital.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• An aspiring playwright, Jerry wrote a one-act about the encounter.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2023
• Lederer will demonstrate the enduring nature of the Bard’s words through the playwright’s plays and sonnets.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023
• Over the years, Zacarías has become on the nation’s leading Latin-American playwrights.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
• On opening night, Staples muffled some of Nottage’s words so that a bit of the playwright’s poetry was lost.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
• The playwright Tennessee Williams, then the jury president, condemned the film.
  — Jake Coyle, ajc, 10 May 2023
• The secrets bared illuminate a host of sins — a process made all the more intriguing by the playwright’s own upbringing as a Black artist.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• Ariana Reines is a poet, a performing artist and a playwright from Salem, Mass.
  — Ariana Reines Anne Boyer, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Mescal’s big break — to put it mildly — was thanks to another Irish writer; not a playwright but a novelist.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2023
• Orlando playwright Michael Knight sees Jesus as a hero.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
• Or perhaps playwrights are trying to guide us back to a stiller, more patient mode of experience.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• Each time the playwright returned to the Oedipus saga, he was compelled by a thematic idea that had no easy resolution.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• John Meyer, a pianist, playwright, and composer who once loved Judy Garland, has died at 86.
  — Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
• All that work has allowed playwright Larissa FastHorse to refine her blistering satire of well-meaning white people to a sharp edge.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• The work is the first to be produced through Ford’s Theatre’s Legacy Commissions, an initiative for playwrights of color.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• McDonagh is a prize-winning playwright and the best wordsmith on this roster of nominees.
  — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• But the real monsters in the San Diego playwright’s moving and cleverly written 90-minute drama aren’t film creatures.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
• In 24 hours, seven playwrights will create seven new plays and present them for an audience with the help of seven stage directors and 21 actors.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
• But as Tessa speaks to the courtroom despite being warned by the judge to stop, Miller, the playwright, herself a former criminal defense lawyer, likewise breaks free from the dramatic frame to let her.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024