dramatist

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Recent Examples of dramatist As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen. David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024 But great dramatists recognize that our lives exist largely in gray zones, and that no ideology can contain our contradictory humanity. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024 The 2016 election and the COVID pandemic: the two major moments of the past eight years that are irresistible to dramatists but are notoriously tricky to get right. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024 The literary award went to Norwegian dramatist and author Jon Fosse in 2023 and French author Annie Ernaux in 2022. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for dramatist
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Noun
  • The acclaimed playwright died Monday following a battle with pneumonia, Finn's literary agent, Ron Gwiazda, confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Image Set in Brooklyn in the summer of 2022, the action takes place in the apartment of Emmy, a playwright freshly cognizant of the danger of being too broke to afford health insurance.
    Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Honestly, this is the hardest this writer has laughed this season.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The High Potential writers are currently mapping out the new season.
    Scott Huver, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Feldman and Green joined Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen and the film’s screenwriter, Chris Columbus, for Ke Huy Quan’s hand and footprint ceremony in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 3.
    John Russell, People.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Zoe Saunders An aspiring screenwriter and filmmaker, Saunders has been involved in her school’s theatre productions.
    Alexa Dikos, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Wei, who had a career in the U.S. as host, scriptwriter and producer, is being hailed as a major new literary talent, so there will be plenty of interest at Olympia next week.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025
  • This might involve hiring a videographer for professional footage, an editor for post-production, researchers and a scriptwriter to create concepts and tighten messaging.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • 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
Noun
  • The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Even his name, not to mention his author photo, had an aura of toughness more suggestive of a prizefighter than a litterateur.
    Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019

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