screenwriter

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Recent Examples of screenwriter The humorous drama is the last original story from Fernando Gaitán, the late Colombian screenwriter and producer who created shows including Yo Soy Betty, La Fea. Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2025 Producer/screenwriter Julia Fisher Farbman was inspired to craft a biopic around Dr. Evans (portrayed in the movie by Game of Thrones actress Natalie Dormer) after profiling the oncologist on Modern Hero, a series about women with extraordinary careers and influence. Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025 Women screenwriters also fell 23.3% from 30 in 2023 to 23 in 2024, with steeper declines for women of color (eight last year and three this year). Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025 Oliver Stone, as the screenwriter of the Miami-set feature, is credited for writing the line. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for screenwriter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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 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
  • The High Potential writers are currently mapping out the new season.
    Scott Huver, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Indeed, the savvy writer Jack Thorne had a hand in both shows.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Ackermann, like Ford, is one of fashion’s dramatists, deftly wielding strong shoulders, sinuous draping, and an audacious use of rich color in both his women’s and men’s work, an approach that garnered him the adoration of the likes of Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet—and, clearly, Mr. Ford.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 6 Feb. 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
  • In the final stage, the drug is packaged into boxes, vials or pens.
    Rebecca Robbins, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The curves, the shape, the way a calligraphy pen moves—all of that inspired these brushes.
    Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025

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