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
• Lee wrote the new film’s script with Alan Fox, the playwright of 2019’s Safe Space.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2024
• Cao Yu, whom Miller met in 1978, was one of its star playwrights.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• Which is a lot to ask of an avatar, and certainly of a play, or a playwright.
  — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
• But for Brook, not even the playwright was granted the final word.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
• 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
• In the film, a Broadway playwright plots murder to try to take credit for a student's play.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 29 Dec. 2022
• Former alderman and playwright Wayne Frank launched the board's Artists of the Year program in 1995.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
• Blank stars as a version of herself who’s a playwright, but hasn’t had one of her plays produced in a very long time.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
• Notably, the perspective of a Black playwright, Kirsten Greenidge, has now been brought to bear on that story.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
• Bugg is the founder of what used to be called the Neil Simon Festival, named after the famous playwright, who died in 2018.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
• The chef Ruth Rogers named Nina Raine, a playwright and director.
  — Vivian Ewing, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• Conor McPherson, the playwright behind the stage show, is writing and directing the film.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 Feb. 2023
• This season, our two mainstage shows are by mixed race playwrights.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• This is the second novel by Feeney, who is also a playwright and poet.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• Davis was alarmed to learn that only 15% of those whose work was getting produced were artists and playwrights of color.
  — April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Wohl, a playwright who wrote and directed the film, does not offer easy answers.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2023
• Not all playwrights are cut out to be filmmakers, but that’s not a worry with Baker.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 June 2024
• 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
• Kuffert is playing Oberon, the king of the spirits, and Quince, the playwright and director of the Mechanicals’ play.
  — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
• 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
• To judge from the likes of a Black playwright like Alice Childress, the loss was incalculably large.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2022
• 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
• That can happen when a playwright is as prolific as Fugard, or when his works seem of the moment rather than for all time.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 Oct. 2022
• Pichai didn’t say in his post whether Bard will be able to write prose in the vein of William Shakespeare, the playwright who apparently inspired the service’s name.
  — Michael Liedtke, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2023
• Irish playwright and Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett, who died in 1989, has long been considered one of the most creative literary minds of his age.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
• The humor, an integral part of the playwright’s flamboyant arsenal, is also missed.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024