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Recent Examples of dramatist
As a dramatist, Baker wants the audience to become aware of its own habits of attention and inattention.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
In 1926, Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Owen Davis brought the work to Broadway’s Ambassador Theatre and, eventually, Chicago, where many Americans familiarized themselves with the work.
—Andrew Zucker, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
British playwright and dramatist James Graham will deliver the flagship address of this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival, the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2024
Taking the hint, James’s court dramatist, William Shakespeare, wrote his most terrifying play, King Lear.
—Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2023
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
In 1926, Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Owen Davis brought the work to Broadway’s Ambassador Theatre and, eventually, Chicago, where many Americans familiarized themselves with the work.
—Andrew Zucker, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
British playwright and dramatist James Graham will deliver the flagship address of this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival, the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2024
Taking the hint, James’s court dramatist, William Shakespeare, wrote his most terrifying play, King Lear.
—Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatist
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As if the venue weren’t gay enough, literati from playwright Jeremy O. Harris to Evan Ross Katz — the social-media-age Cindy Adams — are in attendance to toast the film.Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
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The humor, an integral part of the playwright’s flamboyant arsenal, is also missed.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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For many older writers, minimalism becomes an increasingly vital part of their continued practice.Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Staff writer Laura Lancaster’s ideal headlamp would have a single button for on, off, and red.Ashley Thess, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
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With Sully, Eastwood and screenwriter Todd Komarnicki use the incident as a focal point to which the film keeps circling back, treating it as the few telling moments to which Sully’s moments have been building, and which would define the rest of his life.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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Littman and Captain Phillips screenwriter Billy Ray have been organizing a phone bank in Westwood on Sunday.Dominic Patten, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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As in the production chain, giving space to the talent of women and pushing for their inclusion in front of and behind the camera — as scriptwriters, directors, and cinematographers — is a public service duty and a strategic choice.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2024
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Understand first what Hollywood scriptwriters call the backstory: Intel for decades dominated the global semiconductor industry, designing and manufacturing leading-edge chips.BYGeoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2024
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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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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
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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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