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Recent Examples of screenwriter
Theresa Steele Page and screenwriter Bryce Kass later joined the team as producers.
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2025
The former drama, starring Gary Oldman, which also brought Burt the award for Best Production Design at the Critics Choice Awards, focused on screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his turbulent journey in writing the screenplay for the iconic 1941 film Citizen Kane.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2025
Watch the Trailer for Laverne Cox's Clean Slate, The Last Show From a Late Sitcom Legend
The series is the last one from the late Norman Lear, a pioneering screenwriter and producer known for creating socially relevant sitcoms.
—James Factora, Them, 6 Feb. 2025
Stone’s mother was an actress, screenwriter, and newspaper columnist who wrote under the name Spellman Stone, so pseudonyms were a family tradition.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Feb. 2025
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2025
The former drama, starring Gary Oldman, which also brought Burt the award for Best Production Design at the Critics Choice Awards, focused on screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his turbulent journey in writing the screenplay for the iconic 1941 film Citizen Kane.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2025
Watch the Trailer for Laverne Cox's Clean Slate, The Last Show From a Late Sitcom Legend
The series is the last one from the late Norman Lear, a pioneering screenwriter and producer known for creating socially relevant sitcoms.
—James Factora, Them, 6 Feb. 2025
Stone’s mother was an actress, screenwriter, and newspaper columnist who wrote under the name Spellman Stone, so pseudonyms were a family tradition.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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The industry should take care of them and treat them as talent, like directors and scriptwriters.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2025
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That means dads and uncles, teachers and political leaders, Hollywood scriptwriters and podcast hosts—all could stand to get in on the game.—
Matthew Schnipper,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2025
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Alloway is co-adapting the feature with playwright Lily Houghton off the latter’s play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2025
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company ranks as one of the nation’s premier ensemble theater companies with 49 members who are among the top actors, playwrights and directors in the field.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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Editor’s note: This opinion essay is being published anonymously because the writer fears for their job.—
Special to the Sun Sentinel,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Feb. 2025
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman is a staff writer who covers the Edmonton Oilers for The Athletic.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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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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Many of the artists work with watercolors, like Proctor, who combines the medium with pen, and some artists create their images digitally.—
Jessie Schiewe,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2025
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And some of the doors are made from wood from the cow pens that had been there for 50 years or something.—
Danielle Corona,
Vogue,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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