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Recent Examples of dramatist
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.
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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
But folklorists, anthropologists, dramatists and, in the post-Mao period, rap artists believed the local forms of speech expressed the authentic culture of the common people.
—Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
Carreira has a docu-realistic eye for setting and a dramatist’s instinct for pacing and mood.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024
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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
But folklorists, anthropologists, dramatists and, in the post-Mao period, rap artists believed the local forms of speech expressed the authentic culture of the common people.
—Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
Carreira has a docu-realistic eye for setting and a dramatist’s instinct for pacing and mood.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatist
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The Book of Will, in CCA’s Black Box Theatre, written by one of America’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights, Lauren Gunderson, takes the audience to thepost-Shakespearean world of Elizabethan England.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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The comedy by American playwright Joseph Kesserlring, opened on Broadway Jan. 10, 1941.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Contributing Writer Nola Taylor Tillman is a contributing writer for Space.com.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
17 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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At the same time, depicting a hijabi, a Muslim woman who wears a head covering, or a hijab, also posed challenges, even for screenwriter Marianna Ölmez, herself a Muslim, Verhoef added.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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On November 19, 1977, the five finalists of the show’s first — and, ultimately, only — Anyone Can Host contest took the stage in Studio 8H alongside the evening’s host, actor and screenwriter Buck Henry, and introduced themselves to America.—
Sandra Gonzalez,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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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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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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