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playwright Definition

play·wright (plārīt′)

noun

a person who writes plays; dramatist

Etymology: see wright

playwright Synonyms

playwright

n.

scriptwriter, screenwriter, tragedian; see author 2, dramatist, writer.

playwright Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • emerge: Our job is to find and present the work of emerging international playwrights in a branded season at the Royal Court.
  • win: Pig in the Middle is a play by award winning playwright Judy Upton.
  • commission: For 2005 Eclipse Theater has commissioned award-winning playwright Roy Williams to create a new play.
  • perform: Factory Plays Readings of work by rarely performed international playwrights.
  • struggle: Greg is a fading middle-aged actor whose family life has long since become stale; Sally is a struggling young playwright.
  • choose: We chose 12 playwrights to work with for two weeks.

Converse of subject

  • write: A TV film of quality, written by a top contemporary playwright.

Adjective modifier

  • award-winning: For 2005 Eclipse Theater has commissioned award-winning playwright Roy Williams to create a new play.
  • aspiring: The theater is looking for applications from aspiring playwrights to receive a place on its New Writing Award scheme.
  • Elizabethan: I hope the parallel with the Elizabethan playwrights seems clear.
  • Ugandan: Iâve done a lot of work with Ugandan playwrights here.
  • acclaimed: Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams has been commissioned to create a new drama for Eclipse Theater.
  • prolific: More than simply a stand-up, ( " A one-man special effect " The Guardian ) Rhys is also a prolific comedy playwright.

Noun used with modifier

  • living: She says: I really do believe John is the best living playwright.
  • radio: The radio playwright can use sound as the film producer uses light.
  • woman: It later won the Susan Smith Blackburn prize for women playwrights.
  • century: So said top twentieth century playwright Samuel Beckett ( sort of ).

Possessives

  • child: Aesop's famous fables are interwoven with music, rhyme and laughter in a magical new version by award-winning children's playwright Mike Kenny.

Preposition: of

  • century: George Shiels was one of the most popular Irish playwrights of the early twentieth century.

Preposition: for

  • theater: The Rat, 1924, playwright for the theater.
playwright Quotes

One of the reasons that I quit going to thetheatre when I wasabouttwenty wasthat Iresented likehell filingoutof the theatre because some playwright was forever slamming down his silly curtain.

—Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)

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