screenwriter

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Recent Examples of screenwriter In most cases, screenwriters aspire to write dialogue that sounds authentic. Chris C. Palmer, The Conversation, 18 Feb. 2025 Playwright/screenwriter Jennifer Haley is using those dynamics of video game play to continue leaning towards the dark and daring in her work. David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025 The title and synopsis of Mexican director, screenwriter and editor Ernesto Martínez Bucio‘s feature directorial debut sure sound ominous. Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for screenwriter
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Noun
  • Moonlighting frequently broke the fourth wall, with many of the episodes featuring the actors facing the cameras and making direct references to the audience, the scriptwriters, the network and the series itself.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Along with touch-ups, The Royal Tenenbaums star also disliked notes from studios and scriptwriters, usually rejecting them altogether in favor of his own acting instincts, Sonnenfeld said.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to Othello, several other shows were in previews: Purpose, the new play from Appropriate playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Phylicia Rashad, began previews at the Helen Hayes, taking $300,892 for seven performances, filling 94% of seats.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2025
  • There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Matt Donnelly is senior entertainment and media writer for Variety.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Times staff writer Josh Rottenberg contributed to this report.
    Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • That differs from single-dose autoinjector pens, the currently available form of all Zepbound doses, which patients can directly inject under their skin with the click of a button.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2025

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