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Recent Examples of screenwriter
Director/screenwriter Tracie Laymon’s 14-karat indie gem gives you the feels and then some.
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
Set in 1930s Hollywood, His Girl Hollywood follows Arlene Morgan, an Oscar-winning screenwriter getting her first (and possibly only) shot at directing a studio film.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Which is why the director and screenwriter of Black Bag have devised an easy one-stop-shop solution for the couple at the center of their espionage thriller.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
One of the men in the background of the episode’s opening scenes, for example, is Jerry Stahl, the novelist and screenwriter whose 1995 memoir Permanent Midnight became a movie in 1998 starring Severance boss Ben Stiller.
—Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
Set in 1930s Hollywood, His Girl Hollywood follows Arlene Morgan, an Oscar-winning screenwriter getting her first (and possibly only) shot at directing a studio film.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Which is why the director and screenwriter of Black Bag have devised an easy one-stop-shop solution for the couple at the center of their espionage thriller.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
One of the men in the background of the episode’s opening scenes, for example, is Jerry Stahl, the novelist and screenwriter whose 1995 memoir Permanent Midnight became a movie in 1998 starring Severance boss Ben Stiller.
—Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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Wei, who had a career in the U.S. as host, scriptwriter and producer, is being hailed as a major new literary talent, so there will be plenty of interest at Olympia next week.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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This might involve hiring a videographer for professional footage, an editor for post-production, researchers and a scriptwriter to create concepts and tighten messaging.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Heart, humor, and hurt combine in the playwright's (played by Andrew Barth Feldman) real-life tale of growing up caught in the crossfire between his traumatized mother (Jeanine Serralles) and eccentric/alcoholic grandmother (a sublime Joanna Gleason).—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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With offices in New York, London, Los Angeles and Austin, ILP works closely with book authors, playwrights, lyricists and composers, along with their representatives, heirs and estate managers.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2025
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Cooper reported from Tempe, Ariz. AP writers Linley Sanders in Washington and Isabella Volmert in Flint, Mich., contributed to this report.—
Jonathan J. Cooper and Nicholas Riccardi,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, also known as the World Wine Guys, are wine, spirits, food, and travel writers, educators, and hosts.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
23 Mar. 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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In the final stage, the drug is packaged into boxes, vials or pens.—
Rebecca Robbins,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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The curves, the shape, the way a calligraphy pen moves—all of that inspired these brushes.—
Celia Shatzman,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screenwriter. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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