scriptwriter

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Recent Examples of scriptwriter As part of her research, the seasoned scriptwriter attended ski camps and interviewed a dozen top skiers and coaches. Annika Pham, Variety, 14 Jan. 2025 The industry should take care of them and treat them as talent, like directors and scriptwriters. Annika Pham, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025 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 Karen is a talented scriptwriter who will bring the story to life on screen. K.j. Yossman, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for scriptwriter
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Noun
  • Feldman and Green joined Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen and the film’s screenwriter, Chris Columbus, for Ke Huy Quan’s hand and footprint ceremony in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 3.
    John Russell, People.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Zoe Saunders An aspiring screenwriter and filmmaker, Saunders has been involved in her school’s theatre productions.
    Alexa Dikos, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The High Potential writers are currently mapping out the new season.
    Scott Huver, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Indeed, the savvy writer Jack Thorne had a hand in both shows.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The acclaimed playwright died Monday following a battle with pneumonia, Finn's literary agent, Ron Gwiazda, confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Image Set in Brooklyn in the summer of 2022, the action takes place in the apartment of Emmy, a playwright freshly cognizant of the danger of being too broke to afford health insurance.
    Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 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
  • That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.
    Matt Wolf, New York Times, 3 Jan. 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
  • The three super skinny pen tips can go from creating impossibly slender, seemingly real brow strokes to a cluster of freckles across the cheeks much like a stamp.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025
  • More of a muted caramel shade than true brown, the lighter color allows for more natural-looking results, while the felt-tip pen ensures mess-free, easy application.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025

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