How to Use playwright in a Sentence

playwright

noun
  • The playwright died late last year.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • Van Hove is many things, but the least of them is a playwright.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
  • This has been a year of great loss for the playwright — one shaped by inequity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • My great-granddad was a playwright.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Side by side, the two plays show how much Felder has evolved as a playwright.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Also present was the gruff playwright.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Hume Cronyn was a playwright as well as an actor.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The playwright was driven to get his story out.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • What’s not to like about the greatest playwright who ever lived?
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 20 May 2021
  • Which is a lot to ask of an avatar, and certainly of a play, or a playwright.
    — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
  • The new plays were the result of an open call to playwrights for 10-minute plays.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2025
  • What is the value of a storyteller or a playwright or this or that?
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But for Brook, not even the playwright was granted the final word.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
  • The playwright Darrah Cloud’s work couldn’t have been easy.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Like any playwright, William Shakespeare made stuff up.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • No playwright can duplicate the poignancy of that.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Blank stars as a version of herself who’s a playwright, but hasn’t had one of her plays produced in a very long time.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • He is survived by his wife, the playwright Paula Fourie, and three children.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The play was written by award-winning playwright Nikkole Salter.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Cao Yu, whom Miller met in 1978, was one of its star playwrights.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Wilson isn’t a hurried playwright.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Tony-winning playwright John Guare is 88.
    — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Schreck is a playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Evans was carving out a career as a playwright before the path to screenwriting opened.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The playwright becomes part coder, part traffic controller of emotion.
    — Bob Bonniol, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In the film, a Broadway playwright plots murder to try to take credit for a student's play.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Smyth is a longtime admirer of playwright Foote.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Local fans of British playwright Simon Stephens were in for a rare treat this month.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Hayes went from aspiring author to accomplished playwright in less than a year.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Notably, this playwright’s MFA is in the study of acting.
    — Bess Rowen, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026

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