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Recent Examples of screenwriter
Volpe, who studied at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, has established herself as both a director and screenwriter.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
Monique Hayes is a fiction author, poet, and screenwriter.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
Dave came here in 2018, fresh from grad school, to be a screenwriter and has never found steady work.
—Lauren Bans, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2026
Butt is an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter.
—Sameer Butt, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screenwriter
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Paul Mescal, 29, stars as the popular playwright and poet.—
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Adapted by playwright David Farr from spy master John le Carré's 1993 novel of the same name, the April 2016 AMC series earned the Marvel Cinematic Universe star a Golden Globe for best actor in a limited series, and fueled discussion around Hiddleston as a potential James Bond.—
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But for all those American fans who plan to watch the Cortina Olympics, be forewarned: Hollywood’s best scriptwriters are sitting at their typewriters, pounding out the bones of a sports movie about Lindsey Vonn.—
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On this occasion, there were no jostling journalists, no opportunistic influencers and no sign of the Hollywood scriptwriter looking to buy the rights to a story that has resonated around the world.—
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Famed writer and director David Mamet, who cameos in Marty Supreme, is also said to have attended Marty's clubs.—
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Here's a look at those astronaut medical issues and others from the history of human spaceflight by our writer Josh Dinner.—
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The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.—
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This gripping book about the short, daring life of the Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe makes an eloquent case for his work’s beauty and sly unorthodoxy.—
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
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Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).—
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Like most writers who can’t bring themselves to lay down their pen, Zach Bryan prefers creating to editing.—
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The system will allow guests to browse the menu, place orders before and during the movie and pay directly from their phones, replacing the chain’s long-standing pen-and-paper ordering method.—
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