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dramatist

[dram-uh-tist, drah-muh-] / ˈdræm ə tɪst, ˈdrɑ mə- /
NOUN
playwright
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Lenkiewicz previously wrote the 2022 film She Said about the investigation into Harvey Weinstein, and was the first female dramatist to have an original play on the main stage of the National Theatre in 2008.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

"So as a dramatist, you think, well, how did we get to that in five months?"

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

A superb dramatist of social class, morality and love, Mr. Gurnah is a contemporary heir to George Eliot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

But neither was he drawn to the issue-laden work of his more politically minded postwar British playwriting peers, that new breed of dramatist unleashed by John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025

A New York Times correspondent in a London press conference quoted the author and dramatist James Baldwin, who thought the death of Malcolm X was “a major setback for the Negro movement.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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