playwright
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“One of our biggest jobs is to stay present in each moment,” said Christine Toy Johnson, a Broadway actor, playwright and a member of the Tony Awards nominating committee.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
The playwright recognizes the speculative and incomplete nature of history, which is always born out of the needs and assumptions of the moment it’s written.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
What might France's greatest playwright have written had he not died of tuberculosis in 1673?
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
The open-mindedness that Dufault, a trans playwright, brings to the play creates some dramatic slack.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
And how close she had come to wasting that life as a playwright!
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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