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British screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne, best known for Adolescence and His Dark Materials, has been elected president of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB).
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Last year, Disney tapped the original movie’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna to pen a sequel, which has been in production this summer in New York City.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2025
Famously occupied in the 1930s by the late Hollywood screenwriter and director Delmer Daves, whose most successful work was the 1959 film A Summer Place, the property has six bedrooms and an equal number of baths in roughly 5,000 square feet across three levels.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025
Alums of the program include Liberty city natives Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney and former artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Robert Battle.
—Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Last year, Disney tapped the original movie’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna to pen a sequel, which has been in production this summer in New York City.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2025
Famously occupied in the 1930s by the late Hollywood screenwriter and director Delmer Daves, whose most successful work was the 1959 film A Summer Place, the property has six bedrooms and an equal number of baths in roughly 5,000 square feet across three levels.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025
Alums of the program include Liberty city natives Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney and former artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Robert Battle.
—Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Screenwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/screenwriter. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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screenwriter
noun
screen·writ·er
-ˌrīt-ər 
: a writer of screenplays
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