What's the difference between playwright and playwriter?
Playwright
Definition:
(n.) A maker or adapter of plays.
Example Sentences:
(1) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
(2) But it was also a portrait of an England charged with secrets - and, as Michael Billington put it, the work of an accomplished playwright who understood the English curse of 'emotional evasion.'
(3) In his articles, he took on the theatre establishment, blaming it for siding with the actors and not the playwright.
(4) Numbness sets in.” Philip Hope-Wallace on Look Back in Anger “I must be the only playwright this century to have been pursued up a London street by an angry mob … There was an inescapable tension in the house.
(5) Fine, Miranda (the playwright-lyricist-composer also sings, acts and dances the lead role of Alexander Hamilton, making him a ... let’s see, carry the one ... sextuple threat) will give you George Washington.
(6) Although such allegations have been made before in numerous news outlets, and in a controversial one-man show by playwright Mike Daisey, this time they have struck a chord.
(7) The barrister, playwright and author Sir John Mortimer , who has died aged 85, was a man for all the seasons that touched his Chilterns garden, where he lived as profusely as he wrote, in a spirit of unjudgmental generosity.
(8) He is joined by Jack Driscoll, the playwright who journeyed with Denham 25 years previously and was played by Adrien Brody in Jackson's film.
(9) A playwright and actor has launched legal action against British Airways and London City airport, alleging that they irreparably damaged her £25,000 wheelchair, made her daily life more difficult and caused problems for her business.
(10) (2) The central theme of "passion" in Equus would seem to relate to the vicissitudes of infantile omnipotence, as noted in both the content of the play and the process of playwrighting.
(11) Havel was a renowned playwright and essayist who, after the crushing of the Prague spring in 1968, was drawn increasingly into the political struggle against the Czechoslovakian communist dictatorship, which he called Absurdistan.
(12) When he died, [playwright] Patrick Marber said to me: we've got to use everything we learned."
(13) One man, a playwright, came in and gave a lesson on Harold Pinter.
(14) Indeed, then-leftwing writers such as John Dos Passos , John Howard Lawson and Mike Gold , who had their plays produced in Greenwich Village, were dubbed by the critic Alexander Woollcott “the revolting playwrights”.
(15) One rainy day last autumn the playwright and actor Patrick Marber went home to his wife and said: "I have some bad news."
(16) If you say, ‘This is Kate Tempest and she’s a poet-rapper-playwright,’ it sounds confusing and ridiculous and a bit naff.
(17) He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker.
(18) He has suggested that the Nobel laureate Dario Fo take Napolitano's place as head of state, a suggestion the playwright was quoted on Wednesday as dismissing as "an absurd but lovely" idea.
(19) · George Furth, playwright and actor; born December 14 1932; died August 11 2008
(20) But Havel, the playwright and the dissident, could not be silenced.
Playwriter
Definition:
(n.) A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now she also dabbles in playwriting and rap, and is in the band Sound of Rum .
(2) Practice of late in local producing houses has actually been to revive audience-demanded canonical work by employing Australians to rewrite the words, but The Australian is unmoved – singling out my own employer, Melbourne's Malthouse, as an "offender against the art of playwriting" with "ideological bias against text-based plays".
(3) Anne-Marie Duff taking on one of the biggest roles in American playwriting, a long-awaited musical by Tori Amos and a gala night celebrating the theatre's history are all on the menu for the National Theatre's 50th anniversary year – not to mention the prospect of Sam Mendes returning to the stage to direct Simon Russell Beale in King Lear early in 2014.
(4) His first play to be produced was A Resounding Tinkle (1957), which in its original two-act form won third prize in an Observer playwriting competition organised by Tynan and was produced as a Sunday night "without decor" production at the Royal Court.
(5) Begin again and concentrate.’ I think Closer is one of those plays that makes us want to begin again and concentrate.” Or as Marber has said of playwriting: “It’s just so damn difficult.” Closer is at the Donmar Warehouse , London WC2, from 12 February.
(6) By this time the Ardens were living in Devon and John was a fellow in playwriting at Bristol University.
(7) This self-belief has been honed after years of working her way through an advanced programme for gifted children in school, followed by scholarships to Columbia University, Harvard drama school and the Juilliard playwriting programme in New York.
(8) After studying at the University of Texas (philosophy, playwriting classes, piles of videos from Blockbuster) Anderson moved to California with his college roommate, Owen Wilson.
(9) "I suspect," says Walsh's friend and long-time colleague Mikel Murfi, "that playwriting is for Enda a way of exercising, or possibly exorcising, his private demons.
(10) A wide range of taster classes are delivered by experienced staff and volunteers, including anthropology, art, art history, creative writing, current affairs, drama and theatre arts, film and media studies, playwriting, philosophy, and music and performance, along with a dedicated women’s drop-in session, offering a wide range of practical advice from both a personal perspective and an academic one.
(11) "You can learn everything you need to know about playwriting," she once told me, maybe with a hint of provocative overstatement, "by studying Saved."
(12) Nick Clegg's formative board-treading has left him in thrall to Beckett, and I hope that might signal an appreciation of the vibrant and flourishing contemporary playwriting culture that can confidently claim to be the best in the world.
(13) More immediately, the success of Look Back in Anger gave the Royal Court a pivotal status in British culture and encouraged successive generations to turn to playwriting.
(14) I’d applied to graduate school for playwriting and I got rejected by every school,” she says.
(15) She is as passionate about the state of toilets in theatreland ("my moment of epiphany was when Cameron Mackintosh said my loos were better than his") as about the current state of playwriting; a ferocious defender of subsidy who is one of theatre's most powerful businesspeople.