Sentence examples for first playwright from inspiring English sources

He was also the first representative of Romanticism and the first playwright to achieve popular success.

He's not the first playwright, of course, to plop a play down in an actual living room.

August Strindberg isn't the first playwright who springs to mind when the phrase "comedy of manners" is uttered.

Mr. Fugard was the first playwright to place black and white actors on stage to deal with apartheid.

Castro is considered the first playwright to have dealt with the seamier aspects of marriage, as in Los mal casados de Valencia ("The Unhappy Marriages of Valencia").

The recipients were social anthropologist Dame Joan Metge for nonfiction, Bernadette Hall for poetry, and Roger Hall (the first playwright to win the award) for fiction.

He is the museum's first playwright-in-residence.

One of the first playwrights to treat the African American seriously was Boucicault in The Octoroon (1859).

Lucy Morrison, who directed "This Wide Night," said that Ms. Moss was one of the first playwrights she wanted to commission when she took a job with Clean Break in 2005.

He was also among the first playwrights to move from that milieu to renown on wider stages, ascending to Off Broadway, and then to Broadway with no Off's whatsoever, within a decade of his arrival in New York.

The third Playwright, which opened in June 2000, offered the Guilfoyle brothers a very different sort of challenge: how to situate "a pub with decent grub where you meet nice, genuine people" in an alien environment, Miami's trendy South Beach.