Definition of "dramaturge" [dramaturge]

• A writer or adapter of plays; a playwright. (noun)

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• "With their dramaturge, the pair has overhauled the show."
• "After the list is whittled to a dozen, the teams for the selected shows are assigned a professional dramaturge, given introductions to directors or producers, guidance on how to self-produce—and subsidies for production costs."
• "But, back to the curve ball, the day after I knew I would interview and write about Ms. López, in one single day I coincidentally saw two close friends - Sandra Guzman, an Emmy winning journalist and author and Rosalba Rolón, award winning dramaturge, USA Artist Fellow and Board Member and Artistic Director of Pregones Theatre - both with intersecting connections to Josefina López."