playwrighting

noun

Meaning

Writing plays: the craft of a playwright

Examples

Driving Miss Daisy won this year's Pulitzer Prize for playwrighting.
He pays homage to feminist playwrights such as Ntozake Shange and Caryl Churchill for bringing a new vitality and innovation to playwrighting — further enhancing theatre's power to affect us.

Etymology

From playwright + -ing.

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