dramaturge

Meanings

Noun

• Someone who writes or adapts theater plays, a playwright, dramatist, especially one connected with a specific theater or company.
• A literary adviser or editor in a theater, opera, or film company that researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programs (or helps others with these tasks), consults with authors, and does public relations work.

Verb

• To act as a dramaturge.

Origin

• Definition 1: Borrowed from French dramaturge.
• Definition 2: Borrowed from German Dramaturg.