A person who adapts or rewrites stories, events, or real situations into dramatic performances or scripts.
From dramatize + -er suffix (one who does). The -er suffix, from Old English -ere, is the most common way English creates agent nouns from verbs.
Before screenwriters existed as a job, dramatizers were the creative ninjas turning historical chronicles and novels into stage plays—they basically invented the movie industry when film cameras arrived. Many famous directors started as dramatizers, learning how to structure stories for an audience.
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