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Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play The Heidi Chronicles .
Wendy Wasserstein (born October 18, 1950, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died January 30, 2006, New York City) American playwright whose work probes, with humour and sensibility, the predicament facing educated women who came of age in the second half of the 20th century.
Jan 31, 2006 · By Charles Isherwood. Jan. 31, 2006. Wendy Wasserstein, who spoke for a generation of smart, driven but sometimes unsatisfied women in a series of popular plays that included the long-running...
Aug 18, 2011 · Wendy Wasserstein, 'Lost' And Found The Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright wrote about the struggle by her generation to balance professional and family life. A new biography sheds light on...
Feb 7, 2010 · In Brief. In 1989, Wendy Wasserstein won the Pulitzer Prize for The Heidi Chronicles and was the first woman playwright to win a Tony Award. In 1973, Wasserstein joined the MFA program at The Yale School of Drama and was the only woman in the playwriting program. Her thesis, Uncommon Women and Others, depicting five women friends over several ...
Jan 30, 2006 · By Charles Isherwood. Jan. 30, 2006. Wendy Wasserstein, who spoke for a generation of smart, driven but sometimes unsatisfied women in a series of popular plays that included the long-running...
Apr 14, 1997 · The writer is Wendy Wasserstein, and the others are characters she made up—the characters in her new play, “An American Daughter,” which began previews at the Cort on March 20th and opens on ...
