Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein, född i Brooklyn, New York, USA, den 18 oktober 1950, död den 30 januari 2006, var en amerikansk dramatiker och Andrew Dickson White-professor vid Cornell University. Hon erhöll Tony Award for Best Play och Pulitzerpriset 1989 för pjäsen The Heidi Chronicles.

Bibliografi

Pjäser

• Third (2005)
• Psyche In Love (2003) -Tribeca Theater Festival
• Old Money (2000)
• An American Daughter (1997)
• The Sisters Rosensweig (1992)
• The Heidi Chronicles (1988)
• The Man in a Case (1985)
• Isn't It Romantic (1983)
• Tender Offer (1983)
• Uncommon Women and Others (1977)
• Any Woman Can't (1973)

Filmmanus

• The Object of My Affection (1998)
• Tender Offer (1977)

Böcker

• Wasserstein, Wendy (1990). Bachelor Girls. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0394561996 
• Wasserstein, Wendy (1999). Pamela's First Musical. New York: Bt Bound. ISBN 0613085132 
• Wasserstein, Wendy (2001). Shiksa Goddess: Or, How I Spent My Forties: Essays (First). New York: Knopf. ISBN 0375411658 
• Wasserstein, Wendy (2005). Sloth (First). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195166302 
• Wasserstein, Wendy (2006). Elements of Style: A Novel (First). New York: Knopf. ISBN 1400042313 

Essäer

• Wasserstein, Wendy (21 februari 2000). ”Complications”. The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?060206fr_archive04. Läst 21 december 2008. 

Utmärkelser

• 1983: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1989: Pulitzer Prize for Drama – The Heidi Chronicles
• 1989: Tony Award for Best Play – The Heidi Chronicles
• 1989: Outer Critics Circle Award – The Heidi Chronicles
• 1989: Drama Desk Award – The Heidi Chronicles
• 1989: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize – The Heidi Chronicles
• 1993: Outer Critics Circle Award – The Sisters Rosensweig
• 1993: William Inge Award för särskilda utmärkelser inom amerikansk teater
• 2007: American Theatre Hall of Fame

Externa länkar

• Audio: Wendy Wasserstein at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2005
• Jan Balakian, Wasserstein biography at Jewish Women Encyclopedia
• Laurie Winer (Spring 1997). ”Wendy Wasserstein, The Art of Theater No. 13”. The Paris Review. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1284/the-art-of-theater-no-13-wendy-wasserstein.