Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein’s (1950-2006) play The Heidi Chronicles won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, along with the New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and earned her a grant from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. For The Sisters Rosensweig, she received the 1993 Outer Critics Circle Award, a Tony Award nomination and the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in American Theatre. Other plays include Old Money, An American Daughter and Third (Lincoln Center); Uncommon Women and Others (Phoenix Theater); Isn't It Romantic (Playwrights Horizons); the musical Miami (with Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman); and Waiting for Philip Glass, included in Love's Fire (The Acting Company).