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Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy WassersteinBorn: 18-Oct-1950
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Died: 30-Jan-2006
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Cancer - Lymphoma

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Playwright

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Heidi Chronicles

Father: Morris Wasserstein
Mother: Lola Wasserstein
Brother: Bruce Wasserstein (Wall Street takeover specialist)
Sister: Georgette Levis
Sister: Sandra Wasserstein Meyer (d. 30-Dec-1997)
Daughter: Lucy Jane (b. Sep-1999)

    University: Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (1971)
    University: City College of New York
    University: MFA Drama, Yale School of Drama (1976)

    Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1988 for The Heidi Chronicles
    Tony For The Heidi Chronicles
    Guggenheim Fellowship
    Jewish Ancestry
    Risk Factors: Obesity, Dyslexia, Bell's Palsy

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Life with Mikey (4-Jun-1993)

Wrote plays:
Any Woman Can't (1973)
Uncommon Women and Others (1978)
Isn't It Romantic (1984)
The Heidi Chronicles (1989)
The Sisters Rosenzweig (1993)
An American Daughter (1997)



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