Wendy Wasserstein

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wendy Wasserstein
Occupation	Playwright
Date Of Birth	Oct 18, 1950(1950-10-18)
Age	74
Date Of Death	2006-01-30
Birthplace	New York City
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Libra

Wendy Wasserstein Biography

Wendy Wasserstein is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on October 18, 1950 in New York City, New York, United States. Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize award-winning playwright who wrote The Heidi Chronicles.

Her screenplay is written for the movie The Object of My Affection in which she also starred She wrote the screenplay for the film The Object of My Affection, which starred Jennifer Aniston…

The Wendy Wasserstein Papers, 1954–2006, are available to researchers at the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections. The finding aid for this collection is available online at http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/mountholyoke/mshm325_main.html .

A graduate of the Calhoun School (she attended from 1963 to 1967), Wasserstein earned a B.A. in history from Mount Holyoke College in 1971, an M.A. in creative writing from City College of New York in 1973, and an M.F.A. in fine arts from the Yale School of Drama in 1976. In 1990 she received an honoris causa Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Mount Holyoke College and in 2002 she received an honoris causa degree from Bates College.

The birth of her child Lucy in 1999.

Wendy Wasserstein Net Worth

Wendy Wasserstein is one of the richest Playwright from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wendy Wasserstein 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She graduated with an B.A. in the field of history at Mount Holyoke College in 1971.

She was awarded The Tony Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Drama for her production The Heidi Chronicles.

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.

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Who is Wendy Wasserstein Dating?

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Wasserstein was named the President’s Council of Cornell Women Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large in 2005.

Facts & Trivia

Wendy Ranked on the list of most popular Playwright. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Wendy Wasserstein celebrates birthday on October 18 of every year.

Wasserstein was hospitalized with lymphoma in December 2005 and died on January 30, 2006, aged 55. The news of Wasserstein’s death was unexpected because her illness had not been widely publicized outside the theater community. The night after she died, Broadway’s lights were dimmed in her honor. In addition to her daughter, Wasserstein was survived by her mother and three siblings—Abner Wasserstein, businessman Bruce Wasserstein (died in 2009) and Wilburton Inn owner Georgette Wasserstein Levis (died in 2014).

Is Wendy Wasserstein still alive?

January 30, 2006

Who is Wendy Wasserman?

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 Pulitzer Prize winner “The Heidi Chronicles,” died yesterday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. She was 55 and lived in New York.

Where was Wendy Wasserstein born?

Brooklyn, New York, NY

Who wrote The Heidi Chronicles?

Wendy Wasserstein

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