Wendy Wasserstein (1950 – 2006) was an award-winning American playwright. She was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn, New York.Wasserstein's first production of note was UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS (her graduate thesis at Yale). A full version of the play was produced in 1977 off-Broadway with Glenn Close, Jill Eikenberry, and Swoosie Kurtz playing the lead roles. The play was subsequently produced for PBS with Meryl Streep replacing Close. In 1989, she won both the Tony and the Pulitzer Prize for her play, THE HEIDI CHRONICLES. Her wry, smart, and often highly comical plays, which explore topics ranging from feminism to family to ethnicity to pop culture, include THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG, ISN’T IT ROMANTIC, AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER, OLD MONEY, and her most recent work which opened in Fall 2005, THIRD. In addition, she wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film, THE OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION that starred Jennifer Aniston.
