Wendy Wasserstein’s (Playwright) play The Heidi Chronicles won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; 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 nomination, and the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in American Theatre. Her other plays include Old Money, An American Daughter, and Third (Lincoln Center Theater); Uncommon Women and Others (Phoenix Theater); Isn’t It Romantic (Playwrights Horizons); a musical, Miami (with Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman); and Waiting for Philip Glass, included in Love’s Fire (The Acting Company). Ms. Wasserstein wrote the screenplay for The Object of My Affection, starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, and for PBS Great Performances she has written Kiss, Kiss Darling; Drive, She Said; adaptations of John Cheever’s The Sorrows of Gin; and her own Uncommon Women and Others. She also adapted The Heidi Chronicles for TNT (1996 Emmy nomination for Best Television Movie) and An American Daughter for Lifetime Television. She is the author of Pamela’s First Musical, a children’s book, which she has adapted with Cy Coleman into a musical which will premiere in Spring 2006. Her other books include the essay collections Shiksa Goddess and Bachelor Girls. She has also contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Woman, and Harper’s Bazaar, among many other publications. Ms. Wasserstein has been the recipient of an NEA Grant, Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. She has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Juilliard School, and Princeton University, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Mount Holyoke College. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the Yale School of Drama.