Wendy Kesselman is an American
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
.
Life
Wendy Kesselman came to the
Actors Theater of Louisville in 1980. She lives in
Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Wellfleet is a New England town, town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, and is located halfway between the "tip" and "elbow" of Cape Cod. The town had a population of 3,566 at the 2020 United S ...
.
Awards
She won the 1981
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize established in 1978, is the largest and oldest playwriting prize for women+ writing for English-speaking theatre. Named for Susan Smith Blackburn (1935–1977), alumna of Smith College, who died of breast cancer.
W ...
, for ''My Sister in this House''.
Works
*''Becca'', 1977
*, 1980
*''Merry-Go-Round'', 1981
*, 1981
*''I Love You, I Love You Not'', 1982
*, 1982
*''Cinderella In A Mirror'', 1987
*''The Griffin, And The Minor Cannon'', 1988
*''A Tale Of Two Cities'', 1992
*''The Butcher's Daughter'', 1993
*''Sand In My Shoes,'' 1995
*''
The Diary of Anne Frank
''The Diary of a Young Girl'', also known as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherl ...
'', 1997 (adaptation)
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*''The Last Bridge'', 2002
*
*''
The Black Monk
"The Black Monk" (russian: Чёрный монах, translit=Chyorny monakh) is a short story by Anton Chekhov, written in 1893 while Chekhov was living in the village of Melikhovo. It was first published in 1894 in ''The Artist (Russian magazin ...
'', 2008
*''Olympe And The Executioner''
Film
''I Love You, I Love You Not'' 1997
* ''Sister, My Sister'', 1994
References
External links
''Charlie Rose Interview''"Making Young Audiences Think: The Case for Playwright Wendy Kesselman", Lowell Swortzell, ''Youth Theatre Journal'', v3 n4 p3-5 Spr 1989
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American dramatists and playwrights
Living people
1940 births