Wendy Kesselman’s new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank received a Tony Award nomination and was produced on Broadway. Her plays include: My Sister in This House; The Notebook; The Last Bridge: The Executioner’s Daughter; I love You, I Love You Not; The Juniper Tree, A Tragic Household Tale; Maggie Magalita; Merry-Go-Round; Becca, A Musical; a musical adaptation of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities; and a musical adaptation of Chekov’s The Black Monk. She is a member of The Dramatist’s Guild, she is the recipient of the New England Theatre Conference Major Award for outstanding creative achievement in the American theatre; the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; the first annual Playbill Award; the Roger L. Stephens Award; the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award; the LeCompte du Nouy Annual Award; a Guggenheim, McKnight, and two NEA Fellowships. She is also a seven-time winter of the ASCAP Popular Award in Musical Theatre. Her screenplays include Sister My Sister (adapted from My Sister in this House), directed by Nancy Meckler; I Love You, I Love You Not, (adapted by her play of the same name), directed by Billy Hopkins, and Mad or in Love for Fox 2000. Her screen adaptation of John Knowles’ A Separate Peace, directed by Peter Yates, aired on Showtime, won a Writer’s Guild of America Award and is nominated for an Emmy.
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Posted: 05/07/2005