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unusual facts about Wendy Wasserstein



Clara Peeters

The view, advanced by some contemporary art historians, that Peeters has been underrated because she was a woman is addressed in the opening scene of Wendy Wasserstein's play The Heidi Chronicles.

Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk was the first New York theater organization to give awards to talents such as Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein and George C. Scott.

Mimi Lerner

Later NYCO assignments included Adalgisa in Norma, Bradamante in Alcina, Smeton in Anna Bolena, and leading roles in the Central Park trilogy (which consists of Deborah Drattell and Wendy Wasserstein's The Festival of Regrets, Michael Torke and A.R. Gurney's Strawberry Fields, and Robert Beaser and Terrence McNally's The Food of Love).


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