Jane Anderson

Plays Written by Jane Anderson:

THE QUALITY OF LIFE
THE BABY DANCE
BABY DANCE MIXED
DEFYING GRAVITY
LOOKING FOR NORMAL
THE ESCORT
MOTHER OF THE MAID
FOOD & SHELTER
SMART CHOICES FOR THE NEW CENTURY
LYNETTE AT 3AM
THE LAST TIME WE SAW HER

BIO:

Jane Anderson is a writer and director for theater, film and television.

Plays include: The Quality of Life (2008 Ovation Award, Best New Play), Looking for Normal (2001 Ovation Award, Best New Play), The Baby Dance,  Defying Gravity, Food & Shelter,  and The Escort (nominated for an LA Drama Critics Circle Award).  Her most recent play, Mother of the Maid,  premiered at the Public Theater and starred Glenn Close.

Works written and directed for film and television: Olive Kitteridge (Emmy Award for best teleplay and limited series; Writers Guild Award for best teleplay; nominated for the Golden Globe for best limited series, The Prizewinner of Defiance Ohio; Normal (Emmy nominations for best writing, directing and best made-for-TV film, three Golden Globe nominations and Director’s Guild and Writer’s Guild nominations for best directing and writing); When Billie Beat Bobby; The Baby Dance (Peabody Award, a Golden Globe nomination and three Emmy nominations for best writing, directing and made-for-TV film); the first segment of If These Walls Could Talk II, starring Vanessa Redgrave (Emmy nomination for best writing). She wrote The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom for which she received an Emmy, a Penn Award and Writers Guild Award for best teleplay. Her other screenwriting credits include: How to Make An American Quilt and It Could Happen to You.

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