WENDY WASSERSTEIN (Screenwriter) adapted the screenplay from Stephen McCauley's popular book.
   A Pulitzer Prize winner in 1989 for her play "The Heidi Chronicles," Wasserstein is regarded as one of America's premier contemporary playwrights. In addition to a Pulitzer, the play also garnered a Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk award, among several others.
   "The Sisters Rosensweig" garnered a Tony nomination and a 1993 Outer Critics Circle Award. Her most recent work was "An American Daughter" which ran on Broadway starring Kate Nelligan.
   Off-Broadway, her plays include "Uncommon Women and Others," "Isn't it Romantic" and the musical, "Miami." For PBS' Great Performances series, Wasserstein wrote "Kiss, Kiss, Darling" and "Drive, She Said," adaptations of John Cheever's "The Sorrow of Gin," and "Uncommon Women and Others" from her own play. She also adapted "The Heidi Chronicles" as a movie-for-television starring Jamie Lee Curtis.
   A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Wasserstein has also written a collection of essays called Bachelor's Girls and a children's book, Pamela's First Musical.

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