Name Muriel Resnik Role Playwright | Plays Any Wednesday | |
Muriel Resnik (New Haven, Connecticut, 1917 – Manhattan, New York City, March 6, 1995) was an American playwright and novelist. She was known for her comedy play Any Wednesday, performed for the first time on Broadway in 1964 and starring Sandy Dennis, Don Porter, Gene Hackman and Rosemary Murphy. It had such a success that took Resnik by surprise, and in 1966 an homonymous film was led to the big screen, with Jane Fonda and Jason Robards as the main characters.
Resnik wrote also novels, as Life Without Father, House Happy and The Girl in the Turquoise Bikini, which was also adapted to film with the title How Sweet It Is! (1968), directed by Jerry Paris and starred by James Garner and Debbie Reynolds. Then she wrote Son of Any Wednesday and, in 1992, The Garden Club, her first murder mystery; she was working on its sequel when she died of a heart failure after a long illness.