Wendy Kesselman

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Name Wendy Kesselman Role Playwright		Plays My Sister in this House Movies A Separate Peace

Books Slash; an Alligator's Story Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Children's Script Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special Similar People Murray Schisgal, Peter Yates, Michael Sugar, Enrique Murciano, JB Sugar

Wendy Kesselman is an American playwright.

Life

Wendy Kesselman came to the Actors Theater of Louisville in 1980. She lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Awards

She won the 1981 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, for My Sister in this House.

Works

Becca, 1977

Maggie Magalita. Samuel French, Inc. 1987. ISBN 978-0-573-69017-4. , 1980

Merry-Go-Round, 1981

My Sister In This House. Samuel French, Inc. 1988. ISBN 978-0-573-61872-7. , 1981

I Love You, I Love You Not, 1982

The Juniper Tree: A Tragic Household Tale. Samuel French, Inc. 1985. ISBN 978-0-573-61113-1. , 1982

Cinderella In A Mirror, 1987

The Griffin, And The Minor Cannon, 1988

A Tale Of Two Cities, 1992

The Butcher's Daughter, 1993

The Diary Of Anne Frank, 1997 (adaptation)

The Last Bridge, 2002

The Notebook. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8222-1906-4.

The Black Monk, 2008

Olympe And The Executioner

Film

I Love You, I Love You Not, 1997

Sister, My Sister, 1994

Reviews

WENDY KESSELMAN'S My Sister in This House begins as a cool, black satire of provincial bourgeois life, turns into a macabre tale of incestuous homosexual love and ends with an explosion of Grand Guignol violence. If this play sounds discomforting, it is - and it means to be. Miss Kesselman's subject is repression -social, sexual, religious and political - and the havoc it wreaks on its victims. The author's feelings run so strong that she'll burn down the theater if that's what it takes to get the audience to see her point of view.

References

Wendy Kesselman Wikipedia

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