Wendy Kesselman

Wendy Kesselman
Besides her Tony-nominated adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, Wendy Kesselman’s plays include The Executioner’s Daughter; The Notebook; The Foggy Foggy Dew; The Last Bridge; I Love You, I Love You Not; Maggie Magalita; Merry-Go-Round; The Shell Collection; My Sister in This House, A Re-imagined Version (Deaf West Theatre); The Graduation of Grace and Spit. She also wrote the book, music and lyrics for The Juniper Tree, A Tragic Household Tale; A Tale of Two Cities; Becca and The Black Monk: A Chamber Musical, which was released on CD in 2015.
Among other honors, she has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; the AT&T Onstage Award; The New England Major Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the American Theatre; the first annual Playbill Award; the Roger L. Stevens Award; the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award,; the Lecomte du Noüy Annual Award; Meet the Composer Grants; Guggenheim, McKnight and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships; and a Writers Guild of America Award for her screen adaptation of John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. Her other screenplays include Sister My Sister (adapted from My Sister in This House) and I Love You, I Love You Not.
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The Diary of Anne Frank (One-Act Version)
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Play, DramaThe Diary of Anne Frank (One-Act Version)
Wendy Kesselman , Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 5m
This 75-minute version of Wendy Kesselman's adaptation of Goodrich and Hackett's classic play interweaves survivor accounts and newly discovered writings from Anne Frank’s diary to create a contemporary, impassioned story of those persecuted under Nazi rule.
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My Sister in this House
Wendy Kesselman
Full-Length Play, DramaMy Sister in this House
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w
Winner! Playbill Playwriting Award
Winner! 1980-1981 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize"A crucible of psychosexual horror." - The New York Times
"A subtle, almost tender study of four lonely women whose strange and complex relatio… -
The Diary of Anne Frank (Adaptation by Wendy Kesselman)
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Play, DramaThe Diary of Anne Frank (Adaptation by Wendy Kesselman)
Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett , Wendy Kesselman
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 5m
In Wendy Kesselman's gripping new adaptation of the original stage play by Goodrich and Hackett, survivor accounts and newly discovered writings from the diary of Anne Frank are interwoven to create a contemporary, impassioned story of those persecuted under Nazi rule. This is an adaptation for a new generation able to confront the true horrors of the Holocaust.
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My Sister in this House
Wendy Kesselman
Full-Length Play, DramaMy Sister in this House
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w
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The Diary of Anne Frank (Adaptation by Wendy Kesselman)
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Play, DramaThe Diary of Anne Frank (Adaptation by Wendy Kesselman)
Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett , Wendy Kesselman
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 5m