- Her brother, Bruce, is a prominent Wall Street mergers & acquisitions broker; co-founder of Wasserstein Perella & Co. Has a brother, Abner Wasserstein, and sister, Georgette Levis. Father, Morris, was a textile executive. Mom, Lola Wasserstein.
- Daughter, Lucy Jane, born. (September 1999)
- Graduate of the Yale School of Drama in 1976.
- Earned her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
- Won Broadway's 1989 Tony Award as author of Best Play winner "The Heidi Chronicles", as well as a Pulitzer Prize in drama. In 1993, she was also nominated as author of Best Play nominee "The Sisters Rosensweig".
- Good friend of André Bishop.
- The youngest of five children of a textile executive.
- Founded "Open Doors", a program to introduce New York high school students to the theater, which was administered through the Theatre Development Fund.
- Won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony for best play in 1989 for "The Heidi Chronicles."
- At least one theatrical reference book claimed that Wasserstein was married briefly to her friend and frequent collaborator, director Gerald Gutierrez. In fact, neither Wasserstein nor Gutierrez ever married anyone, and the incorrect listing was a byproduct of an inside joke between the two friends. They joked between themselves that their professional relationship was like a "creative marriage" and that they had two children together, Ginger Joy and Phyllis Kate (actually the names of Wasserstein's cat and Gutierrez's dog).
- Her play, "The Heidi Chronicles," at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the James A. Doolittle (University of California) Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1990 Drama-Logue Award for Production.
- She was awarded the 1990 Drama-Logue Award for Writing for "The Heidi Chronicles" at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the James A. Doolittle (University of California) Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
- Her play, "The Sisters Rosensweig" in presented by the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the James A. Doolittle (University of California) Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1994 Drama-Logue Award for Production.
- She was one of the most influential of contemporary American women playwrights.
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