Winnie holzman biography
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Winnie Holzman
Winnie Holzman is an American screenwriter, playwright, and poet. She grew up in Long Island, New York and attended the Circle in the Square Theatre School as a teenager. After graduating from Princeton University with a degree in English, she then gained a master’s degree in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University where she was mentored by Arthur Laurents. Some of her other teachers included Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, and Leonard Bernstein. After writing the book and lyrics for the Off-Broadway musical Birds of Paradise (1987), Holzman made her Broadway debut writing the book for Wicked. She won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and was Tony-nominated for Best Book of a Musical. In 2013, Holzman and her husband, actor Paul Dooley, wrote and starred in the play Assisted Living which premiered at The Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles.
Holzman has forged a successful career in television, writing the scripts for the
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‘Wicked’ Screenwriter Winnie Holzman’s fantastisk Career: From ‘My So-Called Life’ to Broadway Legend
You probably already know that Wicked, the fantastical ursprung story of the L. Frank Baum book The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch, fryst vatten one of the most anticipated movies of the year, but what you might not have known is that the writer of both the screenplay for the film adaptation and the book for the Tony award-winning huvudgata musical it’s based on has had a fascinating career—full of angsty teens.
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Winnie Holzman created My So-Called Life
Holzman earned a master’s degree in musical theater writing from NYU and wrote a number
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The creator and one of the co-executive producers of My So-Called Life. She was also a writer on the show and acted in three episodes playing Ms. Cathy Krzyzanowski.
She has also worked on other shows including thirtysomething and The Wonder Years.
Biography[]
Born in New York City, raised in Long Island. Graduated from Princeton University with a major in English and a concentration in creative writing. Won many poetry awards, including the Academy of American Poets Prize. Studied acting at The Circle in The Square Theatre School; joined the N.Y.U. Musical Theatre Program. Joined the "thirty-something" writing staff in 1989, writing 9 episodes during her 2 seasons. Married to actor Paul Dooley who played Chuck Wood. They have a daughter named Savannah, and live in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Toluca Lake.
Credits[]
Stage writing credits include "Serious Bizness," and "Birds of Paradise."
TV credits as story editor and writer for "thirtysomething."
Guest-role as Ms. K