Personal info
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- 6/26/1935 (age 91)
- Birthplace
- Morristown, Tennessee, USA
- Gender
- Female
Biography
Jane Wagner (born February 26, 1935), one of America’s most distinguished playwrights, has won numerous awards, including: several Emmys for writing and producing and a Writer’s Guild Award for her work in television. Wagner has also won a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Special Award and a New York Drama Desk Award for her Broadway success, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a CableAce Award for Executive Producing the film adaptation of The Search; three Grammy nominations for comedy albums she wrote with Lily Tomlin, Modern Scream, And That's the Truth, and On Stage; and two Peabody Awards--the first for the CBS television special, J.T., and the second for the ABC television special, Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noël.
12 titles

Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Writer

The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
Screenplay

Moment by Moment
1978
Writer

An Apology to Elephants
2013
Writer

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
1991
Writer

Lily: Sold Out
1981
Writer

Appearing Nitely
1979
Writer

J.T.
1971
Writer

Edith Ann's Christmas (Just Say Noël)
1996
Writer

Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home
1994
Writer

Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle
1994
Writer

Lily for President?
1982
Writer


