JANE ANDERSON's plays have been produced off Broadway and in theaters around the country, including A.C.T., Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf Theatre, the Geffen Playhouse, and Pasadena Playhouse. Her published plays include Looking for Normal, The Baby Dance, Defying Gravity, Smart Choices for the New Century, Lynette at 3am, and The Last Time We Saw Her. Other works include The Pink Studio and Hotel Oubliette (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize). Film work: Anderson wrote and directed The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio. She wrote and directed Normal for HBO, which garnered six Emmy Award nominations, three Golden Globe Award nominations, and Directors Guild of America and Writers Guild of America award nominations for outstanding directing and writing. She wrote HBO's The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, for which she received an Emmy, a Writers Guild Award, and a PEN Center USA Award for Best Teleplay. Her other television films include When Billie Beat Bobby and The Baby Dance, which received a Peabody Award, three Golden Globe nominations, and four Emmy nominations. She wrote and directed the first segment of If These Walls Could Talk 2 (starring Vanessa Redgrave), which earned Emmy nominations for Outstanding Writing and Made-for- Television Movie. Other screenwriting credits include How to Make an American Quilt and It Could Happen to You.

 
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