Jane Wagner
- Writing
- June 26, 1935 · Morristown, Tennessee, USA
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Radium Girls · Executive producer
- An Apology to Elephants · Executive producer, Writer
- Edith Ann's Christmas (Just Say Noël) · Writer, Executive producer
- Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home · Writer, Executive producer
- Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle · Writer, Executive producer
- An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends · Technical Advisor
- The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe · Writer
- Lily Tomlin · Self
- Lily for President? · Writer, Executive producer
- Lily: Sold Out · Executive producer, Writer
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman · Screenplay
- Appearing Nitely · Writer
- Moment by Moment · Writer, Director
- Saturday Night Live · Writer
- Juke and Opal · Writer
- Lily · Writer, Producer
- J.T. · Writer