Jane Anderson is an Emmy Award-winning writer and director for theatre, film and television. Plays include: Mother of the Maid, The Baby Dance, Baby Dance: Mixed, Defying Gravity, Looking for Normal, The Quality of Life, The Escort, Lynette at 3AM, Food & Shelter and The Last Time We Saw Her. Her latest play, Mother of the Maid, premiered at the Public Theater in 2018 and starred Glenn Close. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway and in theaters around the country, including ACT, Arena Stage, Actors Theater of Louisville, Williamstown, Shakespeare & Company, The McCarter Theater, Long Wharf, Geffen Playhouse and the Pasadena Playhouse.
Screenwriting credits: The Wife, starring Glenn Close, How to Make An American Quilt, It Could Happen to You and The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio, starring Julianne Moore & Woody Harrelson, which she also directed. Documentary film: Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson, featured on HBO.
Television writing credits: HBO's Olive Kitteridge, starring Frances McDormand, for which she received an Emmy Award for best teleplay and limited series, a Writers Guild Award for best teleplay, and a Golden Globe nomination for best limited series. She wrote HBO's The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom, for which she received an Emmy, Penn Award and Writers Guild Award for best teleplay. She wrote and directed The Baby Dance for Showtime, which she adapted from her play, and received the Peabody Award as well as Golden Globe and Emmy nominations. She wrote and directed Normal for HBO (starring Jessica Lang & Tom Wilkinson), adapted from her play Looking for Normal, which received Emmy, Golden Globe and Directors' Guild and Writers' Guild nominations for best writing and directing. She wrote and directed When Billie Beat Bobby, starring Holly Hunter and Ron Silver, and wrote and directed the first segment of HBO's If These Walls Could Talk II, which starred Vanessa Redgrave, for which she received an Emmy nomination for Best Teleplay.
ABOUT RED MAGNOLIA THEATRE COMPANY
Our mission is to provide creative and joyful collaboration among women artists through involvement in all aspects of theatre production. We serve the community with enriching and entertaining performances from our unique perspective as women in theatre. Red Magnolia Theatre Company was founded in August 2017 by a group of friends who met through the theatre community. In 2022 Red Magnolia became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization. In our seven-year history we have focused on at least one mainstage production a year, Readers Theatre performances, workshops, and other educational outreach.
Red Magnolia is proud to be 100% volunteer-driven.
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